russian businessman victor boot awaits sentencing in the you were asked who faces might behind bars for a gun running but insists he's innocent. of potential symbol of their struggle there's violence and greets after a strong elderly victim of a government cops takes his own life outside parliament. and damascus says it's withdrawing troops in line with the u.n. sponsored peace plan but the opposition claims it's still under attack.

from our headquarters in the central moscow you're watching our team with me and he said now it's good to have you with us four pm here in the russian capital eight am in new york where american prosecutors are seeking life from the president for a russian businessman viktor brute is convinced of arming the convicted i should say of arming terrorists and conspiring to kill us sort of serves a court will announce the sentence later on thursday attorneys stress that news innocent and that his case is fabricated as honest as he had now reports. years spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man and 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 placed in solitary confinement for months before trial found him guilty on all four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals to conspiring to kill united states office. there's an employee's 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 one car everywhere people are. going to question. and only on the other a writer 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. a 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 the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as far members a colombian group terrorist in the u.s. but not by mini 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 playing 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 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 that there is someone who has some interest in information and why don't those governments just drive based people onto their 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 difference 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 for the members and all he was trying to do was

sell to cargo planes leaders of magic crimes when in fact there is direction 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 i feel the victor in this and 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 chemical prior to commit to good is the second. russian citizen in the new year to face sentencing on american territory for little 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 in our party. but victor booth wife spoke to our tear moscow before the new york trial she says nobody was looking for victor until the u.s. decided it wanted him at the border been going to games at the nonprofit or when

you have a state department spokesperson describing how much money and effort of the footing to get bitter 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 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 russia and into paul would have certainly known about it and would have done something what in reality nobody did anything nobody was really looking for victor they all claimed they were looking for him but they did nothing he wasn't hiding he was openly living in russia under his real name. so i had for you this hour weren't the muslims on

a mission to make an impression the slummy groups including the muslim brotherhood from provoke egypt to go to capitol hill to boost their image and relations with a few laughs. and india's beleaguered army endorse major bribes and corruption corp but russian firms say they're ready to support the world's largest offensive order. but first greeks are mourning the pensioner who shot himself dead in front of parliament in athens on wednesday seventy seven year old retired pharmacist demetrius crystal was left a suicide note accusing the government's cuts of destroying his livelihood his death triggered clashes hundreds gathered on syntagma square to lay flowers and like candles but violence soon erupted as groups of protesters patrolled by police who responded with tear gas athens has been steadily slashing pensions and salaries while raising taxes to secure e.u. and i.m.f.

valid outs on thursday greece also extended the deadline for the last part of a bond which would see private investors shoulder massive losses let's not talk to economic analysts and international lawyer nick scratch scratch because who is in athens thanks for being with us the answer also thirty dr now has its most public marder i mean will the pensioners that triggered a nationwide riot through even overthrow the government. well at this point inside we have about a third of the population in greece living underneath the poverty line and we've got about a million people unemployed and probably half a million kids who really don't we very well at all all we need is something like this to catalyze opinion had to send us into deep reflection will it actually spark more riots well it's not going to help the situation any at all. but how is the government reacting to this suicide apart from calling it tragic and i mean is its

policy of cards going to be at least a little star in here. well this particular government one must understand is more of the kids than anything else look as part of the most was charged in november to oversee the swap which means the haircut reducing a bit by one hundred billion and to secure another hundred thirty billion bailout of course the strings attached to that morris they're ready and we haven't seen them all yet they'll be more in june but he's still greeley used to take his international lections which should happen on may the sixth or the thirty what more could somebody who took charge in november until now have they are not an awful lot but still greeks tend to resent any essence of authority at the moment they blame everybody people are also speaking out against debt restructuring where private creditors will lose out by the millions what is the way forward for athens in your opinion i mean you've already talked about more cuts into how do you see it playing

