the u.s. prepares to sentence russian businessmen victor brutes for conspiring to smoke alarms and kill americans as the protests innocence and vows to appeal. balance erupts in central athens after retired tension a feud some self passes by any recourse to the cuts that's making its pension. us defense contractors lined up for business as india expands to modernize of the military it back rubs and scandals take that's one of the path.

you're watching r t well live from moscow welcome to the program it's a judgment day for russian businessmen victor boot found guilty by american courts of conspiring to sell arms to terrorists he faces life behind bars for the sentence deep meeting on thursday but boots defense maintains his innocence or appeal they also claim the case has been swayed by the u.s. media and saudis and citric reports now from new york. here is spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash poor into a sting operation snatched up from a third country alleged arms dealer victor boot was handcuffed whom should the u.s. and police in solitary confinement for months before trial found him guilty on all four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees through. conspiring to use and acquire

anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the shark the forty four year old russian air cargo business man fascinated hollywood one of our every twelve. requests. and only on the other eleven who lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion long before his trial kicked off raising concerns of the fairness of his trial this is the lord of war. the merchant of death right and you've got him in your hands spread he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing a spark members a colombian group terrorist in the u.s. but not by ninety other countries and the u.n. met with and then arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after twice being found not guilty by thai courts the u.s.

reportedly plea dirty arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america they're willing to flaunt every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of it's a move to extradite him or i should say kidnapping boot family also calls u.s. actions entrapment and kidnapping but i can accept the possibility that you might have some information that might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just think to themselves if there is someone who has some interest in information and why don't those governments just drive those people on today territory moscow's request to send him to russia for trial were brushed aside there was no threshold decision of an extradition russia called groups extradition illegal and question the validity of his conviction one of the main arguments of the defense that the u.s. lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court boots defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real fark members and all he was trying to do

was to all cargo planes use of magic crimes manufactured jurisdiction and manufactured evidence journalist george map has attended every hearing in the case he says as one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play a field of victor and it's interesting the charges that were brought against him that he is innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man. russian citizen writable who are troy davis to be you know sentence right for america are trying to commit which are good is the simple. considers him in the new year to face sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in a third nation both cases a major precedence and represents a worrying us trend to simply override the legal systems of other countries is this a trick in our part to be. open to boots wife told r.t. and it's suspicious how no other country or international body acted to apprehend the prisoners and for years despite the u.s. charges against him. all you bloomberg in the canal bottle when you have

a state department spokesperson describing how much money and effort they put him to get to extradited to the us it's go thickly clear that they had no intention of quitting him also it was in two thousand and one that the us media first launched their massive campaign against victor accusing him of being a major anstey like even though there was absolutely no evidence to substantiate those claims it was a long period of eight years from two thousand and one until two thousand and eight and had there been any proof that he was really involved in some illegal activities the un russia and integral would have certainly known about it and would have done something but in reality nobody did anything and nobody was really looking for victor i mean they all claimed they were looking for him but they did nothing that he wasn't hiding he was openly living in russia under his real name but what did. the un is deploying an advance team of the go sheet is to the syrian capital to

pave the way for observer mission to the conflict torn country this comes as the baskets claims it's beginning to implement a place crime both drawing tanks and heavy weapons from residential areas opposition activists across syria deny that. going fighting in several flashpoint city is dozens of people have reportedly been killed in the past twenty four hours . russia's warning foreign forces against arming the syrian rebels saying it will only fuel the conflict events in syria hard to verify into a worldwide information war one reporter resigned from congress zero for its coverage of the conflict so foreign intervention is going on reported. we went to the borders between lebanon and syria and it was normal that we should say well if you are saying. it was. obvious that the. militants and the ring from the borders to syria and clashing with the syrian army that was

actually away from the borders like three kilometers at the time we were able to spot this militants and we took some footage of those people and later on the channel refused this picture. where i was asked to forget about these militants and i was asked to leave the whole area back to beirut you know they were helping the arrivals it's what the government wants its slot cut around the arab media society is divided on both sides people are being misled by media on one side you know it's very it's kind of concentrating on showing that the army as killing people on civilians on innocent people or surprise surprise across without showing that there are militants also fighting their army and killing thousands of civilians on the other side those of those who support the syrian regime other sent around the official media also was trying to show that there are only militants who are fighting the regime and there are not people who are asking for freedom and reforms and then the country. well for the latest updates on the situation in syria you can

head to our web site i'll take the top and haircut of other stories that mark hatcher i was at the u.s. is flexing its military muscle and name asia pacific the first round of troops arriving the strain it what does it mean for the arrival of china and others in the region. plus a year off that devastating earthquake and tsunami japan is gripped by you a force of nature forced on our website. world. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future cover. tonight situation dates in believe me or just a woman actually execution date isn't enough for anybody to go to more life to. you

know more than fifty percent of the people who are if you didn't there are not. like you know living in order for was married. this is not you know we execute our convicted capital murder we have the highest execution rate in america we're not afraid to do it we do it well this comes up for we do. our ever do a whole. hour to get a letter your dad is due to be executed next week then is appears scary moment for you to know you can loose here want to be appearing at the in a manner of me saying that's a good time to go. and i would lead them into the to the chamber of. commerce trade after they were dating.

