the u.s. prepares to sentence russian businessman victor boot for conspiring to smoke alarms and kill americans secret tests innocence and vows to appeal. violence erupts in central arkansas after a seventy seven year old man shoots himself in front of the greek parliament claiming prosperity cuts and decimating his pension. plus defense contractors lined up for business as indian eggs and butter knives in the military by corruption scandals and crumbling weaponry.

around the world and around the clock this is r.t. it's a judgment day for russian businessmen it to boot on american courts conspiring to sell arms to terrorists he faces not behind bars for the sentence into on thursday but boots the defense maintains his innocence and would appeal also in the case has been swayed by the u.s. media as artie's reports now from a new york. here is spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash forward into a sting operation snatched up from a third country alleged arms dealer viktor boot was handcuffed flown to the u.s. and placed in solitary confinement for months before a trial found him guilty on all four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three

conspiring to use an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the for the forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood run a farm there which will. now record. only on the other a writer who lost his case in a court of u.s. public opinion long before his trial kicked off raising concerns about the fairness of his trial this is the lord of war. a merchant of death right and you got him in your hands right 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 as far members of colombian group terrorist in the u.s. but not by many 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 the extradited marshall kidnapping good family also called u.s. actions entrapment and kidnapping i can accept the possibility that might have some information that's might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just injure themselves based someone who has some interest in information and why don't those governments just drive these people into their territory and ask those requests to send him to russia for trial were brushed aside there was no official decision of an extradition russia called boots extradition illegal and question for the litany of his conviction one of the main arguments of the defense that the u.s. lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court roots defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real fark members and all he was trying to do

was sell to cargo planes magic crimes when in fact a terrorist action and manufactured evidence curios george matt has attended every hearing in the case he says is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play if you live victor and it's to take the charges that were brought against him that he is innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man whether russian citizen rich or poor choice to be you know sentence life or convicted of a crime to even commit it to boot is the second. since it isn't any year to face sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in a third nation both cases a major precedence and represents a worrying he was trying to simply override the legal systems of other countries especially for going to parties. well to commutes wife told me that it's suspicious how no other country or international body acted to apprehend the business and for years despite the us charges against him. paul you've been bugging the canal

brothers when you have a state department spokesperson describing how much money and effort they put in to get the extradited to the us it's perfectly clear that they had no intention of acquitting 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 on stigler 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 into paul 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 that would lead the un is deploying an advance team of the go shooters to the syrian capital to

pave the way for an observant mission to the culprit torn country becomes as damascus claims its beginning to implement a peace plan by withdrawing tanks and heavy weapons from residential areas opposition activists across syria deny this but reports of ongoing fighting in several flashpoint cities of the people the water being killed in the hospital for hours meanwhile russia is warning foreign forces against arming the syrian rebels saying for only fuel the conflict vents in syria are hard to verify leading to a worldwide information war one reporter who resigned from arab t.v. channel al jazeera for its coverage of the call so the stations providing material support to the rebels making sure foreign intervention goes on wanted. we went to the borders between lebanon and syria and it was normal that we should say what we are saying. it was. obvious that the. militants and tearing from the lebanese borders to syria and clashing with the syrian army that

was actually away from the borders like three kilometers about time we were able to spot these militants and we took some footage of those people and later on the channel refused to these pictures. where i was asked to forget about these militants hours asked to leave the whole area back to beirut you know they were helping the rebels it's what the government wants that's what carter on the other media criticized 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 etc etc etc without showing that there are militants also fighting their army and killings are also civilians from the other side those of those who support the syrian regime other sent down to the official media also was trying to show that there are only militants who are fighting the regime and there are no people who are asking for freedom and reforms

