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a multi-billion dollar handshake for two of the world's biggest emerging powerhouses bringing russia and china closer together. coming to terms on the cost remains the final step in russia and china securing a multi billion dollar energy deal. no place for colonel gadhafi in future that's the message from russia's peace mediator off to maintain a loyalist officials here in tripoli to broker a peace so more join me now from the libyan capital in just a few moments. the lawyers for alleged international arms dealer victim prepared to challenge a new york court on the legality of his extradition to america. international

news and comment live from a studio here in central moscow this is r.t. good to have you with us this hour two of the world's biggest emerging countries have got a big close russia and china energize their relations and have to do much more business together because showing a thirty year gas deal is another reason why the chinese leader is currently in the capital it's to help feed beijing's growing economy and secure billions of dollars for russia. is outside gazprom headquarters here in moscow where the talks took place this is a potentially must if agreement which would see russia provide gas to china for thirty years prime minister vladimir putin and representatives from. president hu jintao and it delegation from the chinese state energy before. headquarters to try and i you know to what's essentially the final wrinkle in the deal now that final

wrinkle is the price just how much. sure we'll charge china for providing them with tons of of natural gas over. a year period now russia saying that they want three hundred sixty dollars per thousand cubic meters now that's the market rate sets the rate that russia charges europe for their gas china are saying they're looking for a discount they want to they don't want to pay that much for this gas by no stretch of imagination is this deal going to be dead in the water over price is just too important to both sides this is a mutually beneficial deal russia wants to sell china or the gas over the thirty year period because they're going to make a lot of money out of selling like us china at once the gas because they need to fuel the essentially race car that is their economy and they need gas in order to provide that race car with fuel talks will continue as they strive to get go overcome what she is this last hurdle in the agreement as president who met with president medvedev the iran they put pen to paper on some very lucrative deals

trade between china and russia already at an all time high in valuation they've signed an agreement that means by twenty fifteen the deals done between the two countries will be worth one hundred billion dollars now they also signed an agreement that says by twenty twenty that will be worth two hundred billion dollars so in less than ten years' time a huge amounts of commerce going to be carried out between russia and china now it wasn't just all down to business in signing deals over trade there was also the wider world being discussed as the two presidents met both president hu and president medvedev reiterated previous statements they've made concerning the ongoing situation in libya saying this that everybody involved in what's involved in not conflict in the north african country must adhere to the united nations resolutions that were passed and should not straight from the parameters of those resolutions. peter on of the reporting there from moscow. and energy analyst junior

told me earlier that it's about time russia and china became bigger partners because they have much in common china ought to be a hugely important trade partner for russia both in terms of ending in general trade these are two countries that for many decades shared a political ideology leads to some extent they share the longest land border in the world they ought to be much much greater partners than they are now if we look ahead russia is extremely keen to develop its oil and gas resources in the east of the country exporting those anywhere other than asia just doesn't make logistical or economic sense so really this is about russia spreading its wings everybody who can export anything is looking at the asian market because that's where the growth is i mean this is a. this is a very sensible and understandable move on the part of both countries.

you need to have a little earlier in our tease still to come this hour for you the russian businessman being lined up for jail not justice extradited to prepares to appear in a new york court his defense accuses politicians of twisting the jury's arms to keep him behind bars. but first russia's special envoy to libya has held talks with officials in tripoli part of an ongoing push by moscow to mediate a peace deal in the country the meeting came amid fresh nato air strikes and a rebel advance on colonel gadhafi stronghold. is there for us after meeting with the libyan prime minister and foreign minister here in tripoli russia's peace mediator make on the together has said that gadhafi is people are actually ready for peace negotiations but this could only happen if the top sport in their country recently nato has dramatically intensified its matrix we see here in libya just

