quite. russian business going to peers before us court to hear charges have been running a day after being shipped out of thailand. a call to start u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton no just the senate to ratify a nuclear deal with russia as republicans threaten to block its progress. forty years ago the soviet union paved the way for today's satellites shuttles and space tourists with its revolutionary movements.

twenty four hour news from russia and from around the world this is r.t. here in moscow good to have you with us russian businessman victim has gone before a u.s. federal court for the first time just a day after being extradited from thailand during a brief appearance he was told the list of charges he is facing the merchant of death for allegedly trafficking weapons around the world who go on trial over allegations he terrorists says the decision to hand him over to the u.s. is extreme justice and promised to support him by all means but he is being held in a high security prison in new york from where marina portnoy joins me live now so what happened when boot faced the court today. well bill it was a very quick procedure as you mentioned victor boot was taken before a federal judge in lower manhattan where he pled not guilty to all the charges against him charges placed by u.s. officials by the u.s.

attorney in this other just of new york and now he is back in the federal prison metropolitan correctional center where he will remain remains to be seen if he's being held under special administrative measures or not if he is held under sam's that would mean that he's on a twenty three hour lockdown in a prison now was shortly before mr boot appeared before the federal judge us prosecutors had held a press conference in lower manhattan outlining detailing all the charges against victor. and their intent what they called an intensive investigation that spanned several years and was to place all over the globe the u.s. attorney. listed all of the charges against mr we'd like to play some sound for viewers about that. now stands charged in this district the southern

district of new york with four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use and acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the fark. bill what's really interesting to underscore here is that this was a press conference that lasted anywhere between i'd say about ten to fifteen minutes and at the beginning of this press conference the u.s. attorney to victory as the so-called merchant of death and then the u.s. attorney proceeded to paint a picture of mr booth as a man who sided with violence sided with war armed very dangerous people was very aggressive and planned to be aggressive against u.s. officials u.s. employees. and he concluded the press conference with saying he wanted to remind

everyone that victor boot is innocent until proven guilty and he will receive a fair trial so after quite a ugly picture of one man who hasn't been able to really address the press at all yet in the u.s. and most likely will not the u.s. attorney said quote he's innocent until proven guilty guilty so lots of mixed messages there but there are many experts believe that the real reason victor boot is someone that the u.s. has been so aggressively pursuing for this action is because mr boot is a former soviet military officer with what some people believe has extensive top intelligence possibly and some believe that is what u.s. officials are really after. he was truly i'm. sure.

we can know basically. bringing him to the united states. some also believe some are some of weed and some analysts and experts believe that the u.s. is trying to send a message around the world with the extradition of victor and this trial that's supposed to be under way and that that message is to traffickers and to anybody who is trying to illegally traffic arms traffic weapons conspire against the u.s. so lots of people are weighing in as to what the real motivation is behind this aggressive campaign to get on u.s. soil if the real reason is not what u.s. officials say it is and what about russia's position concerning russian citizens

it's been very critical hasn't it of extradition to the u.s. can you explain to us why you must really. well i mean moscow has called this a grave injustice believe that it is prompted by on precedented political pressure that the u.s. has put on the government of thailand because in about four days before this extradition took place. was going to expire victor boots extradition moscow russian officials were not notified at all citizen of their country was being extradited from from bangkok and taken to new york new york city many russian officials say that they were essentially blindsided this move was illegal now u.s. officials for the state department say that they played by all the rules they followed all the rules they realized that maybe this would have some ripples in

relations between moscow and washington but they believe that it would not extensively damage the relationship that has been reconciled in the past few years with the obama administration coming in but it is quite clear by the comments that have come out of the russian foreign ministry that russia is quite upset about the corners that have been cut by the united states when it comes to being so aggressive of getting victor boot out of thailand and bringing him to the united states what about the indictment against a victim that was actually fold in new york why then. you know that's a good question and i have not been able to find an answer because i asked the u.s. justice department just a day ago and they refused to comment as to why here it was the u.s. attorney in new york that filed the charges initially when it was arrested in two thousand and eight and a new indictment in two thousand and ten some believe that it was set up in new

york city because new york city is the backdrop of you know the september eleventh attacks where terrorism actually took place though the prison the federal prison where boot is being held is right by ground zero so was the courthouse and many believe that serves as a good way for prosecutors to advance their story when it comes to accusing anyone of terrorism charges terrorism related charges and it would help get the sympathy of the public and have this narrative a lot easier when this kind of case is. underway in a city where terrorists attack took place a little bit over nine years ago just the extradition appeared to be very understanding why was this so much secrecy around. well the u.s. came came up with several reasons but we mean we should update our viewers in the fact that it was very clandestine and it was rushed we saw victor boot. being taken

upon a u.s. charter jet surrounded by dozens and dozens of u.s. marshals the dea officials himself was wearing a bulletproof vest he was wearing a helmet and u.s. officials believe that this was for safety reasons that they had to get him out as soon as possible but you know nobody was really informed nobody that was closest to victor was informed not his lawyer and not his wife his wife who has been in thailand ever since victor arrest she had been giving several interviews to the press standing by her husband saying that he is innocent and is a legitimate businessman and that this is a political reasons that it's being done to him she believes that our husband was kidnapped like an item off the shelf let's take a listen to what she had to say. what happened to two and expected to both

myself and. the thai cabinet how the crew. was made to extradite my husband the extradition to priest against the rights to laws of the country that exists in thailand influence. so at this point bill we are just waiting to see when victor boot will be back in court before a judge what the next moves will be by u.s. prosecutors but obviously this story does not end today thanks very much indeed for the detail that's more important joining us live in new york thanks very much indeed. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has called on the senate to approve a kilmer's deal between moscow and washington before the end of the year republicans you made significant gains in the midterm elections 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 now it is going to check on has more 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 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 the 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 from moscow on that of danny stan and he ran here's what hillary clinton said on this.