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a little atlanta. lead. to subsist some. substantial . lead. in greece the clashes broke out between riot police and protesters just hours after a pensioner shot himself in front of the parliament building in central athens the retired pharmacist named as a seventy seven year old demetrius christoulas if the suicide note in which he

accused the government of destroying his pension little sturdy cuts were bound and survived for them to constrict his government where pay their respects but this is true pressure bombs the police responded with tear gas pressure suicide rates rising three has been forced to close public spending cuts to do its announcing that dozens of jobs are going to cut pay attention to anything to take an adventure it. can restructure young says greece needs to take urgent action to get out of its dire situation. the greek government is bankrupt the greek government cannot afford to stay in the euro and pay its debts it must default ultimately that may be a terrible problem for a great many financier's and investors but at the same time i have to say any bank that bought greek there in the course of the last ten years was stupid so making that absolutely clear the simple fact is greece default on its debt nar it probably

needs to leave the euro immediately it must deflate its currency it is going to still have many problems but the proof 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 going oh well that's very far one of our constituents killed themselves when they themselves make fifteen guys an euro's or month without any difficulty whatsoever as a backbencher me which is another manager pay for dozens of pensioners every month in new austerity greece. i mean point across the eurozone has reached a record high since a single currency was launched thirteen years ago with nearly half of all special

greek young people now out of work but these worrying trends are also affecting countries that have joined the euro more recently as artie's jacob graves now reports thousands of staying in scrape by having to support trouble here in the states. two thousand and eleven is third year 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 but 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 a study of played no part in amassing that 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 a crisis like the one which gripped greece teachers or just some of those in uproar after having wage cuts forcing them to join the currency union has little appetite for sending money abroad to richer countries particularly when it's no new salaries of a full well below the e.u. average even key legislators think this massive financial stake in it 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 and my urgent decisions would require only eighty five percent of the world of the country let me remind you that the share of the stone on war will just be slightly over zero point two percent this means that all decisions will be taken very large countries such as germany france and italy. in spain one point three billion euro estonia is being asked to hand over

a piece small in the scheme of things but as the zones poorest member is still a heavy price on the face of it the amount guaranteed by a stone year isn't all that much to other euro club members germany for instance or if one euro coin to be equated to ten billion euros this is how their efforts would differ journey spending one hundred sixty nine billion euros making this small change to recalculate that according to a percentage of g.d.p. eight then it paints a very different picture for the stone year seeming to be forking out more on this basis a stone is contributions than that eight point five percent of g.d.p. ready to be speaking that's higher than germany france or italy. i think the chancellor of justice does the right thing challenging the e.s.m. treaty in the constitutional court the point is as the e.u. and the years on our developing issues in 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 suggest most are against the bailout fund they wonder why their stumping up for the mistakes of others degrees artsy town and slowly. still ahead this hour from abroad as india has to spend billions on new weapons find out why corruption could come to the country's military organization. international criminal court has turned down a palestinian request to investigate alleged israeli war crimes during a deadly attack on gaza three years ago. more than fourteen hundred people killed almost all of the palestinian the i.c.c. prosecutor said the investigation will get the go ahead don't you think u.n. or its security council but you know it is palestine as an independent state trying

to win this recognition last year but failed despite the support of more than one hundred thirty countries to threaten us. jeff helper a co-founder of the israeli committee against house demolitions says the i.c.c. is rooting costs on the 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 u.n. system but at the same time. international law that doesn't apply to the occupied territories it's intended to protect them especially the fourth geneva convention is not enforced by the international community for in the one hand they don't have the instant the subject themselves on the other hand the international treaty doesn't accept its responsibility to a force section for the palestinian problem with the palestinians is that occupation was only seen as a very temporary military situation maybe lasting longer to 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 to states i think. it completely destroys their chance to use international law and if in fact these millions of people are left without any to fans or any ability to leverage israel through international law it certainly dense the credibility of the entire system. now to some other news making headlines around the world this hour the u.s. has sent five suspected al qaeda militants to trial for allegedly plotting the september eleventh attacks. brain mates face charges including terrorism and could face the death penalty if convicted the five men are accused of planning and executing it acts which killed almost three thousand people. president obama tried

to move their trial to civilian courts in two thousand and nine and that decision was reversed last year after the incident position. u.n. security council is calling for an end to violence in mali and the return to constitution is really two weeks of. hansel raised concern and pride and it is creating inside. writing. this is overthrew the president last month. of bitter regional rivals in a population of more than a billion to defend india is to begin a massive modernization of its military that's against the backdrop of recent scandals damaging the reputation of the armed forces and so world's largest

