in serbia multis available in one hundred regency. seals the deal and makes russia the official host of the twenty eighteen world cup signing ceremony was held in st petersburg where some of the matches are set to take place. recap of the week's top stories the plane crash that killed the polish president and ninety five others would be restaged very far the official findings of russia's accident report soldiers not fully accept that pilot error was to blame . moscow welcomes hamad karzai house to help afghanistan forces eventually pull out trade on the drug problem a key areas of discussion in the first visit wider than even decades. and the russian born in the eagle immigrant is to be deported from room way prompting outrage and protests human rights groups accuse the government of double

standards and easy immigration laws. twenty four hours a day this is r.t. and the weekly news if you go first to russia has already topped the right to host the twenty eighteen world cup safely into the net and now it's time to do some strategic planning with fifa its president sepp blatter is in st petersburg officially passing one of the world's greatest sporting events to the country peter all of that is in the northern capital for us. the confirmation has been signed they're rubber stamped by set blatter when sepp blatter met prime minister vladimir putin earlier on today the prime minister was handed a small replica of the world cup trophy whether russia can win it or not is something that we'll have to wait and see they are putting a lot of emphasis on grassroots football and making sure that they can develop

their international game their status on the international stage. but we would like to use the experience we've already gained in preparing for the start you winter olympics in twenty fourteen we've been working closely together with the international olympic committee on this and we've build up a very constructive business relationship with them i would like to ask you to point specialists from fefe to come and work here together with us to be present from the very first day of our common enterprise and take part in the entire process of preparing for the twenty cup. of the fee for president seems confident from what he's seen from talking see the russian prime minister and from talking to the russian football association that they are going to be able to put on this tournament. i'm very pleased the russian government is playing a direct rule in organizing the world cup i can assure you that we will work together very closely on this joint venture fifa will provide support but the

lion's share of responsibility rests on russia i'm certain that the world cup will be held at the highest possible level and will turn into a truly magnificent event. russia has to build an awful lot of stadiums not just build them some of them need some of the current stadiums they have desperately in need of refit to make sure that they are in the best possible condition in order to welcome the teams from all over the world as well as the thousands of fans now those thousands of fans coming to the biggest country in the world for this tournament they're going to need to be able to get around the country in the best possible way during the bidding process russia put a lot of emphasis on the potential of what they could create and the. certainly going to have to create quite a lot there are plans to build high speed rail links between cities around around russia as well as new airports as well as building an awful lot of hotels a lot of work to be done to make sure that not just say the stadiums and the pictures and everything are ready for the players but also to make sure that there

are hotels trains planes and automobiles for the fans to be able to get around the country able to enjoy the football because all of the reporting there to some other news now poland is planning to reconstruct the chain of events that led to a plane crash in russia southwest killing president lech kaczynski last april experiment is to follow up on the findings of the russian that investigation points to pilot error among the main causes of the tragedy also has so far refused to fully accept such conclusions. explains the. polish prime minister donald tusk attempting to calm and increasingly angry parliament this week. government wants the truth to be complete and we realize that it will be inconvenient for many there is a complex number of causes for the crash it's convenient for some to blame the pilots that are under pressure but others it'll be convenient to blame the russians but it won't be the whole truth the organization that seeks the truth mustn't be

influenced by forces in poland that wanted to be convenient for them but opposition leaders don't seem to be heeding the call intent and avoiding full responsibility for april's plane crash there flooding the polish media with conspiracy theories and enraged accusations. in light of what we know today about the crew of the plane there wasn't necessarily a new pressure they were radically misled in the warrant and this was a cause of the accident in relations to cause the fault is on the russian side. but is this grief talking or shrewd political ambition with a parliamentary election not far off it suggested that claiming the. the state aviation committee's report was biased and incomplete is a sure fire way to win voters but even those who accept the findings have issues with the way that they were presented polling has been very critical of the report commissioned for instance or not publishing including reports in the stands or

