all. russian businessman victor boot appears before a u.s. court to hear charges of gun running a day off to be extradited from thailand. pleads not guilty in court strictly denying all the charges u.s. officials have leveraged against him a marine a fortnight in new york but that story coming up. a call to start us secretary of state hillary clinton urges the senate to ratify a landmark nuclear deal with russia as republicans threaten to block its progress. european finance ministers stopped work on a possible aid package for

a debt stricken island in an effort to restore confidence in the eurozone. with 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 diplomats have finally been granted access to vic to boot who has just appeared in court in new york over charges of gun running moscow has been pushing for the businessman to be allowed to meet consular staff but was extradited from thailand on tuesday without the russian consulate being informed during a brief court appearance in new york he was told the list of charges he's facing. much of the religiously trafficking weapons around the world will go on trial on the allegations of terrorists moscow says the decision to hand him over to the us is extreme injustice and promise to support him by all means which is being held in

the high security prison in new york from them are important brings us the latest. shortly before mr boot appeared before the federal judge u.s. prosecutors had held a press conference in lower manhattan outlining detailing all the charges against viktor boots victor boot 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 and at the beginning of this press conference the u.s. attorney to victor boot 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 and was

very aggressive so after quite a 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. be u.s. attorney said quote he's innocent till proven given guilty so lots of mixed messages there but there are many experts that 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 nobody proved he was there truly embolden the old is due to dealings. sure he's accused of them. some kind of here. which of course. for we

know basically. bringing him to the united states 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. it was set up in new york city because new york city about. you know. where terrorism actually took. many believe that it is 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 how the narrative flow a lot easier moscow has called this a grave injustice they believe that is prompted by on precedented a little pressure that the u.s. has put on the government of thailand because in about four days before this

actually took place. they actually dition 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 victor boot taken upon a u.s. chartered jet surrounded by dozens and dozens of u.s. marshals you know nobody was really informed nobody that was closest to victor brewer was informed not his lawyer and not his wife she believes that our husband was kidnapped like an item off the shelf to the prison. to to an extent it's for both myself and. me to. expedite. the extradition to greece against. the countries that exists in thailand to

influence we are just waiting to see when viktor 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. read a point there and u.s. secure 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 election have been stalling the ratification of the strategic arms reduction treaty that's a blow to the obama administration which made the weapons agreement one of its top priorities going to 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 is saying there are other important things for the senate to talk about the economy and that's bad news for the trade if the administration is making a last ditch effort to appeal to mr kyle 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 of gamestation and the rand here is what hillary clinton said for anyone to see that we can't postpone or we can avoid it is i'm afraid vastly underestimating teenie we ran that is close to. the cold war our friends in the senate will bring this up past history and i can.

inform the russians that it's now their you know their turn to do the same which they told us they intend to do and many believe what's on the line now is the well advertised reset and not ratifying the treaty could. put the leaders although cooperation plans on ice a lot of observers say that for many on capitol hill the fight is not about the content that's pretty but rather about scoring political points to a comic and already said their number one priority will be to have obama boys 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 senator sacrifice a landmark historic deal just for the sake of denying obama his arguably the 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 china will kate hudson from the campaign for nuclear

disarmament says nuclear weapons are too important an issue to be made a pawn in political games it's 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 senator in the u.s. congress. 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 . you know with still ahead in the program a ticket to the moon. four decades ago the soviet union guided tanks into orbit to explore the. revolution in space. stories to overcome the first britain says it's ready to help that hit and with billions of pounds of direct loans at a meeting of european finance ministers chance of a george osborne says it's in the u.k. is interest to support its 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 trying for cost gerald cement he says the eurozone has been put to its greatest test. this is the beginning of the

of the euro and the euro was built it's why it came in at a time of high expectations it was a time of economic euphoria as though growth would never end and growth does that and this is more than a domino effect in europe this is a global economic crisis and nothing is changed since the crisis began in two thousand and seven other than the banks dumping trillions of dollars in trying to save a failing system it's you cannot have a currency that's going to cover all the bases of all economies equally you look at ireland the biggest problem right now in today's news next week in my piece saying what we're seeing the beginning of are going to be currency wars and trade

war and when you equal trade wars was currency wars you start. looking at real wars it's happened before and it's unfolding in front of us again we see we see italy we can see portugal's. greece the smaller company countries opting out of the euro look everybody that it's a lie day that remembers when the your road came on back in the late ninety's and early two thousand is how inflation skyrocketed in those countries this is a scheme that could never have worked from the beginning we dated would work when it had been. well let's just remind you more on all of our stories that you're seeing on screen here at r.t. dot com and here's a taste of what else you 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 of an apartment building for more on that story and plenty of other features had to r.t. dot com. well time now to check out some other world news in brief this hour a clash of escalating testers and police in greece with fifty arrested and one injured near the american embassy as happened as more than twenty thousand people were commemorating a nine hundred seventy student uprising against the military dictatorship at the time protesters were venting their anger at the u.s. support for the junta which then ruled greece. has stepped up security at airports and train stations across the country after receiving intelligence of a possible terror plot to minister said he had information about an attack planned for the end of this month comes after german security forces intercepted a mail bomb sent from yemen last month. the explosion in gaza has left one person

dead and four others injured it's not clear what caused the blast but there are also reports it may. being an israeli airstrike has been the response so far from the israeli military. to be now in 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 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 the earth's closest neighbor automatic remote controlled robots also known as lunar tanks wondered the moon's surface revolutionizing space exploration artie's more if 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 an unmanned rover into the movie but the question was how would it

