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prosecutors are set to the side of a paid russian businessman viktor bush faces charges of supplying weapons to terrorists russia says wood's extradition from thailand was illegal and that will buy to the last for his rights. a massive defense budget a world with nuclear weapons and seen threats all around are issues back on the agenda after a republican success in the mid-term elections. and dragging an island behind european union warns of economic collapse and violent and that whole new don't face up to the comic store.

this is r.t. coming to life from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program russian businessman victor borge has landed in new york after being extradited from thailand suspected of arms smuggling if convicted in the u.s. he faces life in prison but moscow says it will continue to fight for bush citing his extradition as illegal as marine forty nine are reports. 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 media some point wednesday that would detail how the the trial 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 that the justice department wrote me back saying that they would not comment or answer any of my questions obviously this has added a tense element to the relations between the united states and russia russian foreign minister sergei lavrov weighed in on the situation questioning why this clandestine activity is taking place at the moment. but. despite two rulings in thailand's criminal court saying victor boots guilt was not proven the thai government has still decided to hand him over to the u.s. like 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. shortly after the extradition was underway

us city officials say that they followed all the procedures they hope that what is happening right now with the activity surrounding viktor booth that it would not impact the 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 law this was a very quick and person perceives that under way that surprised victor good wife who now remains through this as to what is happening with her husband what will happen when she will see her next we did get to speak with her here's what she

said i mean. 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 what is coming to light in this story with this. story is the u.s. justice system is wide what the job 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 victims all of this while the u.s. has been aggressively campaigning to get in extradited and more than that. so right now while many are questioning what due process and the u.s. is really all about. for now reporting there and us lawyer douglas mcnabb told r.t.

that it is inevitable victor book will face tough pressure from the prosecution the u.s. takes a very very rusty approach. extra terror tory now go house mr boots counsel could have or gave if they didn't in thailand that that extra territorial jurisdiction that the u.s. uses to go after individuals outside of the u.s. does not comport with thailand and therefore because it was not a crime in both countries that mr booth should not have been next for going to thailand to the united states i understand that there was significant amount of political pressure by the u.s. put on the thai government but i assure you that will be nothing compared to the pressure that the united states is going to put on mr booth to cooperate with the u.s. law enforcement authority is against others whether individuals businesses or countries

. danielle is still in an investigative journalist and writer believes victor blood doesn't have any chance of getting a fair trial in the us. i can't possibly see how it would be a fair trial because i get americans i've spent ten years actually trying to get their 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 allotting stock of the entire world so no the trial is not going to be a fair trial but again victor boot simply has no secrets to tell so in a fair trial he would go a hole but again he won't go home i mean the whole idea of victor buddhism merchant of death is a hollywood phenomenon is not an arms merchant he was you know he's a cargo merchant he was he was a transporter so if americans think you can actually get secrets out of him they're very very very wrong no the russians know there's the americans know this there's two ways to look at this or we're going to have a show trial it would have

a closed door trial i think probably they're going to go for the show trial because again is a very useful piece of the mantel piece because as i said before it's a big debate is just a pawn of this global game where the end game is to get russia any way and any means possible. i was daniels to investigative journalist and writer there. watching r.t. live from moscow neoconservatives have madame washington to reiterate the very same rhetoric that failed them in the us presidential race two years ago the right wing politicians of call to boost the enormous military budget by threats coming from iran and china and question russia's nuclear might artist for reports. neo conservative leaders came together for two days of quote restoring america's leadership in a democratic world without ever acknowledging the role their policies played in its decline they reassured each other that china's rise didn't signal imperial demise we're different from china you know we have a liberal regime we make mistakes all the time and we had you know there are things

