the u.s. prepares to sentence russian businessman victor boot for conspiring to smuggle arms and kill americans as he protests in this sense and vows to appeal. violence robson central athens after a seventy seven year old man shoots himself in front of the greek parliament claiming austerity costs for decimating his pension. because defense contractors of lined up for business as india makes plans to modernize the military hit by corruption scandals and crumbling what great.

it's three pm here in moscow the society coming to you live on the nice now way with our top story and it's judgment day for russian business when victor boot found guilty by an american court of conspiring to sell arms to terrorists they face life behind bars with the sentence to later on thursday but both defense maintains his innocence and will appeal but also claim the case has been swayed by the u.s. media sorties and stitcher cannot reports from new york. years 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 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 conspiring to provide material support to the for the forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood one there are twelve people. in the course. and only on the other eleven who lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion and 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 or 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 fart members a colombian group of terrorists in the u.s. but not by many other countries and they do when 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 trouble to extradite him or should say kidnap and boot family also called us actions entrapment and kidnapping i can accept the possibility that might have some information that 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 various people into that territory moscow's request to send him to russia for trial were brushed aside there was no official decision of an extradition russia called boot 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 far members and all he was trying to do was to cargo planes get them as many crimes manufactured jurisdiction and manufactured evidence journalist george matt 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 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 it be russian citizen because we were trying to be you know sentence life or we were trying to commit it to boot is the second. since it is in any year to say sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in the third nation he says that major precedence and represents a worry was stretched to simply override the legal systems of other countries especially if you're going to see. the un is deploying a team of negotiators to syria to pave the way for an observer mission to the

country this comes as damascus claims it's implementing a peace plan by withdrawing its military from residential areas but opposition activists across syria say this isn't happening and the reports of ongoing fighting in several cities the u.s. security council is set to consider a new statement that will pressure damascus to comply with the april tenth ceasefire deadline meanwhile russia is mourning foreign forces against arming the syrian rebels saying about only fuel the conflict events in syria are hard to verify needed to a worldwide information war one reporter who presided from al-jazeera over its coverage of the conflict says the station has provided material support to the opposition while making sure foreign intervention goes on reported. they want to help. the. government once and walk. through you know. like. you know communication tools on a practice is so they want to and getting them smuggling. from the borders from

lebanon as i knew it was. all of us. militants firing from the borders to syria clashing with the syrian army that was away from the borders like three kilometers of the time we were able to spot. we took some footage of those people and later on the china refused to pictures. while i was asked to forget about these militants i was asked to leave the whole area back to beirut now out of this size these divided. people are being misled by media on one side you know it's kind of concentrating on showing the army is killing civilians and innocent people are surprised without showing that there are militants also fighting the army and killing also civilians from all the sides the. syrian regime other sent down the official media also was trying to show that there were only

militants who are fighting the regime and there were no people well i was going for freedom and forms and in the country. for all the latest updates on the situation in syria you can head to our website archie dot com so here are just a couple of the other stories we have online for you today the u.s. is flexing its military muscle in asia pacific with a first round of troops arriving in australia but what does it mean for the rivalry with china and others in the region. plus a year after the devastating earthquake and tsunami japan is gripped by a new force of nature watch the videos on our website r.t. dot com.

but with bitter regional rivals and a population of more than a billion to defend india is its to begin a massive modernization of its military that's against the backdrop of recent scandals damaging the reputation of the country's armed forces and as the world's largest importer of arms looks its at its options russian firms are hoping to cash in on the action reports that the 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 reveals he was offered a bribe of almost three billion. dollars by a lobbyist to buy substandard defense equipment he turned down the bribe but this 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. you have sometimes is that the bureaucratic level you have in decision which is sometimes at the level of the politicians so that incentive

is huge problem but we're doors are closed for some they've opened for others many foreign depends firms are now eyeing the opportunity to take a slice of india's huge defense pie india is the world's largest importer of arms it is set 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 walk ins to india every year. thanks to the. defense systems there's also very intense competition for. these of the electric submarines to. 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 is one of the few countries that have joined joint development of military hardware one of the classic example is. the other example is the. old saw working together on the fifth generation. so india a string of military scandals is providing a shake up in its military suppliers but competition to fill the void will be fierce. among the russian and international firms being to bring india's armed forces up to korea sure either r t new delhi india. to greece now where clashes broke out between riot police and protesters after a pensioner saw them self in front of the parliament building in central athens retired pharmacist named as seventy seven year old to me this kris told us left

