to feel. the ribbons for town. tonight afghanistan won't be left to struggle alone when western forces leave russia has vowed to president karzai to help his country recover from. norway's immigration dogs a russian born woman crowned as a model citizen faces being kicked out of the un wanted a terrorist is allowed to stay we've got a story for you tonight. also a family's home in southern russia die but at least one infant is found and by. lisa despite the driver. behind. killed. faces a pretrial hearing in the u.s. . media campaign this convicted.

you're watching live from moscow welcome it's now nine pm in the top story for you russia is promising to support afghanistan after western forces withdrawal from the troubled region in three years present pledged. the leaders also promise to clamp down on the vast flow of drugs from which russia suffers the most and this is. the details of this high level meeting. on the first official visit of an afghan leader to moscow in two decades russia promises to lend a hand after western forces leave the war torn country. russia would like to see afghanistan as an independent and prosperous state with an effective government that's able to provide the development of afghanistan for decades to come. u.s.

led coalition forces have been in the country since two thousand and one and are planning to withdraw combat forces in three years leaving afghanistan on its own russia has been watching u.s. operations very closely from a far while providing necessary transit routes for supplies and plan to continue support once the pullout is complete there is both the ability to russia and the the need for russian afghanistan to engage with. not only in the manner of helping afghanistan rebuild itself and be really develop its you to schilke capacity but also by way of trade investment by interaction between your businesses which is very strong but you countries signed a trade in business cooperation deal over the past few years russian afghan trade turnover has increased more than four fold and it's now half a billion u.s.

dollars president carter's i mentioned his country's developing economic relationship with the united states but that the relationship with russia is developing at a larger scale again we should go back to a history more than one hundred forty enterprises were built by the soviet union was driven karzai agreed to prioritize the fight against narcotics since russia bears the brunt of afghanistan's vast drugs production industry russia hoped that international forces could crush extremism in afghanistan and russian officials hope that maybe they could be able to stop the influx of drugs come in and russia for americans to be in their lives let's. say it clearly has failed in fighting extremism in afghanistan so now of course russian officials have to deal with the problem of talking directly to the leaders of the two main threats

coming out of afghanistan drugs and terrorism no one feels that hit closer to home more than russia was pledging to help develop support for the war torn country without ever having a russian soldier stepped foot on afghan soil and he's now a r.t. moscow. the afghan leader gave r.t. an exclusive interview during his visit to the russian capital just remind you we've got that for you again in a few hours time we have not called it already it's also streaming on our web site at r.t. dot com. russian born maria really has been calling norway her home for almost a decade chief academic success alongside plaudits for a social contribution to her adopted country however none of this changes the fact that she's about to be deported from norway as a failed asylum seeker cases and thousands of norwegians demanding that the current immigration policies changed reports from oslo. are you relieved that you can stay no for one more day maria yes this was very good one day's good one more day might

be all she gets for russian born maria is due to be deported from norway where she's lived since she was sixteen she speaks fluent norwegian has a degree from a norwegian university and even a norwegian boyfriend the only thing i've wanted and she is well is for her to be with me and all of you it's a case that touch the hearts of ordinary norwegians enough to make them turn out repeatedly to protest for an immigrant girl who's made an effort to become one of them and it's created a grotesque comparison with another failed asylum seeker one mullah krekar former leader of a kurdish terror group cracka has been declared a threat to national security and is on the u.s. and un terrorist list although he's now volunteered to go back to iraq norway won't deport him to a country that carries the death penalty it's a terrible paradox for ordinary people to see. this fantastic everyone loves.

this person that is not very popular the least constant nuisance to norwegian society is able to stay born my d.n.a. in the logic of cause i really as parents fled north etc when she was only twelve possibly as a result of a business deal gone wrong although well connected in russia closely related to the last defense minister of the savior union. of the family sought asylum in norway and when they were refused decided to stay on illegally reportedly learned norwegian in a matter of weeks degree and wrote a book on the plight of illegal immigrants in norway and at the tender age of twenty five was declared norwegian of the year by an old magazine she had. an extraordinary integration into norwegian society. musical festivals and literature refers to all sort of an extremely sort of active in the which new free

concert despite process the government standing for ironically norway's recently ups the number of deportations in response to public criticism that treatment of illegal immigrants was too lenient in two thousand and ten deported thirty eight percent more foreigners than the year before and the justice ministry insists the law must apply to everyone everybody who comes here and apply for asylum said asylum should get thorough examination of the asylum application. that is the case for each and everyone applies for asylum. but the point is in this case and other cases if that asylum application is injected. those that have to return we prefer of course that. they do this voluntarily but if they do not return. they have to be sent to their country of origin by force but emily's lawyer insists she hasn't had

