suspected russian arms dealer victor boot reportedly lands in new york after being extradited to the us from thailand moscow insists the moves are illegal. european union president warns the irish debt crisis could cause a whole lops if europe fails to unite against a common economic threat. and the new leader of britain's armed forces believes the west is unable to defeat militant islamists and al qaeda in general sir david richards says to prepare for another four decades in afghanistan.

it's six am in moscow i met treasurer good to be with you here on r t our top story russian businessman victor boot has reportedly landed new york after being extradited from thailand the u.s. suspects him of gun running to supply dictators in conflict zones but moscow says the moves to port are illegal or he's marina portnoy is full of mincing words he joins us live now with more hello marina so what's going to happen to boot next. hi there matt well the u.s. justice department refuses to give me personally any comment regarding what will happen next to victor boot but i can tell you that prosecutors are preparing to address the maybe some point wednesday that would detail how the the trial of victor boot would proceed if there is to be a trial where he will be held in the time being as i mentioned i did reach out to

the justice department to just find out basic questions when the arraignment would be where mr boot would be relocated to whether he would be held under special administrative measures and the justice department wrote me back saying that they would not comment or answer any of my questions we have spoken though to various international law experts who weighed in on the situation as to what could possibly happen to victor boot let's take a listen he will be taken before united states federal magistrate judge or a hearing to determine whether or not he should be jailed pending or whether he should be released. because he has the right to counsel. that he should be released. if the federal magistrate judge makes a determination that mr boot is either of flight risk or a danger to community then the court will end and he will be jailed pending.

now to give our viewers a little bit of background in the case of victor boot he was arrested in thailand in march of two thousand and eight and that's when the u.s. attorney in new york pressed charges against mr gooch that includes money laundering and wire fraud and he was charged with terrorism related activities such as supplying weapons to colombian rebels the russian businessman has denied any wrongdoing saying that all these charges have been politically motivated we should also mention the u.s. attorney in new york also introduced a new indictment in february of this year that many believe helped the u.s. is position in having victor boot extradited from thailand here to new york which leads us to today. so far what impact is this whole situation having on u.s.

russia relations. well obviously this has added tench a tense element to the relations between the united states and russia relations that have appeared to be reset ever since u.s. president barack obama stepped into the white house white house and moscow officials have dubbed boots extradition as a striking in justice many believe that russian officials should have been notified by law by the united states according to law the u.s. should have been notified russian officials before victor was extradited from thailand to the u.s. that did not happen many believe that russia was in fact blindsided by this move russian foreign minister sergei lavrov weighed in on the circumstance weighed in on the situation questioning why this clandestine activity is taking place at the

moment. despite two rulings in criminal court saying viktor boots guilt was not proven 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 to boot as a russian citizen. now there were officials from the u.s. state department that did address the media shortly after the extradition was underway u.s. state of fishel say that they followed all legal procedures they hope that what is happening right now with the activities surrounding viktor booth that it would not impact relations between moscow and washington in any way let's take a listen to what was said. we have. a

broad and deep relationship with russia it is guided by our mutual national interests i don't expect that this will have any impact on our relationship but it is fully consistent with both our. bilateral treaty obligations with thailand and fully consistent with international balance family have been outspoken supporters of him this throughout this whole situation right now how are they reacting. obviously his wife is the person that is speaking out the most has been speaking out the most about viktor buton her husband's innocence she's remained in thailand and right now at this moment she feels blindsided and very shocked about her husband's extradition especially because she was not given any form morning victor boot lawyer from what he has said was not given any forewarning this was

a very quick and person perceives that under way that surprised victor good wife who now remains clueless as to what is happening with her husband and what will happen when she will see head next we do get to speak with her here's what she said. yes those are the 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 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. within the next twenty four hours not we should find out much more detail about what will happen with victor boot where he will remain when a rayment will be under way but what is come to light in this story with this story

is the u.s. justice system is wide what they do process in the united states is all about because so many secrets have been kept so many people have been kept in the dark about what is happening with all of this while the u.s. has been aggressively campaigning to get him extradited and. so right now and many are questioning what due process in the u.s. is really all about all right we'll see how this all goes next artie's marina portnoy reporting for us live from new york thank you. you have guinea billing key the bangkok bureau chief for the russian news agency rio says there is one organization in the u.s. that's very interested in having viktor boot on american soil. who is going to benefit from this fest that traditional victor boot fest and the breast the glee club the best extradition my version of the answer is that most probably the v.a.

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 deter the men date 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 mansion in bangkok in two thousand and eight of it to the officials or former officials surely said on the record that they'd spent about twelve million u.s. dollars on this move to chase into somebody has to to have to hand to justify. these expenses and the only person with whom these expenses can be justified is good to boot not just good to good but they're good behind bars. daniel estelle an investigative journalist who's written about the links between governments and those outside the law says boat has no chance of

a fair trial in the us. it was very very much expected i mean it was expected a year it was a foregone conclusion it was going to lose this case i was on russia that if you months ago i said it's 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 ciro and it's very very unfortunate in the end victor who doesn't know anything i mean the whole idea of victor buddhism merchant of death as a hollywood phenomenon is not an arms merchant he was you know he's a cargo merchant he was it was even the transporter so if americans think you could actually get secrets out of him they're very very very wrong you know the russians know there's the americans know this there's two ways to look at this all we're going to have a show trial of a bit of a closed door trial i think probably they're going to go for the show trial because again it is a very useful piece a mental piece because as i said before it's a big debate is just a pawn of this global game or the end game is to get out of russia any way and any means possible i can't possibly see how it is that it would be a fair trial because again americans have spent ten years actually tried 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 him 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. if europe's single currency fails so might the union itself that's the warning coming from the e.u. president ahead of the euro zone's finance ministers meeting portugal has warned that it could be forced to ditch the euro and ireland is also being urged teams battle out funds to keep from bankruptcy ned naylor leland from a london based investment company says that small e.u. states may have little alternative but to take the cash. i don't really in 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 or. immediate reactions of the

situation but just you know you what you want to keep an eye on the fact that one country after another appears to be on a slow roast in terms of news flown in terms of the way the market is looking at this but my guess would be it's likely to be a short term situation for arlen because i believe that they will be forced to take bailout money and that will put them back probably bar in portugal in terms of the country being looked at most most closely. and our own financial analyst max kaiser says even worse than taking the 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 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 college or a 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 or cause the crisis the ireland needs to divorce itself from these financial terrorism stand on its own two feet 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 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 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. more of max kaiser's outspoken analysis on all the latest from the world of finance tune into the kaiser report in less than twenty minutes here on our team. remember you can always follow more on our stories leave your comments and more at our website r t v dot com here's what i like right

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combat situations but history shows us that with forces go into any situation in a supportive role they are often what they quit probably better equipped than the afghan forces they have often quite experience they are then dragged into situations they don't want to be dragged into it think back the nine hundred sixty s. nine hundred sixty three to be exact the united states sent in a military advice and then support forces into vietnam five years later they had half a million troops there if i see 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 go to ground in afghanistan armed 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

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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 see if we're actually following all the rules and regulations and because of the deregulation of our industry at least on 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 crabb from what i understand one of the many reasons you wrote your book is because you believe that americans to. 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 to 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 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 world flow in all of the reporting that 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 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 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 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

u.s. 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 e.p.a. hi 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 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 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 it 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. wealthy british style stock. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max keiser for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. for your convenience are comfortable shuttle bus will teach you.