china's a leader is in moscow a multi-billion dollar energy dealers to fuel growth in two of the world's biggest emerging economies. the fate of colonel gadhafi russia's envoy to libya holds talks with officials in tripoli trying to mediate an end to libya's civil war and the future of its leader. and at the greek government teeters on the brink of collapse after violent protests in the gulf athens in the face of deep public cuts to the shrinking economy. and the white knights are back in russia's north and it's time again for the fifteenth annual st petersburg international economic forum for several important deals have been signed and put to paper we'll tell you all about that in our business report coming up in about twenty minutes.

a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow i'm rory sushi right now i also use cameramen in the southern russian city of a lot of kafka says found the bottom of his car packed with explosives a correspondent with in a culture who is in the republic of north etc now joins me live on the telephone emma do you know it so well can you tell us what do you know at this point. well now i'm sure an hour ago i haue cooled my camera learned where i think you gathered and now something different now but wait for for our feet on so i called him and he told me that there are two morning cute card for ammo and one thing you can take because they thought i think oh good by. the fall i think because the moment i

know i need i need i'll be camera man i mean thank question i thought i could beat you up we've got to get the area round to the go wrong i swear the car is. time i think it's party time i've been blocked all the while i spoke to him last time so i'm going to go and i asked him whether he thinks whites watch it they can often sign that he told me after e.a.'s some several seconds of silence that was enough for both of us well we all know that was shades of all literally jennings we are there have been a number of party chair raids going on since march this year i don't several of them actually we have so i mean reporting several stories but i'd argue moment i'm going to do as you did saying which is jack cranky blocked off to find out more information about what is going on that was the car and what cameraman medina can you can you tell me of how's this coming months car being used on various stories when you're going out shooting stories has a camera has a call being used. yeah i was eased up quite often actually aaron said this car was

in his private property but he's too well used to drive that car to differing on china b.m.i. and to get friendly conflicts that would been covering quite recently when they did close up reporting on the republicans most as such and almost everything that was found which will make a driving on this very hard as this call was quite often used by us certainly within it seems like a somebodies paid attention to your call when you've been out of shooting stories and what is as you said a volatile region i mean you know any i need to do on the size of the explosives what kind of being used one could could have been a devastating explosion had it all going off. i think it could be one's ass i phone keeps me and my camera access once again going to check out keep our dogs would be an explosive device was quite they can find our god could lead to some governments anything results for both of us the moment i'm approaching as the scene and i'm

going to find out more. for us than across all been didn't they talk about how lucky timing of when taking the coffin m.o.t.d. and discovering a. the bottom of it being a question of thanks very much for that. photo of the world's biggest and fastest growing economies russia and china now meeting right here in moscow is one of the main sources of the discussion becomes a vital supply of energy fueling the massive growth of its eastern neighbor. reports on the other shared interests the two nations will be talking about. we know that both sides say there's still a lot of room for improvement within their bilateral relationship of course russia and china are each other's biggest neighbors and both sides certainly have a lot to gain from a beneficial relationship with their neighbor russia of course is one of the world's largest the sources of natural resources such as oil and gas and we do know

that there are ongoing talks between gazprom and the chinese national gas company for gas supplies and also a gas pipeline that will be starting in west siberia and heading all the way to china we know that according to the gas pumps you know like c miller the agreement for gas supplies to china was supposed to be signed sometime in two thousand and eleven now we know that today during. the chinese leaders visit gazprom officials will be present and of course those discussions will be taking place we also know that china of course is a very lucrative market for russia not only for its natural resources but for various other things and right now the trade turnover the bilateral trade turnover with china is one of the biggest that russia currently has so a very strong partnership that has the potential to go even stronger and that is definitely something that both sides intel and to me the media different will be

looking to achieve during this meeting most people do seem to think that the questions of both syria and libya will definitely be raised during. chinese leaders time here in moscow we know that in the. countries where the two leaders. decide that green meant of some sort was reached and both sides do seem to share the position that a military presence or a military intervention is definitely not the correct solution and will not bring peace to libya and that diplomatic ways to resolve the conflict should be sought after and now before i should be preferred over any kind of military presence in that area of course we do know that both sides do seem to agree on that position in regards not only with libya but also with syria that both sides are against any sort of potential intervention or even potential u.n.

