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a multi-billion dollar handshake for two of the world's biggest emerging powerhouses bringing russia and china closer together. and finding common ground on a major energy deal is what the chinese leader is currently negotiating here in moscow. no place for colonel gadhafi in libya as a future russian envoys message as he meets with loyalist officials in tripoli to broker a peace all of this amid a rebel and nato assault. the lawyers for alleged international arms dealer victor boot prepared to challenge a new york court on the legality of his extradition to america. it's a beautiful day in st petersburg for an economic forum my mattress a live with the

business news will have a wrap up of the day's events and hear about the big money deals that were assigned all coming your way in about twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow i'm recent shame well energizing relations and boosting trade that's what the leaders of russia and china have been discussing right here in moscow negotiating a thirty year gas deal is the next stop on the chinese leaders trip to the capital is monitoring the talks and there's been a lot of back and forth between moscow and beijing over this but tell us what is so big about the anticipated gas agreement. well this is a potentially huge deal and with currently in the final furlong as it were at the greeting this deal that would see russia provide gas to china for the next thirty years now this is

a hugely mutual. beneficial to both sides now russia will receive billions of dollars in revenue from providing chinese energy and the chinese will of course receive the fuel they need to continue their economic growth now the last little block has been coming up with the price now russia say they want to have they want to charge the same prices they charge to provide europe with gas which is three hundred and six dollars per thousand cubic meters the chinese are asking for a bit of a discount currently just behind me and gazprom headquarters prime minister vladimir putin i represent. trying to hammer out a deal with president hu jintao of china and representatives from the chinese energy provider now it just seems that whether you're buying a used car on a go she ating the finer points of a multi-billion dollar gas agreement both sides always going to want the best deal for themselves. the best price for the gas they are providing and china are wanting

the gas they need so badly through fuel economy economic growth for the price they want to pay so whether a deal is done this evening. headquarters or it's done the economic forum in st petersburg which is coming up shortly it is about to get done now president hu jintao has said that this. is an important component of russia china relations so there's no underestimating how important this is to both sides and say that price as always just seems to be the final thing that needs to be ironed out as you say you know there are certainly some important issues to iron out for this big deal to go through. we're seeing a very friendly meeting between the chinese leader. but the chinese leader he met russia's president this afternoon they had a lot of talks behind closed doors i want details you know. well they signed some major trade agreements earlier on. today they currently trade between russia and china not at all time high and not seems like. it's only going to get larger they

signed an agreement that by twenty fifteen trade between the two nations will be worth one hundred billion dollars and by twenty twenty ten years away it'll be worth two hundred billion dollars so good news for people wanting to export and import between those two nations there's going to be a huge increase in commerce between russia and china now it wasn't just business that was on the table the wider world was also being discussed in both leaders both president said that they expressed again their opinions on the situation in libya reiterating the call all military action taken against colonel gadhafi must remain within the parameters of the u.n. resolutions that. that was set out in that any attacks on civilians from outside forces must be stopped and this mustn't happen and that the u.n. resolution was not to be exceeded by outside forces.

of the shanghai cooperation organization there was a joint statement where all the group members there were strictly opposed to any military intervention in libya. thank you very much. beijing based political scientist dr chung things like russia and china has increased collaboration will have global benefits coming at a time when the world needs kind of help. china russia trade an economic relationship and a huge development between two nations i believe is not only of the impacting european continent but also saw the global scene i believe the wall these are at the crossroads historic crossroads or some may say the wall of these at the brink of either being subdued war although coming to us nato military intervention in libya now moving into possibly syria or even to iran if russia or

china or all of these air see all the lions we saw that not enough to stop the u.s. led nato military aggression in the north african region so i hope saw that as see all russia china china russia are leaving leading this new global movement to balance the power in the wall so that they can build a new world order where norm or uni learn to row aggressive or you can clone your own methodology of being put into a sovereign nation such as the libya. you with r.t. live from moscow and coming up the russian businessman being lined up for jail not justice as the extradited victim who prepares to appear in a new york court his defense accuses politicians of twisting the jury's arms to keep him behind bars. watchers and boy he is in tripoli to convince the regime there is no place for colonel gadhafi in libya as

