from our studios here in central moscow this is. ukraine's ex prime minister is jailed for seven years unit to machine code was found guilty of abuse of power while signing gas deals with russia two years ago. he was following the events from outside the court where tymoshenko supporters have been involved in scuffles with police. at times it seemed that the tension would go over the top with the supporters of thousands of them trying to organize a march through the streets of kiev and being dispersed by the police with no real brutality but still some pushing and shoving and the situation was really explodes and still several people were injured in the pushing and shoving with the police one woman was saw as she was taken to hospital having fallen from a stage or from a staircase or something like that inside the courtroom of course it was very tense as well while the judge was reading out the verdict. was over shouting the judge was screaming abusive words at him saying that this decision this verdict was not

done in accordance with the criminal law but was orchestrated by president viktor yanukovych indeed the reaction from the former prime minister when she learned that she's to spend seven years in prison have her property confiscated and to pay out almost two hundred million u.s. dollars and that was very much furious. with the recount. the trial showed that the constitution and just had been trampled on just too much i mean she did begin to struggle it's a very difficult and you have to protect ukraine against the authoritarian regime don't give up when her stand at the protest the several thousand of them will remain in kiev central street for another week at least to follow the developments and to see whether their leader would be set free or any any other development could happen to her from moscow has been saying all along that those deals back in two thousand and nine were signed in full accordance with international law and with the two countries legislation and the reaction which we have already received

from the russian foreign ministry is saying almost the same that the court which had the verdict delivered basically neglected the fact that russia believed that that the deals were signed a law fully and the verdict itself has something over and so i russian pretext that is what we. hearing from the russian foreign ministry clear it isn't happy with the way things are going because we know that the russian foreign minister and president medvedev have been saying that this case should be transparent and that the gas deals were completely legitimate. in today's verdict has already received critical reply from european union officials with calls for the e.u. to rethink its relations with ukraine and daniel bushell reports now from brussels there's been a whole stole reaction from the people in europe here the european union's from policy chief catherine ashton says that she's been following the verdict and that the european union main fact reassess its whole relations with key of as

a result of this verdict we've heard the saying is deeply disappointed with the judge's decision and the e.u. commission i did there are consequences for by that relations and earlier today the european commission said he hoped for a review of this of this verdict on appeal i mean we've wanted to see changes in ukrainian law so this sort of case cons happen again the head of the european parliament regrets the verdict of time a show cohen is calling for a review of the case on appeal you claim wants to enter the european union has been discussing a free trade agreement and the ukraine president is actually here in brussels next week to discuss the first steps to joining the european union but the sounds we're getting here from brussels is that this may be put on hold and in fact stopped if if this case is not reviewed let's now listen to an expert for more details on this case the european union has already made it clear that if you use this trial a very good look at pics a great deal this trial doesn't like to see opposition politicians in prison

and i think there is every chance that the european union may take some strong measures such as freezing the talks with ukraine frankly there is no chance at all of ukraine joining the so there were serious doubts about whether would actually go through with the ukraine would actually be able to join the european union but this verdict on yulia timoshenko really seems to put the entry of ukraine into the european union into long grass. i know bush will there from the russia and eurasia program at chatham house says ukraine may try to use the case to review its gas agreements with russia there is an empty russian subtext because they are trying to fire the next justification for false second alteration of. its no just save the agreements that yulia tymoshenko entered into

in two thousand i moved to it one contract and then secondly a supplementary agreement so they were illegal is utterly bizarre because president chen of close which there is phone in the file did it. when he couldn't get the arqiva court's with president. in april two thousand and ten he affirmed the validity of the court's it europe him a shameful well ok clear it with prime minister push it so that this is just one of many absurdities in this whole drama on full well your opinion on the story is always welcome on our website and today we're asking you what the tymoshenko sentence means well as i look at the results so far about a third of you believe it's a clever ukrainian ploy to avoid paying for russian gas on a thirty two percent think the verdict is simply a politically motivated mockery and the rest is split between two options whether

the sentence is justice well done or it's a fatal error of blocking ukraine's road to the e.u. you can log onto r.t. dot com and have you all say because they have for me. russia china replaced incorporation in a bid to balance out the economic and political dominance of western countries on the list of what i mean putin is in beijing to solidify diplomatic ties and overcome trade hurdles what he's worried acosta is following the landmark meeting that. it's important to mention that this was prime minister vladimir putin's first visit since announcing his candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections and some say it signals a change in focus for russia for many years the west took center stage when it came to the country's political agenda but trying as economic progress has mosco look in the east both asians have supported each other throughout the years and this is related to sulfur and sea developments and security and of course there are similar