sanctions and that is something that is most likely going to be reiterated once again that shared position here in moscow. has got a read out of our reporting right now let's get some more on russia and china to join in the studio by sort of i like oh if i chairman of the russian chinese center of trade and economic cooperation i thank you very much for coming on the program today so the countries are certainly appear to have an understanding of the economy and foreign policy but is everything is smooth as it seems could there be any shop corners to be looking out for i think you can only call the relationship. it's now . we turn over between two countries there's seventy billion us dollars but it's. for example we can compare we turn over. europe course and germany japan. neighbors should have. this turnover bigger boys i mean it's very interesting as you say i mean two of the biggest bolstering economies here. trade deals and i got status

absolutely right and most important is that the structure of these turnover we can see. the the export of russian expertise mostly materials. and import. just. simple things but it would i'm sorry to interrupt it would be fair to say the russia is is one of if not the richest country in the world when it comes to natural resources certainly. anyway we should try to. rise up the structural turnover of the machinery and that's why three years ago the leaders of the countries created the russian chinese chamber for machinery and you know asian and that's why we're here now a little bit higher and increasing. in turn but now i will say that beijing is becoming a russia's leading trading partner is china the place where the real future of the

economy lies as for us russian businessmen we hope and we think that this is really countries with a lot of opportunity so we're going to deal with china lots of opportunities but let's let's talk about the broader picture here do you think that this growing russia china alliance could at some point become a threat to the economic and political interests of the united states and its allies i think of the u.s. in china in the modern world since certainly u.s. used to be germans who actually. when they see china and russia cooperate and i think certainly. we should take into consideration the interest of us when we're dealing with this kind of chemical the u.s. do anything to try to hamper what is obviously a very special relationship. i think yes because china and u.s. most biggest economy in the world maybe sometime like something like

ok all right now what about russia china and a key central asian states were meeting at the yesterday the shanghai. cooperation organization summit to be tenth anniversary of that that aims to provide security and stability in the region but do you see this group rivaling in nato in the future you've got nato on the west you've got the f c o in the east you've got these groupings of the of the countries in their own neighborhood is there some sort of potential threat in the future. you know. is already playing the world. leader so for countries. to be really regional leaders. to show that it's for the whole world. can we know that this is the population of this country more than half of all. of the all this country is the most territorial.

continent and we already showed this and you can see that it's a very interesting grouping yesterday done it has a. summit a lot of a major leaders there are many. many others and we'll just have to see what the future holds or sort of. chairman of the russian china's center of trade and economic cooperation thank you very much thank you but. now the fate of libya's leader and a political way out of a civil war will be at stake during talks in tripoli this as russia's envoy will meet colonel gadhafi loyalists. to try and broker a cease fire comes as the latest nato airstrikes target an area close to cut off its compound artie's marie from national reports. the visit to tripoli is part of russia's peace mediator mission in the protracted lieben conflict moscow has been insisting all the time that a nonviolent negotiation is the only way out of the crisis russia has repeatedly criticized nato for starting a military operation here and has never supported

a u.n. security council resolution which authorized intervention russian special presidential envoy mikhail matter gallup. it was sent here to try to get everybody around the table that's actually very hard to achieve the rebel supported by nato allies wants to force gadhafi out while the colonel himself says that he will fight to the death meanwhile recently have been several signs indicating that a compromise is possible last week macomer gallop met with the opposition leaders in the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi and talked to cut off his cousin in cairo and said that both sides have a mutual understanding that a protracted war is not an option and the crisis should be resolved through peaceful means he also cited that he had a feeling that the rebels are almost ready for a dialogue with gadhafi the people in tripoli we have been able to speak to are

