ski lift you elicit on this column if you visit. a new york jury convicts russian businessmen quick to groucho trying to sell weapons to colombian terrorists but he'll have to wait until february to see if he faces a life sentence as our breaking news this hour on r.t. . other news this hour sense of disillusionment dominates approaches ahead of the g. twenty summit in cannes as world leaders gather to contain the global financial mayhem and the greek announcement of a referendum on the euro zone's rescue deal is only fueled the flames. wiki leaks julian assange says his that his appeal against extradition has been projected he comes out on to the steps of the high court to criticise the european arrest warrants.

international news and comment live from moscow we're with you twenty four hours a day in first to our breaking news this hour russian businessman victor boot has been found guilty of illegally trafficking arms to terrorists by a new york jury arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight he was extradited to the u.s. and two thousand and ten to be tried for allegedly selling weapons to colombian rebels fighting american soldiers. is in new york and joins me from there with details so every know what exactly happened in court today. well bill what i can tell you is just one day after this jury began deliberating they handed down a verdict on in this victory of the trial and that verdict has found that him guilty on all four charges that were alleged by the u.s.

government that includes conspiring to kill americans conspiring to kill u.s. officials and aiding a terrorist organization known as the revolution armed forces of colombia otherwise known as dark now that is an organization that the united nations thailand and russia does not consider a terrorist organization but the united states does victor boot forty four year old russian businessman was found guilty on these charges and that means that when he is sentenced on february eighth he will be sentenced anywhere between twenty five years to life in prison and this trial clearly garnered a lot of attention it went on for about three weeks but the grand attention came because when mr blue was brought to the u.s. almost a year ago he was extradited from thailand by u.s. officials with out disclosing the extradition word it was going to take place

russia was not informed mr groups attorney was not informed family was not informed critics say that this was a violation of international law particularly considering that the court decided two times in two separate separate occasions denied the u.s. has appealed for an extradition of mr coote but yet they were able to eventually get a russian citizen in the united states and try him in a u.s. court now mr booth throughout this entire trial and since his arrest in march two thousand and eight in thailand has maintained that he is not guilty of all of the charges that the u.s. claims him him that he was apart of. it is not clear whether or not mr fruit will be up healing this this verdict or his lawyer has yet to speak to the press but we do anticipate that his training will be addressing the media and in the next couple of hours you will bear in new york i know you're in the studio at the moment but

what of atmosphere is around the courtroom is this going to a lot of interest. it has garnered a lot of interest because you know a lot of people would say that victor boot was pretty much found guilty in the court of public opinion before a jury ever really decided his fate and that's because he was well known among mainstream media here in the united states he was dubbed the merchant of death the u.s. government even referred to him as the merchant of death when when they officially indicted him. he has an image here that's portrayed by the mainstream media as being a very dangerous dangerous arms dealer someone who is breaking and violating international law although that is something that maybe his supporters would argue has not been approve it up until this moment they would say that has not been proven so mainstream media here in the u.s. was very interested in your boots extradition particularly when he came here and in

this trial absolutely ok maria thanks very much indeed for that update and we'll get more reaction on this over the next few hours in the meantime thanks a lot more important in new york. when another foreign national imprisoned in the u.s. has already served his sentence but he's old deal isn't over cuban intelligence officers released after thirteen years in jail on spying charges but despite having served his sentence he's being kept from returning to his family and that story coming your way in a few minutes from now live here on r.t. . also the results of the investigation into september's plane crash that killed the russian hockey team and then pilot error is the cause and speak of traces of a strong sensitive in the code and it's a lot of top stories this hour and still to come for you. the upcoming g twenty summit in the french city of can is set for its new traditional beginning massive protests and clashes with police the rage behind the

banners remains the same this year economic hardship and seemingly this connected leaders with artie's daniel bushell reports this year the protests may be the least of the g twenty has problems. greece's referendum decision has really overtaken everything here at the summit it's really forced the higher end of those who are. in the euro project would continue smoothly really is the strongest indication yet that greece could potentially quit the euro fixing the whole eurozone project. because they have summoned george papandreou the prime minister of greece for emergency talks the situation they will to find out why mr to consult with them before making this decision the problem is the france france we feel said that it was a concern to him and to regretful that this view not to be made he added that the greeks must say quickly and without ambiguity if they want to keep their place

