russia pledges and so forth to rebuild war torn afghanistan as president karzai visits moscow. alleged russian arms dealer viktor booth claims u.s. media coverage of his case is keeping any chance of justice says he prepares for a new. hearing in new york. the public outrage in norway as a russian born of woman and former citizen of the year faces deportation while recognizing terrorists there's a lot of this today. it's two am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story russia is promising to support afghanistan after western forces withdraw from the troubled region in three years president medvedev has pledged came out talks with

ahmed karzai and moscow leaders also promise to clamp down on the vast flow of drugs from which russia suffers the most or he's a nice and now has the details of the 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 this able to provide the development over 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 more 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. russia helping afghanistan rebuild itself and re re develop its institutional capacity but also by way of trade investment by way of interaction between or 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 is now half a billion u.s. dollars president carter's i mentioned his country's developing economic relationship with the united states but the relationship with russia is developing a little larger scale again we should come back to a history more than one hundred forty enterprises were built by the soviet union driven karzai agreed to prioritize the fight against narcotics since russia bears the brunt of afghanistan's vast drugs production industry russia hope that

international forces could crush extremism in afghanistan and russian officials hope that maybe they could be able to stop the influx of drugs coming in for us for americans and their european allies 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. arizonan 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. will bring you our exclusive interview with the gang leader in about fifteen minutes but if you want you catch it online right now at our website r t v dot com. russian businessman an alleged arms dealer victor boot has made his second

appearance in a u.s. court for a pretrial hearing you faces 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 art he's honest reports. on the. war 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 eighteen is 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 big to boot the evil 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. us victor boot is being held in a new york prison 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 moots family has already received a far from warm welcome in the states his wife was held at the airport for almost

three hours. then the gratian officer asked me if i knew my husband was a terrorist while accusations are flying case legally remains in thailand. according to boots thai and russian lawyers his case to this moment remains in a thai court meaning there was no official decision of an extradition this has been reason the question of whether the u.s. broke laws in whisking him away onto its soil. 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 is the victim of a propaganda war watched in america this is the lord of war. the merchant of death right and you've got him in your hands or 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. 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 down to just think to themselves that there is someone who has some interesting information and why don't those governments just drag them with people onto their territory if found guilty by the u.s. federal court victor boot could face up to a life sentence behind bars. or t. new york are to contribute or wayne madsen says it has information that could prove damaging to u.s. officials. i think if victor boot was allowed to write his memoirs and it was made into a movie it would be a blockbuster because he knows enough to maybe point a finger at a lot of u.s. officials and especially in the bush cheney administration he says he's getting a lot of bad press of course he's getting bad press from the wall street journal from fox news you know the same people who have interests with war toward books that merchants of death and washington post reporters and whatnot is going to get a fair trial here a lot of people question whether the rule of law actually even applies to the

united states anymore since we have federal judges and prosecutors probably feel more at home trying cases than equitorial guinea or me and maher and i doubt he's going to get a fair trial here still ahead this hour the ex russian spy who is a cold and. chapman lends her lands her own show find out what she is revealing in just a few minutes. first though russian born maria amalie has been calling norway her home for almost a decade she achieved academic success alongside plaudits for her social contribution to her adopted country but none of this changes the fact that she's about to be deported from norway as a failed asylum seeker her cases angered thousands of norwegians demanding that the current immigration policy be changed our people are and it has more from. are you relieved that you can stay in norway 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 as 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 u.n. 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 to say the least

constant nuisance to norwegian society is able to born my dinner in 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 learnt norwegian in a matter of weeks got a master's 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 sort of integration into norwegian society which was also react. in musical festivals literature refers to. an extremely sort of active in the which new thing despite process the government standing firm ironically norway's recently

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 that asylum application. that is the case for each and everyone applies for asylum. but the point is in this case and other cases is that if that asylum application is rejected. those that have to return we prefer of course that. they do this voluntarily but if they do not return or terry they have to be sent to their country of origin by force but is lawyer insists she hasn't had a fair hearing in fact he submitted tara stylin claim to be 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 child came to norway. here in norway you see in the. situation maria was when she came to the country in this case shoulder to me the change in the way we treat. children but any change in the law is unlikely to help maria emily 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 maddy i merely had. it's people out into the streets in anger and yes it would now take a humiliating state you ten to allow her to stay in the country she grew up in and has come to cool i mean he hasn't given up but it seems that the norwegian person

of the year time left in no way can now be counted in days not weeks nowhere and it's host name. eight people have been shot dead in the south of russia in what police say is a gang land shooting the bodies of six members of one family in two staff were discovered in the house and stabbed her pole two young children survived the attack investigators say the house belonged to the alleged head of a local criminal group his wife was shot dead five years ago in an earlier attempt on his life in an unrelated incident late last year twelve people were killed at a party in russia's south which police all say was also the result of a gang war. take a look now at r t dot com here's a story that's online for you right now a new event has been very strong opinions about. some of britain's biggest banks are paying out huge bonuses to their staff who's here despite the bad luck by taxpayers bankers will be pocketing millions of pounds as the austerity cuts continue to hit the u.k.