a fair hearing in fact he said mr terrorists claim to the authorities and the first he heard of it being rejected was when five police turned up to arrest her after a speaking engagement political party the christian democrats samaria really is a prime example of why the lord illegals must be changed we have to remember that. here in norway. and this. to me the. in the way we treat. children but any change in the law is unlikely to help maria really she has to report to a police station every day with a suitcase in case today's the day she has to leave her home the norwegian government's treatment of miami has brought its people out onto the streets in anger and yet it would now take a humiliating state u. turn to allow her to stay in the country she grew up in and has come to call home

i'm a lawyer hasn't given up but it seems for the norwegian person of the year time left in norway can now be counted in days not weeks nor am it. former british prime minister tony blair's face the country's iraq war inquiry for the second time today to explain his decisions leading up to the invasion it was to clarify his previous answers after witnesses question parts of his testimony antiwar protesters outside call for stand trial at the hague join me now to discuss. this chris christie follow. the government's wordplay in the lead up to the war mr ames thanks being with us tonight on r.t. so tony blair has admitted there isn't a giving up private assurance to george w. bush that he can count on us over iraq but refuses to make that correspondence public how significant is it that he's not there for i guess being fully open i think it is probably the main significance that's come out of the inquiry this week

that the inquiry wanted to publish extracts of the correspondence between tony blair and george bush and some of the records of the conversations but the cabinet secretary here blocked it after consulting with blair it does come time to blair blair didn't try to hide behind the officials and what it does is to give blair the right to the ability to hear him to define what he said his own terms rather not actually seeing the very words that he used some of them have been reported some of them have been leaked to some extent it was confirmed today but it is very important we see exactly the terms in which tony blair made a commitment to george bush in the run up to the war and so john chilcot inquiry chairman has made that very clear that we need to know what was said. in ignoring the government's top lawyer lord goldsmith the war the invasion was a legal with more un backing a blow said he was making a political not a legal case for attacking at the time but how can they be separate. well that's

that's a very good question what he was talking about was the the events of january and february two thousand and three when lord goldsmith said without a second resolution we really can't rely on any of the legal arguments we really can't go to war but blair was going to the house of commons going on on television saying that we didn't really need a second resolution he wouldn't be stopped if saddam was intransigent in the un wouldn't wouldn't back the case for an invasion what he was really saying was if he'd shown some weakness or if he'd shown a damn that's the. case for a second resolution was all important to him it would have we can dismiss go hand in trying to get that resolution i'm just reading the report you've written and i for the guardian newspaper you mention in the as you felt today he had a few foot in mouth moments but this is second time in the chair today as a former prime minister do you think they're not filled in all the gaps so therefore i guess i'm reading into that britain doesn't really still of

a full idea of what went on in the war or why it went and why precisely well i think to some extent the documents that are being published all the time now are giving us a picture i always prefer to rely on the contemporaneous evidence rather than somebody hindsight what is eight years later ninety nine years later going back to when the decisions were made we can always see documents more and more that say that in late two thousand and one after september the eleventh in early two thousand and two blair was looking for regime change was backing to looking to back the americans over regime change i think it's pretty conclusive that went to war it is the documents of the telling the story rather than mr blair blair again said that he regrets the loss of life in iraq yet also admitted didn't need to the inquiry today that his decision to invade was based on little more than a hunch that saddam would not change his approach on weapons inspections telling is that. i think that was possibly the most significant moment and especially is

rather less sure of his case towards the end he was questioned about the detail of you know why he thought that saddam wasn't complying and he talked about the inspectors not being able to have free interviews with the scientists in iraq one of the panel members pointed out that hans blix was saying towards the end that actually they were getting a lot of cooperation on that so blair changed tack and said well we didn't actually see a genuine change of heart from saddam but then he he he rather fudged that he said you know we can't be exactly sure whether it would have changed and you know there must be a case for saying he wouldn't change he seemed entirely sort of half hearted towards the end about what was essentially his main case his judgment call that saddam wouldn't change was the final justification for the war versus journalist chris ames the one from london i thank you for being on the program thank you. developing news story now eight people have been murdered in a house in style for a poll in russia south of their family and two members of staff were killed in the