ahead of marvellous first visit to libya as peace mediated have been ghazi made to actually launched the most intensive air raids yet since the beginning of the operation in march and today again just ahead over gallops arrival to tripoli we've been hearing massive bombardments over knowledge this lawless officials has been able to speak to are saying that this must be stopped and only that they could start looking. tripoli is expecting to see an immediate cease fire before a peace process can begin it's all to refusing to discuss the departure of colonel gadhafi from the political scene there is a dialogue going on between the warring sides but for those talks to begin to result to police there's a cease fire must be put in place and the international mediators need to keep regulating the process one thing is clear russia is very welcome as a mediator both in tripoli and in benghazi we will keep working together michael no

go it has also stressed that russia's role in mediating peace here in libya is very import. but the african union and actually all libya's neighbors are rolls of plain . important role in that and leave there is actually welcoming average what is peace after it's russia has always been concerned about and here in libya most case position has always been clear that a nonviolent negotiation is the only way out of this crisis this attracted conflict russia has never supported the un security council resolution which all surprised intervention and russia has repeatedly criticised. launching operation here in libya people actually feel extremely exhausted after months of devastating war which has already taken many many lives and has actually completely destroyed the country's infrastructure they're getting more and more angry and they just want to get their life back or back to our top story this hour in the chinese

leaders visit to the russian capital for more analysis on the president china's is it let's go live to washington d.c. richard words he's the director of the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute in washington thanks so much for joining us now clearly we've seen a very warm welcome for china's leader here in moscow but this major deal this gas deal he's here to see as yet to be signed off there is a question of price here do you think that could be a stumbling block between the. yes this is the big difference we've seen between the oil and gas deals the oil deal they came pretty they were able to use world market prices for the most part and so it was just a question of how much time no would lend money money rushed to russia to build the pipelines with gas it's a bit more complicated it's the price it's a bit uncertain you've got you've got alan g. plan a greater role you've got shale gas so either you can pay if you're the chinese you

can think of scenarios in which the price should be lower because you can get the material from the out of it or the gas from the from the island see the europeans will buy less because if they are if you're the russians well then you want to get world market prices you can think well you could maybe and they could be gas to the pan or south korea so it's a bit more complicated wind certainly in that price and therefore this is why you're seeing the tagline now let's talk about the political and diplomatic ratification see a run of occasions i should say what does the strengthening of relations between the two tell us about the shift of focus and of course influence eastwood's and it comes just after the summit of the shanghai group of nations the c.e.o. the shanghai cooperation organization summit. yes this is been a priority focus on diplomacy in recent years to try and develop further or russia's ties of asia for a while russia was a bit isolated in terms of the it was

a bit it was frozen out of some of the station institutions some of these station prosperity developments economic developments. with the decision to hold a pick something about of all stock with very active diplomacy as part of president putin get a. greater interest and asian affairs and the chinese of course there are russian and georgian. well and gas there's also nuclear energy cooperation a lot of shared security interests so it's expected and the two leaders have this phrase which which i tend to think is an apt description of the relation of these think of the best ever between moscow and eight hundred various governments that's probably true now admittedly that's not necessary very high in metric because of the long history of tension between the two but it's i think really they have made a lot of progress in overcoming some of their differences in recent years you all their emotion is washington the little uneasy about this developing relationship.

no there was a time after the cold war when people were watching the expectation that you would see china and russia balance the united states. because of the superpower germany issue and various others what we've seen is losing some cooperation but for the most part the two countries tend pursue hello policies and with with very minimal coordination between them so for example in face and one on missile defense a whole range of important issues they have the same position very overlapping but they don't tend to act in unison and so it's not really been a fear of a russia china alliance against the united states it just hasn't really developed that way and you could see why i mean both countries are very important relationship with the united states they don't want in danger so we have to go worry about going back to the triangle or diplomacy of the cold war what about across the atlantic should europe be concerned about russia turning its attention