in greece clashes broke out between riot police and protesters there starts after a pensioner shot himself in front of the parliament building in central athens time pharmacist seventy seven year old beatrice kristen that's left a suicide note and she accused the government of destroying his pension with

austerity cuts. to break the hundreds of demonstrators gathered some travelers to pay their respects testis through actual bombs and police responded to that question and suicide rates rise and. forced to impose public spending cuts to the. persons of jobs of a car to a concert benefits taking up market financial analyst young says greece needs to take urgent action to get out of its star situation. the greek government is bankrupt the greek government cannot afford to stay in the euro and pay its debts it's not the fault ultimately that may be a terrible problem for a great many and i'm serious investors but at the same time i'm the state any bank that blog greek debt in the course of the last ten years was. so making not absolutely clear the simple fact is greece must have thought. on it it probably

needs to leave your room egypt lee it must be played its currency it is going to still have many problems but the truth of the matter is that when you do get to this sort of extreme only this sort of extreme measure is going to be possible to resolve your situation and ultimately it really beggars belief that we have a greek politician the most highly paid politicians in the whole of the european union turning round and doing oh well that's very sad one of our constituents killed themselves when they themselves make fifteen dollars and euros per month with any difficulty whatsoever as a back bencher b. which is enough to manage to pay for dozens of pensioners every month in new austerity greece. the employment across the euro zone as a record high since the single currency was north thirty years ago very hard for

spanish and greek people out of work but these trends are also affecting countries that have gone more recently. greece reports of a stone scrape by having to support troubled euro states. two thousand and eleven estonia welcomes in a new year and a new era as part of the euro club is a moment of triumph after years of tough financial discipline for the nation which is the pockets of everyone the euro zone demanded that as a condition of membership just over a year on and the idea has lost its fizz joining the euro has made an already painful situation even worse teachers really suffer here our monthly pay is insufficient even to survive. as the new kid in the block is the only played no part in amassing the devastating debt dragging it down but it's still being asked to contribute to the multi billion euro fireable designed to cushion the currency

against the crisis like the one which gripped greece teachers or just some of those in uproar after having wage cuts force and to join the currency union there's little appetite for sending money abroad to richer countries particularly when it's tony salaries of a full well below the e.u. average even key legislators think this massive financial safety net for the euro zone threatens it's their new sovereignty by limiting say over their own budget their angry justice minister has asked the supremes court for its opinion yesterday in my urgent decisions would require only eighty five percent of the ward of the countries let me remind you that the share of the stone and more will just be slightly over zero point two percent this means that all decisions will be taken very large countries such as germany france italy and spain one point three billion euro estonia is being asked to hand over a piece small in the scheme of things but as a zones poorest member it's still

a heavy price on the face of it no guarantee by a stone here isn't all that much. euro club members germany for instance or one euro coin. could be equated to ten billion euros this is how their efforts would journey spending one hundred sixty nine billion euros making this small change to repay that according to a percentage of g.d.p. then it paints a very different picture with the stonier seeming to be forking out more on this basis a slow news contributions than that eight point five percent of g.d.p. growth to be speaking that's higher than germany france or italy. as in the chancellor just as does the right thing challenging the ears same treaty in the constitutional court the pointers as the e.u. and the developing its use of marriage regarding partial transfer of national

sovereignty to these institutions politicians and courts may be debating but the nation appears to have made up its mind opinion polls are just most are against the bailout fund they wonder why they're stumping up for the mistakes of others degrees r.t. time slowly. but still ahead arms from abroad as india has to spend billions on the weapons by corruption and good reason to treat modernization. the international criminal court has turned down a palestinian request investigate alleged israeli war crimes. and gaza three years ago i.c.c. prosecutor said investigation again go ahead only if the un or its security council recognizes palestine as a state jeff. israeli committee against house demolitions says the ruling casts a shadow over the whole international justice system. the palestinians exist in

a kind of a limbo because they're not a state they don't have access to all the instruments of international law or of the un system but at the same time. international law that does apply to the occupied territories it's intended to protect them especially before geneva convention is not enforced by the international community so on the one hand they don't have the incentives to protect themselves and the other hand the international community doesn't accept its responsibility to afford protection for the palestinian problem with the palestinians is that occupation was only seen as a very temporary military situation maybe lasting long two three years until it's over this is a forty five year occupation and international law simply isn't geared towards dealing with it so the fact that the palestinians are just states i think. completely destroys their chance to use international law and if in fact these

millions of people are left without any to france or any ability to leverage israel through international law it certainly dense the credibility of the entire system. and some other news making headlines around the world this hour. the u.s. sent five suspected al qaeda militants to trial for allegedly planning the september eleventh attacks time in a plane rates face charges including terrorism and could face the death penalty if convicted the five men are accused of planning and executing it harks which killed almost three thousand people in two thousand and one. trying to trial some courts in two thousand and nine that decision was reversed last year after widespread opposition. the u.s. has announced this to ease some of the sanctions creating place. secretary of state