political views and that was proven just recently when both countries vetoed the european draft the u.n. security council resolution condemning syria russia and china are also both members of the brig's group and along with brazil india and south africa and the continued economic uncertainty in europe and the u.s. has seriously undermined their dominance of the global political stage paving the way for emergent countries like china and russian prime minister putin said the us is using as though monopoly as the only global reserve and that's heaven and that's a fact on the financial policy. i never said the us was a parasite on the global economy but i do think it's the monopoly of the us dollar as a single global currency the problem is it's bad not only for the world economy america's economy as well because it leads to a violation of financial discipline when it comes to you live in you're put in. a

big problem but it could be resolved if countries weren't afraid to take action he said that russia and china should leave the earth for national financial systems and that the role of the brics school to become more important on the world stage. i think it's joint reforming existing institutions first of all i mean global financial institutions such as the international monetary fund and world bank do we agree that the role of the brics countries in these organizations must be. given the growing importance of our country's economy. but it's on the bristles so lot of big hopes and best plans but both premier said that they are confident that they have established appliance that will make sure that they become ever reality francis learn from the investment company lynsey in holdings believes the strengthening of the russian alliance can pave the way for a new axis of global economic influence the u.s. and europe join together is really dominating global politics and i think

a china and russia can join to get to. wait and not dictate around the world of course europe would not be happy i don't think the brics bloc we'll be a political power will most probably be a economic power because india is china so there is no way. cooperate with china. it is sent to asia china and russia this for a teacher interest in political interest there would not lead. to mount a staging post from afghanistan so this is very important for both countries. briefly crossed one business screener there and what's the significance kareena of today's meeting in china from a business perspective well below russia and china created

a joint investment fund worth up to four billion dollars and both countries have finally sorted out their long lasting over all transportation tariffs for china said they were too high now join me for one that in our business world. thank you yes more from kareen a little later with our business update also still to come this hour the merchant of death faces trial look at how the case of a russian businessman accused of stealing is casting a shadow over the u.s. justice system. but first some of new york's wealthiest tycoons could soon come face to face with the rage of anti wall street demonstrators hundreds of activists are planning to march to their homes in protest against the widening gap between the rich and the poor in america on these militant are reports from the. these protesters say they are targeting the five wealthiest residents in new york city and the names on this target list include c.e.o.

of news corp rupert murdoch and the c.e.o. of j.p. morgan chase jamie diamond there are five people as i mentioned on this list and what we're being told is between four hundred and eight hundred occupy wall street demonstrators will be visiting each of their homes so they are taking part in this demonstration today to raise awareness about their ongoing massive job which is that the wealthiest americans continue to reap the largest rewards while the ninety nine percent of americans working hard or struggling to work are the ones that are suffering i mean this economic crisis now occupy wall street of course is in its fourth week we've been reporting about it since the very beginning on saturday october fifteenth there was supposed to be an international day of action against banks and that's where what you have seen transpire here in new york occupy wall

street is going to basically take place from what we're being told in more than two hundred fifty cities all across the globe occupy london is planning to demonstrate and organize outside of the british stock exchange in las vegas of course with the cia in message message of how corporations are influencing government decisions not only in the united states but all over the world and this is essential. movement that extends far beyond the borders of the united states. oh jeez maria port not reporting there from new york while to further discuss the us protests i'm joined by charlie mcgrath he's founder of wide awake news placed in bozeman montana charlie thanks very much indeed for being with us live here on r.t. the protests grow bigger and they're taking different forms with angry americans now planning to personally visit some of new york's richest tycoons as we've just

been hearing that they're in their fourth week of protests but are me actually making any difference do you think oh absolutely i mean you know. the first racial level it's really reminiscent i was with the first groups of march in a tea party back when george w. bush was president when we started this stimulus bailout. you know it that point in time it was more forward looking looking at what the government was doing what they plan to do then we entered into this bailout and we were forward looking seeing these problems coming down the road well now the robbers hit the road so these people who are out in the streets now are feeling the frustration and they're feeling the hopelessness that we did a lot of people were saying was coming because of outrageous government corruption between wall street and washington d.c. well let's talk at the moment we're bringing in pictures of some of those protests and it looks to me as if it's not just about a protest about those rich people being taxed or indeed not being tax one of the on

