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with twenty four hour news from russia and from around the world this is in. moscow . russian business from vick to 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 life in prison on terrorism charges in america moscow says the decision to hand him over to the u.s. is extreme injustice and promised to support him by all means report no reports from new york. we know the russian businessman will also be appearing before a judge one pm new york city time as you mentioned he's being held at a federal prison the metropolitan correctional center in a 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 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 say that boot 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 so the russian foreign ministry has called this a grave injustice 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 u.s. put a lot of political pressure on the thai government to meet a lot of back door deals. despite two rulings and thailand's criminal court saying victor boot 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. 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 was notified that her husband was going to be extradited to another country wife has been living in thailand giving interviews to the media ever since he was arrested back in two thousand and eight march of 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 why after for finding out that he was actually went to the prison wasn't even able to see him she feels that her husband was kidnapped stolen like i you know. 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. that 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 called the justice department tuesday to ask them several simple questions they replied to me saying no comment at this time. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has called on the senate to approve a key arms to you all 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 its top priorities are these kind of can has more now from washington. 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's 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 mr cowell the secular 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 a 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 from moscow on of danny stan and he ran here's what hillary clinton said on this. earlier in. the we. are. going on and. you're going with great courage and you're. right we were in there with your you. or your baby. or it's. really. funny. or. your name or where you are now.

so the truth 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 of cooperation plans on ice a lot of observers say that for many on capitol hill the fight is not about the content of the radio but rather about scoring political points republicans already said their number one priority will be to have obama 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 second feis a landmark his story 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. going to will soon from the campaign for nuclear disarmament told me earlier that nuclear weapons of too important an issue to be made to pull

them in political games. we were amongst the many people around the world who really welcomed president obama's speech in prague where he outlined his vision of a world without nuclear weapons and of course a vision which president medvedev shares and i think it's absolutely reprehensible if senators in the u.s. congress are obstructing the passing of this very important treaty the new start treaty for party political point scoring reasons i think this is far too important on a global scale for them to stand in the way like this many people globally including i should say former cold warriors faithful like henry kissinger and george schultz many other leaders across the world now believe that it is just too jane shuras to have nuclear weapons and that is the trend that is taking place in the world towards disarmament and away from nuclear weapons and that is the trend which the u.s. senate and the u.s.

congress should be going along with and following the leadership of their president . this is r t coming to live from the russian capital still ahead in the program for you this hour tickets to the moon four decades ago the soviet union guided tanks into orbit to explore the lunar surface of revolution in space. and we look russian gas giant gazprom is making sure it stays top dog when it comes to keeping europe warm in our business update in about ten minutes from now here on r.t. . 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 says it's in britain's interest to support their closest neighbor the meeting comes amid fresh market turmoil and fears that some smaller economies like portugal and ireland are able to service their massive debts the president warned the euro zone is actually facing a fight to survive and has so far rejected any help. to europe's

crisis with frederick eriksson he's a director at the european center for international political economy joining us there in brussels thanks very much indeed for being with us here on r.t. now being pushed to accept a greek style bailout from the e.u. or indeed to get help from the i.m.f. but but dublin says it doesn't want any help now we're reporting that britain has offered support do you think that i could accept support from britain. well i mean we have to see how far the countries are going to take this but it's quite clear that britain as well as other european countries right now are trying to almost force upon ireland some sort of a an agreement that is going to extend their access to capital. after the second year in the second half of next year when when ireland is going to run into liquidity problems. so it's we have to see it's going to go that way ireland is seeing right now that it doesn't need the money it's correct in the sense that it doesn't have a liquidity problem right now but that's that's for now and we we're probably going

to see a different picture going to merge the sooner we get to first first of july next year what we've seen this happening before with greece and now as we're talking about ireland do you think this could be a domino effect which may actually result in the ending of the euro itself the collapse of the euro as some suggest. no i don't think so i think that's you know vastly exaggerated fears about where where this is going i think there are. problems in selected euro countries right now it sort of be able to sort of problem we're facing is not a problem or a tangent or a demand in a domino effect where the problems are going to cost countries and country after country the problem right now for ireland is basically that the government has taken on responsibilities and basically underwritten all the deaths that its banks had taken on up to the crisis and there are justified fears on the markets that

that the government actually care and. all sorts of debt has been taken on i mean the visual deficit sort of describe. we know that the problems in the irish banking sector is far from over the banks are under capitalized because mommy is still weak recoveries is fragile which means that unless there will be a significant pickup in the economy in the next year or so we're going to find a government in the second half of next year which still has problems with under-capitalized banks and then need to start to roll over debt in order to finance its fiscal deficit and then we go to have serious problem in the economy when you were a little earlier dismissive of the fact that people are saying that the euro is at risk saying it's probably an exaggerated. understanding of the situation but isn't it quite alarming when the president himself of the european union actually said yesterday that the european union itself is a threat i mean what do you read into that. well i mean i think i think actually

that sort of remarks are really really unhelpful at this point i mean one thing that i've been taught through my my career as an economist working in countries that do have you know financial as well as fiscal problems is that. government leaders and political leaders really need to be careful what they're saying because they can actually talk up a crisis unless they are unless they are careful about how they phrase things i think what what it was trying i mean the message that. he's trying to get across is that all countries in europe has a responsibility to ensure that problems now are going to be solved in a coordinated and constructive manner that we can to avoid a different sort of infighting in europe between member states here how the problems are going to be addressed and i think he's he's correct on that point but he and other leaders and we have seen this before during the this financial crisis that he and other leaders needs to be careful with how they are phrasing it the