welcome in russia's afros they are extremely exhausted after months of war which has taken many many lives and has almost completely destroyed the country's infrastructure due to a shortage of fuel gasoline lines stretch for kilometers and kilometers people have to spend hours even days lining up to fill up their cars and it's tyree more overnight to continues to strike tripoli and we can hear bombardments mess of bombardments almost every night and that scares them as well while people are getting more and more and all they want to get their normal lives back frustration is high among the rebels as well as they feel as though nature is taken control over what to them is a national uprising it's too early to say whether russia will be able to bring peace and stability to leave it but it was clear among people on the ground is that it's stuff in italy worth trying. well still ahead for you this hour here on our

question of justice has alleged russian got run over to boot faces a new round in court battle we put the legality of the whole case under scrutiny. the greek prime minister is set to announce the makeup of his new government and seek a vote of confidence in parliament after coalition talks with opposition parties failed georgia has been trying to push through more cuts to secure billions of euros in a second e.u. and i.m.f. bailout the plan sent over twenty five thousand angry people onto the streets of athens on wednesday or unions held a general strike protesters clashed with police who fired tear gas after demonstrators threw rocks and petrol bombs there were a number of arrests and injuries some of the protesters tried to block off parliament to stop m.p.'s from voting on the new austerity plan british m.p. nigel farage believes that the bailout isn't going to help the greek people because it's only there to save the banks. one of the reasons that everybody is so

determined to keep greece in the euro is so that the banks don't have to take a serious hit on their full policy so there's something has gone seriously wrong with the banking system it's almost as if there's a holy alliance of politicians and bankers versus all three people i'm sure that's what the people on the streets of athens today feel like don't think the banking crisis is over i suspect but it's hardly i did many cases it might have been better to do what iceland did and say look these banks go bust these people lose their jobs these people lose their money that's unfortunate about life and i suspect we're going to regret keeping the banks afloat and imprisoning countries like greece inside a currency union which they're just not suited. well a. violent protests in the heart of athens is available on our website that's.

right. the people who provide it even want to know the. people. plus there are also plenty of other stories on video . including stunning images of a total eclipse of the moon on wednesday night. a new york court will hear the next round in the ongoing a legal battle over. the russian man america accuses of being an international arms dealer his lawyers and the prosecution will discuss the case with the judge awaiting trial in a u.s. prison. reports the legality of proceedings is being questioned every step of the way. he is the russian citizen america fought relentlessly to adopt it was secretly and swiftly extradited to the u.s. seven months ago and this may be where he stays indefinitely if found guilty on

arms smuggling and terrorism related charges. he's looking at life there's no parole there's no early release in the federal system really the only way in the federal system to get a reduction in your sentence. a significant reduction is if you cooperate with the united states government some have argued mr bush needs to be on captain america's team however captain america is being accused of playing dirty and illegally to remove the air cargo business man from thailand according to documents released by wiki leaks all levels of washington top to bottom mounted political pressure against bangkok to gain custody of boot in a us cable dated august thirteenth two thousand and nine us president barack obama was urged to call thailand's prime minister directly about boot the us attorney general and state department were encouraged to call the thai ambassador

highlighting the massive drug enforcement administration commitment to thailand and the us ambassador in bangkok urged the thai government to issue a public statement of disappointment at the judge's ruling not to extradite boot some arab is the world's most powerful nation but it's not more powerful than the world unfortunately the way things stand right now they're willing to flaunt every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of the mood to extradite him or should say kidnap and. was arrested in bangkok in march two thousand and eight during a u.s. sting operation he was charged with conspiring to sell weapons to colombian fark rebels on two occasions the thai court rejected america's extradition request when an entourage of armed u.s. agents removed him from thailand following a decision of the thai government his extradition was still not legally approved the covert operation was kept secret from russia boots family and his attorney.

