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 of 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 victor boot 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 the terrorist organization known as the revolution armed forces of colombia otherwise known as far. 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 boot was brought to the u.s. most a year ago he was extradited from thailand by u.s. officials without disclosing the extradition was going to take place russia was not informed mr blix attorney was not informed mr blix family was not informed critics say that this was a violation of international law particularly considering that the court decided to times in two separate separate occasions denied to the u.s. his appeal for an extradition of mr boot but yet they were able to eventually get

a russian citizen in the united states and try him in a u.s. court and now mr boot 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 the charges that the u.s. claims him him that he was a pardon. it is not clear whether or not mr will be up healing this this verdict his lawyer has yet to speak to the press but we do anticipate that his attorney will be addressing the media in the next couple of hours you're very new york i know you're in the studio the moment but what about this fear is there 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 proved it up until this moment they would say that has not been proven so the mainstream media here in the u.s. was very interested in victor boot extradition particularly when he came here and in this trial absolutely ok marina 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 marina pornography in new york. when another former national imprisoned in the u.s. has already served his sentence but he's ordeal isn't over a cuban intelligence officer 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 here on r.t. . also the results of the investigation into september's plane crash that killed the russian hockey team named pilot error is the cause and speak of traces of a strong sensitive in the code and it's brought up top stories this hour and still to come for you. the upcoming g. twenty summit in the french city of kerman set for its new traditional beginning massive protests and clashes with police the rage behind the buttons remains the same economic hardship and seemingly disconnected leaders there's aunties 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 sold the project and the euro project would continue smoothly really is the strongest indication yet that greece

could potentially quit the euro upsetting the whole euro zone project. nicolas sarkozy have summoned george papandreou the prime minister of greece for emergency talks all the situation they want to find out why mr pope under fell to consult with them before making this decision the prime minister of france france we feel said that it was a concern to him and to regretful that this unilateral announcement had be made he added that the greeks must say quickly and without ambiguity if they want to keep their place in the eurozone all not so strong words that 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 are 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 their 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 with the greek 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 son the politicians all being swayed by people power more on that now in this report. g twenty has says he wants this summit picturesque but it's. gradient coast to reflect the full tilt steve emerging nations in the world but this financial crisis deepens in both the u.s. and european union economists interest behind nubile claim to involve more

rising economies is really to try to convince those rising 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 unrest among their population they now see those same western countries coming down hold on public movements in the room. and she was like to describe double standards in the primary powers within the g twenty the united states germany britain france the real dominant economic and military powers they want to show a world order a system of states that still has stability when in fact there is instability this summit is an attempt to put a shining face on what is really a failed system there's a scene of chaos not just from the side of protesters but also from the police because there's a helicopters overhead at the moment you can hear police sirens so there's police really have 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 can't continue to just block criticism this whole idea that. they can simply ignore popular 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 jims dicksee of the latest western bank 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 corporations and financial institutions are able to write themselves favorable legislation quid pro quo be a corporate lobbyist police roadblocks demonstrate just getting from east to the nearby town of can with the g. twenty takes place but it's becoming ever harder to stop world leaders hearing the voices of protest. in nice france. so greece's planned bailout is likely

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 to me a little earlier i'm not sure what the actual personal motivation was that george papandreou had to make that move but i for one indorsed the move i believe that the people of greece should be the ones who determine their future and not the euro kratz who who are trying to regain to gain even more control and centralized power over the various nation states within the book and the fact is you cannot take these various nation states with various cultural backgrounds and needs and desires on the 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 on a localized level i don't see how anybody can brand the e.u. is a success when you have a bankrupt conglomerate of nations and you're asking the those better off to bail

out 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 governance 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 an economic competitive strife another crisis could be just around the corner the existing mood the desperation caused by austerity cuts pushes some greeks to make immigrants their scapegoats. we could leaks founder julian assange may find himself on swedish soil very soon after losing his battle against extradition from britain they will have to answer sexual misconduct allegations which he denies and describes as politically motivated laura smith was at london's high court. well he's certainly one step closer to the plane following today's proceedings this rejection of his appeal against the extradition it's not certain that he will. he has said that he will