earlier in. the week. or on the. air and you're. right. it was here you. were here and they. are. really forward. or to be now. so the truth is really expected to pave the way for us russian 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 the 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 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 well kate hudson from the campaign for nuclear disarmament told me earlier that nuclear weapons are too important an issue to be made a pawn in political games. we were among 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 people 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 . here with r.t. or committee live from the russian capital still ahead of the program to get to the moon four decades ago the soviet union guided tanks into orbit to explore the lunar surface of revolution in space. coming up good news from russia's twenty eight

hundred fifty world cup bid with the governing body releasing its latest report wednesday and find out more about that in all sports update in thirty minutes from . britain says it's ready to help debt hit on and 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 unable to service their massive debts the president called the euro zone is actually facing a fight to survive and even though and has so far rejected any help ned london based investors says dublin may have little turnitin but to take the money. alone it really in a position of much choice because clearly it's a sort of rock an odd place scenario and the short term expediency of bail

out so it's better than. immediate reaction to 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 flow and in terms of word the way the market is looking at this but my guess would be it's likely to be a short term situation for island 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. by the way more on all of our stories of dot com that's our web site online all the time it takes to what else there right now extreme a situation christians in israel of course in the crossfire between jews and muslims they get targeted by radicals. plus russian police to train two teenagers suspected of killing a man by throwing a car wheel from the tenth floor of the park. or more had to r.t.

dot com. i thought that you had some world developments this hour clashes escalated between sisters and police in greece with fifty arrested and one injured near the american embassy it happened as more than twenty thousand people. we're commemorating a nine hundred seventy student uprising against the military dictatorship of the time protesters were venting their anger at the u.s. support for the hunter which then old wounds. germany and stepped up security at airports and train stations across the country after receiving intelligence of a possible terror plot interior minister said he had received details about an attack planned for the end of this month comes off the german security forces intercepted a mail bomb sent from yemen last month. an explosion garza's left one person dead and four others injured still not yet clear what caused the blast but there are some reports it may have been an israeli airstrike been a response so far about the attack from the israeli military. to the u.k.

now where heavy rain across the southwest coast of england has caused flooding and landslides that happened in the county of call 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. one hour 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 automatic robots washing say the automatic remote controlled robots also known as lunar tanks roamed the moon surface revolutionizing space exploration artie's more of an ocean has more back in the one 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 in a land rover to the moon but the question was how would it move around then familiar face once it got there. the solution was finally found at the base institute when you. first we want to do use caterpillars we used to make turns

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 luna had one popularly known as the luna tank was the first ever remote controlled rover a to land another celestial body initially slated for a three month mission it will the lunar surface for eleven months during this time it traveled more than ten kilometers taken over twenty thousand images including some with its own footprints every lunar morning once in twenty eight days when the sun's rays touch the lunar hold solar panel it would wake up bape. hello only sound and 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 in her team which also included another getter antenna operator and two engineers you might be up with the lunar hoods camera film the moon surface and send 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 the 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 one with. the first steps were difficult but in time it seems the team's work became more creative. 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 taps 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 we need to based on some pools we found we know that one day they will allow us to set up uninhabited lunar base. in the. back of the nine hundred sixty is the do you suppose we're sending both people machines to the stars is that there's only one go to outdo each other billions of dollars spent in the race to leave one another behind decades on it's all different for from flying pace now united nations against the big go to

go to go together where no one has gone before. original. st petersburg. print up to date for the most part with the main story in about eight minutes from now in the meantime all the business news is for you next with sharon account. hello welcome to the business news i'm sure. 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 thirty billion dollars the minister of economic development. explains the purpose of the program. the key difference of the plan for twenty eleven twenty thirteen is of course it's large scale character 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. the european union wants to liberalize its gas market and make it easier for independent producers to access the pipeline that work for gas prompting the world's largest producer may no longer be enough to guarantee its dominance of the market nick pool reports. last year gazprom sales to europe fell about twelve percent due to the financial downturn demand is now recovering but at the same time the russian gas monopoly is facing 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 but the price market's means to. an end to the markets continue his call to the market i think in this is in favor of gas probably because they have to take almost a supply of fuel and now they have also the chance to add to that effect to the market that will take us some of that today by the case to the cost. i think is a good development for europe this selling price ation it's also called the trust

in the customer still 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 their share of gas revenues and the 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 crowd is not. willing to pay for stem cells accounts from cattaro and cheap producers for african and gas producers gazprom is not unaware of the problems it faces in europe and its 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. business all t. . there i know 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 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 the st petersburg region. and here in moscow markets closed in black on wednesday but my sex was half a percent higher most blue chips were off bucking the trend for gas and was 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 war is 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 are what i expect in the near future is that there are a eurozone members will come up with this some sort of package for roland and ireland will have to accept it will agree to us and that could certainly trigger a quite strong rebound for the euro and for the markets themselves because another

factor that has been pressuring the markets he is there a stronger dollar or rather weakening europe which of course is there a consequence of that situation with our own and the russian government is imposing a ten percent exploit duty on copper the new tariff will come into effect in the middle of december the finance ministry estimates the change will bring in 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 our team dot com slash business.

my grandmother did not like we're going to become. carriers of freight. and she was very good for me. she felt. i was frankenstein's monster. we don't have the problem. every morning and africa is made by the palestinian or the european side to negotiate in to the violent attacks against israel which i have no fear of war forming.