there's a report. it's judgment day for victor boot and today u.s. courts hold his fate in their hands but he has already been pointed at the merchant of death by mainstream media was a fair trial ever possible for him to have a live report from new york. it's a rocky horror police show this as frightening scenes break out between denver law enforcement and occupy wall street protesters so from the use of police baton to cover spray and now rubber bullets what's next for police tactics against peaceful protesters. and it's a seven billion and counting this as the earth's population hits a record high so with the world busting at the seams and resources stretched then

we'll look at them alternative energy options for our universe. well some scientists say the answer lies in the table of elements a safer greener more abundant solution to nuclear energy so will the hammer of oreo come down as the stronger option for earth to low green. it is monday october thirty first four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine rushing yards here. well let's begin this hour with the trial of victor boot a forty four year old russian businessman accused of being an international weapons dealer who has been charged with conspiring to kill american nationals conspiring to kill american officers and employees conspiring to use an acquirer anti aircraft missiles and conspiring to provide. tiriel supports in the fark rebels in colombia

he has been nicknamed by much of the mainstream media the merchant of death picture group maintained however he is innocent stating his business was sales and services in the shipping industry and you may remember he was arrested in a u.s. drug enforcement administration sting operation in the thai capital of bangkok back in two thousand and eight he was extradited to the united states for trial over the objections of russia and today a jury will decide his fate argues on the stasi churkin joins us from our studio now in new york to bring us the very latest. and the i guess that's my first question for you what is the very latest in this well christine we know that the trial has been in session today since ten am six hours into the hearing already there were several hours dedicated to final statements from the prosecution and boots lawyers and right now as we speak the jury should be deciding their tributes fate we know that they could take several minutes or hours or even days to come up

with a verdict but the decision has to be unanimous otherwise the trial would have failed so right now we're waiting for what exactly will come out of the courthouse we know that if found guilty victor boot faces from twenty five years to a life sentence behind bars there are a lot of people who have been watching this case not just over the last few weeks in court but since the beginning since he was arrested in thailand extradited to the united states there is of course the movie with nicholas cage he was nicknamed the merchant of death there are people who think that victor boot never stood a chance of getting a fair trial in the first place talk about a little bit about some of the history and what people should know in terms of this . well you know christine it's interesting that you raise the issue of how much really time has been dedicated to this to this case and how much attention has been given to it by the media and really presenting good as

a merchant of death in the court of public opinion we have to remember that this court this case has been actually around for a very long time because the united states special agents namely in the drug enforcement agency have been chasing goot the hunt for him lasted almost a decade several years before he was arrested in thailand we know that it's been reported that g.e. has spent as much as tens of millions of dollars on trying to hunt down another ten you know several dozen a million of dollars on the scene operation as well as bringing him to the united states which is really not just the last three weeks like you mentioned it's really years of hunting down this man trying to get him into u.s. territory that was a big ordeal because thailand found him not guilty twice yet the u.s. officials did end up snatching him onto u.s. soil so you know this klein the this term the merchant of death has been pointed quite a while ago up to the extent of the judge having to make the jury sign

a pledge that they would not be looking this man up on the internet in the avoidance of sort of changing their opinion about what the case is all about but many analysts are saying that unfortunately richer boot has already lost the case in the court of public opinion a very long time ago and unfortunately for him could be well on his way to found being found guilty even though he's played on many occasions that he is not guilty by any means. since day one he has maintained his innocence and on a cell phone ask you something because you have been sort of on this case you talk about the timing i know you've been following this for a really long time now and i'm wondering i know our team has done a lot of reporting on this in terms of what the mainstream media see what some of the headlines that sort of flush out there about this case what do you think are some of the missing pieces that have not been widely reported. well you know of

christine one of the most important issues that is definitely not been talked about in the mainstream media in this particular case is that this this man was really you know they never answered the question as to why exactly he's in the united states to begin with because this is a russian citizen who is leading a peaceful life in the beginning of the decade in moscow and up until the moment he was kind of lured into a deal in thailand we know that this was a sting operation lawyer admits that he has been saying in the courts that the only things that good had with him in thailand upon his arrest were simple girls sure's of all cargo airplanes that he was trying to sell so exactly where sort of the whole idea of him trying to sell arms to fark in particular because the fark the so-called fark members were actually u.s. undercover agents israel is not really clear and they declined the term merchant of death before the trial even kickstarted to the extent that even the prosecution was calling him that and the judge had to even ban that term from being used inside the

courtroom certainly very interesting once you get a hollywood film involved in a real life case before that case actually wraps up on the south and you hope you keep us posted keep your eyes on what's going on so we might tell our viewers as this afternoon and evening what happens in the courtroom there are two correspondent on with us in terms. of let's take a look now at some new developments in the occupy wall street movement that has now moved well beyond wall street to main streets around at the entire country in light of recent events much of the focus has shifted to the role of the police and in many ways officers have opted to balance the desire to keep keep the peace with the protesters desire to occupy parks and spaces in various cities over the weekend it was denver colorado where things heated up quite a bit. see.

