all. that russian businessman big boy excess he will not confess to crimes he didn't commit despite u.s. pressure his charges include conspiring to kill americans and supplying arms to terrorism roots. shaky start washington's pushing for action in the ratification of the arms reduction treaty between russia and u.s. and strong opposition from republicans for said to be trying to disrupt the deal. and rising tension roma gypsies say they're. claiming european countries are using a fight against crime and. the party down. and in the business that's russia plans to spend twenty billion dollars on its roads next year but the

government knows it's still not enough and wants more investment from the private sector. much more in twenty minutes time. watching r t live from moscow with marina joshie welcome to the program. alleged arms trafficker viktor book claims u.s. officials were trying to pressure him to make a confession and when he was extradited from thailand he told this to russian diplomats when they visited him in the new york prison and if convicted victor boot faces life in prison but he denies all the charges. has a story. 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. committing to victor 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 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 left his wife 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 bush stood before a federal judge and the judge had read out the charges for mr boot 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 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 what's interesting to note 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 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. now reporting their military defense lawyer major eric months boots case could open a pandora's box for the u.s. there are 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 an 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. and here's a glance of what's a had a race for the best slice of the county and see russia among the five states hoping for a fair share of the vast natural resources the waters contain we report on what's at stake. time's running out for the u.s. democrats to get a key arms deal with moscow ratified in the senate before their political opponents tighten their grip on washington the new strategic arms reduction treaty sealed in april should slash the number of russian and u.s. nukes by third by the recently empowered republican seem determined to stall the deal as he's going to now 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's saying there are other important things for the senate to talk about like the economy and that's bad news for the trade of the administration is making a last ditch effort to appeal to the sector 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 or we can avoid it is i'm afraid vastly underestimating the continuing threat that is posed to our country so we hope our our friends in the senate will bring this up past those three and then i

can. inform the russians that it's now their you know their turn to do the same which they've told us they intend to do a lot of observers say that for many on capitol. the fight is not about the content of that really we're 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 senator sacrifice a landmark historic deal just for the sake of denying obama his arguably the biggest foreign policy achievement. and he's going to she can important here now kate hudson from the campaign for nuclear disarmament says the prospect of a world without nuclear weapons is too 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 fearful like henry kissinger and george shultz 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 . it was and i'm going to live from moscow still i have for you this hour called

road. rats roma gypsies in bulgaria are pushed out into the streets find out why they are building that was a health hazard and why no one's interested in where they go now. and the energy rich caspian sea is up for grabs at a summit in azerbaijan the hosts join russia and other states border in the waters which are abundant in oil and gas to discuss securing the area safety artistic work has been offered 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 nearly twenty billion tons of oil and gas . which is comparable with a deposit in the persian gulf or sturgeon up ninety percent of the world's sturgeon catch is done here but the legal speed 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 of the two leaders since russia supported the leader of the un sanctions on iran and also canceled its shipment of the three hundred missile defense systems to take around which was strongly criticized by authorities recently we've seen that the west exerts a negative influence on decision making of russia's high ranking officials even a small school agrees with the un sanctions this shouldn't have had any effect on a symbol again towards iran who signed the contract before the sanctions were imposed for them or the sanctions don't apply to defensive weapons the weapons a country uses to protect itself. russia should have honored its contractual obligations and deliberate the three hundred missile systems to iran. the meeting

between presidents need to be a different mind 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. countries and we're also expecting a final document to be signed between all five states which is the. cooperation in their fight against terrorism drugs and arms trafficking in the region. europe's going off reporting there the u.s. is facing a backlash of gas a federal reserve's decision to print six hundred billion dollars in a bid to stimulate the ailing economy critics of home in abroad say this so-called quantitative easing will devalue the dollar and create havoc across the world. federal reserve notes that. buying treasury bonds worth six hundred billion dollars

and this was on top of previous purchase of treasury bonds worth one boy seven billion dollars i mean what do you pay for the stuff with you know you know paid for by writing a check you paid for it is ultimately in the end you paid for by. this car 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. awe 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 smart move i don't i don't think i don't think anybody is that there was some people who were not critical but they didn't they were not in favor either. and you can watch that in here with author and journalist dollar kirk and for here in our own for twenty minutes time. take a look at some other stories from around the world and the governor of ireland's world bank says he expects the country to accept

a substantial loan as part of an e.u. bailout package that comes after eurozone finance ministers about to support our island with its struggling economy should double in request help there have been increased market fears that some smaller member countries are not capable of paying back their massive debts earlier the president of the european union warned the irish crisis could cause an e.u. collapse. the first one taught of a detainee to be tried in the u.s. civilian court faces a minimum of twenty years in jail after being found guilty for plotting to destroy u.s. property. from. tanzania was cleared of hundreds of other counts including murder charges at the court in new york he was arrested four years ago over his involvement in the one 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 nineteen seventy students and they dictate

a ship uprising 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 atrocity people were venting their anger at the u.s. support for the chanter which then ruled greece. a crisis is over the plight of roma gypsies is spreading across europe some e.u. countries blame the roma for rising crime and tackler by the porting them but the situation in their native countries is even worse with most roma living in appalling conditions argues daniel bushell reports from bulgaria. seems like we could become common across europe the mood of this town in southern bowl giri atoll doughty had to tear down this block of flats because the room the residents who 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 feldman's

a robot called their home so we've moved to this wasteland no shelter health care or education for the children. well we're citizens where does a true test like this schools won't take my son because he has lights and disease people heroes is this what the e used become was when two approaching they'll be sleeping in the cold. first to 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 lead their mark in germany had similar policies they use justice commissioner says it reminds her of world war two 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 how would the justice is the crime already are like a civil war. or else or for

a train the life of our of the people campaign is one that most roma sent by france and other states can't integrate as there aren't enough jobs for them and bog area with education opportunities limited music remains one of their few part success. a racy gypsy style of pop called child tops the chops but campaigners say ethnic conflicts are set to surge until the e.u. learns to live and work with roma not just enjoy the music in the nightclubs daniel schorr arty saffir. and a little later we'll tell you about the possibilities of a smoke free russia find out who's behind it and why some say it's an infringement of their rights. the afghan president is reportedly reiterating his unconditional support for nato operations in his country and this comes just days after hamid karzai slammed u.s.