a future but loyalist officials have told me that the colonel is not prepared to step down it's the latest push by moscow to mediate a cease fire but to go off earlier held talks with rebel leaders in benghazi and a relative of gadhafi is in egypt there's no letup in the fighting meantime with yet more nato airstrikes and rebel advance towards tripoli the colonel's aides say he won't consider. stepping down until a ceasefire is in place but within just the past few hours told us here at r.t. it's time for a new approach to solving libya's conflict. nature has its own military agenda and there is another political agenda which is on the table and i am more optimistic about the political agenda through 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 in benghazi the right people who are around 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 total unanimity of views now in libya and that's why it's high time to create docking mechanism is and to build bridges between different segments of the libyan political elite. correspondent in tripoli is across developments there and will bring us more on the outcome of today's talks a little bit later here on. what a film crew in the russian republic of north a city had discovered a device attached to the car it was thought to be a bomb but turned out to be something a bit more mysterious our caucuses correspondent medina caution about is in the north a city and capital with details. well this morning our tease cameraman i mean i'm you know found a divine during a technical car chack 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 kara man 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 explosive device but to a radio be gone to 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 center of the garage told us that this toxic

applauding and 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. has been reporting right that there is something in the world that is working harmoniously and we take you there in just a few minutes it is. separate international crews come together to fend off the frozen conditions that you can do you know we tell you how they deal with. the case of a russian and the u.s. accuses of being an international arms dealer will be heard in a new york court on thursday because it's been awaiting trial since his arrest over three years ago in thailand and. i reports his attention raises many questions over the galaxy of the case. he is the russian citizen america fought relentlessly to adopt victor boot was secretly and swiftly extradited to the u.s.

seven months ago and this may be where he stays indefinitely if down guilty on arms smuggling and terrorism related charges if he is 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 boot 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 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. tell you transfer victor boot to america was a violation of a very important thai american treaty signed in one nine hundred ninety s. 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 do legal process to get victor boot that means that victor boot is not getting a fair deal to this day high officials 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 move into sixteenth two thousand and ten that the moment a little bit to beat was physically taken out of its own prison his case was being considered by the toy cool 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. 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 our dealing now finds itself a political arm twisting come october an american jury will decide picked up a future want to pay our political pressure at surfside by the u.s. army evidently the arena for nine artsy. just on in quarter past the hour here in

moscow now let's check out some other headlines now from around the world al qaeda has appointed a new leader egyptian our hearing who 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 al-zawahiri is a thought to have been the operational mastermind of the nine eleven attacks and warned last week the bin laden would terrify. the united states from beyond the grave. a strong blast has struck nigeria's police headquarters in the country's capital it's left at least two people dead when he says reports seeing bodies at the scene and cars on fire sending a thick plume of smoke into the sky police say the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber the attack follows two blasts the police station and a church in northeast nigeria a week ago which killed eleven. organization claims it temporarily not the cia's public web site offline the group known as security also opened

a phone line for people to suggest next it's previously targeted at major firms which it says work against people's interests and has down public sites ranging from the us senate to sony pictures it grinds the web pages to a halt by bombarding them with requests to their servers. 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's demonstrations in athens on wednesday with people throwing petrol bombs and the police responding with tear gas. but we have updates on what's happening in greece on our web site and we are right in the thick of it at r.t. dot com and watch our video reports from the most recent angry protests news crew feel the force of police tear gas in central athens. also online at r.t.

dot com a big step for women to mark the day nearly fifty years ago russian cosmonaut valentino. becoming the first woman in space. and that the june moon returns a maroon much of the world witnessed a space spectacular overnight with a long dark lunar eclipse in a decade we've got stunning pictures at r.t. dot com. you without say now when working in the planet's most remote and inhospitable conditions it's key that everybody gets along and in antarctica the international workers that have called that down to a fine arts thomas watched how different countries teams go to the ends of the earth to help one. in the icy waters of the antarctic 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 the choice for a base where we're having the chilean supply in parts and where the russian bases offered help and other bases around have 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. and a lot of this it is very important to cooperate without the 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 are working right now with the germans who are further down the peninsula doing a 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 scientific investigate. to come aboard our ship. there certainly are studies as well. as here to 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 and we've seen that just today it was just in the. very closely you can very well treated both the russians the giants and the chinese. 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 lasting friendships that the years ago 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't. who else can we rely on for help in antarctica sean thomas r.t. . a series of stories discovering more about life and work and you can follow his blog on videos dot com. more than a month. 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. so special and attractive for many wildlife. and. expedition to the bottom of the earth. we return to our live coverage of the annual economic forum to stay with us. i match reza live in st petersburg at the st petersburg international economic forum the sun is going down on day one of the forum but they've begun the sun is not going to go down entirely because it is white nights here in st petersburg so that means the sun isn't going to go down almost entirely at all but many case

