russell businessman victor boot sits in new york prison to face allegations of gun running after an extradition from thailand which moscow dogs only go. to the world. without nuclear weapons. the. us right wingers thrash out bush era foreign policy with the massive defense budget and continued military campaigns after republican gains in the midterm vote. and the e.u. teetering on the brink heroes' own finance ministers brainstorm a banking we're covering with struggling our land offered a survival pact that's. why

from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me nice and now it's six pm here in the russian capital ten am in new york where we begin our top story russian businessman victor boot is being held in a high security prison there after his extradition from thailand dubbed the merchants of death for allegedly tracking trafficking weapons around the world he faces life in prison on terror on terrorism charges in america moscow says the decision to hand him over to the u.s. is extreme and justice and promised to support him by all means let's get the latest now from marty's marina portman's he's in new york and joins us live hi there marina what's next for victor boot. well as you mentioned victor boot is here in new york city and we are anticipating and expecting for u.s.

prosecutors to hold a press conference in the next few hours detailing what is exactly next for victor boot we know the russian businessman will also be appearing before a judge at one pm new york city time as you mentioned he's being held at a federal prison the metropolitan correctional center in lower manhattan where several suspects terrorism suspects have been held in years past following the september eleventh attacks he might even be held under special administrative measures which means that he would essentially be on a twenty three hour lockdown but we will find out more when when the prosecutors hold their press conference now picture boot is being charged with and accused of smuggling missiles and rocket launchers to colombian rebels and also conspiring to kill u.s. officers or u.s. employees this is according to u.s. officials now victor boot for his part has denied all charges he says that

everything that the u.s. officials allege are politically motivated if he is found guilty and only find out how this trial is going to proceed he faces up to life in prison but some experts that have weighed in on this case on this matter say that boot a former soviet officer has extension of extensive knowledge of russian intelligence and that is in fact according to some experts what u.s. officials are after because they have been aggressively campaigning for his extradition from thailand for more than two years that's right moscow and washington have been in this tug of war over victor boot for some time now what are the side saying after this extradition after boots arrival in new york. well and you say you touched on it when you introduced the story. russian foreign ministry's is quite upset over this and this has impacted relations between moscow and washington to say the least so the russian foreign ministry has called this

grieving justice essentially saying that a russian citizen should not have been extradited from from thailand with the russian government knowing beforehand other comments that have been made by russian officials also allege that the u.s. put a lot of political pressure on the thai government to meet a lot of back door deals and this is a matter that's been quite sensitive for russia and at this point they feel that russian officials feel that was have been violated let's take a listen to what was said. despite two rulings in thailand's criminal court saying victor boot guilt was not proven the thai government has still decided to hand him over to the u.s. i consider this unprecedented political pressure on the legal process and on pylons 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 he's

a spokesperson for the state department did address this situation knowledge ng that there may be some ripples possible in relations between russia and the u.s. but nothing that would be of grave concern u.s. officials believe that they followed all the rules laws and procedures and believe that any concerns on the part of russia can be managed between washington and moscow let's have a listen to what u.s. officials had to say. 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 it is so fully consistent with both our. bilateral treaty obligations with thailand and fully consistent with international. so i mean obviously what

is quite clear is that there is extreme disagreement over the handling of victory over his extradition here to new york city and be can imagine that there will be many more discussions to competent the u.s. and russia and now you mentioned this kind of backdoor way this extradition of was handled why someone secrecy especially if the u.s. is claiming that it was done legally. you know a lot of secrecy and it was done very quickly it was it's been considered very much of a clandestine type of move u.s. officials say and allege they have a position where. had to be moved quickly he was in a bullet proof vest he was wearing a helmet he was surrounded by dozens of fishelson including d.n.a. agents but they believe it was it was a matter of

a security concern that had to be done so quickly but what we should know and underscore here is that not even victor boots white was notified that her husband was going to be extradited to another country blitz wife has been living in thailand giving interviews to the media ever since he was arrested back in two thousand and eight two thousand and eight and has remained firm that her husband is innocent of all charges against him she says that her husband is a businessman and and all of these accuracy. falls victor boot wife after a flight of finding out that he was actually dated went to the prison wasn't even able to see him she feels that her husband was kidnapped stolen like let's take a listen to what she had to say. 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. and he's already say that i had to be extradited quite quickly because of the possibility of an ambush or an assassination that was on the way but you know details are coming in quite in sporadic senses not everything is quite clear not everything has been made . apparent and transparent by u.s. officials when i call the justice department to say to ask them several simple questions they were applied to me saying no comment at this time while still a lot of questions to be answered in this case for now we're in a court i report in live from new york where victor boot is in custody.

now following republican 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 the threat of china and iran and rustles nuclear might we're all the subject of hawkish rhetoric where the right wing are saying the trillion dollar deficit should be paid off using any of the country's massive military budget. neoconservative 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. whether that china's rise didn't signal imperial demise were 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 or mentoring lation 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 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 fly just outside the gates of the white house the last two years ago in the presidential election neoconservatives gathered 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 to eliminate one side and have a victory and then empower the people 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 what you want well. you in my own proposals. establishment believe 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 and praised president obama to me the story that in some ways neither party wants to acknowledge muster courage as people like that on 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. . now while republicans are looking back to the future democrats are struggling to bring change u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton social press the senate to approve a key arms deal before the end of the year that's after vice president joe biden warned that failure to ratify the strategic arms reduction treaty with russia well in danger america's national security earlier a key republican senator whose party made significant gains in the mid-term elections said he would not support a quick vote on the deal 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 been ready to do for months while experts say republicans are stalling the treaty to undermine president obama's foreign policy success. but i think that they they. are bombers the. conclusion of

