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quite. a multi-billion dollar handshake for two of the world's biggest emerging powerhouses bringing russia and china closer together. also the leaders meeting in moscow of arj to all those involved in the libyan conflict to refrain from escalating violence all the details in just a few moments. no place for colonel gadhafi in libya his future the russian envoys messages he meets loyalist officials in tripoli to broker a peace so all of this amid a rebel and nato war sold. the lawyers for alleged international olympic to boot prepare to challenge a new york court on the legality of his extradition to america. the sun is shining in russia's northern capital i'm out of the st petersburg international economic

forum to tell you all about the high level goings on here in our business report coming your way in about twenty minutes. international news live from moscow city center this is artsy. well energizing relations and a boosting trade is what the leaders of russia and china have been discussing here in moscow but they also couldn't avoid sharing their thoughts on the conflict in libya. has been monitoring the meeting for. the two sides. enjoy a very strong relationship but both have stressed that there is still a lot of room for improvement and that improvement is precisely what was dominating the talks between chinese leader who jintao and his russian counterpart need to make a difference here in moscow both sides focus mostly on energy related deals we know

that gas problem is currently holding talks with china to build a pipeline originating in western siberia and going all the way to china. it is specifically going to exist to cater exclusively to china's growing energy needs we also know that gas from is expected to sign a contract by the end of this year to supply even more gas to china to cater to its growing population and therefore energy needs of course but we also know that it's not just gas that's on the agenda according to russia's oil giant but also if there is also the possibility that rosneft will be buying a share and now one of china's. oil refineries both men were very keen to stress that energy isn't the only that for a development for moscow and beijing both men have signed an agreement that will see their bilateral trade turnover reach one hundred billion u.s. dollars by the year twenty fifth and double that applied here to twenty twenty

there are going to be more business deals on the agenda which in power chinese leader will be traveling to st petersburg with his russian counterpart where they will participate in the st petersburg economic forum where most people expect more business deals to reach the table of the chinese delegation of course many more interesting aspects of this relationship to be seen in the next few days the two leaders met just a few days ago in us then during a summit of the a c. old states and of their of the two leaders once again repeated the reiterated the position that violence will only lead to violence said that the military intervention that is currently ongoing in libya led by its nato polish and forces will only bring more violence to the already volatile region on the diplomatic solution is the only possible way to resolve the ongoing conflict in libya of course and we know that that position was reiterated once again here in moscow both

sides saying that diplomacy and negotiations are the only possible and acceptable way forward both sides saying that the nato coalition forces are basically doing more harm. but there then good to the region in general and to libya specifically russia frequently slamming the nato forces for their military presence in libya also saying that it will not support a un resolution for syria should it come to that both sides seemingly see eye to eye on that position as well and sticking to their position and the fact that the only way to resolve the ongoing conflict in that region is by diplomacy. time a beijing based political scientist dr chung thinks that the russia and china's increased collaboration will have global benefits the time when the world needs that kind of help. china russia trade and economic relationship and

huge development between two nations i believe is not only of the impacting european continent but oversaw the provos scene i believe the wall these are the crossroads historic crossroads or some may say the wall these are the brink of either being subdued war although coming through the u.s. nato military intervention in libya now moving into possibly syria or even to iran if russia or china or all of these areas see all the lions we saw there are not enough to stop the u.s. . military aggression in north african region so i hope saw that as see all russia or china or china or russia leaving leading this new global movement to balanced a power in the wall so that they can build a new world order we are no more you need learn to row aggressive or you can clone

your own methodology of being put into a sovereign nation such as libya. you with r.t. live from moscow and coming up the. russian businessman who's being lined up to jail and not justice to try to do the repairs to appear in a new york court his defense that uses politicians of twisting the jury's arms to keep him behind bars. a film crew in the southern russian republic of a north set yet discovered a device attached to their car it was thought to be a bomb but turned out to be something more mysterious his correspondent would be no question about it is in the north and south korean capital with all the details. this morning karen and i'm you know i'm you know found a divine i say during a technical car chakka and soon after that the whole area of that garage was blocked off by police representatives but according to the latest information that i received from the carom and as well as some police representatives it was not an

explosive device that is well cars that what many believe to be because cars are quite often used here in russia's north caucuses to carry an explosive device but to a radio be gone to you to check the location all for r e t cameraman's car we were using this car quite often when we were going across to russia's north caucasus to film different stories and to report on what's going on here in this region and this region russia's north caucasus is considered to be quite a volatile area there has been a number of anti terror operations that we were reporting on and according to russia's in terror minister over two hundred terrorist with a leading hands of terrorist in different regions of this area have been killed since the start of the yeah and a many police representatives at the sin of the garage told us that this toxic plugging in a device that looks like a an explosive device or plugging in

