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column if you visit. russian businessman victor gruen sits in a new york prison to face allegations of a gun running after an extradition from the pilot which moscow dobbs in gold. will i believe be ruled. out to where. you know shoot the page fly us right wingers thrash how bush era foreign policy with a massive defense budget and continued military campaigns after republican gains in the midterm fall. and the e.u. teetering on the brink euro zone finance ministers brainstorm a banking recovery with struggling arland all political survival package.

more welcome to you live from our studios in central moscow this is our team with me and he said no way it's four pm here in the russian capital early in new york where russian businessmen viktor boot is being held in a high security prison after his extradition from thailand the merchants a vast for allegedly trafficking weapons around the world he faces life in prison on charges of terrorism in the states moscow says the decision to hand him over to the u.s. is extreme injustice and promise to support him by all means. reports. u.s. justice department refuses to give me personally any comment regarding what will happen next to victor 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. this is going to do rulings in the criminal court saying victory was not improve a little bit the government has still decided to go over to the u.n. i consider this unprecedented political pressure on the legal process. government

because this is an example of striking injustice we will continue to give all necessary support as a russian citizen. shortly after the extradition was underway us state officials say that they followed all the legal procedures they hope and what is happening right now with the activity 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 law this was a very quick and person perceives that under way that surprised victor good

wife who now remains as to what is happening with her husband what will happen when she will see head next we do get to speak with her here's what she said yes it will go it's hard for me to talk about but what happened was totally unexpected for both myself and. the thai cabinet held a closed meeting with little decision to extradite my husband to us the extradition took place within four hours of the meeting against all the rights and laws of the country and the only law that exists in thailand is u.s. influence i guess 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 jew 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 are many are questioning what due process in the u.s. is really all about well daniel is still an investigative journalist and writer says the u.s. will use viktor boots trial for their own interests. i can't possibly see how it would be a fair trial because i guess americans i've spent ten years actually tried to get out of the trouble they spent two years and i have tried to get him out of prison in thailand through the united states and now actually with a problem in the grass in the united states the action to 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 but again victor would simply has no secrets to tell us what a fair trial he would go a hole but i guess he won't go home i mean the whole idea of victor borge as a merchant of death as a holy would phenomenon for those not in arms merchant he was you know he's a cargo merchant he was it was you a transporter so if americans think you can 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 or we're going to have a show trial of we're going to 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 trouble just a pawn of this global game where the end game is to get russia any way and any means possible for us there from daniel is still and he has extensively interviewed viktor bout he's a journalist and writer. now following republicans gains in the recent u.s. midterm elections neo conservatives have been trumpeting u.s. foreign policy with a bush flavor at a meeting in washington but they're out of china and the wrong and russia's nuclear mind were all the subject of hawkish rhetoric but the right wing are saying the trillion dollar deficits should be paid off using any of the country's massive military budget. 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've 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 which version one point zero of president karzai he was very amenable to listening to western advice and 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 relationship him and became really

someone adversarial they presented their typical it approach to russia and eminent threat but at the same time no match for u.s. military might i don't worry about a remission 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 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 to it 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 skyrocketing defense budget and they had their foreign backers in the audience a new conservative view is that we need to go all out eliminate one side and have a victory and then empowered to 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 you know. well you can do what you want this is your country do want to work well with. you in my own proposals he. establishment believes that this is important it will be great if they don't we will continue 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 most of their courage as people at the time is that if you look back at the last two years the story of the obama foreign policy is as marks 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. . while republicans are looking back to the future of the democrats are struggling to bring change vice president joe biden joined the voices calling on the senate to approve a key arms deal before the end of the year he warned that failure to ratify the strategic arms reduction treaty with russia will endanger america's national security earlier a key republican senator whose party made significant gains in the midterm election

