see a world cup show stopper like you'd never see russia's promise now that it's officially our. biggest. of all the latest from st petersburg where the fee for president sepp blatter has put pen to paper on the document confirming russia is the host of the twenty eighteen world cup finals. the top stories in the week following reconstruction of the events that led to last papal presidential plane crash insisting the official report leaves the question of. budget support a war torn afghanistan of the flow of drugs the russian president his afghan counterpart in moscow the first visit. pledge russian artillery to the face of jewelry in september the boys say.

welcome this is our t.v. watching on news review of the week with me kevin owen and first russia's promising to stage a tournament like no other when it hosts the world cup in twenty eighteen came as the fee for president officially handed over the world's biggest sporting event to the country's successful bid. all of us in some petersburg with a ceremony took place. it's all official now they've signed today a three headed contract between the russian football union fee for and the russian government well essentially that means is the first say that they will guarantee that the world cup will be held in russia in twenty eighteen the russian government say that they will provide the russian football union with all of the required help that they need to be able to put it on the notion football union say that they will

put it on no this comes after we heard just a couple of months ago that they would be given the chance to host the tournament in twenty eighty as you say the first time she's ever hosted it the first time it will ever be hosted in eastern europe now before the signing ceremony said blatter the fever president met with prime minister vladimir putin and belive me putin during that meeting talk to journalists and said they'll be able to put on the fantastic told him. we would like to use the experience we've already gained in preparing for the store to 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 to specialists from fee for to come and work here together with us to be present from the very first day of our common interest prize you can take part in the entire process of preparing for the twenty world cup blasts of the fifa president talks at off an awful lot about the world game is football and he's really trying

to make it part of his legacy to take the world cup finals as far flung corners of the world as he possibly can here the first time will be in eastern europe and after that the world cup goes to the middle east for the first time with guitar taking the on are there now mr blatter was talking about the russian said he was speaking with prime minister vladimir putin as well as the heads of the russian football union and he seems to be fully confident that russia can put on a show. i'm very pleased that the russian government is playing a direct rule in oregon. i can assure you that we will work together very closely on this joint venture who 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 initially when he is seven years it sounds like quite a long time but then you look at the work that needs to be done the russian delegation when they put across their bid to for the first two to host this

tournament they really focus quite a lot on the potential that could come from having the tournament here in russia now a lot of the stadiums haven't actually been built there will be used in the in the tournament in seven years time a massive undertaking there of course but he does have some great footballing stadiums already luzhniki in moscow hosted the champions league final a couple years back did a great job there they'll be getting a major facelift but they'll be stadiums built brand new stadiums built in cities around the country but it's not just the stadiums what we're looking at here is a world cup being held in the biggest country in the world and fans have to be able to get around to make sure that they can travel efficiently and safely and quickly to the different areas where the tournament is being held so the bait had in place a massive proposal to build a high speed train link between the cities where the games will be held also airports of the refitted out motorways relate to expecting

a massive influx of people from all over the world coming here and they're going to have to make sure that they can have in place a transport system that they can get around and hotels so that they have a good time when they come here and at the football is what everybody is talking about come two thousand. salty's peter all of a reporting for us now and some top stories that shaped the last week poland is planning to carry out a reconstruction of the plane crash that killed president kaczynski in his delegation in russia last april it's conducting its own investigation into response to the russian led probe which blames the tragedy on pilot error was still refuses to fully accept those findings those catarina zone over reports. polish prime minister donald tusk attempting to calm and increasingly angry parliament this week . the polish government wants the truth to be complete then we realize this will be inconvenient for many there's a complex number of causes for the crash it's convenient for some to blame the pilots that were under pressure for others it will 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 want it to be convenient for them. but opposition leaders don't seem to be heeding the call intent on avoiding full responsibility for april's plane crash there flooding the polish media with conspiracy theories and enraged accusations. that in light of what we know today about the crew of the plane there wasn't necessarily a new pressure they were radically misled and 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 interstate aviation committee's report was biased and incomplete is a surefire 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