appeal he's got fourteen days to do that but an appeal is no you don't go automatically have to be granted permission by the high court to appeal to the supreme court the highest court in the land and that will only be granted if it's deemed by the high court that this case represents a ploy to precedent that it up that applies to the wider public and its results now that he and our sons did come out on to the steps of the old the high cools and make a short statement following the announcement he said that he and his team would be considering what that next steps would be in the days ahead and who's they want people and that would be an attempt to spin that was tightened at the cool head today and directed them to the face of websites on justice we need to hear it from the horse's mouth what has happened what has happened and he also criticized 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 case as judges have made clear here today. to asos and his team considering that next steps in full on really on the european arrest warrant time joined by jim carr and he's the chair of an organization called civil rights international. jim if this case does go to the secret even cool what it looks unlikely that the european arrest warrant itself could come under scrutiny is that something that you would welcome you know so i would welcome dr you know i do think the european arrest warrant should come under scrutiny because they're just being abused for political purposes. because when. i was in sweden he did go before the court should not allow you to him to leave sweden once he was there he should do it being tried if they are told there was a case against him and then he was allowed to come here to england an hour after

that and i believe that there was pressure put on the swedish government perhaps by the american government or by other governments who were embarrassed as a result of the revelations that we could leak exposed to the international community and i believe the duct is. tried to get to make sure there is very great concern here in the united kingdom about extradition studio knighted states because many people believe that they would not get to fear here in india nightsticks in current thank you very much as jim curran 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 bail conditions for the last eleven months he's considering his next

steps this case is not saved but it certainly does look less likely that he will go free at the end of a civil war smith reporting from london a little earlier we're also interested what you think about the u.k. court's verdict 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 an adjustment step towards a fair trial and the rest think the supreme court may over all the decision anyway because here what do you think submit your vote at dot com. to the new prime minister says making sure human rights are respected is a top priority comes after a string of war crimes on occasions claiming and t.c. five as a torturing people who once fought on the side of gadhafi like osha 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 power 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. well with the arab world still dealing with the ongoing political turmoil if he continues to delve deeper into hell foreign intervention affected the outcome of the arab spring and you can find the latest updates and videos on our facebook page you can also have you'll 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 news. investigators have concluded the crew applied the brakes cheering takeoff causing a plane crash in the russian city of yet a slow of a look killed forty four people in september in the town in the thick of 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 to switch to forty two and according to the

committee those planes have a very different brake pads all systems which share the pilots didn't have enough time to get used to 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 effect of strong medication perhaps he was using that medication to treat that condition that he was successfully hiding from the aviation medical for all this time a lot of the documents that were 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 and the interstate. aviation committee i was actually saying that it sounds like the pilots did not culture weights all the parameters for the

sake of before hand so they were not prepared for the flight when a website already don't call me can find all the details of september's tragedy you can log on to read about the sole survivor of the crash learn how the families and coped with the loss and also see the drive to rebuild the. next season. on line fighting for their rights. members try to force their way into ukrainian parliament angry cuts to the benefits that more but. the leaders of turkey and germany metal wednesday as the nation celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of an historic guest worker pact the deal brought hundreds of thousands of turks to then west germany to fill jobs as industry university comes during heavy debate of the. inceptive multiculturalism europe which many say is failing haps exemplifying this the office of a satirical french newspaper was firebombed after it named prophet muhammad its

editor in chief for the week so an s person m.p. from the change people's party says that happened because extremists simply don't understand free speech it's quite obvious that jodi has been targeted by by fanatics who do not accept any critique subgroup of their religion and want us to lead them to to their ways they're by destroying the freedom of speech in europe and that's really what the search for a bill is about it is a question this least i miss one thing to decide what can be said what can be written and what came to be drawn in their 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 us posting but also what shirley don't do in war in order to say no we have to stand here we will say what we like we will laugh at