a trucking beak on is often used by terrorists to create some sort of an atmosphere of fear among the population. it has been a constant of our reporting right there well there is no somewhere in the world that is working harmoniously and will that take you there in just a few minutes here on r.t. it is antarctica where separate international crews come together to fend off the frozen conditions that they do you know we tell you how they do it. the case of a russian man the u.s. accuses of being an international will be heard in a new york court on thursday viktor boots been awaiting trial since his arrest three years ago more than three years ago now in thailand as he's a marina portnoy reports his detention raises many questions over the legality of the case. he is the russian citizen america fought relentlessly to adopt it or boot 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 fifty years convict. 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 america 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 kidnapping who 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.

to transfer victor boot to america was a violation of a very important thai american treaty signed in one nine hundred ninety eight which the political offenders cannot be extradited 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 day tire fishel is 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 on november 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 call to the peals 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 law 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. the country accusing viktor bit of our feeling now finds itself a political arm twisting come october an american jury will decide picked up a future want to be a political pressure at surfside by the u.s. army evidently the arena point nine r.t. . right now let's go to some of the other world's news stories making headlines this hour al qaeda has appointed

a new leader egyptian i am an hour here he was osama bin laden's deputy now leads the terrorist organization a statement from the group said it would continue its fight against the u.s. and israel over here is thought to have been the operational mastermind of the nine eleven attacks and warned last week that bin laden would terrify the united states for. beyond the grave. a strong blast has struck nigeria's police headquarters in the country's capital and has left at least three people witnesses report seeing bodies at the scene and cars on fire sending a thick pillar of smoke into the sky police say the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber the attack follows two blasts at a police station and a church in northeast nigeria a week ago which killed eleven people. a hacker organs organization claims it temporarily knocked to the cia's public a website offline the group known as security also opened a phone line for people to suggest which had hacked next it's previously targeted

major firms which it says work against people's interests and it's down public sites ranging from the u.s. senate to sony pictures it grinds the web pages to a halt by bombarding them with requests to the service. the greek prime minister is set to unveil a new cabinet and seek a vote of confidence in parliament the new government is expected to be sworn in on friday george papandreou has been pushing for more cuts to secure billions of euros in a second bailout it sparked massive demonstrations are filled with anger in athens on wednesday people throwing petrol bombs and the police are responding with tear gas. but we have updates on what's happening in greece on our web site and there we are right in the thick of it at r.t. com you can watch our video reports from the most recent angry protests as the news crew feel the force of police tear gas in central athens.

also on line a big step for womankind we mark the day nearly fifty years ago of a russian cosmonaut. becoming the first woman in space. and the june moon a turns of moon much of the world witnessed a spectacular overnight with the longest and darkest. a lunar eclipse in a decade we could all the pictures the stunning pictures that dot com. quarter past the hour now here in moscow you without saying when working in the planet's most remote and inhospitable conditions it's key that everybody gets along and in antarctica the international workers there have got that down to a fine. thomas watched how different countries teams go to the ends of the earth to

help one another. in the icy waters of the antarctic and this research vessel was damaged in some very rough seas going to sea is never easy it always involves risk we ran into a storm and had some trouble with our rudder so we came into this choice very very base where we're having but your way and why and parts and where the russian bases offered help and other bases around of offered any help that's the kind of international cooperation that we get me antarctica which we may not get in other places because of its remoteness and because all countries that are here recognize the importance of all the work that we all do here working together is vital for the survival of those at the different international stations as well in the winter medical evacuations are impossible because of the weather conditions. in light of this it is very important to cooperate without a stations where different doctors here with different specialties so we complement

each other for example my main specialty is orthopedics trauma i'm the only one here as you can imagine my specialty is in high demand here therefore neighbors get in touch with me quite often we also ask our neighbors to help us with diagnostic devices we don't have one of the areas where cooperation between countries is strongly evident is in the realm of scientific research where ideas and information are exchanged regularly so that multiple projects can benefit for example we're working right now with the germans who are further down the peninsula doing a crawl survey and we will combine our data with their data at the camera meeting we also work closely with the british and provide any other help with that. scientific investigators have come aboard our ship to conduct their search their studies as well as boulders here two different dive teams discuss how they can share information and samples between russia and germany. and beyond the lab different countries keep an eye on each other to make sure that all activities are

in line with the antarctic treaty system an international monitoring program that helps protect the earth's southernmost land we've seen that just today visiting these people they all operate very closely we've been very well treated by both the russians the giants and the chinese fantastic facilities the antarctic treaty i think it's one of the unique treaties in world history in terms of that kind of cooperation and it is this special bond of working together in such an extreme environment that creates such a lasting friendships that when i came to the station for the first time one chilean put it very well leave the conflict the politicians we the polar explorers have to live in peace because if we can remind ourselves who else can we rely on for help. in antarctica sean thomas r.t. . sean's filed a series of stories discovering more about life and work in antarctica you can follow his blog and videos.

