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russian businessman victor boot sits in a new york prison to face allegations of a gun running out for an extradition from thailand with moscow god's only goal. mr boot will be brought before a federal judge in new york city shortly armoring up. with the details coming up. here much better with. a call to start u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton urges the senate to ratify a landmark nuclear kamila plus as republicans threaten to block a progress. and the e.u. is teetering on the brink eurozone finance ministers brainstorm

a banking recovery with struggling arland offered a survival. seven pm here in moscow this is art to you coming to you live let's get straight to our top story russian businessman victor boot is being held in a high security prison in new york after his extradition from thailand dubbed the merchant of death for allegedly trafficking weapons around the world he faces my from prison on terrorism charges in america. the decision to hand him over to the u.s. is extreme injustice and promise to support him by all means. reports from new york . 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 the lower manhattan where several suspects terrorism suspects have been held in years past following the september eleventh attacks 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 in the victor boot for his part has denied all charges if he is found guilty he faces up to life in prison but some experts that have weighed in on this case and say that a former soviet officer has 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 the russian foreign ministry is quite upset over this and this has impacted relations between moscow and washington

to say the least the russian foreign ministry has called this grieving justice essentially saying that. a russian citizen should not have been extradited from thailand with the russian government knowing beforehand other comments that have been made by russian officials also allege that the us put a lot of political pressure on the thai government to meet a lot of back door deals. despite two rulings in thailand's criminal court saying viktor boots guilt was not proven the thai government has still decided to hand him over to the us i consider this unprecedented political pressure on the legal process. 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 the u.s. state officials say that they followed all the legal procedures they hope that what

is happening right now with the activity surrounding viktor booth that it would not impact relations between moscow and washington in any way 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 not even victor boots white who was notified that her husband was going to be extradited to another country that the brits 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 all of these accusations are false victor boots wife

after a flood of finding out that he was actually went to the prison was. even able to see him she feels that her husband was kidnapped stolen like. 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 the decision was paid for. already say that it 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 well daniel investigative journalist writer says the u.s. will use viktor boots trial for their own interest. i can't possibly see how it would be a fair trial because i guess americans have spent ten years actually tried to get out of 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 do put him on fair trial and he wins this case imagine what's going to have up to the united states they're going to turn into a lobbying 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 so in a fair trial he would go a whole but again he won't go home and i mean the whole idea of viktor buddhism merchant of death is a hollywood phenomenon is not an arms merchant he was you know he's a cargo merchant he was you know if you will the 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 a get out of 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 point of this global game where the end game is to get russia anyway in any means possible. but it's there from daniel is still an investigative journalist and writer who has extensively interviewed to boot now in other news u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has called on the senate to approve a key arms deal between moscow and washington before the end of the year republicans who made significant gains in the midterm election have been stalling the ratification of the strategic arms reduction treaty that's a blow to the obama administration who made the weapons agreement one of their top priorities but for more let's cross now to washington are by nature she can joins us live hi guy in

a what exactly are the chances that this treaty will be ratified with so much for public in opposition to it. well when he said you're right it's getting pretty tense here the informal republican leader on the new start senator jon kyl said the treaty should not be considered until next year he is saying there are other important things for the senate to talk about the economy and that's bad news for the trade of the administration is making a last ditch effort to appeal to him as the who's the republicans main negotiator on starting convince him that it's necessary to ratify the treaty now vice president joe biden secretary of state hillary clinton defense secretary robert gates leading security experts in the country they're all saying the failure to pass the new start treaty this year would endanger the u.s. national security they give two reasons for that first americans can no longer track russia's strategic nuclear arsenal the other main reason is that weakening cooperation with the washes that could follow if the new start treaty is not in

place joe biden and hillary clinton made it clear that the new start treaty is the centerpiece of obama's reset of relations with russia a policy that the administration credits with producing critical cooperation for moscow on of danny stan and the rand here's what hillary clinton said on this. earlier. you know. we. are on the. you know. you're. right. there with you're. a. number. or. solutrean is really expected to pave the way