this video from saturday's things got especially heated after protesters tried to put up tents outside the capitol there were police intent on dismantling the occupy wall street can use tear gas that baton and rubber bullets you can see that photo of that guy's arm those rubber bullets seem to be a little more painful than some people might think now this of course follows what turned out to be a very violent week in oakland california tear gas and non-lethal projectiles were also used to clear people and of critically injuring a man scott olsen an iraq war veteran standing peacefully he was hit in the head and of course we can't forget new york city the city where not only the occupy wall street protest began but also where we saw some of the first incidence of clashes with the police has been here you may remember from the early weeks of the protest police using pepper spray as well as their batons this was followed a few days later by people being arrested about seven hundred people being arrested

on the brooklyn bridge we want to talk about all of this in the context of what's going on here is it working are these police tactics necessary and of course what's next well joining me from colorado are activists and organizers randy williams and mitch. hey guys thanks so much for joining us today to talk about what you experience and i want to just start by asking you to paint a picture of what it was like on the ground saturday how did things shake down in terms of police arriving and then deciding to use tear gas and pepper balls i guess i'll start with you oh oh ok. well saturday was definitely a way of vans and it seems. from our i should say from our timeline that we're creating videos and. cameras it seems the police set out with great care on its eighteenth parity and that was before any

of the tents are back there and you have any one young going to. work unless it's so good a lot of the contacts for the timeline and what we're seeing is that police are. kind of ready for it you know before the tents were not at all totally arms of the t.v. and ready for war so to speak and they moved very quickly i had to leave say to be updated website live but we do know that one protester the in fact the gentleman whose army showed a picture was shot for climbing a tree and those actually we found out afterwards were pepper balls they're calling and they're like people still with a chemical burn agent not river that's but he was shot down from the tree and things got intense i've seen a few dio's one arrested in particular when an officer drove his motorcycle into the crowd this one was kind of tweeted out by the right wing saying look at this guy or see a couple of his play we did

a second by second analysis so you know you notice those big and you can clearly tell the gods or it's the gentlemen you see is propelled backwards for bug then seems to injure his right foot because he jumps back onto his left foot and then in frustration he gives the fender a show at risk right after it comes to control starts hearts off the blades just some down and ask lots that is there because i was reading some of those very same things that i was going to ask you about that a lot of people have been tweeting about the violent protesters and how they have pushed police off the bike so you're saying that this wasn't the case then it's that i mean you can clearly see the black star and the officer jump logs and the simple fact is they were he was released from the hospital no charges pressed against it millipedes going to get a result i'm not certain if they don't press church interesting i want to ask you guys this you know we have been following this day by day and i know in oakland we saw a complete one. by police oakland of course where things got extremely violent last week one man was left severely injured from what i understand the occupiers have

returned to the camp there so so you know first we see these oakland police come out in force with riot gear but after seeing the expense of this guy's injuries they sort of backed off the mayor told them to back off people have real erected their tents in the place in oakland i'm wondering do you think that's going to happen where you guys are how do you think the police are handling this i think it's going to continue to happen everywhere the police are using tactics for twentieth century in this movement is a twenty first century and so we're going to we're not going anywhere. movement is going to continue and lots of municipalities are finding ways to resolve. create breaches and work with the movement rather than coming in weapons. i mean i got to say i was a little bit surprised to see what happened in denver we were selling some video

just a little while ago and it did seem like you know police were in their riot gear and they were ready for a standoff i guess you could say i guess i was a little surprised because of how much publicity you know the protesters when they're being arrested they're telling police they're chanting to police the whole world is watching and the whole world really is watching i was a little bit surprised to see what i saw in denver what do you guys think about that i mean were you surprised to see the police not surprised certainly not surprised you know we've been around in fact sometime around i mean noon or eleven o'clock we know that the sergeant was in sort of on so i went up to one of our twenty four seven guys and said you guys are going up into a sense today it was an only dog so we sort of were concerned that this was going to happen when it came out and right you're exactly confirmed it but i think the mayor is concerned too that comedian emergency press conference on saturday and i had a nuke lease to robert roy and he's you know i guess has a reputation for ferreting out that cops. and white said that there's