transcript of conversations off air controllers with the planning commission has now posed that transcript on its website as if post-fact recognizing the address sooner for the polish people it's a painful subject especially as it brings back some uncomfortable memories about the flights of high level officials in august two thousand and eight a presidential air crew with threatened with the sack after refusing to land citing bad weather conditions there's also a question of insufficient training raised after a crash also in two thousand and eight which killed a number of polish military personnel that's why some feel that accepting full responsibility for this millions tragedy would be almost like admitting it could have been prevented and you up for good or if it is hard for post to handle a difficult truth and this is a difficult truth we have calls things in this ripples which help us to shift some

responsibility away from us and the situation the pressures clear the drive to keep politics from interfering with improving relations between moscow and warsaw while amounting domestic agenda makes that a tough task regardless of who is to blame the share magnitude of this crash and the human tragedy of it are undeniable that's why officials both in russia and poland have called for the memories of those who lost lives a slight chance to be respected for the polish opposition however the promise of potential political leverage could turn out to be a lot more tempting. kashrut as are the r.t.e. moscow. you're watching r t well still to come through this hour life in prison that's what alleged dom's trafficking boot could face if he's found guilty by u.s. court his lawyers are set to challenge the american government's attempts to prosecute him. the first official visit in decades of an afghan leader to russia has ended with

a promise of support and cooperation president medvedev told hamad karzai that moscow will stand by kabul when western forces eventually withdraw the battle against illegal drug trade was also called a top priority in bilateral relations lottie's way has more on the meeting of the two leaders. 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 as an effective government that's able to provide the development of afghanistan for decades to come and. 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 russia helping afghanistan to rebuild itself and re re develop its institutional capacity but also by the off trade by way of investment by interaction between all businesses which is very strong but you countries signed a trade and 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 cardoso i mentioned that 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 come back to a history more than one hundred four to enterprises were built by the soviet union

driven karzai agreed to prioritize the fight against narcotics since russia bears the brunt of afghanistan's fast drugs production industry russia hoped that international forces could crush extremism and get it and russian officials hope that maybe they could add. able to stop the influx of drugs coming in russia but now we see a virtue 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 again with 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 where president karzai gave an exclusive interview to r.t. june his visit to russia we bring you his thoughts on carville's mounting problems

on moscow's role in solving them in just over an hour's time. to test the streets of on saturday as norwegians that support two russian born illegal immigrants who's about to be deported. who was once named the region of the year has lived in the country for almost a decade but failed in her bid for some of them. reports her case has drawn calls from human rights groups from norway to change its immigration policy. the clock is ticking for many as her supporters gather in central oslo for what may be the last time to protest her deportation from the country she's learnt to call home as things stand i merely could be sent to russia within days leaving behind her friends the land she grew up in but this is no longer just about maria with her book illegal norwegian and her activism she's managed to draw attention to the plight of all people struggling to stay in norway those without papers have no

access to work education or health care and can't even get married before i mean leave very few talks about it but they are now irish of their own have the possibility to have to have the same rights now i think. this movement in support of her specific case. can develop into a movement supporting all the people in her situation it's a cause that unites different groups from organizations that campaigned specifically for illegal immigrants and asylum seekers to renowned human rights groups like amnesty everyone here has a story to tell and this family and their friends are no exception we are here today with a mother and two children who has a legal stay in there where they have all the papers passports permissions they need but their father he was not that said the. when he. came

to see it. so we're here to protest that they're splitting families to get through the one more immigrant they're demanding better rights and they see emily as their poster girl born medina salam of a north a settler her family fled when she was twelve they were denied asylum in norway but stayed anyway over the years emily learned to speak fluent norwegian and to most his degree and a job offer but the government insists she's illegal and must go. her lawyer says that could happen within days it doesn't lucia very optimistic at the moment but. there's still. the immigration authorities might rethink the case because. it was sending new information to them all the time. that's happened. several times each day. didn't do anything there might be