said he would not support a quick vote on the deal and that's a blow to the obama administration who made the weapons agreement one of their top priorities the new start treaty was sealed in april and would slash the two country's nuclear arsenals by a third but it won't come into force until ratified by both sides something moscow says it's ready to do for months. but will be any and president says nato needs help russia's help i should say to move forward he was speaking ahead of the alliances summit in portugal where world leaders are expected to unveil a new strategy for the alliance the new the turke tells our t.v. that teaming up with moscow is an important step in achieving that. has to change nato in a search for a mission for a long time after the ending of cold war did to me the question was for me it was necessary at all but the mission was never completely defined and i think that it cannot be considered to be different with a true partnership with russia we don't have

a cold war in the war and we have to figure out what to do snooped partnership means and i think that in this book in the coming days we should come closer to that definition. now to find out what else the slovenian president has to say about nato as well as the e.u. you can find his interview here in r.t. in twenty minutes also ahead take it to the moon four decades ago the soviet union guy did change orbit rules for a lunar surface revolution in space. and we look at how russian gas giant gazprom is making sure it stays top dog when it comes to keeping warm that's coming up in business in just under ten minutes. but first britain says it's ready to help get hit arland with billions of pounds of direct loans at a meeting of european finance ministers chancellor george osborne said it's in

britain's interest to support their closest neighbor the meeting comes amid fresh market turmoil and here are some smaller economies like portugal and ireland unable to service their massive debts the e.u. president warned the eurozone is actually facing a flight survival even though our event has so far rejected any help that mailer lays into london based vaster dublin may have little alternative but to take the money. i don't really in a position of much choice because clearly it's a sort of rock and a hard place norio and the short term expediency of bail out so it's better than the. bondholders 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. in terms of news flow and 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 oil and because i believe that they will be forced to take

bailout money and that will put them back probably in portugal in terms of the country being the most closely. and financial analyst max kaiser believes are than should seek help from the institutions responsible for its demise. 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 a huge freeze give bonuses to their college array 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 advocated its role as representative of the people the i.m.f. 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 terrorists and stand on its own two feet. we can see more of max kaiser at our t.v. dot com here's a taste of what else you'll find there right now extreme situation christians in israel are caught in the crossfire between jews and muslims as they get targeted by radical. was russian police detained two teenagers suspected of killing a man by car and we all from a time floor of an apartment building for more head over to our dot com. quarter past the hour let's take a look at some world news in brief for you israel has decided to withdraw its troops from the northern part of a village on the border with lebanon the guards are really village was split into two by the u.n. blue line local people say they want their homeland to be undivided as many families live on different sides of the border details of the pullout will be finalized by the un peacekeepers over the next few weeks. germany has stepped up

security at airports and train stations across the country after receiving intelligence of a possible terror plot the interior minister said he would receive details about an attack planned for the end of this month that comes after german security forces intercepted a mail bomb sent from yemen last month. and heavy rain across the southwest coast of england called flooding and landslides it happened in the county of cornwall with some people trapped in their cars and houses train services and in and out of the region are suspended after a month's live walked the line and made roads are closed. the president of iraq jalal talabani says he will never sign the death penalty order of saddam hussein's former a seventy four year old former foreign minister tariq aziz who sought to be seriously ill was condemned to death last month he was sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity and persecuting political groups. now the

russians may not have sent a man to the moon but on this day forty years ago the soviet union guided the first man rover to the earth's closest neighbor the automatic remote controlled robots also known as the lunar tanks roamed the moon surface revolutionizing space exploration. reports. back in the nine hundred sixty s. the lights were on day and night within these walls the soviet union had come up with a plan to send an unmanned rover to the moon but the question was how would it move around their familias surface once it got there the solution was finally found at the institute when you do them first we want to do 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 learn

a one popularly known as the luna tank was the first ever remote controlled barbara to land on 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 sound with its own footprints every lunar morning once in twenty eight days when the sun's rays touch the lunar hold solar panel it would wake up bape. a lonely sound in a silent world and set off on you adventure. exactly way to it had it was decided far away at the mission control center in the crimea. just left of going to was one of the five mammal and her team which also included and never get her and ten operator and two engineers snoo my luna hoods camera film the moon surface and send