. most winter activities take place on solid ground but russian ice driving season extreme sports fans journeyed beneath the surface to take the plunge and head for our team. here now to some other stories making headlines across the globe iran says talks on its nuclear program are yielding results in the turkish city of istanbul the six party negotiations are expected to revive a fuel swap plan that would see uranium enriched outside iran but washington remains pessimistic that anything positive will come from the talks that are set to conclude on saturday iran is currently under four sets of u.n. sanctions despite tehran insisting its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes. former british prime minister tony blair has faced the country's iraq war in korea for the second time in his role in the lead up to the invasion it was to

clarify his previous answers after witnesses question parts of his testimony blair says he discussed regime change with then president bush an admitted ignoring advice that the war was illegal anti-war protesters outside called for a blair to stand trial at the hague. in the albanian capital tehran least three people have been shot dead and several injured during a rally thousands of protesters gathered outside the prime minister's office demanding the government step down over allegations of corruption police do use tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds who called for fresh elections the country's been in political deadlock since the opposition rejected the result of the ballot two years ago. finally in this news block and chapman the so-called sexy spy has taken another career turn this time on two russian television sets. after years of being under the radar snooping in the u.s.

the spy world's pin up girl is now uncovering strange phenomenon in her own network primetime series called secrets of the world she gets to the bottom of solving real life x. files type mysteries from russia and around the world. up next ahead of president karzai meeting with the major medvedev the afghan leader sat down with r.t. sophie shevardnadze tells us how he plans to solve his. problems which are spreading across borders.

karzai afghan president it's an honor and pleasure to have you with us today sir. thank you what were your hopes two thousand and four when you were a mate. my hope and aspirations were the. peace for afghanistan a stable afghanistan afghanistan in close contact. with its neighbors and near neighbors a country that would progress into a better economy. and better living standards would be. triggered

who were deprived of a future cation for so many decades would have a chance to go to school some of those are. some of them have not been so that was my my aspiration at the. but what would you say precisely seven years or what are you meant to achieve and where did you fail maybe you managed to achieve a better economy we more than twenty universities right now term vision channels the. construction industry and the afghan flag flying all around the world and independent sovereign afghanistan and the rest of the war of course one of the greatest aspirations of us security for the afghan people peace for the afghan people for the whole country has not come in that is our continued effort and struggle. for the past couple of years sir you have been subject to much criticism both personal and professional how do you deal with it when i was attacked very

strongly by the western media. for the past many years partly because of their lack of understanding afghanistan in that situation. partly because of politics and when your. in a country like afghanistan where there are so much war just and should reduce so much. conflict would do so with dr rhee where there are so many interests involved . it's only natural that. criticism like that would take place what would you say is maybe like one main thing in afghanistan or about afghanistan that western media doesn't understand the. unfortunately or extremely simplistic conveyor in the study of ganesan and their analysis of genocide measured if the if the afghan media were writing about

politics sort of life or society in america or on fronts what for the right so diverse and that's how the the the luck information about us it's that simplistic andrew demetriou at best well former nor u.s. ambassador to afghanistan karl eikenberry is on the record as saying that you are not a nation builder what do you feel when you hear something that coming from a former u.s. army general. well it's. a lot of a lot of things have been said in those reports. as we now hear from the b.k. dixwell and from other media sources. i don't know what is meant by not a nation but. we are building or institutions were building or we were building go police we have a democratic. order we have free media so that's what it's called

a nation building and the u.s. case is helping in many areas on that with us so my freedom started that remark when you brought up wiki leaks have you come across something they didn't know before that helped you or it damaged here in a way you know the much of what came to be complex did not come to be as prized surprise those things before so no not really in your opinion the war on terror how much damage has it done to u.s. reputation in an islamic world well the war on terror is. to the extent that the war on terror is concerned. is it war a struggle for all of us it is a struggle for afghanistan it's a struggle for the united states it's a struggle for russia it's a struggle for the muslim countries it's a struggle for all of us start two more painful subject in twenty years after you