a perception that denver has an excessive force issue and you know in one interview he said he doesn't even matter if the perceptions true the fact that perception is there is significant because people and police can work together and that's his main derogative is to just that and we also just found out that the new city manager of safety alex martinez is going to start tomorrow november first and if he issues special police commissions and even the fact a sheriff or city in tell you so there certainly is a changing of the guard and we look forward to reaching out or going to work with you individuals and assure them were about how we can work together you know it's so interesting guys that one of the things that occupy wall street set out to raise awareness of what was sort of you know this this inequality system in the country in terms of the rich and poor the inequality got growing in terms of you know bank bailouts and the i. unfair system but one thing that has really started to happen is something that you know several communities in this country say they've been

experiencing for decades and that is police brutality and you know the treatment of police that it's really kind of shed light on this what do you think in terms of denver and what you've seen and i'm sure that you do the website which you've been watching this sort of develop around the country do you think that some real changes some permanent changes in terms of police treatment of of the public will change i think it's inevitable at this point i mean i think it's usually so we could work overnight but the police response in new york i know this word and all those videos are sort of muscle drilled so i think. we see our numbers growing at the march is sort of equal or closed that particular show is on the table and we can see at least in general changes you know i guess is my last question is if you can sort of let us know about what's going on in denver now what's going to be happening next and how this movement compares to occupy wall street and other parts

of the country. well the movement is definitely growing and expanding and there are national conference calls starting our and global conference calls starting. it there are social networking sites and organizing sites coming up and people are trying to start creating a strategy if you look at the afi patients as an important step and maybe phase wind it is time to start looking at getting organized and network all the other occupations and come up with ways to have phase three and really figure out how we're going to make a change in policy and make these accusations impactful and the movement for resume pressure already kind of started they also star is bank transfer day oh we're seeing the banks response there was a position they got thirty thousand signatures and they're all pulling back their debit card fees us all see what happens when one goes in because they're council on saturday and we're looking at are at what we're doing this saturday it will either

be another remarks we just know where there is a veterans march so we missed which through the struggle in solidarity with so you'll definitely see us. right well thanks so much for keeping us updated and giving us a little look into how it all set down there in denver colorado activists and organizers ready williams and michonne asta. and that looks like there are also a whole lot of people occupying the earth as the global population reached seven billion people today. this is a picture of danica make camacho she was born in manila philippines in a crowded government run hospital chosen by the united nations as the symbolic seven billionth baby danica represents a reality for everyone on earth and babies continue to be born at a very rapid rate on a planet that itself is not getting any bigger and this has sparked a lot of questions about the need for people to rethink how they live what resources they use resources that are growing more scarce and economists scientists

even politicians suggest we could be reaching our breaking point let's take a look at the numbers here looking for him to illustrate just how fast the world population has been growing as well so it wasn't until eighteen zero zero for just a little more than two hundred years ago that the world population reached one billion and it was another century in one thousand twenty seven before it hit two billion people then things start to move pretty darn fast three billion people in one hundred fifty nine four billion in one nine hundred seventy four five million in one nine hundred eighty seven six million in one thousand nine hundred eight and of course now seven billion people at this rate the united nations estimates will have eight million people in less than twenty years twenty twenty five and ten billion by twenty eighty three well to dig deeper into the implications of this earlier i spoke to vice president for energy and climate at the united nations foundation. i asked him in his view how big of a concern these numbers actually are here's what he had to say. but i think you

can't have continued growth of this trade and not just put a huge streams on the planet's resources but as women get more economic power and more power within their families they tend to live with their families and so the best that we can do to limit their growth is to make people more economically able so when you say as women start to gain more power again more equality certainly that's happening in this country not not the case in a lot of other countries but is this just sort of an awareness and term the family planning and that type of thing or. you know what is it actually a result that well usually it means economic empowerment and i do think it's happening all over the world including developing countries as women make money they tend to keep the money within the family they tend to take more charge of the planning of the family and so this leads to smaller families and it leads to better economic conditions for the family so you're saying we shouldn't then be overly