for us russia cooperation in other areas as well many believe what's on the line now is the well advertised reset and not ratifying the treaty could put the leaders all the cooperation plans on ice also talks going on for this treaty for months it was sealed by both presidents have all the differences been settled by now. well i mean so you know a lot of observers say that for many on capitol hill the fight is not about the content of the trade they were rather about scoring political points there is a very tense partisan game going on here in washington and the point scoring is expected to intensify after republicans gain a considerably bigger influence in the senate in january when newly elected senators step into office the republicans already said their number one priority will be to have obama voted out of office in two thousand and twelve so for many capitol hill observers the whole debate on stark now comes down to this question

will some republican senators the lynn mark his story deal just for the sake of denying obama his arguably biggest foreign policy achievement the treaty will cut nuclear arsenals of both russia and the u.s. by a third it's meant to increase the level of trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers it has guns were a month so hearings in the u.s. senate the country's military unanimously testified in support of the treaty leading security experts were saying it's only common sense to have the new deal in place actually among those who testified in support for the treaty there were more republicans than democrats so it's really not right to think that all republicans are against it some very influential republican senators like richard lugar who spoke earlier today with hillary clinton have strongly advocated for the treaty they've been calling for their party members to put partisan games aside to step away from from this desire to undermine obama and to do what they believe is right for their country. can live from washington following the ratification process of

the start treaty or lack thereof thanks. but will any and president says nato needs russia's help to move forward speaking ahead of the alliance a summit in portugal where world leaders are expected to unveil a new strategy for the alliance the need of turkey tells r t that teaming up with moscow is an important step in its. even. nato has to change and nato is in a search for a mission for a long time after the ending of cold war the legitimate question was if nato is necessary at all but the mission was never completely different and i think that it cannot be confuted defined without a true partnership with russia and we don't have a cold war anymore and we have to figure out what to do this new partnership means and i think that in lisbon in the coming days we should come closer to that

definition. find out what else the slovenian president has to say about nato as well as e.u. in just over an hour's time meanwhile this hour for you want to take it to the moon four decades ago the soviet union guided tanks into orbit for the lunar surface a rather little seen in space. and we look at how the russian gas giant gazprom is making sure it stays top dog when it comes to keeping europe warm that's coming up in our business bulletin in about ten minutes time. culture is the same of you are going to go for you go down already well most of us were tempted to see the need to know this military alliance is in search of a mission can need to remain relevant d.c. twenty. four you. are

comfortable shuttle bus. to display. just a few hours serving you for and scary to start. your day. on the moon. craters. scorching. toward yeah are included. a photo with the wild lunar rover for free. welcome back to our team live from moscow 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. close neighbor the meeting comes amid fresh market turmoil and fear some smaller economies like portugal and ireland are unable to service their massive debts the e.u. president warns the eurozone is actually facing a fight to survive and even though are that has so far rejected any help ned naylor leeland of london based investor says dublin may have little alternative but to take the money. i think we're really in the position of of much choice because clearly it's a sort of rock and a hard place. and the short term expediency of bail out so it's better than the. bondholders all 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 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 all 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 looked at most closely we could find more on the euro crisis and all the stories that are too dark to take a look at our top line shows for you today. extreme situation to christians in israel are caught in the crossfire between jews and muslims as they get targeted by radicals. russian police detained in nature is suspected of killing a man by throwing up on the tenth floor of an apartment building for more at a time our dot com. let's take a look at some world news in 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 guards 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 pulled out will. finalized with the u.n. 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 had 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 with some people trapped in their cars and houses train services in and out of the region are suspended after a month's live block the wind and main roads are closed. 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 unmanned rover to the earth's closest neighbor the automatic remote controlled