violence which police believe is between rival criminal gangs that's got the latest on this now r.t. sara firth across the story for sarah hi again what what more are police saying now . well you know the eight people have been killed we've also heard that there are teach children that have been found alive at the house where the attacks were carried out one an eight year old child a one one month old baby now the baby is currently in hospital and the eight year old is now being questioned by police as to what happened that we've already heard that they suspect that this is a revenge attack by rival criminal gangs in the area because the head of the family that was killed was named to be a local criminal chief and now you know along with the dead there were his wife his daughter his adopted son and his son in law and some of the household staff as well now they were found reportedly in the carriage and the eight year old child is

apparently in the upper level of the house watching t.v. and police think that's possibly how that would avoid being killed in the in the attack that is carried out the investigation is now obviously underway and we can hear from the investigations committee now. the police have launched an investigation involving the murder of a police two people and illegal arms trafficking criminal investigators are currently working out the scene i am not commenting on any details about the murders. sorry to what we've seen today just picking on what we were talking about earlier on services got chilling similarities i was new to another massacre that happened in bristol months in the same area. it's obvious three months again a very cruel say again in the south of russia and in one instance the attack was carried out on twelve people that were slaughtered at a party another recent shock waves throughout society was that it was

a really tragic event and in the investigation that followed that there were a lot of questions raised about the operation of the police in the area and after that investigation a number of police staff and prosecutors were laid off from that position and they currently under investigation for possible links with the criminal group in that instance now police have said that there's no links between these two quite a bit obviously still rare events huge amounts of people being killed in one instance in criminal gangs involved so again it's thought that the police will be investigated again and it will certainly be looked and questions raised as to whether those anyway this could have been prevented a correspondence or a further things to bring some to those. russian businessman and alleged arms delivered to boot he said to appear in a u.s. court for a pretrial hearing he's facing charges of conspiring to kill americans and supplying weapons to terrorists while boot maintains his innocence the media continues to label him the merchant of death but he's honest answer chuck and reports.

why three. true to form hollywood and most of us love a great villain in the film lord of war nicolas cage please have your was officials celebrate his arrest the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate who is this merchant of death and why is he getting all of this attention with both of us over a course of eight years cultivated this image of an even mastermind apparently they have no other problems nowadays there is only big to boot there is now some of them not in no al qaeda no problems in afghanistan no problems in iraq there is only a victim boot the whole man victor boot is a russian cargo dealing businessman chased by the u.s. for a decade upon the request of america he was arrested in thailand two years ago after thai courts twice found him not guilty of any crimes he was still extradited to the u.s. this november to face one conspiring to kill united states nationals to conspiring

to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the far already dubbed an international arms trafficker by the u.s. victor boot is being held in a new york prison even though the two boots trial date has not even been set yet the man has spent almost two months in this jail in downtown manhattan in solitary confinement his only contact with the outside world consists of meetings with his defense team as well as once a week check ups from the russian consulate having arrived to the u.s. to support their relative victor moods family has already received a far from warm welcome in the states his wife was held at the airport for almost three hours. an immigration officer on me if i knew my husband was a terrorist while accusations are flying. case illegally remains in thailand you

social he will place according to boots thai and russian lawyers his case to this moment remains in a thai court with you living there was no official decision of an extradition this has been raising the question of whether the u.s. broke laws in whisking him away onto its soil. or boat has not committed any criminal activity and has not been found guilty neither in the us nor in any other country victor boot has said he's the victim of a propaganda war launched in america this is the lord of war. the merchant of death right and you've got him in your hands spread he's in custody it's a great feeling whoops wife believes the case against her husband was fabricated and calls what happened to him a kidnapping the false guy i can accept the possibility that victor might have some information that might be of interest to someone why is it that some other states don't just think to themselves that there is someone who has some interesting information and why don't those governments just drag people onto their territory

technical pretrial hearings for victor boot kickoff in manhattan this week but legal experts say it will be months until the start of the trial if found guilty by the u.s. federal courts bitter bood could face up to a life sentence behind bars just as you're going to are forty new york always plenty over an arty dog collar course our home page new look her website if not quite already lately see what we've got for you tonight there some of britain's biggest bank paying huge bonuses to their stuff they fear it's no secret despite the bailout by taxpayers as galling is that my baby bankers will be pocketing billions of pounds as a starting cuts continue to hit the u.k. but the latest about that story online today. most winter activities take place on solid ground but russian ice diving sixteen sports fans journeyed beneath the surface take the plunge and head for argentina go public comment on the story to see course on a page. the e.u.