in our history for which we need to apologize and have apologized but at the end of the day think of ourselves as trying to promote human rights and lift all boats and prosperity and that's not how the chinese regime thinks of itself and they painted a rosy picture of their continued occupation of afghanistan and their ability to control afghan president hamid karzai despite new corruption charges and revelations electoral fraud cars i don't know it was worth one point over president karzai he was very amenable to listening to western advice then we've seen the emerging the last several years version two point zero of course which is a very different figure one who the west is in a sense we stepped away from our mentoring relation with him and became really someone adversarial they presented their typical approach to russia and eminent threat but at the same time no match for u.s. military might i don't worry about every mission the cold war i don't think it's going to happen one reason is i don't think the russians are capable of reading night and warned of an imminent danger should the us close any of its eight hundred

thirty seven military bases worldwide to reduce the four trillion dollar deficit my greatest fear is that in economic tough times the people will see the defense budget as the place to solve the nation's deficit problems. to find money for other parts of the government i think that would be disastrous in the world environment we see today and what we're likely to see in the years to come unquestionable too was america's nuclear arsenal well i hope that we have a world. without nuclear weapons i also hope that page. just outside the gates of the white house the last two years ago in the presidential election neoconservatives gather here at this hotel to espouse much of the same rhetoric they had back with the threats of iran and china a permanent presence in iraq and afghanistan and a sky rocketing defense budget and they have their foreign backers in the audience

the new conservative view is that we need to go all out eliminate one side and have a victory and then empower the people to to manage. their government and you agree with that view i definitely do among them were former foreign darlings of washington back for a pat on the back even as their influence faded at home i'm not republican and democrats and. a member of solidarity well you can do what you want this is your country to do with your well i have my own view and my own proposals. american. establishment believes that this is important it will be great if they don't we will continue oh so it's no problem most tellingly a democrat turned. senator joseph lieberman of praise president obama to me the story that in some ways neither party wants to acknowledge muster courage as people of the time is that if you look back at the last two years the story of the

obama foreign policy is as march continuity as change from the bush administration policy neo conservatives may be down but they're not out with republicans back in control of the house their foreign policy agenda is back on the table and ford artsy washington d.c. . and this week's nato summit in lisbon is expected to see a new road map for the withdrawal of international combat troops from afghanistan by the end of two thousand and fourteen however britain's top military commander says some troops should stay for much longer general david richards argues that al qaeda can never be defeated only contained british m.p. jeremy corbyn says the presence of foreign forces in afghanistan is only making the top of and stronger. so david richards is right that there is no military solution in afghanistan there is only a political one. the united states britain and russia are of long since discovered over the past hundred fifty years and but his analysis that follows is that some

are of the britain should remain involved for the next generation is something that i think is going to be very unpopular in this country and is actually probably going to be unpopular as a government that wants to have a complete exit strategy by two thousand and fifteen i think what we have to recognize is that the people of afghanistan don't like being occupied by the western forces the longer they stay there the stronger the taliban gets because people see them as the main and credible opposition and i think it is time that we have a totally different political strategy in the region look at the threat that is now on in pakistan look at the threat in the border region which is largely occasioned by people wanting to oppose the western presence in afghanistan and i was british m.p.'s anti-war campaigner jeremy corbyn they're more have for this hour here in r t exploring space on the moon tell the story of so-called war tanks and the use of sarin stand up to explore the moon and what they found out. in the

u.s. democrats are making a last ditch effort to push a key arms deal through congress before the end of the year by president joe biden has warned that failure to ratify the strategic arms reduction treaty with russia will endanger america's national security his plea false statements by republicans that a deal should be signed this year with some saying it should be dropped altogether the new start treaty was sealed in april and should slash the two country's nuclear arsenals by a third i won't come into force until ratified by both sides something moscow says it's been ready to do for months republicans made significant gains in the midterm elections with few willing to cooperate with obama's democrats on the start treaty . my aunts for rescue package for ireland are being drawn out by euro zone finance ministers meeting in brussels members have vowed to support dublin with a struggling economy should it request help the decision comes on the back of market fears that some smaller countries are not capable of paying back their

