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two true nineteen forty five gold dot com. extradited russian businessman victor board accuses washington of trying to force his confession he denies all charges including conspiracy to kill americans and supply arms to terrorist groups. led security on the line the white house vows to do whatever it takes to seal the arms reduction treaty between russia and us as more republicans of course to postpone its ratification led and rising tension roma gypsies say they are being outcast claiming european countries are using a five against crime as an excuse to target the.

watching are you coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie alleged arms dealer viktor board says u.s. officials pressured him to confess while he was being extradited from thailand he told this to russian diplomats who match him in the new york prison but has denied all the charges he's facing at if convicted could face up to life in prison are just more reports mr boot has said that u.s. officials had tried to pressure him for evidence and pressure him to confess to crimes during his extradition from thailand to the united states and according to what's being reported this is a pressure that mr boot did not came into. the wording to be during the extradition the americans attempted to convince him to make a confession of the crimes he had never committed and promised some kind of privileges in return rejected all these offers of what the russian diplomats also

have disclosed is that mr boot is being held in solitary confinement at the metropolitan correctional center in lower manhattan mr bush has also asked that his wife be relocated to the u.s. here to new york to be with him his wife of course has been in thailand by his side more than two years proclaiming her husband's innocence now mr boone stood before a federal judge and the judge had read out the charges from mr booth pled not guilty on all of the charges when the u.s. attorney however was addressing the press in new york speaking for about ten to fifteen minutes about the case that they are building against mr vick to move to the russian businessman and outlining specifically the charges let's take a listen to what he had to say 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 what's interesting to know and to underscore is that during this press conference the us attorney and the head of the da continued to paint a picture of victor boot one of the most dangerous men in the world of a man who sides with violence who sides with the war who sides against the united states they were for a time as the so-called merchant of death and then at the end of their press conference they want to remind everyone that victor boot remains innocent until proven guilty and assuring the press that he will receive a fair trial some were questioning how that could take place after he's already painted in the press and in the international media as a man who promotes violence and promotes war so a lot of wondering whether or not this trial will in fact be fair for mr victor

boot. reporting their military defense lawyer major eric says boats case could open a pandora's box for the u.s. . number of cases that the united states is unhappy with and what we're running into is this dangerous precedent where if if we're exercising this type of authority over individuals in other countries what's going to happen in the future to u.s. citizens and whether or not other countries are going to demand extradition of our citizens you know people who they think are criminals for example in the last administration and demanding their extradition to spain or italy or some other country and how can we as a straight face in the international community have it both ways if the justice department didn't do their job properly and get this one right you know it certainly could open up a can of worms for us in the future. here's a glance of what's ahead here in r t a race for the best slice of the caspian sea among the five states hoping for

a fair share of the vast natural resources water is contained in your report on what's at stake. in the u.s. democrats are struggling to get a key arms deal with moscow ratified in the set of by the end of the year the new strategic arms reduction treaty sealed in april should slash the number of russian and u.s. nukes by third but the republicans in washington seem determined to stall the deal as r.t. is going to end their reports. 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 treaty 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 for anyone to see that we can postpone it or we can avoid it is on the free vastly underestimating the teen you we rent that is posed to our country so we hope our friends in the senate will bring this past history and then 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 a lot of observers say that for many on capitol hill the fight is not about the content of the trade but rather about scoring political points 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 to landmark historic deal just for the sake of denying obama his arguably the biggest foreign policy achievement. research is going to come reporting there and kate hudson from the campaign for nuclear disarmament says the prospect of a world without nuclear weapons is to important to throw away for political reasons 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 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 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 . and from the campaign for nuclear disarmament there and still have for us our cockroach a squeeze on rats we're only just here you are going out into the streets find out why they're building a was a health hazard and why no one's interested you know where they go next. the energy rich caspian sea is up for grabs at a summit in the server john host join russia and other states border in the waters which are abundant in oil and gas to discuss securing the area safety r.g.c.