a court hearing on monday or tuesday but. under the precondition leaving the country but whatever happens to emily her mark has been made these people are mobilized invalid to protect all those without papers in norway which could be as many as twenty thousand out of a total population of only five million media i believe has succeeded in highlighting the plight of asylum seekers in norway they were previously seen as a group with little to offer and no resources to protect themselves but emily has a huge number of friends and the ninety thousand members of her facebook page a testament to the level of support she enjoys the influence they enjoyed looks limited with her deportation almost a certainty. on the way in the program nuclear talks end in stalemates water latest. on the grounds atomic program of yielded no breakthrough why russia still thinks progress can be made. lawyers

of alleged russian arms trafficking to boot say they will challenge a u.s. government move to prosecute the man named the merchant of death has been charged with conspiring to kill americans and supporting terrorism his trial is scheduled for september if found guilty he could face life behind bars in a situation reports. i want a firearm for every twelve people. every question. how we are in the other eleven. that's hollywood's take on forty four year old russian cargo dealing businessman victor boot but in real life is he really the merchant of death or the lord of war or simply a victim of propaganda u.s. prosecutors are not thinking twice about which label to pick the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate the american media months ahead of trial also have their mind made

up this is the lord of war. the merchant of death right and you got him in your hands right he's in custody it's a great feeling with presumption of innocence out the window all these nicknames exist for one man. who has not committed any criminal activity and has not been found guilty neither in the us nor in any other country in america however he faces four charges. one conspiring to kill united states nationals two 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 the united states has been eager to lay hands on for almost a decade there is no osama bin ladin no al qaida no problems in afghanistan no problems in iraq there is only victor boot the evil man upon the request of u.s. officials victor boot was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after two

years of fighting for freedom in a thai court and found not guilty twice who was snatched up by american officials and taken to the u.s. with sirens and an airplane in the middle of the night building all the hype of a hollywood blockbuster but curiously boots case technically 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 meanwhile dubbed an international arms trafficker by america if your boot is in solitary confinement in a manhattan prison his wife who was held at the airport for almost three hours upon her arrival to the big apple got the first glimpse of viktor at friday's technical hearings i don't think he's in the best state i'm worried about his health both physical and mental the family believes the case against it was fabricated and calls what happened to him by kidnapping the full sky i can accept the possibility

that victor boot might have some information that might be of the. interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just think to themselves that there is someone who has some interesting information and why don't those governments just drag those people onto their territory defense team set to file motions questioning how and why the man was brought to the us as well as whether or not recordings used against a picture were obtained in accordance with the thai law picture booth stands confident that he is the victim of a propaganda war launched in america and maintains his innocence the defense team now has forty five days to present for motions to judge him awfulness of the extradition of a tribute to the united states is one of the key elements among them a trial date for now has been set for september twelfth if found guilty by the u.s. federal court victor boot could face up to a life sentence behind bars just as you sure can or r.t. your. iranian president ahmadinejad says he expects any future negotiations with

foreign powers over his country's nuclear program to have a positive results it comes off to world powers involved in the latest talks say they were disappointed with the out for the talks are planned tehran says any agreement must include its right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes only international concerns it's trying to develop a nuclear weapon charge the country denies russia's deputy foreign minister sergei volkov won a deal wasn't reached. went to total failure. i wouldn't agree that these talks failed i think that there was an important opportunity that was used by both parties to move dialogue forward i would say i'm encouraged by the outcome but to put it better i'm squarely disappointed would be in overstatement my hope is that after the stumble around. the ring in part he will consider in a very serious manner these eighty years and specific proposals that have been put

forward as well russia says as i believe many in the world. equally. share this view there is no other way there is no alternative to the negotiations and then gauge meant effort everything else is you know. at deadlock we need to continuously further negotiations effort and this is what russia intends to do in the period after the storm. that was russia's deputy foreign minister said gave it cough. more revelations by wiki leaks this week criticised the political opposition in russia for its incompetence on line that was published diplomatic cables in which the us and thus its most brands the credit movements is unsustainable and channel. opposition groups regularly see