eastwood's a rule is perhaps some people may say that russia is turning its back on crisis stricken europe and looking elsewhere. europeans concern they have of course is access to russian oil and gas and not only from russia itself it is passing through i think the europeans of any are even less concerned i mean their with their relationship with china is less conflictual than the u.s. relationship and there is of course one exception to what we been discussing about this tendency to have a loose coalition is more i think central asia and you mentioned the summit that's really one area where you see very strong close toward nation and for the most part they haven't pursued this very anti american policies they're there for the moment there except in the nato and you're european and western role there because of the concern about that afghanistan there are is tensions over human rights and perhaps

over terrorism but for the most part that's an area where they work closely together and not necessarily driving out the west so i think europeans like the americans are watching this relationship but they're not known and we're not alarmed yet just funnily touching a very interesting point mentioning nato security messes in your capacity as especially some political military that assist china's military being beefed up somewhat recent years hasn't it the defense budget is rising every year why well what's china preparing for is it the threat. well this is an impossible we all have in washington and i'll be up in weeks ago for the valdai conference in moscow and we met very senior people in the finance ministry. asking this question about well isn't russia's concern of the puzzlement a concern that many americans have and for most part i got the straight answer we usually do which is no russia is watching this doesn't serve china rather that

least for the next decade or so may very thing they consider time his rise to be stabilizing so in a way to dampening the kind of any effort to form an anti chinese coalition but we're actually seeing a lot of uncertainty on the smaller countries apart now in vietnam the philippines laos there's a lot of concern about china they're going to be there in the first wave of any extraneous expansionism and some of these are very close relations with russia as russia might be drawn into this kind of after and trying to time isn't a threat but it's a we've always had problems in the world whenever there's been a rising power that tries to end it as they naturally do imply their economic strength and to some kind of greater international expansion for all sometimes works out ok such as when britain passed leadership the united states often it doesn't this is when we just couldn't deal with the rise of germany other than divide the country into two. very interesting to hear what you have to say thanks so much return richard white's joining us live in washington thanks. for.

the case all the russian the u.s. accuses of being an international deal that will be heard in the new york court on thursday to be awaiting trial since his arrest over three years ago in thailand there's no reports his detention raises many questions over the legality 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 is found guilty on arms smuggling and terrorism related charges if you use convicted. 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 their to move 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. when the transfer of 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 thai 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 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 court of 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 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 twisted come october an american jury will decide it to be a future wanted a political pressure at your side by the u.s. army evidently we are far enough apart nine artsy new york. told not up to some of the world's other big stories at the moment in our day to a strong destruct nigeria's police headquarters in the country's capital and left at least five people dead this is. the scene in cars on fire sending a thick pillar of smoke into the sky police say the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber. in the country's northwest has also been hit by a blast that left three children dead and several injured authorities blame radical muslims for the attack. after organization claims its temporarily knocked the cia's public website off line the group known as security also opened

a phone line for people to suggest who it should hack next previously targeted major firms which it says work against people's interests and is down to public sites ranging from the us senate to sony pictures grinds the web pages to a halt by bombarding them with requests to this since i was in the world of pay this hour 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 the second. spot and you can stray sions in athens on wednesday with people throwing petrol bombs and police responding with tear gas. well i just remind you we have updates on what's happening there in greece at the moment on our website and you can see that we're right in the thick of it there on our team com you can watch our video reports from the most recent angry protesters the news crew feel the force of police tear gas there in central athens and also online at the moment

a big step for womankind among the daily fifty years ago of russian cosmonaut valentino telescope becoming the first woman in space and it will be a space the june turns were room much of the world that witnessed the space spectacular the dark as lunar eclipse in a decade and we've got the pictures for you in case you missed it. dot com. well i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in less than ten minutes from now but first we speak exclusively to iran's envoy to the un's nuclear watchdog he told my colleague researcher that there is no question of the peaceful nature of his country's nuclear program because the i.a.e.a. has already established that that interview is next on r.t. .