massive debts earlier the president of the european union warned the irish debt crisis could cause an e.u. collapse nathanael or leland from a london based investment company says dublin may have little alternative but to take the money. i don't really in the position of of much choice because clearly it's a sort of rock and a hard place scenario and the short term expediency of bail out so it's better than the. bondholders or or the 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 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. that was naylor leon farm from a london based investment company let's take a look at some other stories from around the world. iran is testing long range missiles as part of what it says is the country's biggest air to fans drill the five day war games are being carried out to test the islamic republic's ability to deter possible airstrikes against its nuclear facilities israel and the u.s. say they have not ruled out military action against iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons to iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. the dominican republic has registered its first case of cholera for weeks after of the epidemic broke out in neighboring haiti authorities have created health checks as a border at the border to try to stop the disease crossing into the country and more than a thousand patients are now known to have died from the al break while almost seven

hundred thousand treated. officials say a fresh round of flooding and landslides have killed at least eleven people in central viet nam the latest figures bring the death toll to one hundred seventy eight in its region over the past six weeks and experts say the tropical depression is likely to rage on. prince william has finally become gauged as a long term girlfriend second in line to the throne the prince proposed to kate middleton with a large blue oval fire and diamond ring his mother the late princess diana once wore middleton described the shock when william proposed during a recent holiday in kenya the two started dating eight years ago while studying together it's in enders university in scotland the wedding will take place next spring or summer in london. now during the nine hundred sixty s. the united states of the soviet union war and gauge their fierce face race the americans were first to get a man on the moon but on this day forty years ago the soviets guide of the first

unmanned rover to earth closest neighbor the lunar tanks or a little hard success will explore the moon surface r.t. as more even national has their story back in the nine hundred sixty s. the lies were wrong day and night within these walls the soviet union had come up with a plan to send an unmanned drover to the moon but the question was how would have to move around their families surface once it got there the solution was finally found at the institute means to do them for those who wanted to use caterpillars we used to make turnings and we loved tanks but it became clear that wheels were more reliable caterpillars could get stuck that would ruin the whole mission and we couldn't afford to make a mistake or you know luna one popularly known as the luna tank was the first ever remote controlled verver to learned of another celestial body. initially slated for

a three month mission it will the lunar surface for eleven months during this time it traveled more than ten kilometers taken over twenty thousand images including some with its own footprints. every lunar morning once in twenty eight days when the sun's rays touch the lunar held solar panel it would wake up bape. hello only sound in a silent world and set off a new adventure. exactly wait what had was decided far away at the mission control center in the crimea. sloughed off going to was one of the five men malone hooked in which also included and never get or in ten operator and two engineers. luna hoods camera film the moon surface up and send black and white pictures back to earth with a delay of more than twenty seconds months so we had to judge the situation using this picture aboard a lunar ford stood still we got basic info on what was going on outside stones the

course of the movement of craters and other such things after that the drug would choose the next what not much to. the first steps were difficult but in time it seems the teams work became more creative what's more. we once on women's day we wanted to get our wives flowers but we didn't have time that there was so much work so our navigator suggested drawing a flower like shape on the moon with the rover and we present the women with the pictures he even told journalists that you could see the shape through a telescope but of course that wasn't true. after sending this last pictures back to earth. the luna hold finally stopped in its tracks it's still there to this day but the little rovers tabs were a giant leap for mankind and the tracks it left on the moon surface will forever remain a trail blazed for future explorers. we look forward to checking out the lunar

supposed areas which weren't explored to the soviet era we know that water based on samples we found that we had that one day they will allow us to set up uninhabited lunar bases where a lot of them are young in the. back. the nine hundred sixty is the two superpowers who are sending people machines to the stars with only one go to do each other reasons of dollars to spend in the race to leave one another behind. its old friends the full form flying space no united nations against the big go to go together where no one has come before. the original. st petersburg. we'll check out our stories any time you wanted r.t. dot com let's take a moment to we'll go online to watch out for you right now. airport controversy a california man became a national sensation when you recorded using power during its security pat down after refusing to go through a body scanner. and of course to be the country's warmest of amber

