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twenty four hour news from russia and from around the world this is in the russian capital moscow has dropped to thailand's extradition of the russian businessman vic to boot to the u.s. as a legal washington is accused of using unprecedented political pressure to have him handed over america says the man nicknamed the merchant of death trafficked to dictators in conflict zones around the world he's got to change carney has the latest now from washington victor good lawyers family members and the russian embassy in thailand said they received no proper notification of this on this snap extradition claim here is what mr brooks wife said. it's hard for me to talk about but what happened was totally unexpected for both myself and victor's lawyer the thai cabinet held a closed meeting where a 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 the only law that exists in thailand is u.s. influence i guess this decision was paid for. he was apparently put on a plane in a very speedy manner and sent to the uighurs 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 who says he has only engaged in perfectly legal aircraft sales to boot was detained in thailand as a result of a sting operation carried out by american agents two years ago moscow believes the us managed to get good extradited by putting unprecedented political pressure on the government and judicial authorities of thailand. despite two rulings in

thailand's criminal court saying victor boot guilt 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 be to boot as a russian citizen. well russian diplomats say they need an immediate access to their book they hope these rights will be honored here in the united states we have to keep in mind for two years far from the us i've been in a tug of war over this extradition the u.s. believes is evil russia says because of this lot of accusations that the you are so hunger pot and bullets and all the negative hype that there is allowed him washes really doubt that good has it has a chance to stand a fair trial in the us actually boots lawyers and some intelligence actors claim that the reason the us 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 viktor boot is knowledgeable in all those things. but here is my colleague updating us out of it with more on why americans want him so badly. how the woods lord of war there are over five hundred fifty million firearms in world war three yours. that's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. the only question is. how do we are in the other eleven and his lidge do realize prototype russian businessmen victor boot nickname the merchant of death deny to own like use a sions and laughed off parallels. very sort of for miracles to play this sort of low for this very few of. 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 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 move boot 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 butin 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 x. 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.

media would call them merchant of death i mean around quite a large a lot of operation in many. and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods i know you through television was he from washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. run even 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 the victim is being made a scapegoat of a policeman a principle this is a question of principle they've spent ten years spending money taxpayer money on trying to root out gun runs so they have to have someone to show for it and they chose victor it's nothing but p.r.

. you know louise actually refused to take his case because they were visited by u.s. officials boots trial and tribulations are anything but over his fate in the u.s. is very uncertain and 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 and last ordinary moviegoers await that release dictabelt will be awaiting his own at this point in time both look at equally unlikely. gas reserves are to moscow while snapper acts traditions are apparently business as usual for the u.s. we could remember a different case that of our russian pilot to was arrested in liberia and transferred to america to face drug trafficking charges although his lawyers say there's no prophy committed any crime in the u.s. he was handed over to american agents in matter of days and that happened in may they also used for u.s. agents opening humane and cruel treatment of the pilot and claim that the pilot had

been kidnapped. and it's get more on this from daniel estrin and he's an investigative journalist who's written about the links between governments and those outside the law rejoins us now live in madrid so what do you make of thailand's decision to hand over it was a good evening from madrid it was very very much expected i mean it was expected a year it was a foregone conclusion there was going to lose this case i was on russia that if you months ago i said just a matter of time a question of time before he's handed over and it's basically i think the headline should be another black eye for russian diplomacy americans to russia and ciro and it's very very unfortunate especially for all of us who love russia as a nation and. are suffering the you know the consequences of of this loss of international prestige so do you think this will seriously affect the relations between russia and the u.s. when they're supposed to be improving. well i don't think so in the end victor who doesn't know anything i mean the whole idea of victor buddhism merchant of death is

a hollywood phenomenon the trouble is not anonymous merchant he was you know he's a cargo merchant he was he was a transporter so if americans think you could actually get secrets out of him they're very very very wrong but why don't they write what all that is the americans know this why are they so wrong about this all we're going to have a show trial of i'm a closed door trial i think probably they're going to go for the show trial because again is a very useful piece of mantlepiece because as i said before it's a big trouble just a pawn of this global game where the end game is to get russia any way and any means possible but you're saying that victor doesn't know anything many are saying the reason why washington d.c. wants to get hold of him is because he knows too much so what exactly does he know if he doesn't know too much if you disagree with that but clearly they think you know something where he doesn't know anything at all he probably knows as much as you do i mean he wasn't he was in africa you know as the african leaders he was not involved in gun running he was involved to a very small extent in shipping arms but again shipping arms is not illegal it's

very legal business is just a transporter to two nations transporting everything from from australia's tossed the flowers to refrigerators again he doesn't know any secrets and unfortunately you know for a day going from the american public's point of view and after watching the lord of war and listening ad nauseum to the american press mainstream press the impression other than american citizen has as you're looking at this you know terrible merchant of war and of death who has all these secrets to tell what are fortunately he doesn't know any secrets and when he actually goes to trial this truth will be revealed when he goes to trial will it be a fair one i'm sorry will it be a fair trial. i know i do i can't possibly see how it would be a fair trial because i get americans i've spent ten years actually trying to get out of the trouble they spent two years and a half trying to get him out of prison in thailand to the united states and now actually when they have them in their grasp in the united states if they actually put him on fair trial and he wins this case imagine what's going to happen to the

united states they're going to turn into a locking stock of the entire world so no the trial is not going to be a fair trial but again victor would simply has no secrets to tell so in a fair trial he would go a whole but again he won't go home because they need victor bull again it's just a pawn in this global game to get out of russia because again russia is in the in the way of the united states government of this shadow powers above governments who tried to you know get control of the entire world and and obviously russia again i keep repeating it but it's there the end game and victor boot and the bases that the americans are building in afghanistan to get out of russia in the case of war the drugs which are being the ship you know the heroin from from again it's found through grossly into russia which killed thirty thousand russian youths nearly all the pieces in this in this global war to get to destroy russia which is again the only nation militarily that stands in the way of total domination of the world just quickly a reaction on the tactics employed here was supported that washington off a tie officials warplanes of military hardware to sweeten this deal for the