in the eurozone or not so strong words there almost soiled lines of the summit the officials here of the of that from the e.u. are trying to persuade greece not to go ahead with this with this referendum they're really concerned of the effect that it could have on both confidence of investors in the euro zone project and also more specifically what it will do if there is a no votes in the greeks to decide to sort of split and not go ahead with this whole bailout deal e.u. leaders had promised here at the cannes summit to resolve the differences and really come up with a solution to the e.u. debt crisis but he seem increasingly likely that they won't do that with the greek spanner in the works mr poppen just position within bric is greece is weak he's a majority his party's majority in the parliament there has been cut so wafer thin two seats and also the ever growing roy is that we're seeing on the streets of athens seems to have had an effect on this decision it seems the sun the

politicians all being swayed by people power more on that now in this report. each week she was from says it was the summit picturesque mediterranean coast to reflect the full time steve emerging nations in the world but this financial crisis deepens in both the u.s. and european union economists sports self interest behind noble claims pledge to involve more right economies is really to try to convince those right economies to put money on the table. and sustainable currency union of europe in the first place developing countries which still the west quick to back civil obrist among their population they no see those same western countries coming hold on public movements in the room backyard and she was like to describe double standards the primary powers within the g twenty the united states germany britain france the real dominate economic and military powers they want to show a world order and

a system of states that still has the ability when in fact there is instability this summit is an attempt to put i shine a face on what is really a failed system is the scene of chaos not just from the side of protesters but also from the police because there's the helicopters overhead at the moment you can hear police sirens also the police really of mounted this military style operation to shut down and stop any of the protesters going where they don't want them to go one former diplomat says western leaders called continue to just block criticism this whole idea that they can simply ignore particular protests against what's happening could come back to bite the leaders of the g seven energy twenty summit this protest different from summits of the post was billed jim's pixy of the latest western banks to get bail dealt with public money growing numbers here worry there's something fundamentally wrong with the current setup we have basically a financial system where. national institutions are able to write themselves

favorable legislation pro quo. police roadblocks the streets is getting through. with the g. twenty takes place but it's becoming it will hold its leaders hearing the voices of protest the new bush will see. greece's prime is not going to dominate the g twenty summit and it may be the country's last chance to retain its sovereignty that's according to anthony while founder and editor in chief of the daily bel dot com he spoke so we didn't learn it i'm not sure what the actual personal motivation was that george papandreou had to make that move but i for one forced the move and i believe that the people of greece should be the ones who determine their future and that's who who are trying to regain it to gain even more control and centralized power over the various nation states with a needle and the fact is you cannot take these various nation states with various cultural backgrounds and needs and desires on an individual level forget about

a national level and expect we'll put them all into a basket and to accept federalized control via brussels that is in the interest of the people want to localize level i don't see how anybody can grand the e.u. is a success when you have a bankrupt conglomerate of nations and you're asking the those better off the bailout with even more debt more central banking assistance that is more money power standing behind the bailouts in order to create more centralized government government governments i don't see how that's a success at all i think it's a total failure. and with greece up to its neck in economic and political strife another crisis could be just around the corner existing mood of the desperation caused by austerity cuts pushes some greeks to make immigrants their scapegoats. we get leaks founder julian assange may find himself on swedish soil very soon after losing his battle against extradition from britain where he'll have to answer

sexual misconduct allegations which he denies and describes as politically motivated artie's laura smith was at london's high court. but he's certainly one step closer to the playing following today's proceedings this rejection of his appeal it gets the extradition it's not certain that he will go. he has said that he will appeal he's got fourteen days to do that but it appeal is no longer all sematic he has to be granted permission by the high court to appeal to the supremes cools the highest court in the land and that will only be granted if it steams by the high court that base case represents that why depressed it that it applies to the wider public in its results now that he and i phones did come out on to the steps of the old the high cool make a short statement following the announcement he said that he and his team would be considering what that next step would be in the days ahead and who's they want

people in that would be in texas has been what has happened at the cool head today and directed them to the face of websites on to the suite to hear it from the horse's mouth what has happened what has happened and he also criticised the european arrest warrant let's hear what he had to say about that i have not been charged with any crime in any country. despite this the european arrest warrant is so restrictive that it prevents u.k. court from considering the power over. as judges. we are here today. to ourselves and his team considering the next steps in full on really on the european arrest warrant time joined by jim carr and he's the chair of the new guys ation cool civil rights international. chairman if this case does go to the sea pretty cool but it looks unlikely that the european arrest warrant itself could come under scrutiny is that something that you would welcome your son i would

