material is what helps heat journalism we. we want to preserve. something. the u.s. prepares to sentence a russian businessmen to root for conspiring to smuggle arms and kill americans as a protest of innocence and balance to appeal. balance erupts in central athens after seventy seven year old man shoots himself in front of the greek parliament i mean austerity cuts for decimating his pension. plans defense contractors lined up for business as india makes plans to organize and retrieve it by corruption scandals are crumbling away.

international news and comments twenty four hours a day since r.t. it's judgment day for a russian businessman to boot found guilty on american courts of conspiring to sell arms to terrorists he faces life behind bars for the sentence you went through on thursday abuse defense maintains his innocence and will appeal they also claim the case has been swayed by the u.s. media and saudis and it's a situation 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 viktor bood 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 employ. these 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 men fascinated hollywood one for every twelve people. request. i don't we on the other eleven who lost his case in the 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. the merchant of death. and you've got him in your hands spray he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as far members a colombian group to terrorist in the u.s. but not by name any 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 by arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america they're willing to flaunt every international law to give what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of the trouble to extradite him or since they kidnap a good family also called us 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 think to themselves that there is someone who has some interest in information and why don't those governments just drive these 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 defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real fork members and all he was trying to do was so

to all cargo planes magically crimes manufactured jurisdiction and manufactured evidence journalist george matt has attended every hearing in the case he says is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play feel that victor and in particular charges that were brought against him that he is innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man whether it be russians isn't it we were trying to be you know sentence right or. commit it to good is the second. should citizen in year to face sentencing on american territory for legit crimes committed in a third nation he says is a major precedence and represents a worrying us trend to simply override the legal systems of other countries is this a tribunal artsy. but it's a boots wife told r.t. that it's suspicious how the other country or international body acted to apprehend the business with for years despite the u.s. charges against the poorly we're going to give that one up others when you have

a state department spokesperson describing how much money and effort they've put in to get victor extradited to the u.s. it's perfectly clear that they had no intention of acquitting him also it was in two thousand and one that the u.s. media first launched a 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 had there been any proof that he was really involved in some illegal activities at the u.n. 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 but they did nothing she wasn't hiding she was openly living in russia under his real name. of unease now in greece crashes broke out into the riot police in protesters just hours after

a pensioner shot himself in front of the parliament building in central africa a retired pharmacist named the seventy seven year old dimitris to the us left a suicide note in which he accused the government of destroying his pension sterrett he cuts aren't sirup when hundreds of demonstrators dragonlance and goodness where to pay their respects just as through petrol bombs the police are responding with tear gas depression and suicide rates have been on the rise in a country that has been forced to impose public spending cuts to do its thing that dozens of jobs cut pay pensions and benefits if they can make it their actual analyst actually youngs is greece needs to take 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 debt in the course of the last ten years was stupid so making that absolutely clear the simple fact is greece must have thought on it it probably needs to leave the euro let me gently it not to deflate 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 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

a new austerity greece. employment across the eurozone has reached a record high since a single currency was launched thirty years ago nearly half of all spanish and greek and young people now what these worrying trends are also affecting countries that have joined the euro more recently. reports thousands of assistance way by i have to support troubled euro states. two thousand and eleven as the new 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 or just over a year old and the idea has lost its fizz people joining the euro has made an already painful situation even worse teachers really suffer here our monthly pay is insufficient even to survive on

a passport as the new kid in the block is the only played no part in amassing that devastating debt dragging it down but it's still being asked to contribute to the multi billion euros designed to cushion the currency i guess the 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 as 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 stake in it for the euro zone threatens its the only sovereignty by limiting say over their own budget. urgent decisions would require only eighty five percent of the of the country let me remind you that the share of the stone 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 the one point three billion euro estonia is being

asked to hand over his. small in the scheme of things but as a zone poorest member still a heavy price on the face of it the amount guaranteed by a stone near 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 but if we are to recalculate that according to a percentage of g.d.p. eight then it paints a very different picture of the stone you're seeming to be forking out more on this basis estonia's contribution stands at eight point five percent of g.d.p. growth of the speaking that's higher than germany france or italy my own i think the chancellor justice does the right thing challenging the ears same treaty in the

constitutional court the pointers as the e.u. and the years on our developing issues 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 wonder why they're stumping up for the mistakes of others degrees r.t. tallinn estonia. well that's ahead for you this hour arms from abroad the press to spend billions on new weapons corruption could hamper the country's victory modernization. the u.n. is deploying a team of negotiators to syria paperweight observer mission to the country it comes as damascus claims it's implementing a peace plan part of joy its military from residential areas position activists across syria saying this is the middle course of ongoing fighting in several cities

. outside the city considered you statement that pressure damascus to comply it will cease fire don't like it while russia is warning foreign forces against arming the syrian rebels saying who only fuel the conflict it seems to verify it into a worldwide information war. sign from arabic t.v. channel al jazeera and its coverage of the conflict says the station has provided material support to the opposition and making sure foreign intervention goes unreported. they were helping. the government once and it's what got her once. you know those big satellite. communication tools are now put out this is so they were entering them snuggling them into the from the borders from lebanon as i knew it was. obvious that go on militants firing from the borders to syria and clashing with the syrian army that

was actually a way from the words 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 chose. what i was asked to forget about these militants i was asked to leave the whole area back to beirut precisely is 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 and it's a brilliant on innocent people etc etc etc without showing that there are militants also if i think the army and killings are also civilians from the other sides know those who support the syrian regime at the same time that the. media also was trying to show that there were only militants who are fighting the regime and there were not people who are asking for freedom and under the forms and in the country. for the latest updates on the situation in syria it's