extradition in fact something very similar happened in israel is reporting yesterday when israel was offering warplanes in exchange for holding construction in the west bank do you think this is the u.s. here using now military strength to actually see an important political diplomatic deal such as this well i'd certainly you know would be the first time and russians have done is that americans everybody obviously you know who needs to do this will do this but again you have to remember that the deal from the very beginning was a very foregone conclusion especially after the wrong strategy that victor would have his defensive team of jewels and i said before you know the man who was defending victor borge shomrei and here's here's his extradition lawyer who was actually working directly for the dea. so it only goes to show you how much americans knew about bridgeable defense and how much of the trial itself was a foregone conclusion i mean you could sweeten the deal but in the end it was right from the very beginning of the new how the script itself was going to play out daniel estulin we'll leave it there thanks very much indeed for joining us there in madrid thank you. 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 on it has also been urged to use bailout funds to prevent bankruptcy. from a london based investment company told me earlier that small e.u. states may have little turnitin but to take the money i don't really in it in a position of of much choice because clearly it's a sort of rock and a hard place scenario and the short term expediency of bail out so it's better than the. bondholders or i 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 word the way the markets looking at this but my guess would be it's likely to be a short term situation for island 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 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 fraudulent 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 john fitzpatrick david drumm schoen 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 quaking 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.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 that caused the crisis 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 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'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. there and for more of mexico's analysis of all the latest in the world of finance turn into the kaiser report that's in just over an hour from now here on r.t. . britain's top commander says al qaeda and the taliban cannot be defeated using military force but general david richards argued militants could be contained he also suggests nato should be planning to be in afghanistan for the next forty years to help local forces british labor m.p. an antiwar activist jeremy corbyn says that support forces are often dragged into combat situations but 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 a military advisors and then support forces into viet nam 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 dignity and i think that that is the process will go down in afghanistan foreign forces have now been there for nine years we're going into the tenth year of occupation of that country it is cost billions of pounds it's cost thousands of lives no good that's come of it and i suspect in the long run we're going to end up with possibly western companies trying to exploit the mineral

resources from that country instead we should be looking to an economic and political solution. six months to two hundred million gallons of oil gushed into the gulf of mexico the u.s. claims its water is a good fishing again but american oil industry insider 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 ocean 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. tragic the u.s. government and b.p. both wanted this story off the television. and that full interview with bob katter is coming your way in fifteen minutes from

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sixty six people to be killed and over seventy injured after the collapse of a five story residential building in new delhi. the public lot was used maybe to hells migrant workers construction material in a bad foundations of blame for the collapse rescue workers were at the scene struggling to save dozens still trapped under. chinese police detained for welders after a massive far than apartment block in shanghai more than fifty people were killed and dozens injured by the blaze reports say the unlicensed builders may have accidentally started the fire on monday the inferno ripped through the building forcing dozens to climb down scaffolding to escape. buckingham palace has confirmed prince william is to marry his long term girlfriend kate middleton what it will take place in spring or summer next year the couple became engaged during the holiday last month kate started dating eight years ago while studying together. university. was a mention a little earlier ten minutes from now we'll be talking to an oil industry insider

about the environmental consequences of the gulf of mexico oil spill but first it's yulia with the latest business news. ever well welcome to the business program cast from a still suffering from the effects of the financial downturn the session economic outlook in europe is creating uncertainty and russia's biggest company but counts problem has been working to diversify its customer base our correspondent but in the course of explains how the strategy is progressing from the gas and russia conference taking place at 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 up by two thousand and eight by only twenty twelfth and this was one of the main hard lines of the gas form that is taking place at the moment had gas problems in moscow had quarters

according to the deputy chairman of the board alexander the media for the gas demand in europe has fallen quite significantly due to the crisis and it has just started to pick up but hasn't reached the pre-crisis level bird to 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 annually by two thousand and twenty meanwhile despite the fact that a 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 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 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 i mean they did also mention 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. doesn't 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 noise stream 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 alexander the midday due for only mentioned today that other players from of the global energy community are welcome to participate and this project. business archies medina question reporting from cast from headquarters in moscow figure has come off a seven week low against the dollar but it cremains vulnerable as investors wait for a decision on a possible bailout for ireland dublin is continuing to resist pressure to accept aid from its eurozone partners it's a meeting of finance ministers in brussels it says it is not in danger of defaulting on its debt paul macko from h.s.b.c. explains why on a small economy is such a big problem. i may not be a big economy because i still have quite a big impact with 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 arlene has a problem but could it impacts possibly portugal even more so and eventually in the spring 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 fear at 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 trade in europe and trade off for both china would announce measures including price controls on food to slow the country's rapid economic growth. european stocks finished into red on tuesday following heavy falls in china and losses on wall street ireland is still in the spotlight as it comes under pressure

to accept a bailout from the euro. and the russian markets finished tuesday session in the red in moscow with both indices shedding the unit two percent banks and energy majors were way better bank shed nearly three percent in but also central snaffles down the two percent on my six. russia's largest still make us ever style has almost doubled its profits in the third quarter beating analyst estimates net income jumps to around three hundred seventy million dollars the company benefited from higher broken mortgages prices. one of russia's largest telecom providers comstock's says is that cool show earnings more than doubled from a he ago to reach fifty eight million dollars there was a. all tis better than analysts were expecting the company as that it does so on track to its to hit its full year targets. that's the business news for knowledge

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