what we like i think this also very humid there is a lot so humor in one show you have good deeds and it's a shame that these muslims cannot love us just think about all the lectures that christianity has received throughout the centuries my goodness in my country i mean they have been marked and they have been lashed by all sorts of persons during the last two three hundred years we've been laughing at those christians who was fanatics they wanted to keep quiet they do not want us to have a pretty solid religion that is part of our our system i mean we need to say to these people you know you are not the one to decide we decide about free speech we all say what we like. and now lottie's 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 see

ever gratian fright at the ethnic tensions here in the city evidence and 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 is laid. on employed property creasing to 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 anti immigrant sentiment but every day greeks he faced with exceptionally tough sation circumstances have begun to point the finger of blame. for. their problems on the streets of athens has now become a kind of limbo for illegal immigrants who are struggling to make money and to survive even second generation immigrants who've lived in the country many years

feeling the tension we've come to one of places neighborhoods of the dangers a first high immigrant population the local park here has become isn't mine a battleground. among the we have to close the pork because it was overrun with immigrants no one could cross the call everybody was scared and no group of people could come here it was not a playground anymore. it shows are now forced to play their games here outside the closed gates of the part of the best area was named danger say whether or not the threat israel the fair in this neighborhood certainly is it's definitely contrition issues and it's getting yesterday's initial because it's a symbol of fear yeah baby leave me thinking that the place is not good because of immigrants in many areas of the world these things after midnight after night not hours. they're not to be open to be able to blow the night but close like that

whether to the bank account or 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 immigration crisis to that trying to find a way to rebuild say showcase he zhen here is no it's going to be easy surf r.t. athens. the us are freed one of the cuban five a group of intelligence officers branded terrorists but he still can't leave florida to meet his family. 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 jailed on 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 who said the case was biased from the start. but.

it turned out to use authorities be the mediator in the case in black the media labeled them spies and terrorists charges don't sound as them from the very beginning those who had the full information picked out the details they were in line with their accusations and they kept doing that for twelve years but when you take a newspaper or turn on the t.v. or the radio which speaks about five spies and then you get a summons to testify on the keys and you come by you have to either be very smart or to have a lot of information but not in the u.s. not elsewhere people are informed enough would get but it's not a. 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. is heavily guarded waiting to button flags and chanting slogans and police blocked the way and detained some of the young protesters activists say they're trying to draw the attention of g. twenty leaders to human rights violations in tibet a head of their summit in cannes. 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 wildlife. brings you up to date for the moment coming up a little later on live and these guys are discussing whether political turmoil in the arab world is going to have a happy day. ending instead of becoming

a hollywood hora before that about with a look at the headlines in about three minutes from now stay with us in mexico. culture is that so much given to each musician minute by the market as tunisia goes

so does the rest of the arab world tunisia successfully holds the first election of the arab spring with an islamic party. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the walls streets they have. leads in canceling your chance to choose instead to get the breaks that the status of the human experiment is exploding with. problems in this rap music what it knows good visibility trying to make sense of global economy and its arcane things as financial templates each of the research clambering to maintain our confidence in markets and beyond the primitive wants to be easing trade imbalances recession looks to be nations close to collapsing a subprime loan for close one. fails whipple a bank's again field level i think is

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half past the hour here in moscow time to update you on our main news stories including breaking news this hour a jury in new york convicts russian businessman the victim of trying to sell weapons to colombian terrorists the sentence will be announced later he faces anything from twenty five years to life in jail. results of the investigation into september's plane crash that killed a russian hockey team pilot error is the cause and speak of traces of a strong sedative in the co-pilot's blood. whistleblower winded by verdict the high court in london rules the wiki leaks founder julian assange should be tried in sweden over controversial sex crime allegations. a sense of disillusionment dominates the protests 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 has only fueled the flames.