a suicide note in which he accused the government of destroying his pension with us thirty cuts and violence erupted when hundreds of demonstrators gathered in syntagma square to pay their respects protesters threw petrol bombs and police who responded with tear gas to passion and suicide rates have been on the rise in the country which has been forced to impose public spending cuts to deal with the mounting debt thousands of jobs have been cut pay and turns and benefits but also take a major hit financial analyst patrick young says greece needs to take urgent action to get out its dire situation. the greek government is bankrupt the greek government cannot afford to stay in the euro and pay its debts it must just halt 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 of bought it it probably needs to leave your room regionally it most deeply into its currency it is going to still have many problems but the critique of the marker is 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. i'm going oh well that's very start one of our constituents killed themselves when they themselves make fifteen dollars an euro hermanns with point any difficulty whatsoever as a backbencher and b. which is are not the money to pay for dozens of pensioners every month a new austerity greece. i don't blame it across the eurozone his rates are back or

high since the single currency was launched thirteen years ago nearly half a dozen greek young people now out of work but is wearing trousers also a factor in countries that have joined the euro more recently as it is jake agreed reports thousands of us stony and scrape by well having to support trouble you're all states. two thousand and eleven estonia welcomes a 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 old and the idea has lost its fizz joining the euro has made an already painful situation even worse that 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 euros designed to cushion the currency against a crisis like the one which scritch greece teaches or just some of those in uproar after having wage cuts forcing them to join the currency union there's little appetite for sending money abroad to richer countries particularly when it's the new salaries of a full well below the e.u. average even key legislators think this massive financial safety net for the euro zone threats in this third year sovereignty by limiting say over their own budget yesterday in one year. 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 the road will just be slightly over zero point two percent this means that all decisions will be taken where large countries such as germany france italy and spain the one point three billion euro estonia is being asked to hand over a piece soon and 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 here isn't all that much. euro club members germany for instance or if one euro coin to 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. then it paints a very different picture of 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 the germany france or italy my own i think the chancellor of justice does the right thing challenging the e.s.m. treaty in the constitutional court the pointers as evil and the use of my developing issues in marriage regarding partial transfer of national sovereignty to

these institutions politicians and courts may be debating but the nation appears that have made up its mind opinion polls suggest most are good for paid out funds they were the white bear something up for the mistakes of others degrees artsy talent a study. now thing your members of several islamic groups including the muslim brotherhood are and washington seeking to boost their image and relations with the us it comes out of the first post revolution presidential election in egypt next month our political battles are heating up get some reaction in and out. that's from cairo based political sociologist sayed joins us live via broadband from the egyptian capital thanks for being with us in the wake of the arab spring what sort of reception can the islamists actually expect in the u.s. capitol. there was a historical friendship between political islam. and this is very

or different remember in the fifty is who had the. world and those people in or one of the. countries hopefully. we can. see. americans. european colonialists the. political. the nationalist movement in. lucknow or. if you will remember the leadership between the u.s. and the gulf state laws are islamists who have no problem the problem between the us is. how messed. up. but not with pride but exists in. a political

movement that came to. the spring of trying to send a message to the u.s. and you need to that we are not going to change the foreign policy of. countries that we are now and we will continue the same policy and i think the message is true not because of. a lot of. economic evil what also have. a lot of. political it's going to be a bunch. of. the more lived most of their life in opposition all of a sudden they are becoming you know who loves and this is the first time the of. you have a lot of instincts and credibility is the climbing. he went to washington so

i thought influence public opinion not the government because the government has a lot of. known i just might interact if i could because you mentioned that they are the rulers obviously you're talking about the muslim brotherhood who have a great majority in parliament it's very worried many years since the revolution and it may be them on paper but really the military council is in charge here why are we not seeing more pressure from the u.s. on the military rulers to help deliver what it claims to stand for and what this revolution was all about freedom and democracy. we may have been hijacked and american looking for a model like that exists in pakistan military islamist alliance so this is looks to be what is coming out of spain in some countries like in egypt there is this

marriage of convenience the islamists and the military how long this would last we are not sure but this looks so far the. good thing about what happened is that this islamist the bubble is now both in public opinion and people who voted for those people who could be the are not delivering the really lofty promises we will give you. who we will give you a lot of stuff we are feeling the are acting like the old regime being pretty good with the white house on the american research center and. if you look even at the opinions. on this visit by islamists in washington and said why or what was the evolution all about if you are going to be this like all because people who used to also publish. the laws