black and white pictures back to earth with a delay of more than twenty seconds month so we had to judge the situation using this picture or luna hard stood still we got basic info on what was going on outside stones the course of movement craters and other such things after that the dr would choose the next step what moment it was. the first steps were difficult but in time it seems the teams work became more creative more. once on women's day we wanted to get our wives flowers but we didn't have time 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 his last pictures back to earth. the lunar 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 years which were explored during the soviet era we know that will to based on samples we found the we know that one day they will allow us to set up uninhabited lunar base. back in the nine hundred sixty is the do you suppose were sending both people machines to the stars is that with only one go to outdo each other billions of dollars spent in the race to leave one another behind the second is on its own different full form flying space now united nations against the big girl though they go together where no one has gone before. there is no. more st petersburg. sixty five years since the end of world war two the africa veterans are still regarded with huge gratitude and pride for some painful memories from the

past continue to cast a shadow. those so many years of. some song and prisoners. are still a lot. as well this is for sure. those so many years. some are hoping to find the same. others shakespeare executioners longing for justice. those so many years of past. memory is still a man. as well. as. eight. you can see that report here on our team in just over an hour from now in the meantime let's check the latest business knows where.

hello welcome to the business news i'm sure on that we're going to go straight to our top story they are opinion in austin liberalize its gas market and make it easier for independent producers to access the pipeline network for gas palming the world's largest producer may no longer be enough to guarantee its dominance of the market nick paul reports. last year gazprom sells to you will about twelve percent due to the financial downturn demand is now recovering but at the same time the russian gas monopoly is facing ever stiffer competition the european union favors diversity in the gas market wants to liberalize the transportation networks russia dislikes the idea but some experts believe there is little to fear the price market means that. came into the market to continue but he spoke 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 their case to the customer. i think is

a good development for europe this summer going to say she has also called for the trust in the customers to because gazprom is facing increased competition in europe particularly from alternative sources of gas production energy may just such a show which traditionally focus on oil production and now paying more attention to developing that gas business is going to reject the fact that the share of gas revenues and the total structure total revenue structure of oil and gas majors global may for zipping is increasing while oil revenue share is decreasing actually the main competition for gazprom in europe crowd is not from oil and gas majors themselves accounts from cattaro and she producers for african gas producers gazprom is not unaware of the problems it faces in europe and this believe it needs to be. flexibilities preceded. something the companies remarked and to do for the moment instead it's. running its customer base in the food

growing. business. and the reno nissan alliance is considering building a second vehicle assembly factory in russia's far east the company can't keep up with growing demand and will face a production shortfall of two hundred thousand cars by two thousand and fifteen the new plant will not only help to cover the deficit but also have transport costs currently it takes about forty days to bring spare parts from the sea to japan from japan to renault nissan. renault's plant in st petersburg region. and 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 carmaker which is generating sought profits after last year's bankruptcy after

the i.p.o. the government's stake in g.m. should fall to twenty six percent from 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 through the sale of stocks. and the euro remains under pressure after europe's finance minister failed to come up with a clear plan to deal with ireland's debt crisis dublin is this gusting measures with its european counterparts but is resisting a call to accept a bailout paul merkel from h.s.b.c. explains why arlen small economy could become a big problem. it may not be a big economy because it still have quite a big impact with 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 you know what it could mean for the real economies elsewhere in europe is that what could actually happen to continue so it's yes arlen that was a problem but it 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. now let's take a look at the equity markets european stocks are mixed on wednesday following the fall of asia and wall street the footsie is flat to negative after tumbling nearly two and a half percent on tuesday and make concerns about ireland's debt problem and that china could be about to raise interest rates industrials and financials are lending support to the dax in frankfurt. and here in moscow markets are slipping lower this hour we versing earlier against the r.t.s. is off about three percent three quarter of a percent banks are higher on the my sex but energy stocks are in the red and gas problem is now a half percent lower. and the russian government is imposing a ten percent export duty on copper the new tariff will come into effect in the middle of december the finance minister estimates the change will bring an

additional three hundred million dollars to the state budget next year on the global market the price of copper is down for a second day that's when it concerns chinese authorities will take action to slow their economy china is the world's top cop for you sir i'm sorry buyer. and that's all the news for now but you can always find more stories on our web site that's r t dot com slash business.

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