the interstate commission for instance for not publishing including its reports in the stands or transcript of conversations off air controllers with the plane the commission has now post that transcript on its website as if post-fact recognizing the address the 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 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 sheer magnitude of this crash and the human tragedy of it are undeniable that's why officials both and russia and poland have called for the memories of those who lost lives a smile and 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. so i heard the story of a fine citizen being forced out supporters running for a woman is always a challenge but now faces deportation after suddenly questions from the. first rule that the military raid on

a gaza aid flotilla last may was illegal nine turkish activists died and israeli commandos raided the ship sparking strong international condemnation the panel looking into it was made up of four israelis and two foreign observers turkey's prime minister's already criticised the inquiry saying it has no value or credibility spoke to sorry she's from the legal center which were types of freedom of movement of palestinians she told me the main concern is that the report fails to criticize a blockade which is stifling life guards for. no commission of inquiry in the world can justify deliberately restricting the passage of people and goods in order to paralyze the economy and prevent normal life from taking place in gaza and i'm sorry to say that's exactly what the israeli policy did we think that the lesson from the flotilla incident should be that israel has a right to prevent weapons from entering gaza but it doesn't have a right to do what it's still doing which is to prevent purely civilian goods from coming in and out in order to punish the population you have to remember israel

controls gaza's borders and that control creates obligations when you control a civilian population you're responsible for their rights and the law of occupation says that even under circumstances of security risks you have to allow people to lead normal lives so students need to be able to travel from gaza to the west bank in order to study families need to be able to travel back and forth in order to be reunited with each other and merchants in gaza have a right to sell their goods outside of gaza israel can certainly inspect the goods and make sure there's no security threat but that's all it can do and i'm sorry to say that that's not the case right now and the commission made a disturbing finding when it said that those two civilian restrictions could be legal under international law that's what we disagree with. russia's pledging to help afghanistan recover from years of war once nato forces withdraw from the region in twenty forty promise came during the afghan leaders visit to moscow which was the first and generation presidents medvedev and karzai also vowed to tackle the problem of afghan drugs most of which flow into russia and they follow the

talks for t. and 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 more providing necessary transit routes for supplies and plan to continue support once the pullout is complete there is both the ability of 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 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 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 the relationship with russia is developing at a 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 common for us but now this sea of 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 the problem directly to the leaders with the two main threats coming out of afghanistan drugs and. arisen 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 well president karzai gave us that r t an exclusive interview during his visit to russia and we can bring you his thoughts on carville's mounting problems and indeed moscow's role in helping to solve them in just over an hour again here on r.t. from moscow. a judge this week told alleged arms delivery to boot that he'll go on trial in september the russian businessman labeled in the west as the merchant of death is charged with conspiring to kill americans and supporting terrorism as

lawyers though say the u.s. has no legal right to put him in court marti's in a sincere report. that's why i want to fire every twelve people. are required. only on 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've 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. 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 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 for 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 it

was basically according to boots thai and russian lawyers his case to this moment remains in. court there was no official decision of an extradition meanwhile dubbed an international arms trafficker by america picture 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 hearing 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 was fabricated and calls what happened to him a kidnapping. i can accept the possibility that victor boot might have some information that might be of 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 is set to file motions questioning how and why the man was

brought to the u.s. as well as whether or not recordings used against picture were obtained in accordance with the thai law make sure boots 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 and. new york. victims story for acquaint yourself with more on our website. as well as the story . america left scratching its head as the expensive but i'm gonna start mission continues in the air we've been reporting by not contributing as much cash to her

