to be tried for allegedly selling weapons to colombian rebels fighting american soldiers ortiz merida portnoy is in new york and joins me live with details so what exactly happened in court today. well just one day after deliberations began a jury of twelve handed down that verdict and the verdict is that they found a russian businessman businessman victor boot guilty on all the charges that were leveraged against him by the united states and those charges include conspiring to kill americans and inspiring to kill u.s. officials trafficking rockets and also he was charged with supplying arms to the revolutionary armed forces of colombia an organization the united states deems as terrorists now this this trial of victor boot went on for about three weeks but his presence here in the united states has garnered a lot of attention as we've been reporting the u.s.

fought very hard to get fixed or extradited from thailand to the u.s. over a year ago but that fight was taking place since mr bruce was arrested during a sting operation in thailand in march two thousand and eight. as guilty did plead guilty and non-guilt not guilty rather on all the charges and he still maintains his innocence his attorney albert diane did speak to the press following today's events that took place in court and he said that this is not the end for his client victor boot and that victor boot still has a chance the team is very disappointed with the decision the jury made to buy that they do plan to appeal and that appeal can be made any time between now and february eighth when victor boot is expected to be sentenced and now that he's been found guilty on these charges he faces a sentence of anywhere between twenty five years and life in prison rena thanks

very much more for me we get more details on this thanks very much indeed in the meantime report. the upcoming g twenty summit in the french city of can is set for its now traditional beginning massive protests and clashes with police the rage behind the banners remains the same this year economic hardship and seemingly disconnected leaders but as artie's daniel bushell reports this year the protests may be the least of the g. twenty is problems. greece's referendum decision has really overtaken everything here at the summit it's really forced the higher end of those who thought the e.u. project in the euro project would continue smoothly really is the strongest indication yet the greece could potentially quit the euro upsetting the whole eurozone project and 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 and drove to consult with them before making this decision the prime minister of france france who we feel said that it was a concern to him and the regretful that this. had been 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 that almost zoid 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 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 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 pop interest position with the greek is it with 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. g twenty host france says it wants this summit on its picturesque mediterranean coast to reflect the importance of emerging nations in the world but this financial crisis deepens in both the u.s. and european union economists sports self interest behind that noble claim pledge to involve more russian economy is really to try to convince those rising economies to put money on the table to the unsustainable currency union of europe in the first place developing countries which saw the west quick to back civil unrest

among their population they now see those same western countries coming down hold on public movements in their own backyard and she will activists croyde double standards and 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 shiny face on what is really a failed system russia's president dmitry medvedev has warned for several years that the world financial system needs reform his words echoed but other emerging states thousands of protesters in the west are now getting behind the calls for change i guess due to. the fact that people are just. money in the world are just. running out of people all the governors of states of this world that decided they own the world and they control want to be we

believe the people have their word should have their words not something to say one former diplomat says western leaders can't continue to just blow killed 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 bill james nixey of the latest wisdom to get public money growing numbers here worry there's something fundamentally wrong with the cover up 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. bullring demonstrates is a good thing for the g. twenty venue in the nearby town of but it's becoming a whole to hearing the voices of protest for all. fronts.

so greece's plan to bail out 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 weiner he's the founder and editor in chief of the daily bel dot com he spoke to me a little bit 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 nations stage with a needle 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 to we'll put them all into a basket and to accept a federalized control via brussels that is in the interest of the people want to localize level i don't see how anybody can brand the e.u. is a success when you have

a bankrupt 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 and economic political strife another crisis could be just around the corner listing mood of desperation caused by austerity cuts pushes some greeks to make immigrants this scapegoats. this is live in moscow let's return to our top story now with the news that the russian businessman vic to boot has been found guilty of illegally trafficking arms to terrorists in a new york court when i'm not joined by investigative journalist george map who's attended every hearing in his case. so does this verdict come as a surprise to you then george. absolutely not it was

ito. it was heart of the actually accepted you know and here the words guilty guilty guilty guilty of but i didn't expect anything less actually well as you say guilty guilty guilty on all of the charges that's a conclusive verdict isn't it but he can still appeal against this what is chances . the case against vick the boot for all practical purposes is case closed you know albert diane after the jury was dismissed and victor boot just stood there basically seen as it is as if he was in shock he didn't react whatsoever in any way as if as if he was lifeless he didn't even turn around. to face anybody and he just this kind of you know it was basically nonexistent so our diane did file a motion for a new trial i believe on december second however the d.a. operation relentless was you know targets or pursue victor boot by any means

