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dot com. bosco says todd is acting outside the lauras it ships a russian businessman victim to the u.s. to be tried for gun running. 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 cold 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 all to hit in the. the russian capital moscow dubbed thailand's extradition of russian

business from victim 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 arms to dictators in conflict zones around the world well let's get to the latest from our. in washington so what's the latest concerning it. well bill apparently victor borge landed in the united states to face to face trial over some very serious allegations here he faces charges of selling arms to a terrorist group and conspiring to kill american citizens americans also believe he had stalked violence in some war torn region by selling weapons to sierra leone i have ghana's there is sudan and so on if convicted he may face life in prison any wrongdoing he says he has only engaged in perfectly legal aircraft sales but before

he had arrived he arrived here in the united states went through a very contentious extradition put procedure in thailand his lawyers family members and the russian embassy in thailand said they were saved no proper notification whatsoever on this snap extradition play here is what the mr boots wife had to say yes 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. well let me remind you victor book was the tainting thailand two years ago as a result of a sting operation carried out by american agents to again that what happened in two thousand and eight back in august this year when boot heard last year when brute

heard a thai court decision to axe or die him he said he would face the trial in the us and when it. sure was russia was hoity critical of the decision by telling us what exactly did he. well bill moscow believes the us managed to get good extradited so in such a matter by putting unprecedented political pressure on the government and judicial authorities of thailand let's listen to what sergei lavrov a foreign minister had to say. despite two rulings in thailand's criminal court saying viktor boots 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 boot as

a russian citizen. while russian diplomats say they need an immediate access to victor borge who is a russian citizen they hope his rights will be honored we have to keep in mind i put two years russia and the us have been in a tug of war over this extradition the u.s. believes it is able russia says because of this a lot of accusations that the u.s. has hung up on board and all the negative hype that hype that there is around boat russia is. doubt that food has a chance to stand a fair trial in the united states will there was an air of secrecy and indeed urgency around his extradition or why is that. well bill as you know there has been an amazing hype around this case washes believe it wasn't just a law enforcement operation they say it was politically motivated actually books lawyers and some intelligent apps for its claim that the reason and the reason that

you are so wanted to have a main cause that is allegedly extensive knowledge of washington military and intelligence operations here is my colleague could sit in the. to tell you more about why that you was so wanted wanted so badly people in hollywood florida who are there 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 all of them and his lidge to realize prototype russian businessmen victor boot nicknamed the merchant of death denied on like you see shoes and laughed off parallels. i don't know very sorry for nicolas cage who rang the to play this sort of law for this very silly and i feel pity for it's a bad move on 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 thought he's moved good from prison to a u.s. airplane in under three hours without him seeing his wife or his lawyer meet them they decided on big his extradition without any regard to the ongoing process of law it means that they violated the kools authority this is a punishable offense i am going to file a case against the cabinet members and explain to the coup that the cabin is violated the rights of my clients process of law the cabinet has perpetrated an illegal act scores sending victor off to the u.s. in this way 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

who doesn't know anything i mean the whole idea of victimhood as a merchant of death as a hollywood phenomenon where troubled is not an arm's murther he was there also as a cargo merchant he was you know if he were a transporter or so if america thing you actually get secrets out of him they're very very very wrong 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 of them on the u.s. major will call them merchant of death or inverts around quite a large a lot operators and in many in africa and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods are known for television mostly from washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. it's open legal but ever since his arrest in the thai capital in march two thousand and eight the american side did everything i could to make charges stick including adding allegations of trade love

violations. boots family have repeatedly criticised the court procedures firm in their belief the victim is being made a scapegoat. this is a question of principle that they've spent ten use spending money taxpayer money on trying to root out gun runners so they have to have someone to show for it and they chose victim it's nothing but p.r. you know lawyers actually refused to take his case because they were visited by u.s. officials who were for most of. the trial and tribulations are anything but over his fate 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 victor bolt will be awaiting his own at this point in time both look equally unlikely. kashrut as are the archie moscow. well snapback for their shows are apparently business as

usual for the u.s. there was another case that o'barr russian pile into a pilot who was arrested in liberia and transferred to america to face drug trafficking charges although his lawyers 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 claim the pilot had been basically kidnapped so it seems when the u.s. wants someone extradited there is not much that can stop them but for example having someone extradited from the your wife is so much more legally complicated veiled gonna thanks very much indeed for that update from washington d.c. that. it get it going keep the bank called bureau chief for the russian news agency reus says there's one organization in the us that's very interested in having vick to boot on american soil. who is going to benefit from this fast their traditional victor boot system to practically close to extradition

my version of the answer is that most probably the da the drug enforcement administration of the united states of america is the best nine years they have been doing work on terrorism because they got that deterred mandate of back in two thousand and one after nine eleven and the have not been very successful one of their biggest successes and their success that was trumpeted all over the world is the mansion in bangkok in two thousand and eight of the two groups the officials or former officials actually said on the record that spends about twelve million u.s. dollars on this issue to chase him to somebody has to do to justify. these expenses and the only person with whom these expenses can be justified is victor boot not just the good that's the true good behind boards. if europe