robots also known as the lunar tanks roll on the moon surface revolutionizing space exploration artie's marie ivanovna has more back in the nine hundred sixty s. the lice were on 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 stimulus surface once it got there the solution was finally found at the institute we instituted 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. luna who had one popularly known as the luna tank was the first to have a remote controlled berbera to learn to another celestial body initially slated for a three month mission it wheeled 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 earth days when the sun's rays touch the lunar hold solar panel it would wake up beep. a lonely sound in a silent world and set off on a new adventure. exactly way to it had it was decided far away at the mission control center in the crimea. sloughed of going to was one of the five member team which also included and never get er and ten operator and two engineers. luna hoods camera film the moon surface and send a black and white pictures back to earth with a delay of more than twenty seconds so we had to judge the situation using this picture. 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 one with. the first steps were difficult but in time it seems the team's work became more creative what's 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 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's surface will forever remain a trail blazed for future explorers. we look forward to checking out the lunar supposed areas which weren't explored in the soviet era we know that water based on

samples was found there we heard that one day they will allow us to set up uninhabited lunar base. back in the nine hundred sixty is the do you suppose our us were sending both people in machines to the stars or bad but only one go to outdo each other because of dollars to spend in the race to leave one another behind but decades on it's all different. for a full on flying space no united nations against the big go to go to go together where no one has gone before. rich notion out the morse code st petersburg. mexico but it's business news with strong a key on after a short break stay with us hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. welcome

to the business news i'm sure ana qian. the russian government has approved this privatization plan for two thousand and eleven to two thousand and thirteen the asset sales are expected to raise as much as three hundred billion dollars the ministry of economic development of iran that we know explains the purpose of the program. the key difference of the plan for twenty eleven two thousand and thirteen is of course it's large scale character the aim of such a privatization program is not only to bring additional funds to the state budget even though that's of high importance our key task is to encourage investment into

companies. in. they are a pain in the unwashed to liberalize its gas market and make it easier for independent producers to access the pipeline that work for gas by being the world's largest producer may no longer be enough to guarantee its dominance of the market that pull reports. last year gazprom sells 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 ever stiffer competition the european union favors diversity in the gas market and wants to liberalize the transportation networks should dislike the idea but some experts believe there is little to fear by the price market's means to. come into the market to continue but his call to the market i think in this is in favor of gas probably because they have to take off the supply of fuel and now they have also the chance to enter data to the market to go to the customer to deliver the case to the customer. i think is

a good development for you're up this early 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 their gas businesses i can reject the fact that the share of gas revenues and the total structure total revenue structure of. oil and gas majors global made for us happy is increasing while oil revenue share is decreasing actually the main competition for gazprom in europe crowd is not from our 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 analysts believe it needs to be more flexible in its pricing in 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. business altie. every know nissan alliance is considering building a second vehicle assembly factory in russia's far east the company can't keep up with going to mand and will face a production shortfall of two hundred thousand cars by 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 here in moscow markets markets closed in black on wednesday the my sex was half a percent higher most blue chips were up bucking the trend was gas palm and rouge hydro. but around the world markets remain under pressure amid concerns over european debt and the threat that chinese authorities may raise rates to slow their economy mark rubenstein from metropole explains. we saw the chinese c.p.i.

inflation coming point four percent months and months in october which is a very high reading and and these. certainly is the cause of concern for international investors chinese. prime minister and said that the chinese government might introduce some additional measures to restrain inflation so that's number one and of course number two as being their growing worries about the situation arland in an irish banking sector in the country itself the debt position that it is commonly in is a cause for concern to investors of course what i expect in the near future is that there are a eurozone members will come up with this some sort of package for lent and ireland will have to accept it will agree to us after that and that could certainly trigger a quite strong rebound for the euro and for the markets themselves because another

factor that has been pressuring their markets he is their stronger dollar or rather weakening euro which of course is there a consequence of that situation with arland. 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 ministry 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 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 web site that's r t dot com slash business.

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