a web site which he dot com just a couple of the stories i have on line here today. back saying it's victory musson asia pacific the first round of troops arriving in australia what does it mean for their rivalry with china and others in the region. plus a year asked the devastating earthquake and tsunami japan is gripped by a new force of nature was the video on our website. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

wealthy british style. market. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines because a report on r.t. . the international criminal court turned down a request from best to get an edge the israeli war crimes and the deadly attack on gaza over three years ago more than fourteen hundred people were killed almost all of them palestinian but i see i.c.c. prosecutor said the destination and go ahead but only if the un or its security council recognizes palestine as an independent state try to win the peace

recognition last year failed despite the supports well for more than one hundred thirty countries due to the threat of a us of a type. a co-founder of the israeli committee against house demolitions says the i.c.c. is ruling costs 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 an. 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 for in the one hand they don't have the instant issa protect themselves on the other hand the international treaty doesn't accept its responsibility who will force protection for the palestinians probably 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 aren't the state 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 the credibility of the entire system. rather some other news making headlines around the world this hour. u.s. the senate five suspected al qaeda militants to trial for allegedly plotting the september eleventh attacks can turn over bin mates face charges including terrorism and murder and could face the death penalty if convicted the five men are accused of planning and executing acts which will grow most three thousand people two

thousand one as and try to move a trial to civilian courts in two thousand and nine that decision was reversed last year when it's been. told officers had been killed in afghanistan after gunmen attacked a compound of a government backed security force the onslaught happened in the western province attack a short it was posted outside before advancing and started opening fire responsibility has been claimed by the taliban which wants to thwart u.s. efforts to build the afghan military. and stay with afghanistan also says it may start checking into transit cargo drugs rupture is part of one of the lots is once transported supplies to forces now. in the most concern of damage it relations something's going to grab an afghan drug industry which nato into retirement.

japan has deployed interceptor missiles in preparation for north korea's rocket launch late in the summer it deceptive had been placed at four different locations in okinawa the place was the rockets route designed to shoot down any parts that the japan's airspace north korea says the launch is designed to send the satellite into orbit and u.s. young is using it to test its long range missile capabilities. and it security council is calling for an interval it's mild to return to constitutional rule two weeks after a military coup council raised concern that an al-qaeda linked group was operating inside the west african country two main rebel groups fighting the government endorsed it seems just collated that army officers overthrew the president last month however political parties and civil society groups have rejected the jews in a sea of military. with regional rivals and

a population of more than a billion to defend india has to make it a massive modernization which military that's against the backdrop of recent scandals damaging the reputation of a country's own since. the world's largest importer of homes and looks at its options russian firms are hoping to cash in on the action reports. of 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 as you have long believed you have this issue which sometimes is a bureaucratic lever you have a decision which is sometimes at the level of 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 eyeing the opportunity to take a slice of india's huge defense party india is the world's largest importer of ons and 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. to. their defense systems there's also very intense competition for. new submarines. these are 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 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. 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 to the preassure either r t new delhi india. well that's a very in our spotlight program i'll get over talks to a prominent u.s. historian about the reset of relations between moscow and washington stephen cohen says the issue of european missile defense is still the biggest stumbling block.

because very very very hard. russia wants guarantees and obama signed all that are true the syrian really got ratification of the arms control agreement but he would take action movie program with missile defense that means deploring it all the way around russia. because. i would say that 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 to be more elements with war elements of cold war conflict than we have good cooperation now maybe we can change that for brings or getting worse so i think we are still in a state of at least called. so to goes to katie to be now on the business this. was the latest. in the last

few minutes or so is a completely different picture for the russian markets we had a positive start as i was talking about but right now is that the my slaves and they are both managed to lose those games and head on into the red as you can see the r.t.s. around flat to negative and then my things around further in negative territory not following on from the low ball fell off that we saw yesterday following the federal reserve's decision not to enforce more stimulus just so there are some markets are doing reacting to that one if we look at the stocks will see completely different color spectrum again we saw green arrows the fall and now to see if brad would go after that right of course of a third down probably putin has pushed the last button of a new. reduction of devices new models most of us are so excited i will be watching out for we've also got oil a major ross yes is down does that mean it's likely that we see be around a quarter of this that's down off the posting healthy gains today if you look at

the currencies we see how the ruble is bearing. and as we can see it's still gaining the ruble still gaining against the u.s. dollar and the euro this is our look at the euro dollar is completely different we've got one thirty one twenty it wasn't moving much at so early on in the day and now it's gone back down if you look at the european markets they are having an interesting day actually they are managing to hold on to their gains a lot softer a disappointing bomb for spain yesterday some analysts were saying that we could see the sovereign debt crisis. investors don't seem to be too concerned at the moment now we've got keynes so prangs and carmakers also commodity wages are doing rather well in the region moving on to oil i was just reading about a rock apparently one of the northern pipeline has been sabotaged on its way to turkey it's going to take three days to get fixed as you can see that the prices

are up this light switch over to those of our brands over one hundred twenty three full days our we've also got us the claims coming out later on today and they're expected to be positive but it's what are our us all saying i'm moving on to other news that we're going to be talking about cars but the russian president elect has given a boost to the country's car industry but abuse putin says all state officials would soon have to buy. locally produced cars but the choice would be too limited for the officials known for their weakness for luxury many call manufacturers like b.m.w. are already have homes inside the. first the markets this hour back in about fifty five minutes we see the russian markets can manage to put themselves back up and supposed it certainly will say ok

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