all.

moscow says acting outside the law as it ships russian businessman victim to the u.s. to be tried for gun running. striking the e.u. at its core the euro president if the currency collapses the union will sing along with it. and the threat from islamic militants can be overcome by military force only contained says britain's top soldier. live from moscow twenty four hours a day this is. moscow has dubbed extradition of russian businessman victim

to the u.s. as illegal washington is accused of using unprecedented political pressure to have been handed over american says the man nicknamed the merchant of death trafficked to dictators and conflict zones around the world he's got a check on brings us now the latest. victor boot is now reportedly in new york after a very contentious extradition from thailand lawyer spam only members of the russian embassy in thailand said there we see no proper notification on this snapple extradition plan 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 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 the decision was paid for. he was apparently put on a plane in

a very speedy matter 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 boost 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 extradited by putting unprecedented political pressure on the government than traditional of florida's of thailand. despite two rulings in thailand's criminal court saying victor boots guilty was not proven to be the government has still decided to hand him over to the u.s.

why 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 as a russian citizen while russian diplomats say they need an immediate access to their hope is why. it will be honored here in the united states we have to keep in mind for two years far from the u.s. i've been in a tug of war over this extradition the u.s. believes is evolving russia says because of this lot of accusations that the you are says hong kong bullets and all the negative hype there is. really doubt that good has it has a chance to stand a fair trial in the u.s. 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 washing military and intelligence operations it's really unclear to what extent victor boot is knowledgeable in all those things. serious my call that cutting us out of it

with more on why americans want him so badly people on the planet 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. you know we questionnaires. how do we arm the other eleven and his lynch to realize prototype. russian businessmen victor boot nicknamed the merchant of death denied the only accusing actions and laughed off parallels. oh it's only over a resort. to play this sort of love 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 type you court through 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 newsgroup from prison to a u.s. airplane in under three hours without him his wife or his lawyer. without any would go through it means that. violated the kools authority this is a punishable offense but i am going to file a case against the cabinet members and explain to the into the cabin is violated the rights of my clients who process of law the cabinet has perpetrated an illegal act as well as shielding off to the us in this way and even though this case may seem closed the biggest question remains unanswered what does victor bhutto know to make the americans want this badly bitter war doesn't know anything i mean the whole idea of victor borge as a merchant of death as a hollywood phenomenon where trouble is not an arms merger he was there also as a cargo merchant he was here as if he were a transporter so if america is saying 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 the man the u.s. major would call them merchant of death i mean back to around quite a large airline operate in many in africa and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods i know you through television you see from washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. done even just 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 criticized the court procedures firm in their belief that he is being made a scapegoat of a person

a principle this is a question of principle of the shoe laces being ten years is bending money taxpayer money obviously trying to work out going around it's so they have to have someone to show the world and they chose it's nothing but a p.r. you know noise actually refused to take his case because they were visited by u.s. officials which is probably from our sister. to travel in tribulations or 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. gas reserves are to moscow well snapback for their shows are apparently business as usual for the us there was another case that over russian 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 us he was handed over to american agents in a matter of days the lawyers claim that 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 us is so much more legally complicated kind of reporting there and getting been in the bank called bureau chief for russian news agency ria says there's what i when i was a sion in the u.s. is very interested in having picked a boot on american soil. who is going to benefit from this fast extradition with victor boot fast them to practically clandestine extradition my version of the answer is that most probably the da the drug enforcement administration of the united states of america in the best nine years they have been doing work on terrorism because they got that deters the men date of back in two thousand and one after nine eleven and they have not been very successful one

of their biggest successes and a success that was trumpeted all over the world is the mansion in bangkok in two thousand and eight of it to boot the officials or former officials surely said on the record that they'd spent about twelve million u.s. dollars on this richard to chase and to somebody has to hold on to him to justify. these expenses and the only person with whom these expenses can be justified is good to build not just good to good but there are good behind bars. if europe's single currency fails so would the union itself the warning comes from the e.u. president ahead of the eurozone finance ministers meeting portugal has warned it could be forced to ditch the euro and on and is also being urged to use bailout funds to prevent bankruptcy now that nader laden from a london based investment company told me out of that small e.u. states may have little tentative 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 bailout to it's better than the hair car bondholders all 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 and 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 behind 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 in our john fitzpatrick david drama 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 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 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 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 terrorists and to get out of their problem they're asking the same financial terrorists who serve how do we escape the clutches of their 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 max kaiser's analysis of all