out. well i think that the more austerity cuts and powers also cuts to pensions public sector wages and tax increases are an absolute nightmare it's like putting it on a rake simply on a very strict diet it's going to backfire what we really need here is more structural reforms some sensible privatizations to clamp down on waste and corruption and actually get the very rich to pay their share as well because at the moment it's the unemployed people it's the pensioners and it's the middle classes that are suffering while the people that have stashed away close to a trillion overseas have gotten away with it there are reports that we're getting that iran has blocked oil sales to greek companies one of these firms said u.s. and e.u. sanctions payments how is that going to affect the already struggling economy it's not going to help things at all but i think both of these companies have

secured some supply lines from russian companies and perhaps sun resources from libya and the rest of the middle east i think greece is paying the price for a policy that hasn't been well thought out by the u. but then that isn't the first time greece could actually use a little bit of help he needs military defense needs and also a little bit of help with the problem that we have with illegal immigration if those two things could have been assisted by europe as it is as opposed to more austerity things would have been better here. right now expects economic analysts an international lawyer guy with us on the lines line from athens thanks for your input this hour thank you. now euro zone unemployment is at its worst since the currency was born and the newest members who had nothing to do with the piling that are being dragged down to study of prime minister is finding it increasingly hard to sell the idea of bellowing out larger economies to his citizens take

a greater ports from the capital. two thousand and eleven as the new welcomes in the 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 hit the pockets of everyone in 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 teachers really suffer here our monthly pay is insufficient even to survivors. as the new kid in the block is the only played no part in amassing the devastation get tracking it down but still being asked to contribute to the multi billion euro fireable designed to cushion the currency against the crisis like the one which quit greece teachers or 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 what isto new salaries of a full world below the e.u. average even key legislators think this massive financial safety net for the euro zone threatens its their new sovereignty by limiting say over their own budget your studying my meal urging decisions would require only eighty five percent of the wall of the country so let me remind you that the share of those stones 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 and one point three billion euro stone is being asked to hand over a piece small in the scheme. things but as this goes forward member still the price on the face of it the amount guaranteed by a stone isn't all that much. euro club members germany for instance or if one euro coins could be equated to time billion euros this is how their

efforts would 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 slow news contributions than that eight point five percent of g.d.p. growth to be speaking that's higher germany france italy and my own i think the chancellor has just as does the right thing challenging the e.s.m. treated in the constitutional court the pointers as the e.u. and the years of my developing issues in my 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 will do why there stumping up for the mistakes of

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your social implications. from the. omission. syria's president says he's implementing the un backed peace plan by was drawing its military from certain areas but the opposition on the ground claim syrian troops are attacking the capital suburbs and reports ongoing fighting in several cities the un is deploying to go she enters into syria to play for an observer mission the security council is to consider

a new statement to pressure both to masks and the rebels to comply with total cease fire on april the twelfth but says warning other nations against arming the syrian rebels saying it will only fuel the conflict events in syria are proving hard to verify and that's leading to claims of skewed media reporting a former al-jazeera correspondent who quit over its coverage of the conflict says the network provided material support to the rebels all ensuring foreign intervention was ignored. they were helping the. government once and got out once. you know those began so. you know communication tools are put out this is so they were telling them smuggling them into the from the world goes from lebanon as i knew it was. obvious . militants from the borders to syria and clashing with the syrian

army that was actually away from the borders like three kilometers of the time we were able to spot these militants and we took some footage of those people and later on the china refused pictures. what i was asked to forget about these militants i was asked to leave the whole area back to beirut the other 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 on civilians and innocent people are. without showing that there are militants also fighting the army and killing civilians from the other side as though those who support the syrian regime at the same pound that the. media also lost 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. senior members from sonic roofs including the muslim brotherhood are in washington trying to try to try and

boost their image and relations with the u.s. it's ahead of the first post revolution presidential election in egypt next month their political battles are heating up cairo based political sociologist sadak says the new egyptian leaders are bringing nothing new to the table. there was a historical friendship between political islam and us and this is very or if you remember in the fifty's you had and became the school meant that independence from our world where we can do that most of what i think it is slam to see i.e. and the americans and the european colonialists the give should go to political it's lehmkuhl fired the nationalist movement in those countries and the political islam movement that came to power after explaining how trying to send a message to get through to the us and e.u. and the talk that we are not going to change the foreign policy of. their