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 of this also been known to use bailout funds to prevent bankruptcy. from a london based investment company told me earlier that small e.u. states may have little turned 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 an odd place scenario and the short term expediency of bail out so it's better than the no bondholders or 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 flow 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 ireland 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 analysts 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 our john 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 arliss not standing up for the people it's abdicated its role as representative of the people the are your mouth 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 terrorists and stand on its own two feet i mean as the same case whether it's particle 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 the ira. the irish republican army but they seem to just give a pass to you know sean fitzpatrick. well for more of his analysis and all the latest from the world you can tune into the kaiser report that's coming your way in fifteen minutes from now here on r.t. . by the way you can follow our stories and leave your comments and also watch a website article comment on time. stories there for you no escape for russia's drink drivers russian policeman now equipped with super. able to detect booze from twenty paces. the police are called ten dollars. and even in crisis in florida selling trucks can be a very lucrative business that's if you offer your customers

a kalashnikov. that they just promotion. 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. and antiwar activist jeremy corbin told me earlier that support forces are often dragged into combat situations. 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 united states same in military advisors and then support

forces into vietnam five years later they have 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 we're going 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 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 after two hundred million gallons of oil gushed into the gulf of mexico that the u.s. claims its waters are good for fishing again but american oil industry insider bob cabinet told r.t. we've yet to see the worst consequences of the environmental disaster.

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 talking about this here is tragic the u.s. government and b.p. both wanted this story off the television. that full interview with bob is coming your way in just over an hour from now here in r.t. . a man in some petersburg has died after being hit by a car wheel thrown from an upper window of an apartment building that we all learned 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 he 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 in on the street before walking away. when our some other news this hour the british government agreed to pay millions of dollars compensation to its citizens held at america's quantum obey detention camp in a dozen former detainees say they were illegally imprisoned and u.k. security services were involved in their torture they also claim authorities that information they were being treated yet did nothing to help them. at least six people were killed and over seventy injured after the collapse of a five story residential building in new delhi the apartment block was used mainly to house migrant workers construction material and bad foundations of blame for the collapse rescue workers are at the scene struggling to save dozens still trapped under the. 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 reports say the unlicensed builders may have accidently started the fire on monday the inferno ripped through the building

forcing dozens to climb down scaffolding to escape. the u.k. now it's been 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 during a holiday last month and kate started dating eight years ago while studying together at some to andrews university. the landscape of the kamchatka peninsula in russia's far east has been continuously molded by sentries of volatile geological activity well arty's documentary team takes you on an exclusive adventure to the land of volcanoes. are you. comfortable. just. on the. crater. scorching.

torah there are included. a photo of the wild lunar rose. well keep watching us to see the full documentary that's in just over an hour from now. well that brings up today's i'll be back with a look at all my new stories about ten years from now in the meantime the latest business news is next with you. hello and a very warm welcome to the business news gas from a still suffering from the effects off the financial downturn the uncertain economic outlook in europe is creating uncertainty in russia's biggest company its gas from has been working to diversify its customer base correspondent martin

a question of explains how the strategy is progressing from the gusev russia conference taking place at castro's headquarters in moscow. a lot 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 a one of the main had lines of the gas for him that is taking place at the moment add gas problems in moscow had quarters according to the deputy chairman of the board alexander to mediate if the 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 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 to consumption will reach

a three hundred eighty billion cubic meters gas and italy 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 the asian pacific region for us. demand for gas in the asia pacific region will definitely grow well analysts predict that its 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 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

the overall company's strategy to diversify its. presence in the asian up 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 to buy the ply plane that is it will start next year in twenty eleven however the situation over at the south stream project is still unclear alexandra de deux for only months and today that other players from of the global energy community are welcome to participate and this project. business are in the course of reporting 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 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 pull mako from h.s.b.c. explains why all the small economy is such a big problem. i mean if you're calling me because i'm 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 arlene has a problem but could it impacts 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 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 my. because he just talks on low offer reports china wouldn't announce measures including price controls on food to slow the country's rapid to become a growth. and european stocks finished into the adam trees day following heavy fall isn't china strait islanders still in the spotlight as it comes on the profit trap set to buy the lot from here. on the russian markets finished used a session of the right in moscow with both in this is shedding nearly two percent banks and energy majors were waiting for a bank shut me to twenty percent on both also sample snow was down within two percent on my state's. russia central bank has doubled its forecast for the country's capital outflow it expects twenty two billion dollars will leave russia in two thousand to ten to a looks at why the money is taking flight. capital is still flowing out of

russia although at a significantly slower rate than in the crisis year of two thousand and eight one hundred thirty billion dollars flooded out told me see i will have to put all coal below me or close to fitting but i would also picture the situation deteriorated significantly in the second call could be zero actually. economic growth from the center wing tank but it bored lots of the reporter season according to general so i would say. for next year forthcoming premier so we will have significant for a budget deficit so people they are looking for more interesting places in the world and rings least actually russia's central bank estimates that during the first three quarters of this year sixteen billion dollars left the country that's a quarter of the amount compared to the same period last year but analysts warn the impression there's been a dramatic improvement may be misleading i would say the improvement. in the general balance of capital inflows. imply that people are actually starting to

invest more in russia that is jay they're just much more willing to lend to russia indeed analysts explain the trend is mostly set by borrowing programs and these are quite substantial next year russian government is planning to borrow up to well over fifty billion dollars and robot equivalent say on the best they can extract all markets and everything bad touch a. morning program is likely to draw a high scale of capital inflows into russia so there is more money but the right kind of money and invest are keenly aware of risk and russia is about to enter a major election cycle starting with parliamentary elections next year and concluding with presidential elections in two thousand and twelve it's a timeline that's likely to dominate investor sentiment and therefore capital flow timothy crosser business r.t.

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