corpus can offer ports in the caspian five and its objectives. the caspian sea is often referred to as the natural marking point between europe and asia and it is extremely rich in natural resources away from the nearly twenty billion tons of oil and gas can clean on its bottom which is comparable with a deposit in the persian gulf or sturgeon up to ninety percent of the world's sturgeon catch is done here but the legal status of the sea still has not been decided and one of the main goals of the caspian nation summit is to resolve this issue and divide the caspian sea between these five states and other major highlights of the summit is the meeting between the president's office russia and iran which is actually going to be the first meeting off the two leaders since russia supported the leader of the un sanctions on iran and also canceled its shipment of the last three hundred missile defense systems to ground which was

strongly criticized by ukrainian authorities even if you agree with those sanctions we should not have had any effect on russia's obligations to iran because we signed the contract before the sanctions were imposed furthermore the sanctions don't apply to defensive weapons used to protect your country that's why russia should have on its contractual obligations and deliver its three hundred systems to iran the meeting between presidents need to be a different. set to take place later on thursday we're expecting to see what's going to come out of that but apart from the issues i just mentioned economic cooperation at the caspian sea is also obviously going to be discussed between all five states these decisions me fact the lives of millions of people living in the balloting countries and we're also expecting a final document to be signed between all five states which is aimed at boosting cooperation in the fight against terrorism drugs and arms trafficking in the region

. europe is going off reporting there now the u.s. is facing a backlash against the federal reserve's decision to print six hundred billion dollars in a bid to stimulate the ailing economy critics of whole and abroad say this so-called quantitative easing will devalue the dollar and create havoc across the world. the u.s. federal reserve announced that it was buying treasury bonds worth six hundred billion dollars and this was on top of the previous purchase of treasury bonds worth one point seven billion dollars i mean what do you pay for that stuff with you know you know paid for by writing a check you pay for it ultimately in the end you paid for by cash and this cash starts to the world markets some markets are more volatile than others and obviously it's going to have an effect but it was a shock and. i recall you know there are some people who are not quite as critical to us as others but i don't recall anybody applauding the u.s. move i don't recall anybody saying oh it's smart move i don't i don't think i don't think anybody said that there was some people who were not critical but they didn't

they didn't they were not in favor either you know. and you can watch that interview with author and journalist donald kirk and for here in our team just over an hour's time. some world news in brief this hour is really airstrike has killed two palestinian staffer killing a car in gaza three others were seriously wounded in the attack israel says one of the insurgents was involved in a plan to kidnap its citizens in the sinai the dead are believed to be members of palestinian terrorist group army of islam which often fires missiles into israel the violence comes as the jewish state considers washington proposal to hold settlement construction a cause of ongoing conflict in the region. the first one town of a detainee to be tried in a u.s. civilian court faces a minimum of twenty years in jail after being found guilty for wadding to destroy

u.s. property lani from tanzania was cleared of hundreds of other counts including murder charges at the coordinate your he was arrested four years ago over his involvement in the nine hundred ninety eight bombings of u.s. embassies in africa which killed over two hundred people. nearly fifty people have been arrested and one injured near the american embassy in athens during a rally marking a nineteen seventies student and a dictatorship. more than twenty thousand demonstrators clashed with riot police who responded with tear gas and stun grenades police also reported clashes in the southern city of tras people were venting their anger at the u.s. support for the john to which ruled greece. a crisis over the plight of roma gypsies is spreading across europe some e.u. countries blame the roma for rising crime and tackle it by deporting them but the situation in their native countries is even worse than most strongly living in appalling conditions ideas daniel bushell reports from bulgaria. seems like we

could become common across europe the mayor of this town in southern belle garrett told r.t. he had to tear down this block of flats because the room the residents had turned it into a slum. this pile of rubble is all that's left of the housing estate what also it is called a public health hazard infested with rats cockroaches and fleas thousands of roma home. some who have moved to this wasteland no shelter health care or education for the children. well built where citizens where there's a treat us like this schools won't take my son because he has lice and disease people here ask is this what the e used become with winter approaching they'll be sleeping in the cold first do you politicians bury their heads in the sand but only we can solve their own problems a lot of good. friends to send tens of thousands of roma back to bulgaria sweden