welcome dr you know i do think the european arrest warrant should come under scrutiny because it is being abused for political purposes. because where you know song was in sweden he did call before a court should not allow you to leave sweden once he was here he should be tried if they thought there was a case against him and then he was allowed to come here to england. after that then i believe that there was pressure part. of the move perhaps by the american government or by other governments who were embarrassed as a result of the revelations that we could be exposed to the international community and i believe that that is. try to make sure there is very quick concern here in the united kingdom. extraditions to the united states because many people believe that they would not get

a fear here in in the united states in current thank you very much as simple as that talking to us outside the high court where julian assange has now left he's gone back presumably to the house all full and smith in norfolk outside london where he has been held under strict spell conditions for the last eleven months he's considering his next steps this case is not safe but it certainly does look less likely that he will go free at the end of it all goldsmith reporting from london a little earlier we are also interested what you think about u.k. courts for dot com let's have a look at the results on screen on all online vote was so far the majority think that the u.s. is using the u.k. as a puppet again almost the same amount of people believe the verdict is the result of a conspiracy to gag internet freedom eight percent say it was a legitimate step towards a fair trial and the rest think the sea cream court may over all the decision anyway because here what do you think submit your version of thought.

to the new prime minister says making sure human rights are respected is a top priority comes after a string of war crime and occasions training and t c five is a torturing people who once fought in the sinai good athlete michael sure former cia intelligence officer says it's an inevitable consequence of the west interfering in other people's affairs. the europeans and the americans wanted assured access to european oil and on top of that american leaders are not unlike the leaders that were in moscow during soviet times they believe in the inevitability of democracy everywhere just is as marxism was at once believed to be inevitable and as a result they're upset in cowers structures centuries old and they're going to pay for it by an increased power among islamists and by civil war in those countries we have just created enormous reinforcement in terms of the people who are released from libyan prisons and in terms of supplies of weapons for the islamists across

north africa so well with the arab world still dealing with the ongoing political turmoil if he continues to delve deeper into health or an intervention affected the outcome of the arab spring and you can find the basis updates and videos on our facebook page you can also have your say join the intense discussion in the comments some of which you can see that on screen all just a click of a mouse away at facebook dot com slash.

investigators have concluded the crew applied the brakes cheering takeoff causing a plane crash in the russian city of yet a slough of it killed forty four people in september in the town another have a listen to what the investigation committee had to say. the investigation has shown that those pilots were trained how to operate forty planes for a very long time and then they had just reached forty and according to the committee those two planes have a very different brake pads all systems which share the pilots didn't have enough time to get used to you and so that could have been done by mistake another reason they're suggesting is one of the pilots was suffering from a strong neurological condition. strongly in fact someone's reflexes and was also under the effects of strong medication perhaps he was using that medication to treat that condition that he was successfully hiding from the aviation medical committee for all this time a lot of the documents

a world full thought apparently and from the conversations records from the black box during the press conference that we were listening to it was pretty clear that . they sounded very negligent there was a lot of swearing. the interstate. aviation committee i was actually saying that it sounds like the pilots did not call he waits all the parameters for the takeoff before hand so they were not prepared for flights on our website or if you don't call him you can follow all of the trials of september's tragedy you can log on to read about the sole survivor of the crash learn how the families and friends cope with the loss and also see the drive to rebuild the team for next season. for so long fighting for their rights mobile clean water members try to force their way into ukrainian parliament i think really cuts to the benefits more but.

the leaders of turkey and germany with a wednesday as the nation celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of a story guest worker packed the field hundreds of thousands of turks to then west germany to fill jobs as industry university comes during heavy debate of the. concept of multiculturalism in europe which many say is failing haps exemplifying this the office of a satirical french newspaper was firebombed after it named prophet mohammed its editor in chief for the week soren as person m.p. from the range people's party says that happened because extremists simply don't understand free speech it's quite obvious. who has been targeted by fanatics who do not accept any could keep separate of their religion and want us to lead to ways thereby destroying the freedom of speech in europe and most reports are struggling it's about it is a question of felicitously islamists wanting to decide what can be serious what can

be and what can be can be drawn in the way they're challenging how freedom of speech and i think that's one of the most cherished freedoms that we have a strong so we should not accept this by any chance and i think that all right that might be provocative also what you let's proceed but also what shall you go do you in what in order to say you know we have a stand here we will see will be like we will laugh at what we like i think this also very humid here is about so humor in what you show your good deeds and it's a shame that these muslims cannot learn this think about all the lectures that christianity has received throughout the centuries my goodness in my country i mean they have been marked and i also took coach since doing to go i asked to three hundred years we've been laughing at those christians who has been as he is they wanted to keep quiet they do not want us to have one which is the religion that is part of our our system i mean we need to stay to be equal and know you are not the