the issues that they're angry about. well you know what he or we have a situation over three and a half years and you know this global right we see the standard of living of people in this country a report came out today showing it fell yet again on the other side of the coin we see the too big to fail a lot of these people you mentioned in the story earlier homes are being marched on to these people have not had to take any kind of a haircut or face any of the responsibility for completely annihilating not only our economy here but globally look what's happening around the world the farther we get down this road of transferring private failure onto the sovereign citizens of this planet the more we're going to see true organic hostility in a lot of cases i think it is justified and it is right to other any clear practical steps the u.s. government appears to be taking or should be taking to appease the what do you see . some action in the moment i'll tell you exactly what i'm seeing when these

protests started in new york city some twenty plus days ago basically our team was the only one out there covering and after nineteen days and the realization that it wasn't going the way we saw an onslaught of mainstream media corporate media show up and try to paint this as a democratic cause so what they should be doing and what they are doing are completely different things what they're going to try to do is drive a wedge between people of this country painting this to be a left wing a vent versus the already co-opted tea party so i think the agenda is very self evident they want to take this occupy wall street movement that is organic and spreading throughout this country and even into london i see no over the weekend and they want to drive a wedge between different factions in this country the point i want to make in the point that i'm going to keep driving home on my radio program and web site is there

is no difference there is a two party system but it isn't red or blue team or. democrat or republican it's the very small minority of haves versus the ever expanding have no clue your proactive in this movement he did indeed mention that you understand the protests are moving to london could we actually then see a truly global anti corporate rally and revolution perhaps taking place now absolutely could we already see it i mean look at the world today we have protests on every continent they seem to be intensifying with every new bailout in europe right now is in the middle of aki to come out and vote on extending or expanding the size of the veil off and as each government turns their back on their citizens people are taking to the streets because they're losing hope ok charlie mcgrath thanks for your time founder of water weight news joining us live there in montana . where of course our correspondents at the scene are keeping you across the very

latest developments yes those protests ongoing at the moment and one of the tweets . says crowds are chanting at hate you millionaires pay your fair share and also the clearing the revolution has begun to log on to our twitter feed for fresh updates on that. a russian businessman dubbed by the u.s. media the merchant of death is standing trial in new york accused of being an international arms dealer he was brought to the u.s. from thailand after being detained in a sting operation by american agents result he's going to reports an unbiased jury could be difficult to come by. a new york judge said should require jurors at the trial a victim to sign a pledge not to research the case on the internet or the media the campaign vilifying. has been so intense here that one might very well expect the jurors could be affected by the whole background provided by the media here he's often referred to as the merchant of death even inspired

a movie called the lord of war nicolas cage so it couldn't very hard for the jurors to ignore the legend that was created by the media big to boot has faces charges of selling arms to a terrorist group and conspiring to kill american citizens if convicted he may face life in prison according to the u.s. he was one of the world's most active black market arms traders boots denies any wrongdoing and says he has engaged in illegal aircraft sales and shipping business the u.s. had been trying to get him extradited for two years russians believe they managed to. do it by putting unprecedented political pressure on the government and traditional authorities of thailand what makes the case political is the underlined implication of the u.s. accusations essentially that victor bush was able to pull it off because of his government connections actually books lawyers and some intelligence experts claim that the reason the u.s. so wanted to have in custody is his allegedly extensive knowledge of russian

military and intelligence operations well yes he served in the soviet army but it's really unclear to what extent her book is really knowledgeable in all those matters again a lot of hearsay around this man about who he was and what he did here in the united states you constantly hear things like the quintessential war profiteer referring to victor good but some argue that you know victor good to know victor good could compete with the united states in war profiteering after all is the u.s. that sells more than half of all weapons worldwide including to places where political situation is far from. they will. will for more reaction on vick to breach case let's talk to investigative journalist george matt. george is joining us live in new jersey thanks for being with us now do you think the jurors will be able to ignore all the u.s. media hype that surrounded this case in the previous months well it's very hard to say i was unable to be in there today i will be there tomorrow the rest of the week

i spoke to all of twenty five minutes ago she was out on a lunch break from a jury selection. but. that's the big question if you can get a fair fair trial a fair jury i think will be absolutely innocent but at the big question there's been so much media campaign smearing him for years so it's very difficult well there are some who say that the whole case was drawn up against u.s. intelligence now if there's any credence to these allegations what would be the motivation behind all of this. ok they definitely were drawn out he was he was as wayne madsen said he was rendition from thailand that you know not extradited he was kidnapped illegally his court was dope in the thai court case in court system one when they snatched him he would have been