of the white house well one of the things that these islamist groups do stand out in terms of in comparison to the old regime is their position at least their public position on iran and the regime there speaking out as opponents of the regime in tehran what do you think iran will have to say about that and what could be the reaction in the region i don't see that any of those political islam groups are going to give us your arm or sanction in any war against your own there is sort of i mean couple of illusions despite the fact that for. peoples and americans withdrawing performance. between the sun and the she are you on is you know is the one that with her sitting in the bombing we have on this has not succeeded and i don't see that. although we. are on

this position i don't think you will listen any american war is where you start again as you are. but at the same time people don't have any tools except be. on top and the americans of course realize that bombing you are. also have a big impact. on political islam. because you would mobilize public opinion against the if it's these and become critical for. americans in the impulse and under such circumstances. pointing in such strike just briefly if i could turn to syria washington continuing there to back the opposition despite its links to al qaeda what ever happened to the so-called war on terror is that being forgotten in terms of syria. good. issue what the people who america. america. or for america are local soon as you.

always this one sports. thank you very much live from cairo via broadband political post the ologists sidestep there thanks for your time. but some other news that's making headlines this hour of us have sent fine suspected al qaeda militants to trial for allegedly planning the september eleventh attacks and we're talking about in light face charges including terrorism and murder and could face the death penalty if convinced the five men are accused of planning and executing the attack which killed almost three thousand people in two thousand and one president obama tried to move their trial to civilian courts in two thousand and nine but now decision was reversed last year after widespread opposition. to an officers have been killed in afghanistan after gunmen attacked the compound of a government backed security force they also what happened in the western farrar province attackers are dead

a guard who was posted outside before advancing into the site and opening fire responsibility has been claimed by the taliban which wants to thought u.s. efforts to rebuild the afghan military. thing with afghanistan moscow says it may start checking nato transit cargo for drugs russia as part of one of the alliances routes for the transport of food and supplies to forces in afghanistan moscow's repeatedly voiced concern over the damages population suffers from the ground afghan drug industry which nato has failed to root out. japan has deployed interceptor missiles in preparation for north korea's rocket launch later this month interceptors have been placed at four different locations in okinawa and face towards the rockets planned route for a sign to shoot down any part of the year into japan's air space north korea says the launch is designed to send a satellite into orbit but japan and the you ask claim pyongyang is using it to

tast its long range missile. here at security council is calling for an violence in mali and a return to constitutional rule two weeks after a military coup council raise concerns that now kyra linked group in operate is operating inside the west african country two main rebel groups fighting the government and hostilities which are school aged after army officers overthrew the president last month political parties and civil society groups are projective the legitimacy of the military takeover. so i'm going to get the latest from the financial world katie joins us what you have for us this hour hey there well the russian markets they remain in the red this hour that's after a positive start to the day that means it's the second day of losses after the federal reserve decision in force more stimulus in other words not pumping more cash into the system we've also got the u.s.

futures pointing downwards as well which is for a much concern let's have a look at how the figures look right now have a look at how the yes and the my stakes is performing as you can see that they are heading. deeper into the red that the r.t.s. point nine percent down the my six point six percent in negative territory this hour let's have a look at the stocks as see how they're fairing now it's a big change of fortunes with my mr beattie aligned themselves up at this hour just reading just now actually the russians the republic of chechnya has invited azerbaijan. to tap into his who oppose it now they're saying that production license help iraq has expired us an interesting one to watch as you can see our state class very disappointing indeed they had healthy games earlier on today over fences point down. also down moving on let's get all we've got occurrences to look at as well we've got the ruble it's now mixed i guess the main cries he has the euro dollar is losing the fight if we move almost it's about european markets for

a second or two now they seem to be losing the high they are now indeed in the red and a lot of that is because of spanish and italian government bonds taking a plunge the footsies well down a lot of money. was disappointing let's have a look up oil and see that the prices are higher in the us despite us increasing domestic production and saudi arabia along with other countries is that they are going to really boost their suppose i and in other news we got the ukraine it's reportedly come up with a new idea to diversify its gas supplies away from russia which it claims are too expensive cumbersome newspaper says it's ready to invest around eight hundred million dollars in the construction of the trans caspian pipeline the eight billion dollar project is backed by commander stan and as a by john this pipeline would connect enough bouquet which is intended to transport central asian gas to europe bypassing russia. and that is how the market is alert

dimitri medvedev who will be in the seat next hour he'll be taking over the past and so to speak give you all the latest figures on the markets. all right thanks a lot katie update we'll see you tomorrow back because desk we're going to take a short break here on news and i'll be back with our cup stories in just a moment. well

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