one to decide we decide how about free speech we all say what we like. and sarah firth reports from greece where anti immigration sentiment is reaching a boiling point fueled by the country's economic woes. on the streets of greece protests have become a common occurrence this gatherings not one of the usual demonstrations. and gratian fright that the ethnic tensions here in the city evidence of becoming more and more of a concern in the last three years illegal immigration into europe increased in particular has skyrocketed as the greek economy has plummeted the crisis has led to unemployment poverty seeing a lot of people not being able to make ends meet face to these tough economic conditions it's not just extreme factions a society that has seen a rise in and him a quintessential and but every day greeks he faced with exceptionally tough sation

circumstances has becomes a point the finger of blame. for. the streets of athens has now become a kind of limbo for illegal immigrants who are struggling to make money and to survive in second generation immigrants who've lived in the country many years feeling the tension we've come to one of greece's neighborhoods that the danger is a pretty high immigrant population the local park here has become isn't mine a battleground. we have closed the poor because it was overrun with immigrants no one could cross that everybody was and no group of people could come here it was not a playground and. the children are now forced to play by gainsaying outside the closed gates of part of this area with main thing to say whether or not the press israel the fairness neighborhood certainly is its technique which the fishing business.

stays an issue because it's a symbol of fear yeah baby leave me thinking that the place is not good because in many areas of the world the couscous things after midnight after night meadows. the logical would be open to be able to blow through the night but like the weather to bring it on to the reason that is the year a crisis continues ethnic tensions have been growing into an extremely volatile and sometimes dangerous situation greece is a country now in the midst of not just a financial and economic crisis but it immigration crisis to trying to find a way to rebuild say showcase he jand here is not easy. r.t. athens. the u.s. a free one of the cuban five a group of intelligence officers branded terrorists but he still can't leave florida to meet his family really gonzalez his thirteen year sentence in

a federal prison in full but u.s. authorities are forcing him to stay in america to serve a three year long probation period he was arrested together with four other officers and children charges of spying and terrorism cuban insisted they were in the u.s. hunting a group of castro exiles who were planning terrorist attacks in the communist state r.t. caught up with the man's wife he said the case was biased from the start. but. it turns out use authorities be demeter's your case in black media labeled them spies and terrorists charges don't sound as dumb from the very beginning those who have the full information picked out the details who are in line with the accusations that indicate doing that for twelve years when you take a newspaper or turn on the t.v. or the radio which speaks of five spies and then you get a summons to testify on the case and you can buy you have to either be very smart or to have a lot of information ninety years now elsewhere people are informed enough would get. well let's have

a look at some other international stories making the headlines at this stage of the day and our world update syrian authorities are fully accepted an arab league plan to ease the seven month political crisis in the country the proposal calls on the government to remove tanks from the streets bring an end to violence and turn to negotiations with the opposition within two weeks it's the latest in a string of international efforts to halt the turmoil has claimed around three thousand lives. tibet and youth independence activists attempted to hold a protest outside chinese embassy in daily times is heavily guarded waiting to get in flags and chanting slogans and police blocked the way to detain some of the young protesters like to say they're trying to draw the attention of g. twenty leaders to human rights violations is a better head of their summit in camp. new zealand officials flew over a cargo ship that's been stranded on a reef a nearly a month to assess its condition for the reports there was about to break apart crews have been in a race to remove oil from the vessel to avoid more environmental damage over

a thousand tons of wall was removed before the halted efforts on sunday more than three hundred fifty tons of spilled into the sea affecting the coastline and devastating the region's raw. brings you up to date for the moment coming up a little later on t.v. peter lebanese gets to discussing whether political turmoil in an arab world is going to have a happy ending instead of becoming a horny would hora before that's when it had not been about three minutes from now stay with us non-famous and second.

question is that so much going to huge music shares a minute from the market as tunisia goes so does the rest of the arab world please a success we hold the first election of the arab spring with an islamic party. on. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on wall street straight day at. leas in chips a good chance a chance to set a good book except the status of the human experiments people will see weeks you'll

probably see this rap music would expose the basilica to try to censor global economy and it's all changed things as financial temples the responsibility to maintain confidence in markets and taking on wants to be seen trade imbalances recession looks to keep the nations close to collapsing a sub prime loans close. to fail circlet banks again feel a little like these u.s. crash seven hundred smashed ceiling it seems there's a place called it in the clubs in athens three point six million just programs increase the total economy. in moscow all she's available insists marriage grounds her chance with colds and royal marital ruin renaissance young one married couples holiday in circle new kids . all of the in the social scene hotel.