in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization. discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for merely wildlife in antarctica. and the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. just turning twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow russia's envoy is in tripoli to convince the region there's no place for colonel gadhafi in libya future but loyalist officials have told me that the colonel is not prepared to step down it is the latest push by moscow to mediate a cease fire but to get off earlier help talks with rebel leaders in benghazi and the relatives of could afy in egypt but there's no letup in the fighting meantime with yet more nato airstrikes on a rebel advance towards tripoli the colonel's aides say he won't consider stepping

down until a cease fire is in place within the past a few hours mikhail margelov told us here about see that it's time libya's political system. has its own military and. there is another political agenda which is on the table and i am more optimistic about the political agenda i truly believe that military operations do not solve political problems as i understand the libyan political elite today is very fragmented the right people who are going to the right people who are in. the right people in the europe the right people here in tripoli. the reason position of the tribes and there is no let's say two to unanimity of views now in libya and that's why it's high time to create docking mechanism to build bridges between different segments of lead libyan political elite. we don't see

a lot from moscow now let's not turn over to our kareen real business. hello welcome to our business bulletin this hour on creating well again thanks for joining me all eyes are on russia's northern capital as the annual international economic forum is on the way out this year presidential aide arkady dvorkovich says the st petersburg forum is more important than ever for russia as it begins to look east as well as west for investment artie's much as a brings you the latest. 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 spoke

of o. fun putting pen to paper in order to establish a research and development center in russia also russ nano the russian nanotechnology firm also signed with several asian partners in order to establish a nano tech fund that is going to be worth more than one hundred million dollars also 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 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 technologies role in bringing them all together russia has the largest land mass in the war does the largest country by its size bug the population clusters are centered and far remote from each other from the eastern united states

to the united seas a five hour flight from eastern russia to a western side of russia is an eleven hour flight so how do you use technology to connect. these remote to 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 of it here on our team. now a recurring theme of the form is how much the russian government has done to improve the investment climate in the country because jordan at u.b.s. russia and c.i.s. says there are many things that have already been achieved. there's been some progress i don't think it's enough and personally i think the actually the

government also believes that it's not the job is not complete. they have done some good things like you like they've established kolkata they have to ask for politicians to leave the boards of various companies they have extensive privatization program they've established a fund that would look for edward investments so they've done some things but there's more to do. and russia's all joined local is looking to get exploration licenses in iraq the company's c.e.o. told r.t. that this could dramatically increase local production. if you take into consideration the twelve contracts of the represented in the time and that. being real law is. twelve million barrels a day in seven years to do iraq produces fuel to five million barrels triple that amount to more than five hundred million tonnes i think that growth rates will remain at the same level so. we need all products and it will keep using them to

meet the demands of which you can we we hope that it will all balance sound but the production volume in iraq will undoubtedly be significant. i think to look at how the markets are performing oil prices again slightly after seeing a loss of more than four percent overnight the biggest one day drop in a mom was spurred on by a spike in the u.s. dollar against the euro. troubles appear to be divorced stocks in the u.s. are wavering in early trading slightly better than expected reports on jobs and housing with the possibility that greece could default on the number of people who apply for unemployment benefits fell last week to four hundred fourteen thousand a bigger decline than analysts had predicted. and european markets continue to fall for the second day running as the greek debt crisis escalates the footsie of the dax. being footsies now down point six percent one point six percent the dax is one

point two percent lower. here in moscow both the r.t.s. and i'm isaac's remain in the red following trends from europe and asia energy majors and industrials are among the main losers. now the so horse superjet has made its maiden flight under the brand name of russia's flag carrier air float. the plane took passengers from moscow to st petersburg international economic forum the super jet is the first russian passenger plane of this kind built in the country in the past twenty years so who has already secured seventy three orders for the chat i hopes to sell eight hundred by two thousand and twenty . that's all the business news for now will be back alive from the st petersburg economic forum next hour stay with us for headline is up next.

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