a major arms control treaty with russia. those personal success which it was was a success for the democratic administration watch it is. what they missed because it's also a major. success for the united states of america they very much hold. everything is not lost here. the treaty could you know you sell that don't go there is a major blow as i said. it will not lead to a major rupture it will not lead to the end of. the research is a more than arms control the reset is more than the new start treaty it's more of a symbol the heart of the reset. in other news britain says it's ready to help debt 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 fear of some smaller economies like portugal and ireland are unable to service their massive debts the e.u. president warned the eurozone is actually facing a fight to survive and even though our lead has so far rejected any help that now leyland a london based investor says dublin may have the 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 all 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 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 closely. well financial analyst max kaiser believes are there and should seek help from the institutions responsible for its demise in lists 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 a of crony capitalist 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 i call the crisis ireland needs to divorce itself from these financial terrorists and stand on its own two feet. you can get more from max kaiser at our t.v. dot com here's a taste of what else he'll find on line right now extreme situation christians in israel are caught in the crossfire between jews and muslims as they get targeted by fatah calls. plus russian police detain two teenagers suspected of killing a man i throw in our program from the tenth floor of an apartment building for more head to our team dot com. let's take a look at some world news and grief for you this hour israel has decided to withdraw its troops from the northern part of the village on the border with lebanon the gods are 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 with 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 received 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. heavy rain across the southwest coast of england has caused flooding and landslides that happened in the county of cornwall some people trapped in their cars and houses train services in and out of the region are suspended after a mudslide blocked the line and main roads are closed. the russians may not have sent a man to the moon but on this day forty years ago the soviet union guided the first unmanned rover to earth's closest neighbor the automatic remote control robots also known as the lunar tanks roamed the moon's surface revolutionizing space exploration art is more of an arsenal has more back in the nine hundred sixty

s. the lice 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 it move around then familiar surface once it got there the solution was finally found at the institute we used to do them first we wanted to use caterpillars we used to make turnings 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. luna who had one popularly known as the luna tank was the first to have a remote controlled berbera to learned another celestial body initially slated for a three month mission it wheeled lunar surface for eleven months during these 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 held solar panel it would wake up bape. hello only sound is silent world and set off on you adventure. exactly wait what had was decided far away at the mission control center in the crimea. just left of going was one of the five man men and a whole team which also included and navigator and ten operator and two engineers. luna hoods camera film the moon surface and send black and white pictures back to earth but 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 movement 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 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. they're going to. have to send in his last pictures back to earth. the luna hold finally stopped in its tracks it's still there to these 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 will to based on samples we found that we had that one day they will allow us to set up

uninhabited lunar bases were a lot of them are. back. the nine hundred sixty is the two superpowers who are sending those people machines to the stars and back with only one go to outdo each other the villains of dollars are spent in the race to leave one another behind but decades old and its old friends the full full incline space now united nations against the big go to go to go together where no one has gone before. the st petersburg. that brings up to date from the news desk next on our t.v. all the latest business with her own account after a short break. hungry for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. going

to be soon which brightened if you want to be sung from the finest impression. stance on t.v. dot com. hello welcome to the business news i'm sure ana quiana want to go straight to our top story the european union wants to 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 next pulled reports. last year against palm 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 stiffer competition the european union favors diversity in the gas market and wants to liberalize the transportation networks russia dislikes the idea but some experts believe there is little to fear the price market's means to. an end that the markets continue but he spoke to the market i think in this is in favor of gus probably because they are the backbone of the supply of europe and now they have also the chance to end up better to the market will do because some of the delay by the case to the cost. i think is a good development for europe this summer going to say sort of sorts of course to trust in the customers to the gas. 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 their gas businesses i can reject the fact that their share of gas revenues and their total structure total revenue structure of. oil and gas major us

global made for us i think is increasing while oil revenue share is decreasing actually the main competition for gazprom in europe cobbs not from our oil and gas major stem cells accounts from cattaro and she producers for african gas producers gazprom is not unaware of the problems it faces in europe analysts believe it needs to be more flexible in its pricing and long term contracts something the company is reluctant to do for the moment instead it's focusing on diversifying its customer base in the fast growing markets of asia india nick poole business r.t. . now the reno nissan alliance is considering building a second vehicle assembly factory in russia's far east the company can't keep up was going to demand and will face a production shortfall of two hundred thousand cars by two hundred thousand two thousand and fifteen the new plants will not only help to cover the deficit but

also have transport costs currently it takes about forty days to bring spare parts by sea from japan to reno nissan plant in the 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 solid 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 stale sale of stocks . and let's take a look at the equity markets wall street is opening on steadier note following yesterday's one point six percent slump but the market remains vulnerable following the release of more than expected housing starts and inflation figures banking

stocks are coming under the most pressure with the likes of j.p. morgan and citi group down around one percent. and european stocks are mixed on wednesday following falls in asia and wall street the footsie is flat to negative after tumbling nearly two and a half percent on tuesday amid 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 reversing earlier gains the r.t.s. is off about half a percent banks are higher on the my sex but energy stocks are in the red and gas profit is now three quarters of a percent lower. and the russian government is imposing a ten percent export duty on copper the new tafel come into effect in the middle of december the finance ministry estimates the changes 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 amid concerns chinese authorities will take action to slow their economy china is the world's top copper buyer. and that's all the news for now but you can always find more stories on our website that's our chief business.