concerned about overpopulation i think that we want to give women the tools to decide how big their family should be and so if that means accept access to contraceptives they should have that but i think that in the long term economic empowerment is going to do more to stabilize the world's population that's why rich countries have to get on their population i want to talk to you now about resources certainly this is a major issue as we go ahead as we go forward what do you see as the biggest challenge in terms of dwindling resources well as these billions can add a depopulation and they put more strain everybody wants more more more but what's really remarkable is that the o.e.c.d. the rich countries have calculated that over the next twenty years three billion more people will join the middle class they're going. more cars are going to work

refrigerators are going to air conditioners and that's going to put huge pressure on the planet's resources so it's not just more people coming into this world it's the fact that a lot of those people are not in fact going to be living in huts with no electricity. it's really interesting to think about that because right now it seems at least in this country we're going through a time where more and more people are moving from the little middle class down back into the lower classes of the inequality gap that you're of course talking on a global scale is that right of course in this country what most people would consider lower class would be a rich person or a country so if you think about in china and india people who have been in really stream poverty are now buying cars they have jobs they have apartments they have houses. so you're talking about people moving into these different classes about relying on more and more energy what about an issue that we've seen just over the last few years and that is food prices continuing to go up how big of an issue do

you think this is well food prices are correlated to a remarkable degree to the price of oil because why was such an important aspect of agriculture and i think that you will see you know as you see the explosive growth demand for cars in china for example we're going to see continued upward pressure on the price of oil and that's going to continue to put pressure on the price of food as well speaking of oil i mean right now it's twenty eleven there are plenty of alternative forms of energy that we know about from solar power to wind power for a brief stint there was a phase when electric cars were being developed but for a lot of reasons but i think there are a lot of reasons but one of one of which many people would say is that the oil companies in this country in this world are extremely powerful and seems to sort of . not be in favor of other types of energy competing with them. how.

likely is it that other alternative forms of energy will be able to be developed in a world where the oil companies have so much power and don't want to see these other forms developed i mean do you think that's an issue i think it's a huge issue trying to compete with insisting on sort of like oil which after all has something right ninety seven percent of the transportation market so you bring your new product to compete with that you have a huge obstacle to overcome but i do think that over time this system will change mostly to electricity it will be a dual fuel vehicle so it may use gasoline or biofuels in addition to electricity but i think that inevitably because of environmental concerns the world will shift toward electric vehicles we certainly have seen a lot more hybrids a lot fewer hummers being sold interesting interesting things to think about as we do have this fast five billion mark in our population thanks so much that i for

them for energy and climate at the united nations foundation read action to make. and as the world population is on the rise so too is the demand for energy one of there was a form of nuclear energy with no possibility of a meltdown and is abundant worldwide all scientists to researching a source that could be a solution to a world energy crisis is hopefully m r t correspondent liz wahl takes a look at florian and why despite its touted benefits not everyone is so excited about it. president obama has vowed to transition america to alternative energy in america run slowly or boston fuels should not be the vision we have for children and our grandchildren solar winds and biomass have been touted as more viable energy sources the disaster in japan served as an example of the serious dangers associated with nuclear power plants why all of a sudden do they raise this level to the highest level the level so. that if the

shake but what if there is a nuclear energy source that is safe or green and abundant some say thore atom is that source like bridge based in virginia is now testing this next generation nuclear fuel in russia south grey is the c.e.o. of the company it dramatically reduces the amount of waste comes out of the reactor reduces the toxicity of the waste coming out of the reactor and doesn't produce any weapons usable materials and it's estimated that dorian this three times more abundant than you're raining on the element currently using nuclear plants and scientists say there's so much of it that it can produce more energy than all the world's oil coal and uranium combined sounds like the alternative energy source the world needs but despite its advantages nuclear experts say politics and corporate interests may be getting in the way that those who. would mean that it's going to be picked up by the utilities an improvement. they've got to look

at the economics. the environmental benefit cochran says the u.s. needs to change its energy policy is in order to make dorian more attractive to businesses they would have to have a different free structure than the current one to encourage. the development of korea. nations everywhere are racing to develop new ways to produce and use energy well i think in the coming years you'll start to see more testing more results more industry interest and i think most of the industry interested in using for human reactors is from outside the us and we're testing underway in russia china and india the united states may lose the race and find itself behind the curve when it comes to energy innovation and the jobs it would create from washington liz wall artsy and that was all the time we have but for more on the stories we covered go

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