tell you the transfer of victor boot to america was a violation of a very important tie american treaty signed in one nine hundred ninety s. which the political offenders cannot be extradited as the case was not finalized and was moved to the us america used various means political. another's outside the boundaries of due legal process to get victor boot that means that victor boot is not getting a fair deal to this dead tired fish oils have not provided official documents explaining the legal grounds behind boots extradition this despite repeated inquiries made by the russian foreign ministry that we know for sure that all knew even by sixteenth two thousand and ten that the moment a little bit to beat was physically taken out of the time prison his case was being considered by the thai cool to the appeals that is why there are no legal grounds for him to face a u.s. court. meantime victor boot remains in the u.s. prison held in solitary confinement his wife doubts her husband will receive

a fair trial from the country she says violated international and bilateral laws to get him. that it's clear to everyone that the case has long been moved from the sphere of want to politics i think or rather i would love to think that the american court is unbiased but i have strong doubts about it because i think such pressure could be put on anyone including the jury. in. the country accusing viktor bit of arms dealing now finds itself a political arm twisting come october an american jury will decide if there be a future to a political pressure at surfside by the u.s. army evidently the arena point nine artsy new york. just about twenty minutes past the hour here at moscow katrin or be here shortly with business news but for our some headlines from around the world al qaeda is second in command has become its

and this according to a statement allegedly issued by the organization or here he is believed to have been the operational brains behind the nine eleven attacks we could go he said that osama bin laden would continue to terrify the united states from beyond the grave the former leader with skill. by american special forces in pakistan last month. u.s. a congresswoman shot in the head in january has been released from the hospital after recovering enough to walk and talk again gabrielle giffords still faces daily intensive therapy and may never be able to return to work six people were killed and twelve others injured in the arizona shooting that took place during a political rally the man accused of the shooting has been declared mentally unfit to stand trial. and a hacker group claims to have a central intelligence agency's public web site off line calling itself a security appeared on twitter to confirm it was part of the attack the group has previously claimed responsibility for for cracking into the senate u.s.

public broadcasting system a t.v. network and a company that works for the f.b.i. and the cia website was inaccessible on wednesday. while the. forum is getting down to some serious business as the annual economic forum gets underway up next our business desk comes to you live from russia's northern capital not with katrina today excuse me but. i do stay with us. i match reza with the r.t. business team live in russia's northern capital at the st petersburg international economic forum good to have you with us now as we've been saying throughout the day here the overall themes that people are talking about here are going to be or are russia's a session to the world trade organization and the establishment of a ten billion dollars state backed private equity fund aimed at bringing business and investment to russia however there are some important deals that have already

been signed here that we should tell you about right now dow chemical and the spoken both fun putting pen to paper in order to establish a research and development center in russia also russ nano the russian nanotechnology firm and also signed with several asian partners in order to establish a nanotech fund that is going to be worth more than one hundred million dollars there's an exciting news on that front also two pieces of information that we'd like to share the head of the international energy agency spoke earlier today here at the conference he said that in his opinion in twenty twelve the average oil price per barrel will be between one hundred and one hundred ten dollars so that's an interesting news and also as we've heard it on our t.v.'s main news hu jintao in moscow in moscow right now should be coming to st petersburg later on to address the forum here and hammering out the final details on an enormous gas deal with

russia hu jintao and dmitri medvedev sitting down to work out the final details of that so there's a lot of into. informative and interesting things that are going on here at the economic forum also hearing from a lot of important players and guests in the business community here in russia among them the head of cisco's emerging markets who talked about the challenges of the russian population centers places where people live that are far flung out there and technology is role in bringing them all together. russia has the largest land mass in. the war does the largest country by size but the population clusters are centered and far remote from each other from the eastern united states to the western united states a five hour flight from eastern russia to the side of russia is an eleven hour flight so how do you use technology easy to connect. these of them the remote the people the remote locations to create

a crowdsourcing environment where you can drive innovation is the challenge for the country for education for health care for government services all forms of services that needs to be delivered to the citizens. and our team will be with you every step of the way for the three day conference here in st petersburg lots more important deals to be signed lots more important guests to come stay with us for all that are on our.

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