a free man on the twentieth of november and he was no snatched by the d.a. on the sixteenth of november four days before his freedom because he was found guilty of sorry i found innocence right and court system basically our victim but was very successful in african continent everybody pulled out because it's extremely dangerous a lot of civil wars going on he was transporting everything from auschwitz eggs minerals called time oriel and yes arms but illegal arms there is no laws that he broke and he's not being so basically the reason is the cia wanted to go back into that business and you know victor boot had an ultimate monopoly about ninety percent of the business in the african continent. so that's basically what i did say he was in effect from from what you gather he was in the way but what about the political aspect we've had many analysts saying this isn't really about bush himself this is about the u.s. and russia. absolutely i believe daniel estulin said that and there's definitely

some credence to that i mean this is a very powerful point where the u.s. government can just match a russian citizen trial for a sting operation and just bring into the united states was it safe for any citizen around the world it's not that it's not american doesn't sound good precedent for anybody. you know but it turns a victim boot i mean it's a joke the united states government was one of his biggest clients accordant douglas farah who wrote a book about him douglas starr never met him i met victor boot face to face in the thai court system you know he's very intelligent he's a linguist he didn't have any you know distinguishable russian accent highly intelligent but you know never met him wrote a book about him you know but that's part of the propaganda in this weird campaign douglas. book and bronze book and that and the term merchant of death to name but they gave him has been parroted by the media worldwide and still be

inherited today you know so he has he has an uphill battle to face because of the campaign against him which is. totally without merit ok let me just quickly ask you you said a little earlier you'll be at the trial a little later this week you've also and they've been at the trials in thailand you said earlier have also been in touch with his wife today clearly you have access. to victim's family and indeed you've been following this case very closely how is he dealing with his predicament at the moment. very very well for someone in his situation he's extremely strong person i think you know a lot of people to fall apart i mean he's been you know he's went in type prison for two and a half years and was never charged for a crime or when i just wanted to just very very quickly i'm going to time we know that in the movie course there was a movie based on him supposedly based on him the accused goes free what do you reckon melissa same happened to just finally. if he's able to get a fair trial or

a u.s. government then i think. there's no there's no proof for our you know our allegations are false there's no evidence or a george will find out what happens over the next few days no doubt we'll be talking to you once again live there in the u.s. thank you very much investigative journalist george map. well the headlines are we coming up very soon one in just over fifteen minutes kate will be here with the latest score from russia's vital euro twenty twelve qualifier against andorra here in moscow where the home side me just a point to get through to next summer's finals we'll be hearing from kate a little later before that time for the latest business with kareena. hello and welcome to business here in russia and china are creating a joint investment fund worth up to four billion dollars the deal is to be sealed in the course of promised to push his visit to beijing the start up will be jointly

run by russian direct investment fund and the china investment corporation each has a way allocated one billion dollars to the project at least seventy percent of the funds money is expected to be invested in russia on the c.i.s. conscience. also russia and china have finally sorted out their long lasting row over all transportation that's according to deputy prime minister. chinese see n.p.c. underpaid russia france dance around twenty five million dollars for all supplies claiming that transportation fee is too high an air tran's near threatened to go to court if chinese parties didn't pay their bills and now russian officials say all the claims are dropped and that that will be settled however another energy deal along discussed gas supplies remain unsolved as the two countries cannot agree on pricing. guess is most probable. unless the build. cation plan which is no good gave so far they

don't have a substantial interest in gas because gas is not the kind of commodity they can store the need to consume it and if the consumer they don't want to be been wise just the way ukraine was for example the for gas for them is not the typical commodity but obviously is one of their favorite stuff. let's have a look at the markets now oil prices are heading up after declining following opec's decision to cut its global demand forecast light sweet is trading at eighty five dollars per barrel while brant is at over one hundred ten dollars a barrel u.s. stocks are mixed on concerns that slovakia might not approve expanded european bailout fund the dow is trading lower a day after it jumped three hundred thirty points its largest increase since august eleventh the nasdaq has climbed nine point seven five points and european stock markets closed mostly in the red on concern over slovakia the footsie ended

slightly lower way down by losses for the mining sector a couple minor under for gas that was among the worst performers dropping one point six percent prices following several days of gains of the commodity stocks posted similar law says the raise in natural resources dropped two point three percent and the german dax bucked the trend ending point three percent. and russian markets closed in the red after several consecutive sessions of growth. that's all we have time for that's all we have time for now. a web site called.

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top stories not half past the hour ukraine's next prime minister was sentenced to seven years in jail for abuse of power when signing gas contracts with russia that it's called violent clashes between unit to machine because supporters and police. going east to moscow and beijing boost corp as china becomes the first country not to be uprooted visits often stating he will run for the presidency next year. and america's anti corporate protest of targeting the saudis as demonstrators plan a million as march to the houses of some of new york's wealthiest tell the truth the little street movement against social inequality and corporate greed has been going on for almost a month not. be back with another update for you.