tomorrow day to day to be a new slate going to be time for a new business to be discussed as for today though the word of the day was definitely innovation there were a number of high profile deals that were signed all in that area the first one dow chemical and the skolkovo fund signing a deal in order to create a research and development center in russia very exciting there all and on top of that russ now russian nanotechnology firm signing a deal with some asian partners in order to establish a one hundred million dollar plus fund for technology research and also some very exciting news that's going to help boost innovation and business here in russia this in addition to the forums already stated focus on russia's w t o obsession and the creation of a state back to private equity fund worth about ten billion dollars something that's really going to boost business in russia as well now we talk with many

guests throughout the day there's many more to come so be sure to stay with us among the people we've talked to we talk with a venture capitalist known for his i t investments and he says that he sees strong potential here in russia. so this is a great time for both for the me to tech stocks like index and mailroom but i think also for for companies that are started with real russian technology were russian technology and. can spread to the rest of the world right now most of the big successes are our copies of us developments. i think there's a great future that. energy also on the table here in st petersburg very important energy discussions going on in the wake of post quake japan and the crisis at fukushima in the wake of the unrest in north africa and the

middle east and the oil that comes out of that area they say that energy sales could be clouded about fifty percent over the next twenty years because of all this uncertainty and they say gas could make up about twenty five percent of energy by two thousand and thirty five something where the head of the international energy agency says that russia can play a big role. come into about three point one three b.n. cubic metres so production willing to use about five point three b.n. means more almost fifty percent increase will happen to thought of five p. five and as major produce. and will continue to provide to the very important sources to try and avoid to be. in the pipeline to the so this is a very interesting time that that market. responds to that kind of

situation. and many of the people we spoke to reiterated time and again how much progress has been made in the investment and business climate here in russia we talk with nicholas jordan the head of u.b.s. for russia in the commonwealth of independent states and he says he has seen marked progress over the last few years. 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 good the job is not complete. they have done some good things like you like the school they have the stably skolkovo they have to ask for politicians to leave the boards of various companies they have extensive privatization program they've established the fund that would look for a good investments so they've done some things but there's more to do. now just to recap a little bit last year's theme was russia's modernization and also how to focus on

making moscow a center for global finance now just to give you a sense of the numbers involved in this year's program this is the fifteenth annual st petersburg international economic forum thirty two million dollars budget it's a twelve percent increase over last year's two thirds of that coming from the sponsors now there are many many partners involved here and dozens and dozens of companies also involved the major partners spare bank the russian bank ross nash the russian oil company gazprom and the russian oil companies so those are the ones where the big money here contributing to this forum and it really is a spectacular area this is len expo here in st petersburg and the whole area has really been transformed into a foreign land to basically every area is outfitted with wife and the latest. the latest things that you need in order to get a good sense of what the firms that are represented here can provide everybody has

a different booth in the side where they're all they're talking with the newsmakers to talk. with the company executives and letting people know about the services they provide networking and doing everything they can in order to take advantage of the economic climate here now the speakers that are featured throughout the conference of course russian president dmitri medvedev chinese president hu jintao also in town for that major deal that we had talked about on our t.v. news and they're going to be so dressing the conference spanish prime minister jose rodriguez zapatero will be addressing the group as well as finished president hollande and kazakhstan president and nursultan. also as we had said representatives of some of the world's biggest companies here siemens at citi cisco u.b.s. and a main focus and the main area that is under discussion at creative capital and emerging the leadership talking about russia's role in helping and helping step forward with the emerging players on the global stage in order to do everything

they can and to drum up business economic. innovation and to move forward in those aspects but we'll have all this and plenty more tomorrow when the next day when the conference starts again see you all then from st petersburg. it will. be.