it's a leader mark in germany had similar policies they use justice commissioner says it reminds her of world world to one of the evicted told me he picks pockets to feed his family member countries report rumor offenses are shooting up pushing rising numbers into angry and she gypsy groups the biggest problem with the gypsies is the crime already like a civil war. or else before. the life of the people campaign is one of the most roma said by france and other states can't integrate because there aren't enough jobs for them and paul geary an education opportunities limited music remains one of the few parts success. a receipt of. church the church become painted see if it conflicts with the surge until the e.u. learns to live and work with not just enjoy the music in the nightclubs don't you

feel. at a little later we'll tell you about the possibilities of a smoke free russia find out who is behind these issues. in an infringement of their rights. now they have got a president is reportedly reiterating his unconditional support for nato operations in his country this comes just days after hama karzai slammed u.s. led military operations and called for a draw down the upcoming nato summit in lisbon is expected to see a roadmap for withdrawing international combat troops from afghanistan by the end of two thousand and fourteen arches military contributor says it's up to the alliance commander in the country general david petraeus to make the exit a graceful one. political approach is still remains the same told down despite a defect that it hasn't worked in nine years and it's unlikely to work in another four years and it operates at the cross purposes with

a military strategy reach that actually doesn't make sense because it's bottom up approach successfully tried and tested by the u.s. special forces both in iraq and afghanistan to overcome the contradiction between the political top down approach and hands on practical military bottom up strategy general petraeus has to regain of it and mission if from his political masters and to lead the way of both the governor and general off afghanistan that's the only way to provide the opening space to save the face for the nato for a long mission in afghanistan and for the graceful exit of the u.s. forces from the region. that was our military contributor carol you've got a crush of there. and it's official russia has the most smokers per capita in the

world the statistics just released are yet another reminder to the government that they need to up their game and their anti-smoking efforts as ed asner the no smoking days remark artist find out how stories are battling tobacco use. brief but graphic the world health organization and the russian government are hitting the airwaves with a campaign meant to stamp out cigarettes in a nation where a pack of smokes is sometimes cheaper than a bottle of water a new study shows that more people line up here than anywhere else in the world more than half of all men do the number is smaller among women a twenty five percent but it's growing according to the world health organization diseases associated with the addiction kills nearly five hundred thousand russians every year about forty seven percent of small cars who are smokers today they start small given the age of fifteen sixteen and the said thank is that. this provides

a very glamorous and advertising the government is taking action by banning cigarette ads and cigarette promotions in t.v. and film beginning in twenty eleven lawmakers are also pondering the possibility of making it more expensive to puff prime minister putin is asking legislators to lead by example acoustic government members smokes one two three c. we have better statistics in the country at large at least on this issue. alone you know what i think they'll try to quit smoking won't they. what are you going to do to fight smoking opinion you should see your only son records like quitting. i was the same age what are you laughing at you so much you've got to quit to. some call the government's indeed. smoking efforts and overzealous infringement on their rights. to groups from small commercial fish like ben and you from

where is cross live i won't care if there is a ban on smoking for i want to smoke. more and more measures are on the way including a complete public ban on smoking in bars and restaurants to take place by twenty fifteen so you know what it's like when you go out like your favorite perfume or cologne but by the end of the night just rolled around an ashtray this was still a vision. you'd be able to tell that the air is clear because what moscow's first bar so you could smell the same way going out as you did coming in marbella is the day be able. has been cigarette free for four years his aim is to have a fashionable place where nonsmokers can breathe easy. look at the experience of european countries profit depends on whether one likes it here or not if i can create a couzin relaxed atmosphere and make people here feel joy and i will earn my money

. so for some it's the smoke free future is now. for the stories we're covering an area more and here are some what you'll find right now after. the recent oval hundreds of chaos from moscow streets was due to a misunderstanding. or was taken to literally. last letters to verify some of the most intimate works by the author of our published magazine a selection of what he wrote about the platters to his wife a larger collection is to be released in the u.s. next year.