move around their families surface once it got there the solution was finally found at this institute we institute them of first we wanted to use caterpillars we used to make turnings and we loved tanks but it became clear that wheels were more reliable caterpillars good gets dark that would ruin the whole mission and we couldn't afford to make a mistake or you know luna who had one popularly known as the lunar tank was the first to have a remote controlled berbera to land on 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 days when the sun's rays touch the lunar held solar panel it would wake up bape. a

lonely sound in a silent world and set off a new adventure. exactly wait what had 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 and never get or in ten operator and two engineers snoo my 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 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 stones the course of movement of craters and other such things after that the drug would choose the next one which could operate in. 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 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 his tracks it's still there to this day but the little rovers tabs were a giant leap for mankind and the tracks it left on the moon surface will forever remain a trail blazed for future explorers. we look forward to checking out the lunar soil polar areas which were exploring 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 an inhabited lunar base for a lot of them are. back. the nine hundred sixty is the two superpowers who are sending both people machines to the stars and back with only one go to outdo each other because of dollars spent in the race to leave one another behind decades on

its old friend for the phone flying faith now you nice nations against the big go to go to go together when no one has gone before. rich notion out the st petersburg . sixty five years since the end of world war two the efforts of those who fought a still regarded with huge gratitude and pride but for some painful memories from the post continue to cause to shatter. those so many years of. silly song the prisoners. are still along. the sweltering heat for. those so many years and. some are hoping to save. others hate their executioners. for just. so many years of.

memory. as well. as country. and you can see that report in full in the next hour. now with the nato summit just around the corner we sat down with one of its key participants to get his view on what could come out of it the living in president says partnership with russia could play a big role in the alliances future he also discusses his country's battle with the financial crisis and whether there are any regrets about it joining the e.u. that's an interview coming up next on r.t. .

the president of slovenia thank you very much for being with us today it's my pleasure but a nato summit is coming up in couple of days and you have played an active role in promoting closer ties between russia and nato how much do you think nato has to change in order to recognize the value of russian partnership there has to change and nato is in a search for a mission for a long time after the ending of called ward the legitimate question was if nato is

necessary at all but the mission was never completely defined and i think that it cannot be completely 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 new partnership means and i think that in the coming days we should come closer to that definition mr president presently the president proposed to european security treaty do you saying it actually made a leadership into a concept of you president medvedev proposal was was an excellent beginning and that the agenda that the a lot of creative thinking in nato and i think it actually contributed to the new strategic concept of nato which is much more open and which is which is much more appropriate for a partnership between nato and russia and i'm talking about the assessment of security threats commitment to the chart that of the united nations and also on the

possibility to establish partnerships with regard to misguide defense what do you expect to see. concept announcement anything new or or something that you definitely do. expect to see well i think that we should see a meaningful step towards partnership with the us and i think that that's the key in the new strategic concept the platform would she need a strategic concept offers would be appropriate for reaching agreement on security threats reaching agreement. and nuclear weapons i think that these are all security challenges which have to be addressed is through its huge strategic concept talking about more about one slovenian concept this living is dependent on. specially now that the commitment to its rules is under review by the became our houses the union has been affected very badly by the current financial and economic

crisis and that has been impact on the system you were told to call them cartoons which many even members but not all be long and now we are in a situation where we have to find a proper financial stability mechanism a mechanism which would be appropriate for management the financial crisis of the future is gross domestic product growth the most among the sixteen nations. plus down employment that has hit through the one hundred thousand mark do you ever regret joining the currency what are the main pros and cons almost three years after the introduction of euro people have totally accept that you would sneak out of the country they know that obviously. monetary sovereignty and the inability to do national guard and see is a problem with the market the markets are low the solution is seen better

adjustment to he goes on and john the improvement in our competitiveness and the necessary changes in our economic. social model which will allow competitiveness to grow in the us and social stability to continue. anglo-american push against to lisbon treaty budgetary criteria do you see this as a power shift from brussels to berlin there has always been a division of power so to speak and i think that we should not forget the european union is not a state european union is a system of sovereign states and in that context good germany is the major contributor. and a major power. and. indeed you can look at all. the. exercise or.

solutions. and you again also e.u. has these are free regime with russia but the details are they not a ground what do you think would be a good step good step in this direction but i think we need politico determination first i think we need to change the political awareness about these things but the india. has it they should and i think this has a patient has to be overcome freedom of movement is a human right we should never forgot that. part of europe well certainly in a cultural sense in the political sense yes but i see certainly russia as a part of european space it has been so for centuries supreme asli you've called for a multilateral framework to consolidate energy supplies to the e.u. markets as of today not much has been done in that perspective how do you assure

you consumers of the security i think we need a much wider multilateral look because energy security depends on the multitude of players. russia is always there russia is a key player a key supplier a key partner and most of the i see your appendix team to good experience with sure you can buy a national system for thirty years i suppose work for so there is no reason why we should be in any way i'm comfortable we need russia in that my to that sort of thing but we need this is where both consumers and suppliers and that has not been done because we have worked on specific projects more than stream saladin stream the book call and other projects but i think the time is coming to look at the whole picture and the work. called productivity in german for the future well

you've touched upon south stream how would the development of southeastern change the energy sector in slovenia what exactly do you expect from that we see the multiplying effect of the gas pipeline because the gas pipeline brings not only gas it brings other economic activity see it brings. them based electricity plants which we need them others need in the region and we can develop that to produce that and next you can achieve you know this is an opportunity it's really a basic opportunity and let's look at this support to anything in the call put it the framework with more confidence than we were used from before mr president thank you very much for this interview my pleasure. clusters that so much i can tell you that you will get over to the muslim world cup to see the nato this military alliance is in search of

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