contribution. is. to find out more about. well the story is the adopting. a much lighter note this call for the ukrainians no more than it could chew it's full of female visitors mobile phone the creature became depressed lost its appetite and refused to return the call its true calms the place to find out more about that too. hundreds of norwegians have been showing their anger against what they see as the unfair treatment of asylum seekers an illegal immigrants it's been highlighted by the threat to deport a russian born author who's lived since she was a child it was even awarded for being a model citizen as lauren that reports from oslo maria emily's case as the country facing up to issues it's been reluctant to touch before. 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 monday i mean leave very few talks about it but they are now i receive their rooms have the possibility to have to have the same rights now i think. this movement in support of the 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 little say in their way but their father he was no that said the. when he. came to seek asylum so we're here to protest that their split in family has to get through the one more immigrant they're demanding better rights and they see emily as their poster girl born muddiness 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 demosthenes 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 clean up. at the moment. there is still. the immigration authorities might rethink the case 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 many amélie 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 amélie has a huge number of friends and the ninety thousand members of her facebook page a testament to the level of support she enjoys a little though the influence they enjoy looks limited with her deportation almost a certainty. r t o's laid. more revelations from wiki leaks this week reduces opposition groups in russia for their incompetence the online whistleblower published diplomatic cables in which the us ambassador to moscow brands the anti kremlin movements is unsustainable and immature the files also show that the opposition look beyond russia off from seeking washington's help the secret cables

suggest american embassy staff in moscow grow tired of frequent pleas for cash and political assistance jungle auckland is from the paris based institute of democracy corp he told us and the government pleas will fall on deaf ears in obama's america . the opposition does not have a great deal of support in the country in russia and that's why the spend their time going cap in hand to foreign supporters in this case the americans second to no one in denouncing the americans propensity for financing both political groups and non-governmental organizations which in fact pursue a political agenda so i salute lee think that that is wrong and i think that has happened a lot over the last twenty years throughout the former warsaw pact countries but these particular documents show for us. on the part of these groups with the new obama foreign policy the reset because these groups are going to the americans and

saying that they don't feel that the denunciation is active enough so they are the ones asking for more and the americans in these documents at least are being slightly reserved and slightly reactive and saying that in fact they are already doing as much as they can. next world powers couldn't mask their disappointment of the outcome of the latest talks over iran's controversial nuclear program negotiations in istanbul failed to reach any agreement or even said a deadline for future discussions the e.u.'s foreign policy chief says iran isn't cooperating enough and will remain under strict u.n. sanctions but iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad says he expects positive results from any further talks to insist it will not freeze its uranium enrichment program saying every country has a right to peaceful nuclear power international community is still concerned that iran is trying to develop an atomic bomb which it denies russia's deputy foreign minister sergei volkov says even though a deal wasn't reached the lugosi actions were not completely in vain. 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 am encouraged by the outcome but to put it that i am squarely disappointed would be in the words statement my hope is that after the stumble around. the rainy and party will consider in a very serious manner visit the years and specific proposals that have been put forward as a 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. deadlock we need to continuously further negotiations effort and

this is what russia intends to do in the period after eastern. severely of course there look at some of today's main world news in brief in ireland first party leader quickly coalition government and called for the march general election to be brought forward john gormley says his party's patience had run out after weeks of political turmoil in the country but promised to support next week's finance bill from the opposition benches the latest resignation comes a day after prime minister brian cowen stepped down as leader of his party and made pressure over the country's economic crisis. at least ten people have been killed in a series of bombings across the iraqi capital baghdad more than thirty others were injured five car bombs appear to be part of a quarter unaided attack that targeted police and share pilgrims in a busy road in the city officials say the attacks were designed to show the racks unable to provide security and of an arab league summit in march last week more

than one hundred fifty people were killed in a wave of explosions across the country. police in trinity of arrested two allies of the ousted president ben ali renewed protests against the interim government demonstrators are demanding that the prime minister resign immediately mohamed ghannouchi has already vowed to quit after fresh elections are held the transitional government promised to hold a vote within six months but still hasn't set a date a political chaos follows a month long uprising the deposed the country's leader seventy eight people were killed during the on that's one twenty six am moscow time in just a couple of minutes the story of israelis desperate for their country to work towards peace with the palestinians but of cells facing growing condemnation for their known military starts you are watching r.t. live from moscow this early monday morning the twenty fourth of january.

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