boycotted the inauguration of better was his incumbent leader exam to look at shankar as he was sworn in for his fourth term the president arrived at the ceremony in the capital minsk and then handed his son all twenty seven member states refused to send representatives in response to claims that the december election was rigged the results were violent reaction which saw opposition leaders activists and journalists attacked by police in the sponsors the use for post sanctions including a ban on visas and a freeze on bank accounts belonging to senior government officials some experts believe by fall of the suppressing. opposition rally looking. little democracy remained better it's. the appreciation of president lukashenko has already suffered a serious blow i think that president lukashenko has made a big political mistake precisely on december nineteenth when hours after. after the presidential elections he started that crackdown on opposition he lost his temper i think he shouldn't have done this thing because by doing this he has

undermined the credibility of his more this attempts to show that there is. any movement towards democracy let us be frank the. last election campaign was more democratic in compared to other wants but brave these actions during several days he completely destroyed what he was creating from self so he's actually read quite a large part if he doesn't allow a position just just to to act independently or partly indifferent that they would be no no way just for to integrate into world community and. this is also the question of political so while for him how he is going to so why i totally isolated what do you think president bush and his next move will be always good to read pinion and you can voice it on our home page r.t. dot com. let me bring you up to date some world news now it's coming up to twenty three minutes past nine at night here in moscow the new round of talks of the gulf

turkish companies all over iran's nuclear program discussions between the six world powers involved are expected to revive a fuel swap plan however an iranian delegate said that the issue was not on the agenda the talks are set to conclude saturday the country currently under four sets of u.n. sanctions despite around insisting its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. south korea's military is free to all twenty one crew members held on a cargo ship by pirates off the coast of somalia navy commander stole the vessel killing eight pirates and capturing five others the chemical transporter was hijacked at the weekend while on its way to sri lanka from the united arab emirates . introducing the thousands of people gathered near the interior ministry demanding the dissolution of the new interim government payment made a national day of mourning for those who died during the month long uprising that overthrew president ben ali of the seventy eight people killed in the wave of violence security forces are patrolling the streets trying to restore law and order in the chaos and looting in the capital it's. in five minutes tonight we report

more on the israelis being vilified for trying to get their country to find a peaceful solution is coming up shortly after the business of shareowner. welcome to our business program i'm surrounded. plus growth is speeding up in russia presidential aide our college of our coverage forecast inflation may top two percent in january earlier the economic development ministry said it may even climb to two point three percent compared to one point six percent last year the first deputy chairman of russia's central bank admitted that if prices keep growing at

such rates this year's inflation will surpass the target of six to seven percent and could even double earlier on i was joined by again a dollar shit chief strategist at jones language south who told us what could be the main drivers for inflation this year. i would say that in the nearest term and the first half of two thousand and eleven it's very likely that foodstuff inflation will be the major driver of price drool over the overall inflation in russia that will be the same not only for russia as i have already told for many many countries worldwide and this will be a great day for not only monetary authorities but for. our interest of the riches because. so connectivity is to be undertaken and it's definitely very likely that we may see two double digit inflation by the end of first water two thousand and eleven it depends. how events will develop and but it's sort of like that when

you know there's two three months when we return to double digit inflation closer to the end of the year it's very likely to become one digit nine point five that's what i expect by the year two thousand and eleven now what do you think needs to be done to curb this kind of runaway inflation do you think we'll ever see western levels here. ok you for the u.s. for example is going to push inflation higher and higher with another round of quantitative easing or your inflationary approach our levels but it's very likely that the russian official will not go that low as for example current u.s. inflation it's very unlikely we will see something around two three percent in the news here is if we speak about russia it's more likely that here is inflation. approach double digit level so if. these are but you just have to speak the truth it's very likely that took place in a very little can be done simply because that information mostly columns from the. front from the shelter which is seen in certain segments and expectations have

already been formed the moment when they could have been carved as because it would have been lost unfortunately. and let's look at the russian markets so they closed trading up on the day the r.t.s. and bisects were both over three quarter of a percent. lukoil and rostov on both up close to two percent but in the triangle as gas palm settled over three quarter percent. and this week the russian markets were mainly dominated by oil companies it all started on monday on news that b.p. and ross natural together develop the russian arctic continental shelf that's according to director of equity sales at investment bank michael stein the markets were exceptionally active this week triggered by monday's very substantial news of an alliance between british petroleum and rosneft going to spark a big rally in rosneft which was up three or four percent at one point on monday you know they're all companies also going to fall likewise at them all this week

you also saw the intra progress in. government will sector tax changes and in specific the market has been very optimistic that the government's going to cut the export duty on crude oil so those two developments underpin a lot of the buying that we saw in the market in lukoil gas from to a lesser extent rosneft and that's your business update for now but you can always find more stories on our web site that's our key dot com slash business thanks for watching.

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