now iran is promising transparency and constructive interaction with the un's nuclear watchdog a few days ago the e.u.'s foreign policy chief baroness ashton called on to iran to prove its peaceful atomic intentions this during an exclusive interview with us here at r.t. and we can now talk to iran's envoy to the national atomic energy agency ali asghar soltanieh thank you for joining us today the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov

has told the press in our star no the president recognizes the importance of talks for resolving tension around your nuclear program because it does it does it mark a more positive phase in your talks with the i.a.e.a. to you. is a pleasure to talk to you i just want to reiterate that for the last eighty years of. cooperation we die a year about five thousand man the inspection has been made and no evidence of diversion have been found to military purposes this is a clear beloved parents the guardian of course. we have always welcomed negotiation and respect and of course without any precondition. guiding the comment interview with the r t of lady ashton i am rather disappointed because this sort of. ignoring their fact there has clearly. there is

no evidence of diversion and. reports clearly when the last report shows all of these with activities and every gram of uranium and therefore. twenty four hours cameras and inspectors this kind of a statement is somehow misleading i want to recall that i arranged taking the ambassadors and leading their different groups including they invited the ambassadors of the both from hungary and or saw a special representative of lady ashton in the n r to a to join us all together when we visited not as a ritual and in addition to inspectors they would have opportunity to see the realities on the ground and unfortunately. prevented a mass of those of the to join other ambassadors to go there was a lot of money forgive me for interrupting so you're disappointed with the statements from catherine ashtown the ashton the e.u.

high representative on foreign and security policy but you're saying that iran is being proactive and arms wide open for allowing the i.a.e.a. into your country to inspect your nuclear facilities when it comes to catherine ashton she told us here at r.t. that iran has three thousand four hundred kilos of low enrich uranium which doesn't really have much purpose if you're not going to use it in a military program what is it for. i categorically reject i think they should read again. director general by a noted the fact that we have given design information questioner about all a specific ation of matter of richmond to facilities and the p one five. years these are designed in fact to produce learn each year a new home which could be using power but. they cannot produce material for a weapon let's say we've been. great for the nuclear weapons therefore technically

we do respect this kind of a state when it has no justification when you continue to say that iran is working very much open dominant in a transparent transparent way with the i.a.e.a. and the international community and here we have today off my dinner and saying that he wants a more transparent and open relationship with the west what is it specifically specifically that you can bring to the table to diffuse the growing tension around your nuclear program where he simply we will continue without any interruption of the we are very disappointed with security guards and sanctions but we have not made any decision hasty decision in and contrary we continue to be fully committed to n.p.t. our years specters are and will be without any difficulty able to access to all our nuclear activities i mean some of cases even we have invited representative of different counties to be present as a sort of maximum transparency we will continue to do so and we have said in the

last letter of our vice president the head of atomic energy to a director general he said in their very letter very crystal clear that if the agency follow its obligations under the water line with alethea except dealing the . respect of modality it means closed out allegations so called american laptop then there of course if there are any question is sort of allegation of military to measure whatever in the question ambiguity we are fully prepared to answer questions remove any ambiguity is which it would be an answer to give something if you can your method to prove unquestionably that iran does not have a nuclear weapons program by allowing inspectors unfettered access to all of your nuclear facilities. we have said he had wildly pitted we do not have a nuclear option on the defense doctrine we are again said our supreme leader last year in tehran international conference on this solemn and the nonproliferation

clearly said informed the whole war then declared that their nuclear weapon and with his own mass destruction are at least useless will be then we had i guess and we are mobilizing all of the nonaligned movement for you in fact working hard towards the moment of nuclear weapons and that is the policy and determination i assure you of that we have had one hundred percent true as bad as the on president in the history of the i.a.e.a. and that sooner the better united nations security council issued a stop engagement and the political in fact the victoria good statements by here and there just company kate this situation and therefore my advice is lead to do is job and of course direct agenda should also do his professional work not to put pressure on iran based on united nations security council resolution on os war suspension or additional protocol because it won't work mr. tawny the iranian envoy to the i.a.e.a. the internet.