time now for business of the day was stephanie a she that's now in the studio we're keeping a close eye on the ad with the markets as our way we certainly all stocks of just saw the trading hair loss and the higher which is not surprising as japan's nikkei has just finished on a five month high i'll have more market for you in just a moment but first. russia is aiming to spend twenty eight billion dollars on it to roads in two thousand and eleven that's almost nine percent more than the previous year but the government recognizes it's still not enough and wants additional help from the private sector that pool has the details. russia managed to combine a number of the worst problems in transport just getting from a to b. can prove torture of made all the worse by the sheer size of the country motorways by far and few between and the roads are often badly patrolled moscow is a case in point it has the fourth was traffic jams of any major city in the world it's

a very unorganized starting center is what is the main point is missing in my eyes mr ted j. planning for the city and what they say meet of trying to understand. the base of the traffic is an. entire connecting system which is nothing which as a huge investment is also needed to build just one kilometer of road in the capital can cost up to three hundred million dollars the sums involved is such that the government needs private money if it's not to put too big a dent in the budget and wants to improve efficiency private companies have a lot of snow they have a lot of experience of similar projects and when they come here that of cost to be honest money but it's just the size of the market you attract those contracts we are talking about a contract would run for ten years fifteen years or twenty years the time it takes to make a rig. turn an investment is a major deterrent to investors even when construction companies can be found to

join a public private partnership they find it hard to convince the banks to provide backing this is where the world bank can lend a hand generally would be a lot of institutional work which we will be basically providing support to the companies in the future if they are once we go further down the road there raby possibilities of financial activity once the roads are built people will still need to find a place to park often a time consuming problem in moscow the government may be able to help by changing legislation so developers can buy land inside the city rather than just renting it this would provide added incentives to incorporate to prop up traffic management and shopping malls and business districts would be adequately supplied with parking spaces freeing up the roads for people who are trying to get somewhere nick business altie the russian government has approved its privatization plan for two

thousand and eleven to two thousand and thirteen the s.s. asset sales are expected to raise as much as three hundred thirty billion dollars the answer economic development of it and i view it in a 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. our key task is to encourage investment into companies. we are now let's have a closer look at those equity markets asian stocks are higher on thursday snapping a four day slides the nikkei finished above ten thousand for the first time since june exporters rose on a weekly yen and financial stocks lent support probe investors are recovering from a ten day slump that has wiped over two trillion dollars off the value of global stocks. and markets are gaining in their first outrage here in moscow tracking

those global markets all agree chips are high on the benchmark my sex pair buying is again the top gainer already one point four percent in the black. the number of mortgage loans in russia has more than doubled in the last year that's according to prime and so pretend he cites the strong recovery in the housing market the government spent more than thirty billion dollars building new houses during the crisis. russia is currently less fashionable for investors brazil according to the dept you see you have spare bank however mark rubenstein from i have seen metropole disagrees he believes there are compelling reasons why some investors are picking russia over other emerging markets. it will look at their relative valuation russian equities now a valued at a nine a half p. versus brazilian about fourteen so this is much you know it's a big difference and of course what i counted that has accounted for that discount has been their political risk premium which has been evaporating my view quite

rapidly over the past sixteen months i think we will see more funds coming out of many other emerging markets coming into russia brazil torquey seem like a very obvious candidates because capital controls the turks are more expensive china is much more expensive than russia and that could take some money out of that the current science out of russia has had mockery bolland is much stronger personalities expect that if you look at the data market data out of russia for the past several months it consistently has been above the expectations of the market so i will not be surprised to see alice revising their marker forecasts for a shop boards in the near future russia will create a special economic zone for titanium companies a soon as this year that's according to the head of the world's top ten you make a vs. speaking exclusively to a t. he explains the progress being made on the so-called titanium valley but i had some

sympathy to project his gain support from the local and federal authorities so you can all make ministry in the tree didn't industry ministry have also supported us if the government is preparing a decree to create a freakonomics zone that those there are some difficulties i think will do with them as early as this here via simpy you is ready to invest up to one hundred fifty million dollars in a project. that is a mug's of the business years from now but of course i'll be back with more if you next hour and you can always find love stories on our website that's called flash but this. thank you you. thank .