washington's help without having the teeth to fight any battles at home cable suggests american embassy staff in moscow have grown tired of frequent pleas for cash and political help because of journalistic moves to topple says the leader of the anti kremlin has already made a bad name for himself. what we see in these papers is the russia director of the national security council michael mcfaul who is interested in grooming boris nemtsov as a candidate to stop putin from becoming president again in two thousand and twelve which but obviously thinks this is what's going to happen and it seems to me the gaggle of people that they have working for them are are not going to be adequate to the task just a word about soft this of course was one of the young wolves of the chernomyrdin yeltsin era and if you look at what he did every conceivable disaster in the book

of economics visited hyperinflation a bubble a crash moment latour of privatization the coming of the oligarchs all of this is the handiwork of soffit who now thinks that he should make a comeback and really fallen limbs off maybe the only people who believe this is possible. now out of a day's other internationalising brief for you. officials say at least thirty two people have been killed off a bus come out of the oil tanker western focused on nine others were injured in the accident said scribed fifty passengers lost control and crashed into a station crew tiger authorities are working to recover the victims from atlanta recalls. the pressure is mounting on tunisia's into and prime minister to step down immediately as anti-government protests rage on in the country's capital tunis hama don't cheat has already vowed to quit after fresh elections are held the transitional government promised to hold a vote within six months still hasn't set

a date the political spoilers a month long uprising that ousted president meet seventy eight people were killed in the unrest. obvious prime minister brian cowen is bowing to pressure from within his own party and stepping down as its leader because he will remain in office until parliament should lections in march which he announced just days ago when he bought into play in the pm for mishandling the economic crisis that forced stubbing to seek a humiliating multi billion bailout in most yeah you can ship contests to be held wednesday. and in mexico with ten suspected drug cartel members have been killed on the border with texas and that you control discovered a camp of armed men who opened fire on police seized weaponry including rifles and grenade launchers drug related violence has claimed twenty eight lives since a government crackdown in two thousand and six. the chinese president hu

jintao has just wrapped up a four day visit to the united states is meeting with president barack obama for the opening of trade between bank of china and american investors means the two powers could have to find their relations in terms of being both partners and rivals it comes at a time of china's growing world influence line show host vali hottest also known as the resident asked people in new york whether americans should be wary of the rising dragon. as the u.s. debt and time as assets both continue to grow china could potentially surpass the u.s. g.d.p. within a decade is it time to start taking mandarin lessons this week let's talk about that their technology has come leaps and bounds beyond us and that's

a big part of take the economy does that worry you. yes yes it does you know you doing anything about it no i'm not no larry mandarin and now no matter what i mean i guess i should know i believe the discipline and direction are the things that we need now the but the bipartisanship as much as i'm a staunch or more republican than democrat no they need to work together and get a common goal and move forward much like you do at home with budgeting your bills and doing everything else is what we need to do in the government as well do you think that socialism or capitalism promotes that kind of discipline more. i believe capitalism if not looking for a handout promotes that war when donald trump runs for president i heard him last night he's going to charge china further than it comes in here twenty five percent surcharge and we're going to pay our debt off with that surcharge so we need a whole new kind of businessman we don't need a politician what made america great at the time it happened was what the times call for maybe china's doing more of what the times call for right now. but also

maybe it's maybe it's their time maybe it's their turn and is that ok with you yeah do you think china kind of deserves to surpass us because they have a harder work ethic if you does if it's a sense of deserve i think we just america needs to get into but. you know we should be ok maybe china's going to give us a good kick in the butt be that's what they need over in the white house is to understand that that's really what it's all about you know kind of rally the troops and say let's get with the program right now and everybody can take a step forward we're not stupid people here. just lazy times are you or no i'm not worried even if they even if they did take over and they were a huge power i still don't see what the reason to be worried about is our nuclear powers all over the place and it's not like nobody is going to anybody's going to talk to anybody. i want more whether or not you're ready to sign up for mandarin lessons the bottom line is china is indisputably a force to keep an eye on in the future.

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