sort of problems we're in right now because markets are nervous and mark in markets of course going to react to statements like that by by by the top man of the european union was very interesting here we have to say thank you very much indeed frederick erickson from the european center for international political economy joining us live there in brussels we appreciate time thank you. well more on all of our stories for you on our web site you can indeed see that interview once again by simply logging on to dot com here's a taste of what else you'll find there right now extreme situation christians in israel of course in the crossfire between jews and muslims as they get targeted by radicals. plus russian police detained two teenagers suspected of killing a man by throwing a car wheel from the tenth floor from apartment building. to dot com all the time. to look at some world news in brief this hour more than twenty thousand people of athens to commemorate the one nine hundred seventy s.

student uprising against the military dictatorship at the time there were clashes with police outside the american embassy with tear gas used and dozens of arrests made just as were venting their anger at u.s. support for the country which then ruled greece. germany has stepped up security at airports and train stations across the country after receiving intelligence of a possible terror plot interior minister said he'd received details about an attack planned for the end of this month comes after german security forces intercepted a mail sent from last. explosion guards left one person dead and four others injured it's still not yet clear what caused the blast but there are some reports it may have been an israeli air strike there's been no response so far about the attack from the its main israeli military. to the cave where heavy rain across the southwest coast of england is called flooding and landslides it 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 mudslide blocked the line main roads closed. russians may

sent a man to the moon but on this day forty years ago the soviet union guided the first unmanned rover to the closest neighbor automatic remote control robots also known as luna tanks the moon's surface revolutionizing space exploration. as. back in the one 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 into the moon but the question was how would it move around their familiar surface once it got there the solution was finally found at this institute we institute them the first we want to use caterpillars was we used to make turnings and we loved. it became clear that wheels were more reliable caterpillars good gets dark that would ruin the whole mission and we couldn't have to make the mistake we have no luna had 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 loony morning once in twenty eight days when the sun's rays touch the solar panel it would wake up bape. hello only sound is silent world and set off a new adventure. exactly wait what had was decided far away at the mission control center in the crimea. fifty stopped of going was one of the five. which also include and never get or in ten operator and two engineers. luna hordes camera film the moon surface are concerned black and white pictures back to earth

but with a delay of more than twenty seconds months or 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 with stones the course of the movement of craters and other such things after that the drug would choose the next day or what not much to. the first steps were difficult but in time it seems the team's 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 even told journalists that you could see the shape through a telescope but of course that wasn't true. liberal 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's surface will forever

remain a trail blazed for future explorers. even we look forward to checking out the lunar supposed areas which were during the soviet era and we know that water based on samples we found that we had that one day they will allow us to set up an inhabited lunar base for a lot of them are young in the. back. the nine hundred sixty is the two superpowers who are sending both people machines to the stars with only one go to do each other because of dollars to spend in the race to leave one another behind decades on its old friend the full phone flying space now united nations against the big go to go to go together where no one has gone before. there is no shell the north st petersburg. well ten minutes from now will be meeting world war two veterans sharing that war time memories but first we have sharon in next with the business

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welcome to the business news i'm sure. the russian government has approved privatization plan for two thousand and eleven to two thousand and thirteen the asset sales are expected to raise as much as three hundred thirty billion dollars the minister of economic development nabil alina explains the purpose of the program. the key difference of the plan for twenty eleven to two thousand and thirteen is of course it's large scale character says the aim of such a privatization programme 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 the states 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 pull reports. last year gazprom sells to you in 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 russia dislikes the idea but some experts believe there is little to fear by the price market means to. come 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 fuel and now they have also the chance to enter the ticket to the market to go to the custom of the day but the 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 pay 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 cobbs not from our oil and gas majors themselves accounts from qatar. producers. africa gas producer it's gazprom is not on aware of the problems it faces in europe and it's believe it needs to be moved flexible in its primary season long term contracts something the company has remarked and to do for the moment instead it's focusing on diversifying its customer base in the food growing markets of asia. business. three noni saw the lives is considering building a second vehicle assembly factory in russia's far east the company can't keep up with growing demand it 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's plant in st petersburg region. now let's take a look at the equity markets wall street is opening on steadier note following yesterday's one point six percent slab but the market remains vulnerable following the release of worse 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 here in moscow markets closed in the black on wednesday that my sex was half a percent higher most blue chips were up bucking the trend for gas. but around the world markets remain under pressure amid concerns over european debt and the threat the chinese authorities may raise rates to slow the economy mark rubenstein from i have seen 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 in bint j'sbeil 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 of the country itself the debt position that it is currently in is a cause for concern to investors or so what i expect in the near future is that there eurozone members will come up with some sort of a package for lent and ireland will have to accept it will agree to a separate 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 is their stronger dollar or rather we can in europe which of course is there a consequence of that situation with our own now the russian government is imposing a ten percent export duty on copper the new tariff will come into effect in the middle of the summer the finance ministry estimates the change will bring an additional three hundred million dollars to state budget next year on the global market the price of copper is down for a second day that's in it. concerns chinese authorities will take action to slow their economy china is the world's top cop for fire. and that's all the news for nab you can always find water website at r.t. dot com slash business.

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