u.s. prepares to sentence russian businessmen victor boot for conspiring to smoke alarms and kill americans protests innocence and vows to appeal. violence erupts in central athens after a seventy seven year old man shoots himself in front of the greek parliament plenty austerity cuts with decimating his pension. plus defense contractors lined up for business as india makes sense to modernize the military hit by corruption scandals and crumbling weaponry.

well these are much more twenty four seven this is r.t. it's judgment day for russian businessmen to boot found guilty in american courts of conspiring to sell arms to terrorists he faces life behind bars but the sentence g. later on thursday of boots defense maintains his innocence and will appeal but also the case has been swayed by the u.s. media as artie's in situ reports from new york. hears 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 to 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 three conspiring to use and acquire

anti-aircraft missiles and for this. hiring to provide material support to the saarc the forty four year old russian air cargo businessman fascinated hollywood that's one firearm for every twelve people. every question. and we are in the other eleven boot lost his case in the court of us 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 many other countries and the un 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 by arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america they're willing to flawed every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things on a case of which would to extradite him or i should say kidnapping good family also u.s. actions entrapment and kidnapping i could be stripped of course ability to boots might have some information that might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just think to themselves there is someone who has some interest in information and why don't those governments just drive those people into their territory moscow's request to send him to russia for trial were brushed aside there was no official decision of an extradition and russia called boots 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 remembers this and all he is trying

to do still has sounds to all the cargo planes get leave is a magic crimes manufactured jurisdiction and manufactured evidence journalist george map has attended every hearing in the case he says is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play that i feel that victor in this particular charges that were brought against him that he's innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man whether it be. in britain who are truly they will still be you know sentenced to life or because we're trying to commit it to boot is the second. russian citizen in the new year to face sentencing on american territory for religious crimes committed in a third nation peace is a major precedence and represents a worrying us tragedy to simply override the legal systems of other countries is this a trick and i'm pretty. open to boots wife told r.t. that it's suspicious how no other country or international body acted to apprehend the prisoners many years despite u.s. charges against him after all you've been drinking the canard out of when you have

a state department spokesperson describing how much money and effort they've put in to get victor extradited to the us it's perfectly clear that they had no intention of acquitted 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 arms dealer even though there was absolutely no evidence to substantiate those claims it was a long period of eight years from two thousand and one to two thousand and eight and have there been any proof that he was really involved in some illegal activities the un with russia and into paul would have certainly known about it and would have done something but in reality nobody did anything nobody was really looking for victor they all claimed they were looking for him and after they did nothing he wasn't hiding the was openly livin in russia under his real name. i mean u.n. is deploying an advance team of egos shater is the syrian capital to pave the way

for an observer mission to the conflict torn country it comes as damascus claims it's beginning to implement a peace plan that would join tanks and heavy weapons from residential areas but opposition activists across syria deny this. ongoing fighting in several flashpoint cities dozens of people reported in the past from the rounds meanwhile rusher is warning foreign forces against arming the syrian rebels saying what only fuel the conflict prevents in syria are hard to verify into a worldwide information war or to resign from arabic t.v. channel al-jazeera over its coverage of the conflict says the station has provided material support to the rebels are making sure foreign intervention goes unreported . we went through the borders between lebanon and syria and it was normal that we should say what we are seeing. it was. obvious that there was militants from the borders to syria and clashing with the syrian army that was

actually a way from the borders like three kilometers i got time we were able to spot these militants and we took some footage of those people and later on the china refused to pictures. what i was asked to forget about these militants and i was asked to leave the whole area back to you know they were helping the. government once or twice or once a lot of the size of these divided on both sides people are being misled by media on one side you know it's kind of concentrating on showing that the army is killing people on serious or billions on innocent people are surprised without showing that there are militants also i think the army and killing also civilians from the other sides those those who support the syrian regime at the same town that the. media also was trying to show that there were only militants who are fighting the regime and they were not people who are asking for freedom and reforms and then the

country. for the latest updates on the situation in syria head to our web site got com a couple of other stories which might catch you right there while you're there the u.s. is flexing its military muscle in asia pacific for the first round of troops arriving in australia what does it mean for the rivalry with china and others in the region . say here are devastating earthquake and tsunami japan is gripped by a new force of nature plus the video on our website.