came to power. record levels of opium where harvested and that's to say at some point i think taliban point down to me or what happened where we are in charge. of can you call it the afghan people. we have reduced poppies in twenty two provinces of afghanistan in some of those provinces were completely eliminated. we are not in charge. in one of two provinces where there is taliban over there was more foreign forces it was in those provinces of course poppies of entries and that's a question but still the volume of afghan drug money as of today six point five billion dollars which is five times as much as your national budget i mean who is behind this how high up does its power reaches those who grow poppies. grow

it out of desperation i know people in afghanistan who destroyed their division yards their pomegranate orchards to replace it with poppies in that must be done out of disparate. the trafficking is an entirely different matter the precursors that come to turn poppy into narcotics is not an african issue at all it's smikle to into afghanistan from other countries so those areas afghanistan is helpless to address the money the injured rate the illegally. six point five billion dollars as being five times the afghan budget in afghanistan perhaps the afghan farmers receive close to your billion dollars some estimates even much less than that so the rest of the money the real money goes are brought into into banks into businesses of galveston suppressant people close to you for instance your health brother or your inner kardex minister are alleged by the

united states to be involved in or in profit with a heroin trafficking. what do you do how can your administration be taken seriously when such accusations are out there in public yes there are there were these accusations in the u.s. media. these accusers began almost five years ago or even or do it and i contacted u.s. officials with us repeatedly. not once or twice or thrice five six seven eight nine ten times even more. and wrote to them officially if they have anything if it so that they should come to turkey they always can see that this was all who were so how do you ensure or or when do you think your government will be self-sufficient what what else can you do to stop harvesting and trafficking and arose out of gephardt was doing is an economic issue for the afghan people it is the absolute

need and the hope for the future. we must fulfill their economic needs but we offer can our development by way of. infrastructure development and we must make sure the afghans hope to have better hope for tomorrow the international drug trade is something that is beyond of ghana's sons means to fight that's an international matter for us to fight together but can't just somehow corporator help to stop the flow for instance today two point five million russians are addicted to after floor we can't fly from the floor if you cannot stop it in russia you are a much more organized society you are a much more effective government if the united states cannot stop it at the border with mexico. with all that policing in a better city. of galveston the international community should have ganesan because

your view of been destroyed by years of war and destruction and infrastructure is gone the abilities gone the civil service and we can that's why you need to is there that's why russia is helping our police force that's why america is helping your military so how did we do the capability to prevent supplies from of ghana sent to other countries of course who would have done it and we would have not been such up sorry state as a court today you're brought up nato help what's your response to the british defense minister sir david richards has said that they test should stay another thirty forty years in afghanistan well that was a statement for five years ago now you know we have a transition plan. and you know that britain has announced that they will be withdrawing their forces by twenty fifteen do you believe that yes i believe that close contact with. prime minister cameron and his government the british will leave afghanistan by twenty fifty the americans also want to reduce their forces by

twenty fourteen the transition is the most important thing here so you disagree with those who say it's an realistic for nato to withdrawing truth i know it's not unrealistic that once we are back as a stable strong administration and country we can definitely protect the historical country. mentioned that we needed russian help in order to build that strong government independent government exactly what type of help do you want from russia there is there is both the ability of russia and the the need for russian afghanistan to engage with. that not only in a manner of russia helping afghanistan rebuild itself and really really develop its you to shield capacity. but also by way of trade by you were for investment by roughly interaction between all businesses which is very strong do you think

question seven better understanding of afghan mentality as opposed to americans oh yes a lot better a lot better because russia. is european and asian both rush understands us culturally better and we have started culturally better that's that's a fact of them at least that's very true thank you very much mr president and welcome and i sincerely wish you and your people all the best in achieving peace and democracy wish you the best to forget. very first verses of the bible is that all human beings are created but sentimental came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or knowledge is. sixty to seventy percent of what i did as a combat soldier in the occupied territories was to do with the turds doing what we

call making our presence felt to go out should some bozo they hear a knock on some doors run to the other corner and they don't know the house religion and nationalism not just judaism have been a part of the problem they've been part of what leads to. bloodshed if you want to bomb gaza and kill thousand four hundred people in a month and you want to expect that this will have no effect until a feat you have to be either extremely naive or extremely stupid to. kill a religious jew calling another jew and not the way they really did it.