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town's the remember the crimean the chesterfield. the royal the rubens hotel. says thailand's 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 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 moscow has dubbed thailand's extradition of russian

businessman vic to boot to the 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 trafficked alms to dictators in conflict zones around the world well he's got a check on the latest. their tour boat is now reportedly in new york after a very contentious extradition from thailand. family members on the russian embassy in thailand said there we see no proper notification on this snap of extradition. 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 he 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 to be the 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 boot they hope his rights 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 evolved russia says because of this lot of accusations that the u.s. has hung upon boot and all the negative hype that there is allowed him 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 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. all serious my call they got their nose out of it with more on why americans wanting so badly all people on the planet hollywood florida who are there 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 legs do realize prototype russian businessmen victor boot nicknamed the merchant of death denied to all like he's a sions and laughed off parallels. i don't feel very sorry for. the to play this out a lot for this very silly and i feel pity for it's been over his statement never changed even when he came from behind bars in the infamous bangkok hilton but that did not stop the thai peel 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 stories moves boot 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 own going process of law it means that they violated the cools authority this is a punishable offense i am going to file a case against the cabinet members and explain to the coo and to the cabin is violated the rights of my client to g. process of law the company has perpetrated an illegal act as well as sending it to off to the u.s. in this way and even though this case may seem closed the biggest question remains unanswered what does victor boot know to make the americans want this badly victor would doesn't know anything i mean the whole idea of victor borge as a merchant of death as a hollywood phenomenon is not an arm's murther he was there as a cargo merchant he was you know if you are

a transporter or so if americans think 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 around quite a large airline operation in many an africa and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods are knowing through television history from washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. run even plying arms 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. family have repeatedly criticised the court procedures firm in their belief that is being made a scapegoat of

a policeman a principle this is a question of principle of the should they've been continues spending money taxpayer money on trying to root out gone wrong it's so they have to have someone to show for it and they chose what we can do with it's nothing but p.r. you know lawyers actually refused to take his case because they were visited by u.s. officials who through most of. the trial 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 and last ordinary movie goers await that release dictabelt will be awaiting his own at this point in time both look equally unlikely. kashrut as our 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 u.s. he was handed over to american agents in a matter of days the lawyer squire the pilot had been basically kidnapped so if there is one 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. guinea billing key the bangkok bureau chief for russian news agency ria 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 fest that traditional victor boot fest them to breath to go into and best extradition my version of the answer is that most probably the v.a. the drug enforcement administration of the united states of america is the best non hears they have been doing work on terrorism because they got that terrorism m.b.a. to 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 over the world is the tension in bangkok in two thousand and eight of it to the officials or former officials surely said on the record that they spent about twelve million u.s. dollars on this richard to chase and to somebody has to hold to have to justify. these expenses and the only person with whom these expenses can be justified is victor boot not just that to boot but victor boot behind bars. if europe's single currency fails so with 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 added to use by enough funds to prevent bankruptcy and that nathan lane and from a london based investment company says small states may have little alternative but

to take the money. i don't really in a 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 no 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 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 are john fitzpatrick david drumm shon quinn the financial claris that are taking ireland down unless 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 huge fees 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're in 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 start 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. one law for more of next causes

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britain's top commander says al qaeda and the taliban can not 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 called and 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 it 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. 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 is 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. a man in some petersburg has died after being hit by a cog wheel thrown from an upper window of an apartment building that was thrown from 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 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

. and there are some other world news this world updates of violence aimed at un peacekeepers are spreading through haiti after nepalese troops were blamed for causing the current cholera epidemic to protesters were shot dead by peacekeeping troops who you and said were acting in self-defense more than a thousand the now known to have died from the disease while almost seventeen thousand have been treated there actually infection rates thought to be much higher . and one lucky lady is in line for possibly the best christmas present ever or at least the most extravagant one this rare pink diamond is the most expensive stone ever option selling at sotheby's in geneva for a call forty six million dollars for bidders competed for the twenty four carat stone but it was british darling dealer lawrence growth whose but it was a cut above the rest previous record was a thirty six carrot gem which sold for twenty four million dollars in two thousand and eight. the british government has agreed to pay millions of dollars compensation to its citizens held at america's quantum obey 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 ill treated yet did nothing to help them. and 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 when kate started dating eight years ago while studying together at st andrews university. now the landscape of the camp check a peninsula in russia's far east been continuously molded by sentries a volatile geological activity that is documentary team takes you on an exclusive adventure to the learned volcanoes. are you. comfortable. just. observing the urgency.

on the moon. craters. scorching. are included. a photo of the wild lunar rover. and we'll take you on a tour of russia's wild far east in the next hour well from all natural beauty to a crime against nature the gulf of mexico oil spill was one of the world's worst environmental disasters hundreds of millions of gallons of oil spewed into the sea get coverage of the disaster is virtually disappeared from america's media however bob kavanagh who's written about the catastrophe told r.t. that industry regulation remains unchanged and the problem still remains that's in a special interview next on r.t. .

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 the problems that we have a big getting worse and worse and there's been no one forced me to correct them mr carro 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 biodegraded there is microbial degradation where some of the oil does get eaten but we don't know how long that takes and 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 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 the humans eating in 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 very 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 world flow in all of the reporting that was going on the government does probably want 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 an oil industry in bed together what exactly do you mean by that if you go back to the first weeks of the blowout between congressman markey and the been in the. obama administration. the rhetoric became sharper and

sharper and 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 worried 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 tone down the government started working more with the with the b.p. and 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 you're right 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 board negotiations there are the

more money they make you say that there was a collusion between the obama administration and b.p. to hide the severity of the spill key committee tells 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 of remember the coast guard said the well it's tough 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 get keep from 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. wealthy british stock.

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