importer of looks at its options russian firms are hoping to cash in on the action be sure of what. rampant corruption and an 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 a quote meant 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 long believe you have some terms of the bureaucratic level you have in position which is sometimes a little off the politicians so there. is a huge problem but we're joris of clothes for some they've opened for others many foreign defense firms are now i know the opportunity to take a slice of india's huge defense pie 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. that. is expanding. and. is expected to soar in the first. hopes of the new things new air defense systems is also very intense competition for. providing you. get like a prick submarines to india. and russia. india also appears keen on the opportunity to let russia help modernize its defense systems and says

a partnership with the country could be beneficial for both sides russia's. of the few countries that have joined us in joint development of military hardware one of the classic example is. the other example is the so. we are also working together on the fifth generation fighter record of so india's 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 bidding to bring india's armed forces up to the preassure either r t new delhi india. just a few minutes on spotlight talks to a prominent u.s. historian about the research of relations between moscow and washington stephen cohen says the issue of european missile defense still the biggest stumbling block . is going to be very very very hard. russia wants

guarantees and obama signed a letter to the senate where he got ratification of the arms control agreement that he would take action program with missile defense that means deploying it all the way around russia that's what it means because there's four stages i would say there today if you look at the relationship objectively not from the russian point not from the american point of view you would conclude that we have the war elements elements of cold war conflict and we have cooperation now maybe we can change there but things are getting worse so i think we are still in a state of at least seventy cold war. but drawing parity for all the latest business news the. asian markets to the strikers absolutely carry quite dry and it is the banking stocks but

a really suffering in the asian markets today and that's after the chinese premier wen jiabao he criticized the state's state owned banks dominance in the finances state so he's saying they've got a monopoly and this needs to be addressed now because of that we've seen the banking stocks taking a tumble because they're really concerned that they're going to be broken and absent as you can see you've got the hang saying over a percentage down there the nikkei is also suffering a rather further percent in negative territory and that's following on from their best first quarter performance since nineteen ninety eight when the boom years so it's a completely different picture for japan in the start of the second quarter of this move on to the u.s. stocks and see how they finished up yesterday because news coming out of the u.s. was really setting the tone yesterday after ben bernanke the federal reserve

chairman said that he wouldn't be installing more pointed pumping more money into the system that didn't go down too well to get the dow jones and then both responded rather negatively that if we look at the e.u. markets they too were taking off or yesterday we had the foot on the back showing sharp losses that we've also had a real emergence of the euro zone. as i say that we have these pains gone so yesterday it was very much a disappointment but it's a completely different story for portugal or spain's neighbor they are doing well at the moment actually we know that they were in trouble last smog well that's because the international monetary fund the i.m.f. they've approved a five billion euro loan to the crisis stricken economy to help with its high def. now these these austerity measures tight as they are all showing some results they've managed to raise a one point five billion barrels in a debt auction on

a wednesday. so that certainly is encouraging for now let's have a look at the cost of markets right now under an hour until the opening bell here in moscow as you can see yesterday in the u.s. we've seen europe is very much the same story for the russian market risk after sideways for a much lower yesterday as far as traders were concerned they too were selling off if we look at the current system see how the ruble got on she will be open up for trade in about forty minutes time we had a mixed performance yesterday it was narragansett us are higher against the european currency the euro dollar hasn't moved much too since last hour is one person one fifty two that is what is that would have a look at the ore prices and see that is a change of forces today actually. dropping they want to seven week low which really was a relief to the global economy but right now that they're edging higher residency

they've got them light sweet over one hundred two dollars per hour in the brant over one hundred twenty two dollars per barrel and other news we're going to talk about cars right now because we know that russian man remember cars and russian president has given a boost to the country's car industry glad to be a putin says both state officials would soon have to buy local produce to cars but the choice would be to limit search for the officials known for their weakness for luxury many call makers like b.m.w. and because already have built in by the come. heavy off about the markets but now i'll be about three so in date i'll have the i think it is for the boston market. ok thanks for that kate see em all from the business desk next hour. be back with a recap of the top stories shortly you're watching out.

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