necessary and it may through millions of dollars and it was it was done on several different continents and they had d.n.a. informant highly paid d.a. informants dea agents and coconspirators so once they have him here now it is almost impossible i think. you know he'll ever leave the united states the operation relentless was to pursue him in catching me quantum and importance america. as you know the back story you know. on nov twentieth victor would have been free and the tie court on extradition hearing but the da couldn't let it happen so they took him from court on the sixteenth of november important to america where they put him in the legal venue to be tried in america. also i spoke to actually dition attorney douglas mcnabb and for any purpose for any reason if the sentencing which is going to be on i believe judge sheindlin said on february eighth of two thousand and twelve for any reason

a sentence is something sin is light on victor boot and they feel that it's not a stiff enough charge there is already another indictment pending against vick to boot so to speak now point this out to me over the weekend and so therefore he has to he is potentially could face another lawsuit which which i actually mean there is a question over the sentence there really are pushing for a life sentence and i that is that what's expected just briefly. yes definitely. i'm trying to with another attorney you know do a projection and hopefully they have that you know maybe the next day or two or what the sentence of the sentencing might be but. ok i just really what it's like really could be i was just going to his life in prison ok thanks very much we'll leave it there thanks very much indeed george map joining us live in new york. we could leaks founder julian assange may find himself once we just saw a very soon after losing his battle against extradition from britain then he'll

have to answer sexual misconduct allegations which he denies and describes as politically motivated ortiz laura smith was london's high court. he's certainly one step places the plane following today's proceedings of course this appeal that he made to the high court was rejected is that the end of the rage here at the high court and he now has to apply for permission to appeal to the supreme court and the high court that decides whether he will be granted that permission he's going to see in days to do that now permission would only be granted to go to the supreme court the highest court in the land if the case is deemed to be in the wider public interest and if there are precedents that could be set by this case which could apply to other people and this seems more unlikely off to today taken early as the judge here rejected old points of us on his defense which included the allegation that he wouldn't receive a fair trial in sweden and also that the swedish prosecutor had no oath or

a city to issue they said european arrest warrants now following that we think that a judge in a sound came out on the steps of the high court to make a short statement he said that they would see any legal team which consider that next steps in the days ahead he also warns that spin which be applied to what has happened here today and that if people wanted to know what had actually happened they should go to his website sweeten buses the songs and he also criticize the european arrest warrant and say what he had to say i have not been charged with any crime in any country. to spar with the european arrest warrant is so restrictive that it prevents u.k. court from considering the power over. as judges have made clear here today that if this case does go to the sea priem courts it appears likely that the european rests were and as a whole the basis for the european arrest warrant under which of course european

citizens can be extradited to other countries with very little evidence being presented and as a sense that himself. out the course themselves being able to look at that evidence will come under scrutiny and of course there are also many who still maintain that this case is entirely politically may survey says and indeed that if a sound is extradited to sweden he will go from that to the united states and if indeed that is the case then it looks like it's worked wiki leaks his life's work essentially is under serious threats they have a critical source of a shortage of funding and phones himself has said that it may be forced to close in the new year. or smith reporting there from london let's get more reaction on this from across the atlantic i'm joined live now by michael prysner he's an iraq war veteran and civil rights campaigner so what's your reaction to the court's decision . well you know this is just kind of an example of how you know the u.s. government is really doing whatever it can to pull the strings and really get its

hands on julian of songe we know that the accusations against him we don't know if they're true or not we know that it's standard practice when the u.s. government are running perience governments want to go after an individual person they embark on this slander campaign and of course with enormous resources available to dig deep into these people's personal lives and dig up whatever they can i mean this is done to dr martin luther king jr and a range of other figures throughout history and we know that you know as joining us on set in that piece before even though no charges have been brought against him that he's under this extremely restrictive warrant where he can be sent extradited to another country and we know that that is nothing more than an excuse to get him into the hands of a country that the u.s. government is confident will extradite him to the united states to face trial for what they call espionage we know that the swedish government already has extradited a large number of people to the cia in really what is in violation of international law so this ruling is really kind of not good news for julian

a sign for wiki leaks and for people of conscious all over the world that really want to hear the truth from these in a very secretive governments that you know are serving the you know that one percent that we're hearing about all over the country all of the. swedish authorities wanted to accusations of rape and and sexual assault and therefore the u.k. court has i obliged and i have actually accepted the fact that he has to be extradited but you all saying this is the united states behind all of this you actually saying that the u.k. nor courts really will be politically motivated to make such a decision and not make a decision with the legal framework. well absolutely i mean we know that the united states government and you know the other the governments of the superpowers have been damaged by wiki leaks very much want this to go away and of course it will work in cooperation to make this go away and i think that you know the important thing to remember here is you know there is all of these crimes that were exposed by wiki leaks that you know the u.s.