the latest in the world of finance tune in to the kaiser report that says just over an hour from the oil here on r.t. . and by the way you can follow up our stories leave your comments and watch us online at our web site that is r.t. dot com there are a couple stories for you to have a look at no escape from russia's drink drivers russian police when an hour. later is able to detect who is from twenty paces each gadget cost the police a call at ten thousand dollars. and even in crisis hit florida selling trucks can be a very lucrative business that's if you offer your customers a kalashnikov as a sweetener and find out more about that latest promotion on r.t. dot com. 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 corben told me earlier 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 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. and i think that that is the process we're going to 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 has 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. jerry corbin talking to me a little earlier the man and some petersburg has died after being hit by a car wheel thrown from an upper window of an apartment building the wheel was thrown from the tenth floor landing the seven i should say the tenth floor landing centimeters from the man's 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 but he suspected 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 are some other world news this hour here in r.t. the british government free to pay millions of dollars compensation to its citizens

held that america's gun tell them obey detention camp doesn't former detainees say they were illegally imprisoned and u.k. security services were involved in their torture they also claim authorities had information that would be 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 the apartment block was used mainly to hells migrant workers construction material and bad foundations are blamed for the collapse rescue workers are at the scene struggling to save dozens still trapped under the table. chinese police have detained for world is after a massive fire at an apartment block in shanghai more than fifty people were killed and dozens injured by the blaze reports aby unlicensed builders may have accidently started the fire on monday the inferno ripped through the building forcing dozens to climb down scaffolding to escape. ok it's been confirmed the prince william is

to marry his long time girlfriend kate middleton the wedding will take place in spring or summer next year the couple became engaged during a holiday last month when him and kate started dating eight years ago while studying together at the center andrews university. the landscape of the camp check components and russia's far east has been continuously molded by centuries of volatile geological activity that is documentary team takes you on an exclusive adventure to the land of volcanoes. so you. are comfortable. to do so. just. serve the urgency unscary. on the. crater. scorching. there are included. a photo of the wild lunar rover.

stay with us here on r.t. and you can see the full documentary in about ten minutes from now well from natural beauty to a crime against nature the gulf of mexico oil spill was one of the worst environmental disasters the world has seen hundreds of millions of gallons of oil spewed into the water following an all of rig explosion when our coverage of the disaster is virtually disappeared from america's press however bob who wrote a book on the catastrophe told r.t. nothing has changed with industry regulation and the problems are still lurking that's all special interview coming up next.

six months ago the worst environmental disaster took place in the us a b.p. oil spill unleashing more than two hundred million gallons of oil into the gulf coast how could this disaster have been prevented and why has this story fallen from the front pages joining me now to talk more about this topic is bob cavanaugh our author of disaster on the horizon and c o of a look at technologies thank you very much for sitting down to speak with r.t. happy to be here mr cavanaugh are you say that the b.p. oil spill was not an accident it was

a tragedy that didn't have to happen why did it happen the problem with the industry has and has had for years is that it's essentially been on regulated in the us our regulations are our self and forced we sort of to the government that we're doing what we're supposed to be doing there are very few inspectors that actually come out to start to see if we're actually following all the rules and regulations and because of the deregulation of our industry at least in federal waters over the last ten years that the problems that we have a big getting worse and worse and there's been no one forced me to correct them mr cranleigh from what i understand one of the many reasons you wrote your book is because you believe that americans still don't understand the extent of this tragedy a tragedy that is considered the greatest environmental disaster in u.s. history how bad is it we don't know how bad it is the problem is that the vast

majority of the oil never came to the surface it's in the oceans still today now some of it's being bugged degraded there is microbial degradation where some of the oil does get eaten but we don't know how long that takes and in cold war. water three thousand four thousand feet deep there could be vast plumes of oil that we can't see this destroying the food chain and the scientists that i've read and talked to will say that this oil gets and gets into the food chain and could cause damage all the way up it to to humans eating eating the seafood to come in from the gulf and it's a huge concern six months of past we have not seen congress act on any legislation that's exist story has basically fallen off the radar every u.s. news channel and major newspaper how come nobody is talking about this you know it's tragic the u.s. government and b.p.