today brushes mild weather is breaking more records details in our tom. all brings us up to date here on r.t. from war member you can always log on to our web site r t dot com right now we have the business of day with staff during the morning here stephanie good morning marina and we're hearing that american company general motors could be about to make history yeah that's right possibly because demand for the company's initial public offering this week is apparently so strong that they may increase the sales by thirty percent i'm not could make it the largest global i.p.o. in history i'll have more on that in the business but it's and just a moment. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the

biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers i'm. going to be soon which brightened. sun from finest impression. starts on t.v. dot com. hello and welcome to the business but in the european union is considering the liberalization of the gas market and proposing easy access for independent produces

to the pipeline network the gas problem of being the world's largest producer it's no longer enough to guarantee its dominance of the market that's what it purports. last year gazprom sales to europe fell about twelve percent due to the financial downturn demand is now recovering but at the same time the russian gas monopoly is facing a stiff a competition the russian union favors diversity in the gas market and wants to liberalize the transportation networks russia dislikes the idea but some experts believe it has little to fear but the price market's means to. come into the market to continue but useful to the market i think in this is in favor of gas probably because they are the backbone of the supply of europe and now they have also the chance to antithetical to the market to go to the customer to deliver the case to the customer. i think is a good development for europe this summer going to say sure it's all to cook for the trust in the customers to the gas another threat to russian gas comes from

global companies taking a keen interest in gaz gazprom is facing increased competition in europe particularly from alternative gas producers made just such as shell which traditionally focused on both production and i'll paying more attention to that gas business as i can originate the fact that the share of gas revenues and the total structure total revenue structure for. oil and gas majors global mean for us i think is increasing while the oil revenue share is decreasing actually the main competition for gazprom in europe crowd is not from our willing kids may first themselves he counts from cattaro and she producers. african gas producers gazprom is not unaware of the problems of places in europe analysts believe it needs to be most flexible in its pricing and long term contracts something the company is reluctant to do for the moment instead is focusing on

diversifying its customer base in the fast growing markets of asia and india the value of a business r.t. moscow. the euro has come off a seven week low against the dollar but it remains vulnerable as europe's finance ministers grapple with how ireland will pay for its bailout program i and is discussing the measures with its european counterparts but resisting pressure to accept the eight pull machall from h.s.b.c. explains why island small economy could trigger a domino effect destabilizing the region's shaky recovery. it may not be a big economy because and still have 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 and what it could mean for the real economies elsewhere in europe is that we could actually happen to continue so those are when i was a problem could be impacts possibly portugal even more so and eventually in the spring so this is what the market is quite nervous about it's more about the

contagion risk rather than just our story by itself. general motors may increase the size of its i.p.o. on wednesday by about a third to four hundred seventy eight million shares this could make it the largest global i.p.o. in history the move is in response to stronger than expected demand for shares in the car make up which is generating solid profits after last year's bankruptcy after the i.p.o. the government's taken should fall to twenty six percent in the current sixty one percent the u.s. spent forty nine and a half billion dollars to rescue g.m. last year the carmaker has returned a fifth of that and is hoping to pay off the rest of through the side of stock over the next couple of years. and now let's take a quick look at the equity markets asian stocks are low on wednesday in tokyo the nikkei fell one percent on the open dragged down by fools on wall street overnight a young weakness has provided a buying opportunity for exporters and the index is now off those things. and the russian markets finished tuesday session in the red in moscow with both industry

shutting nearly two percent banks and energy majors were way nearly three percent on both horses under us nafta is down more than two percent on the my sex. one of russia's largest telecom providers come star says its third quarter earnings have more than doubled from a year ago to reach fifty eight million dollars result is better than analysts were expecting the company says it's on track to hit its full year targets. russian industrial production increased an annual six point six posts. in october led by cars trucks and all that money a fractured goods russia's economy is a mugging from last year's seven point nine percent contraction as high commodity prices on consumer demands boost growth meanwhile the country's consumer prices have risen to seven and a half percent in october from five and a half percent in july. and that's all the business use for now but i'll be back with more if you next hour and of course you can always find more stories if you

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