greece a clashes broke out between right police and protesters just hours after pensioners shot himself in front of the parliament building in central athens time pharmacists named seventy seven year old interests kristen left a suicide note in which she accused the government of destroying his pension with thirty cuts with violence erupted when hundreds of demonstrators gathered in tahrir

square to pay their respects this is true petrol bombs at police who responded with tear gas question suicide rates rise in a country which has been forced to impose public spending cuts to deal with its mounting debt thousands of jobs have been cut pay pensions and benefits and taking a major hit a financial analyst patrick 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 the fault 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 guy 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 be flip 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 result 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 thousand euros per month without any difficulty whatsoever as a backbencher and b. which isn't enough to manage to pay for dozens of pensioners every month the new austerity greece. across the usa has reached a record high since a single currency was launched thirteen years ago and then the hoffa spanish and greek. but these trends are also affecting countries that have joined the euro

recently as artie's they can graze now reports thousands of stones great buy for having to support troubled euro states. two thousand and eleven as though new welcomes in a new 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 has hit 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 face 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 the devastation debt dragging it down but it still being asked to contribute to the multi billion euro fire will designed to cushion the currency against a crisis like the one which gripped greece teachers are 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 the only salaries of a full well below the e.u. average even key legislators think this massive financial safety net for the euro zone threatens this third year sovereignty by limiting say over their own budget be angry justice minister has asked the supreme court for its opinion. urgent decisions would require only eighty five percent of the world of the countries 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 italy and. the one point three billion euro estonia is being asked to hand over the case move in the speed with things passes those 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 be equated to ten billion euros this is how their efforts would journey spending one hundred sixty nine billion euros thank you 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 stoney's contributions than that eight point five percent of g.d.p. rigidly speaking that's higher than germany france or italy. i think the chancellor of justice does the right thing challenging the ears same treaty in the constitutional court the point is as easy to on the developing its use emerge 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 were why they're stumping up for the mistakes of others degrees r.t. town and estonia. the international criminal court has turned down a palestinian request investigate alleged israeli war crimes to. serve three years ago sort of fourteen hundred people killed almost all of them on a statement the i.c.c. prosecutor said. and the u.n. security council recognizes palestine state trying to win this mission last year but failed to spot the support that countries get to the threat of a u.s. veto if. we take aunt's house demolitions so the i.c.c. is ruling costs a shot 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 the fourth geneva convention is not enforced by the international community so on the one hand they don't have the instruments protect themselves on the other hand the international treaty doesn't accept its responsibility will force protection for the palestinians probably the palestinians is that occupation was only seen as a very temporary military situation maybe lasting one 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. completely destroys their chance to use international law and if in fact these millions of

people are left without any to fence or any ability to leverage israel through international law it certainly dense the credibility of the entire system. but are still ahead few days from abroad as india has to spread billions on new weapons falling down like corruption would hamper the country's military modernization. hey they're coming up in the business bulletin in about ten minutes time i'm going to talk about the figures for the boston market is a positive start we saw them yesterday along with all the global equities but my thing is in the r.t.s. are up around half a percent aged how they think it's about that time. but some other news making headlines around the world the u.s. sent five suspected al qaeda militants to trial for allegedly planning the september eleventh attacks. in mates face charges including terrorism and it could

face the death penalty if convicted before of men are accused of planning and executing a tax which killed almost three thousand people in two thousand. president obama tried to move the trial to civilian courts in two thousand and nine but that decision was reversed last year the widespread opposition. japan has deployed interceptor missiles in preparation for north korea's rocket launch it's not that there's a place to it for different locations in okinawa and face towards the rockets route to shoot down any parts of the rocket into japan's this space in north korea says the launch is designed to send a satellite into orbit. and using it to test its. u.n. security council is calling for an end to violence in mali the return to constitutional rule two weeks after a military coup council raise concern. is operating inside the west african country