government and other governments are yet to be tried for but i think the important thing we have to remember is that is this going to be a fair trial and yes someone accused of rape should face trial and answer questions about whether or not that happened but will this trial be a fair trial we know that the swedish courts in the trial that he will face will be conducted entirely in secret so no one will have any idea what is going on you know that there is no jury in the court that he is going to face and the people making the decisions are a single judge and two politicians who have already openly spoken out against julian asylum so i think you know his fate is really sealed if he gets sent to that court in sweden that judges that will be deciding his fate are already openly against him and sweden already has a history of extraditing people to united states by and we should have spare time says that if he is extradited to the u.s. he could end up in guantanamo bay and even be tortured if sent to that country now he's such a high profile figure with a huge amount of international support that's not likely to happen surely. well you

know bradley manning who is accused of leaking these documents he was a high profile figure with a lot of international support as well and you know he was tortured for about a year on and held in solitary confinement and made to stand naked for hours every single night and so bradley manning was tortured i think we can you imagine you know the same type of cruel treatment for joining the songes well really interesting to hear thoughts michael prize that thanks for your time iraq war veteran civil rights campaigner joining us live there in los angeles thank you. in another blow to european multiculturalism the office of a satirical french newspaper was follow a bomb doctorate named prophet mohammed its editor in chief for the week the attack drew condemnation by leading public figures and has stirred simmering cultural tensions and soren esposa and p. from the danish people's party believes this behavior will continue until the e.u. unites behind freedom of speach. it's quite obvious that jodi too has been targeted by by fanatics who do not accept any critique separate of their religion

and want us to lead them to to their ways thereby destroying the freedom of speech in europe and that's really what such trouble is about it is a question of this list i missed one thing to decide what can be serious what can be written and what can be can 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 u.s. posting did also was surely don't do it in what in order to say no we have a stand here we would say will be light we will laugh at what we like i think this also very humid there is a lot so humor in one show you get 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 left by all sorts of persons during the

last two three hundred years we've been laughing at those christians who as fanatics they want to keep quiet they do not want us to have critics and 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. investigators have concluded the crew the plied the brakes during takeoff causing a plane crash in the russian city yet a snarl that killed forty four in september parties in a town in africa listen to what the investigation committee had to say. has shown that. we're trained how to operate forty planes for a very long time and then they have to switch to use 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 and so that could have been done by mistake another reason

there's a jesse as one of the pilots was suffering from a strong neurological condition which shows 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 were of full thought apparently and from the conversations records from the black box in 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 interstates to aviation committee is actually saying that it sounds like the pilots did not come through waits all the parameters for the sake of before hand so they were not prepared for the flights. sara first reports from greece where immigration sentiment is reaching boiling point fueled by

the country's economic. on the streets of greece protests have become a common occurrence this gatherings not one of the usual demonstrations. ever gratian frightened of the ethnic tensions here in the city. and becoming more and more of a concern if the last few years illegal immigration into europe increase in particular has skyrocketed the greek economy has plummeted the crisis has led to unemployment poverty 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 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 greece's neighborhoods of the dangers a first high immigrant population the local park here has become isn't mine a battleground. among them we have to close the port 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. children are now forced to play their game say outside the closed gates of the part of the best area with naked dangers say whether or not the threat is real the fairness neighborhood certainly is it's definitely controversial issues little years people getting yesterday is an issue because it's a symbol of fear yeah baby leave me thinking that the place is not good because of the immigrant in many areas of the world big lose these things after midnight after

night night hours. not to go to the opening day. to blow the day but the blood like that whether to bring it on to the easier it is the year of crisis continues ethnic tensions have been growing heating to 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 she occasionally here is not going to be easy so arty athens. the u.s. a freed one of the cuban five a group of intelligence officers branded terrorists but he still can't leave florida to meet his family weenie 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 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 law caught up with the man's wife who said the case was biased from the start without getting. turned out to use authorities be the mediator between 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 that were in line with the accuser. and they kept doing that for twelve years when you take a newspaper or turn on the t.v. or the radio which speaks for five spies and then you get a summons to testify on the keys and you come by and you have to either be very smart or to have a lot of information but not having the u.s. not elsewhere people are informed enough would get but it's not. well that brings up to date for the moment twenty seven minutes past the hour here in moscow abhi but with our top headlines in the three minutes well stay with us live here on alt .

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commission live from the russian capital this is r.t. top stories this hour a jury in new york convicts russian businessman vick to boot of trying to sell weapons to colombian terrorists the sentence will be announced later and he faces anything from twenty five years to life in jail. 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 protests ahead of the g. twenty summit in cannes world leaders gathered 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. probably but with more developments more news we're less than half an hour from now here not in the mean time the great green threat we take a look at me radical environmentalist groups that will go to any lengths to support their cause that's in the second part of our special report eco warriors.