led military operations and cold for their drawdown he apparently changed his mind after a private meeting with a top alliance commander in the country general david petraeus the incident comes on the eve of a landmark nato summit in lisbon the u.s. led blocks expected to agree on a road map for withdrawing all of its combat troops from afghanistan by the end of twenty fourteen artie's military contributor says it's now up to general petraeus to make the exit a graceful one political approach is still remains the same down despite the fact that it hasn't worked in nine years and it's unlikely to work in the four years and it operates the cross purposes with the 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. practical military bottom up strategy general petraeus has to regain the initiative from his political masters and to lead the way of both the governor and general 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. and that was artie's military contributor colonel eve gani who shop there now 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 in their anti-smoking efforts and as our reports they are not taking this bad lying down. 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 live here than anywhere else in the world more than half of all men do and 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 you is that tobacco industry knowing all this provides 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 to who among government members smokes one two three see we have better statistics than in the country at lunch should at least on this issue. come on you know what but i think they'll try to quit smoking won't they. what are you going to do to fight smoking and you should suit your own example by quitting. i was just what are you laughing at you smoke to you've got to quit to. some call the government's anti smoking after it's an overzealous infringement of their rights the cool thing is that it's wrong to create a wall to ban me from smoking atoll it's like benon you from wearing scrubs no i won't care if there is a band as smoke if i want to smoke. more measures are on the way including a complete public ban on smoking in bars and restaurants at. take place by two thousand and fifteen so you know what it's like when you go out smell like your

favorite perfume or cologne but by the end of the night it's like you just rolled around in somebody's ashtray because this was still a vision. you'd be able to tell that the air is clear that's because we're at moscow's first mochrie bar so you can smell the same way going out as you did coming in marbella is the baby abel. who himself has been cigarette free for for years his aim is to have this national place where nonsmokers can breathe easy with 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 be merry i will earn my money. so for some muscovites the smoke free future is now. stacey to. check out our website for the stories we're going to air and more about here is somewhat your fire right now. and the reason removal of hundreds of chaos

from moscow streets was due to a misunderstanding moscow's mayor has his order was taken until literally. the last letters to the arabs some of the most intimate works by the author of late are finally to be published snob back as he has printing a selection of lot in a box of letters to his wife and a larger collection is to be released in the u.s. next year. and it's time now for a business of dates and stefania we'll have the latest on the equity markets and more. hello and welcome to the business bulletin of a russia is aiming to spend twenty billion dollars on its rights in two thousand

and eleven almost nine percent more than this year but the government recognizes it's still not enough and wants additional help from the private sector nick pull has little task. russia manages to combine a number of the worst problems in transport just getting from a to b. can prove torturous made all the worse by the sheer size of the country motorways a far and few between and the roads are often badly potholed moscow is a case in point it has the fourth worst traffic jams of any major city in the world it's a very unorganized i think serious what is the main point is missing in my eyes it's turned to jake planning for the city and what they say meat of trying to talk nicely into the base of the traffic is. interconnecting 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 know how they have a lot of experience of similar projects when they come here then of cost to be on earth to money but it's just the size of the marketing attract them and 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 return on 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 will be a lot of institutional work which will be basically. providing support to the company in the future if they are once we go further down the road there raby possibilities of financial activity once the roads have 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 the legislation so developers combined land inside the city rather than just renting it this would provide added incentives to incorporate profit traffic management and shopping business districts would be adequately supplied with parking spaces free up the roads for people who are trying to get somewhere nick business on t.v. . the russian government has approved its privatization plan for two thousand and eleven to two thousand and thirteen yes it sells are expected to raise as lot as three hundred thirty billion dollars now to serve economic development of it and explains the puppets of the program. the key difference of the plan for twenty eleven to twenty thirteen is of course it's large scale character the aim of such a privatization program is not only to bring additional funds to the state budget

even though it's of high importance our key task is to encourage investment into companies. receipts and let's have a quick look at those equity markets european stocks are making gains early in first session after japan's nikkei finished on a five month high banks and miners are up performing across the board but brewer s.a.b. miller is top of the leaderboard on the footsie up more than four percent on a good interim results. and markets are gaining here in moscow tracking those global trends all to be chips are high on the benchmark my sex bank is again the top gainer forty one point nine percent in the black and is not far behind one of the hobson. the number of mortgage loans in russia has more than doubled in the last year that's according to prime minister vladimir putin who 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 than brazil that's according to the deputy c.e.o. of spare bank however mark rubenstein from i.f.c. 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 and brazil torquey seem like a very obvious candidates because capital controls the ticks they're more expensive china is much more expensive than russia and that could take some money out of that the current signs out of russia he said marker bond is much stronger personalities

expected 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 board's in the near future c s m p o i.v. sma has revised its development program according to the head of the world's top titanium makeup speaking exclusively to the make up value of odin's said the company aim to reach an annual production costs of forty six thousand tonnes of titanium by two thousand and fourteen there was much in the point of its first two plan to achieve this by twenty twelve we are light on the growing efficient market the boring seventy seven program air bus is a serious fifty. programs but they were delayed the crisis also played its role so we've always there are plans to that we know aim to reach to in your capacity of forty six thousand tons.