both wanted this story off the television because it was twenty four seventh's with the. feeds the b.p. had where you could actually watch the well flow and all of the reporting it was going on the government desperately wanted to get that off the off of the television so they actually work with b.p. to make that happen i believe and that's what that's what i concluded in my book exactly you actually dated it you said on june sixteenth there was a twenty billion dollar merger between the obama administration and b.p. that's exactly right government or no oil industry and that together what exactly do you mean by that if you go back to the first weeks of the blowout between congressman markey and the pin in the. obama administration the rhetoric became sharper and sharper sharper against against b.p. to the point where even london they were saying that we were bashing the brits and when in fact we were we were warned about the gulf of mexico. the rhetoric

escalated until the meeting in the white house on june sixteenth where b.p. agreed to put twenty billion dollars in escrow to pay all the damages everything changed instantly the rhetoric toned down the government's. are working more with the with the b.p. and other other contractors in the gulf and all of a sudden they were speaking with one voice there were a few disagreements here along the way but admiral allen began speaking for b.p. and for the government and so all of a sudden the decision making all merged and. from there on they were there their interest were aligned the government wanted to keep b.p. afloat so they could pay the twenty billion so they wanted to get this story off the television as fast as possible so b.p. could recover what does that say about accountability that says there's not any what you're describing sounds quite similar to the type of conversation that was

taking place fine following the two thousand and eight financial collapse in the us a lot of people are saying it was because wall street was working under no regulations they were playing by their own rules and more than two years later americans and possibly people all over the world are still looking for accountability i mean are there parallels between both incidents there absolutely are if you look at the new drilling rules that are being proposed by the department of interior nothing has really changed and the changes that have happened are all basically putting another set of rules that are self certified on to the oil and gas companies there's no redesign of blowout preventers there's no redesign of systems there's no redesign of drilling rigs required so all of a sudden we're going to go back doing the same thing that we were doing before now secretary salazar talks about extending the permit review period from

a statutory thirty days to ninety days but that requires congressional action and in after this midterm election that's not going to happen they're not going to change that law he wrote about lobbyists in your book what role do lobbyists play in this situation the huge mistake that the industry makes is that they allow paid lobbyists to speak for us. there are some executives who go to capitol hill but they only talk to republicans they don't talk to the to the democratic side most of the time and so we have lobbyists who make money by stirring up controversy so lobbyist don't want the rules to be fixed they don't want to head to to make progress because the more conflict there is the more negotiations there are the more money they make you say that there was a collusion between the obama administration and b.p. hi the severity of the spill key committee tells us the fines in the in the

u.s. are determined by the number of barrels that are put in the water so it was really important for us to know how much oil was put in the water b.p. during this entire time never disclosed what the flow was even to this day they've never admitted what the flow was at the beginning it remember the coast guard said to the well it's stuff flowing was flowing zero be pieced it on the stage with admiral landry while she was saying that knowing they had our ovies on the bottom at that moment trying to shut the blowout preventer in because it was flowing only forty feet above them after b.p. had agreed to the twenty billion dollar payment then the government stopped pushing for that that that flow right once the if you recall the middle of july about july thirteenth or so they set the capping stack on the well that allowed them to collect oil and take it to the surface instead of doing that they decided with the

government to shut the well in which was a very risky move because they had no idea what the condition of the casing was below but they decided to shut it in so they could so they could get first off to keep them for more oil into the water but also to keep from having to measure the flow thank you very much for us i'm happy to be with you. for your convenience our comfortable shuttle bus will take you to this moment just a few hours from certain virgin forest and scaring to scorn fears and your directly. on the move. crater. scorching soil and toward there are included.

a photo with the wilds of the lunar rover for free. for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. if. need be soon which brightened a few nibbles soon from funniest impressions. for instance on t.v. dot com.