main rebel groups fighting the government to enforce still it is. to go after the army officers and through the president. at school parties and civil society groups have rejected the budget in a sea of the military take it. i mean u.s. has announced it's to ease some of the sanctions can get its minerals administrative state hillary clinton said it's a troubling financial restrictions were good next but its leaders will be allowed to visit the u.s. if sunday's elections in a south asian state are so pro-democracy she wanted three seats. which remains of the military who has been the sanctions washington but that hates us. with regional rivals population of more than a billion to defend india has to begin a massive modernization of its military that's against the backdrop of recent scandals damaging the reputation of the armed forces that is the world's largest

importer of oil hordes and looks at its options russian firms action reports. 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 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 this issue which sometimes is a bureaucratic level you have a decision which is sometimes a little off the politicians so there. is a huge problem but we're joris of clothes first some they've opened for others many foreign defense firms are now i'm the opportunity to take

a slice of india's huge defense pot india is the world's largest importer of arms that is that the 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 walk ins to india every year. is expanding. and. is expected to continue to soar in the first. things i mean their defense systems there's also very intense competition. or. grading new submarines. to the electric submarines to india. and russia also hopes to do so 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 is one of the few countries that have joined in joint development of military hardware one of the classic examples is. the other example is the. thirty year. olds who are working together on the fifth generation for a director of so india a string of military scandals is providing a shakeup in its military suppliers a 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 where they are today in the spotlight held in of talks to a prominent us historian but the research of relations between moscow and washington stephen cohen says that issue of european missile defense is still the biggest stumbling block. it's going to be very very. cruel and russia

wants guarantees and obama signed over to the sooner we got ratification of the arms control agreement that he would take action program we should be fruits. all the way around russia. because. regions i would say that today if you look at the relationship objectively not from the russian point you know from the american point of view you would conclude that we have to be more elements with war elements of cold war conflict and we have cooperation now maybe we can change there are good things are getting worse so i think we are still in a state of at least cold war. rest our joint treaty for all the latest business news very the trading has just kicked off in moscow yeah quite dry it has and you know what we've seen the russian

market is rebounding we saw a massive selloff yesterday from u.s. asia europe and then the russian markets took a beating as well that was after the federal reserve's decision not to stimulate the economy of more printing of money and today completely different color spectrum is have a look and see the r.t.s. and the my six are both indices here in russia. that we are those are the figures from yesterday as you see big losses but today i can tell you got some positive figures of around heart of stone are in positive territory so that's yesterday's figures you're looking at all right that i can't see how the ruble is performing at this hour we can see that it's next against the main currencies it's getting is the u.s. dollar losing against the euro dollar is a pretty stable again this hour one thirty one fifty seven for that currency pair we move on to asia asian stocks are taking a tumble in hong kong it securely but it's off to the chinese. over the state

banks dominance over the financial sector japanese stocks are also heading south despite their best first quarter performance since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight let's have a look and see how europe got on it yesterday they too were taking a hit the first c. and that it's only in the right that as you can see well the eurozone debt crisis. last night was off to spain's latest bombshell fell short of expectations us you can see there we are all good stuff now in other news a lot to do with a euro this time i'm going to be talking about portugal spain. spain some cousins so to speak now the insertion want to fund has approved five of britain you're alone to the crisis stricken economy to help it's high budget deficit. is seeing the results of these tight austerity measures they managed to raise one point five billion euros in a debt auction on

a wednesday. so certainly good news there for the region that we take the oil prices you can see that they are indeed gaining their rebounding from a seven week alone. on reports that we're expecting positive jobs reports to come out of the u.s. later on today that will help to boost crude prices this hour and in other news here in a rush of a lot about got the russian president elect now he's given a boost to the country's car industry last may putin says allstate officials would soon have to buy only locally produced cars but the choice would be too limited for the officials known for their weakness for luxury many car much manufacturers' like b.m.w. . have already built plants inside the country. and that's how the figures are looking in the next hour we'll have the figures for the

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