clinton said several trouble and financial restrictions were relaxed and sleepers will be allowed to visit the u.s. . this aggression is an assault rifle still. on science and forty three seats. which remains of the british rule that's been on the strict sanctions from washington for decades. that would put a regional rivals and the population brilliant to defend india is to begin a massive modernization of its military press against a backdrop of recent scandals damaging the reputation of the armed forces and those of the world's largest importer looks at its options russian firms are going to cash in on the action be assured that reports. the rampant corruption and army falling to pieces the current state of the indian military according to the country's top general himself he recently revealed he was offered a bribe of almost three billion dollars by

a lobbyist to buy substandard defense equipment he turned down the bribe but the scandal has rocked the country and caused the ministry of defense to suspend six defense firms for ten years over their lobbying tactics what happens is you have long believed. you have sometimes is that the bureaucratic level you have in decision which is sometimes at the level of the politicians so that in itself is a huge problem but we're joris of clothes first opened for others many foreign defense firms are now i am the opportunity to take a slice of india's huge to. india is the world's largest importer of arms that is that to spend one hundred billion dollars in the next ten years to modernize its military equipment russia is at the forefront of the battle to win some of those contracts moscow says it can provide three billion dollars worth of weapons to india every year we see that. expanding.

and. expect to do so in the first. thanks to the new defense systems there is also very intense competition for. providing. the electric submarines to india. and russia. india also appears keen on the opportunity to let russia help modernize its defense systems and says the partnership with the country could be beneficial for both sides russia is one of the few countries that have joined joint development of military hardware one of the classic example. of that example is the.

mission. so india a string of military scandals is providing a shakeup in its military suppliers but competition to fill the void will be fierce among the russian and international firms. bring india's armed force up city preassure either r t new delhi india. coming up in an hour's time on spotlights out and over talks to a prominent u.s. historian about the reset of relations between moscow and washington stephen cohen says the nation of the european missile defense system the biggest stumbling block . it's going to be very very very hard when russia wants guarantees and obama signed a letter to the senate when he got ratification of the arms control agreement that he would take a maximum program of missile defense that means deploying it all the way around russia that's what it means because there's four stages i would say that today if

you look at the relationship objectively not from the russian for you not from the american point of view you would conclude that we have to be more elements were more elements of cold war conflict than we have of cooperation now maybe we can change that but things are getting worse so i think we are still in a state of at least seventy cold war. well let's join katie for the latest of business news there right there understand there's a lot happening in the asian markets today absolutely right kerry i'm going to get stuck in actually and start talking about hong kong because the shares there are tumbling and that's off the traders are returning to their deaths that after a one day holiday why because chinese banks are really taking a hit now that's after the chinese premier wen jiabao said the state banks have a monopoly they have too much control and he is suggesting they be broken up so

therefore we're seeing stocks in china losing ground very much so as you can see there over half a cent is down in negative territory. i should tell you that. ok so let me confirm chinese is over we sent in negative territory at this hour just to confirm that we get the graphic so it's about next hour for you let's talk about japan quickly coming easy losing momentum however if we talk about you. still say the best first quarter performance in percentage terms since the boom times of nineteen ninety eight why now there's a number of reasons not to policy easing in japan the government is really been intervening and it seems to be doing the trick as well as out one of the biggest trading partners the u.s. is also seeing some positive results coming out of their manufacturing sectors out so how have a look at u.s.

stocks so yesterday now it was a selling day as far as traders were concerned in the region and that's after ben bernanke the federal chairman said he would not be printing more money to help stimulus to the economy ok moving on let's see how the european markets going to start we have the thursday and the dax finishing in there as around to you know half a percentage point in negative territory now the eurozone debt fears have a really. and that's after very disappointing. yesterday got there is good news and it's coming from spain's neighbor should go the international monetary fund has approved a five billion euro lead into the crisis stricken economy to help its high budget deficits portugal is seeing the results of these tight austerity measures they managed to raise one point five billion euros in debt auction on wednesday so

that's certainly encouraging for the year or so it's normal bad news it's all let's have a look at russian markets and the russian markets will be opening up now in less than two hours time so how to look at how they finished up as you can see it was sharp losses and again it was because of his decision not to print more money that the russian markets were really feeling the a selling street coming from traders if we look at the ruble we see how that finished up as well and it was a mixed day for the russian currency as you can see that it was gaining against the euro losing against the u.s. dollar the year i got as well one thirty one fifty three the traders favorite pair at this hour that's trading at the moment we'll have a look at oil oil prices are bouncing from a seven week. we've got strong jobs reports coming out today in the u.s. at least are expected to be what the analysts are expecting so that will be interesting

to watch and it was certainly be keeping an eye on that we've also got indications that u.s. crude stockpiles climbed to the most since two thousand and eight and that was causing the prices to see the back up there ok let's have a look out gold and jewelers in india they are still on strike. for taxes not very happy about india is the biggest imports and producer as well you can see silver is also doing a rather well just a fraction up for both of those shiny commodities ok that is the markets pull this out of the back as i say let me confirm to you the chinese stocks are indeed down this hour. ok thanks for that katie and i'll be back with a recap our top story shortly you're watching out.

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