countries or we are now leaving and we will continue the same policy and so will the have a lot of instincts and their credibility is the climbing rapidly so why all the world what was that evolution all about if you are going to be this see him like all dictators who used to also be comparable to the laws of the white house. a quick look now at more of the world's news this hour for you have killed ten police in an attack on a remote checkpoint in western afghanistan the militants first strangled a guard before opening fire on other security officers the taliban says it carried out the attack in an attempt to thwart american efforts to rebuild the afghan military. always try graveled have declared a cease fire after seizing the three main towns in the north they want their own state and happen for actively split the country into rebels took advantage of the

chaos in the wake of a military coup sparked by the president's handling of the northern insurgency west african leaders will meet to discuss possible intervention for small there's job to give up power. self-proclaimed mastermind of the nine eleven terror attacks has been sent to trial along with force spectator composites gone tunnel bay prisoners face the death penalty if convicted they're accused of planning and executing the attack which killed nearly three thousand in two thousand and one president obama wanted them tried in a civilian court but that decision was reversed last year after widespread opposition. the war crimes court has told the palestinians that it won't investigate israel's deadly attack on gaza three years ago because they don't recognize state more than fourteen hundred people died in the raids almost all of them palestinian activists jeff helpers says the ruling passed

a shadow over the international judicial system. 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 the discretion of the fourth geneva convention is not enforced by the international community so on the one hand they don't have the instruments of protect themselves on the other hand the international community doesn't accept its responsibility to afford section four the palestinian problem with 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. it is army is getting stuck in the trenches set by dodging weapon makers and multibillion dollar corruption some of the flaky foreign firms are being hounded out and russian military manufacturers are on guard to help the world's largest importer of arms to soldier on. the story of 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 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 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 some berms as a bureaucratic lever you have a decision 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 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 weapons to india every year. thanks to in their defense systems

there's also very intense competition for. writing and you. do the trick certain range to. russia hopes to do so india also appears keen on the opportunity to let russia help modernize its defense systems and says. partnership with a country could be beneficial for both sides russia is one of the few countries that have joined this joint development of military hardware one of the classic examples. that example is the. way we're also working on the fifth generation fighter aircraft so india's string of military scandals is providing a shakeup in its military suppliers the competition to fill the void will be fierce among the russian and international firms bidding to bring india's armed forces up

city preassure either r t new delhi india. meeting on joins us the latest from the financial world and it looks like traders have no reason to smile these days not right what's happening out there well actually they could be smiling if they sold three days ago of the shorts at the market but overall you are right the mood is quite bearish it's pessimistic no news and still no rebound on the market that's pretty much demonstrate that it's more or less in a bearish market rather than a bullish one just take a look at russia continuing to drop a little has recovered somewhat from los altos is down point six percent of my six point four percent among interesting stories on the m i six after has reversed into the blackout to seeing some gains in the previous session the love it or hate it's a russian maker launched its first model together with. the law goes to lawyers which was blessed by the prime minister but you know it's an eon russia now

it's down to one point four percent of the spite reporting an increase in net profit of four fourteen two percent last year you while some commodity stocks like blue core like getting support from a bit of a rebound in the commodities market look at that just. now to currencies and the euro continues to weaken. versus the greenback amid this time of uncertainty and amid a growing a bond yields in europe will look at that in just a second the ruble is seeing a very sharp decline versus the dollar twenty nine p. and versus the euro even around two copecks so really no support for the russian currency scene today. moving on now to european markets and as i mentioned bond yields for spain and italy have been rising also france has seen in his latest bond auction borrowing costs increasing and therefore really no optimism over here

either the vax is down point nine percent or footsies a bit better than that. and on the commodities markets we are seeing a bit of a recovery after two days of drops of seeing u.s. crude stockpiles seeing a very sharp edged. ukraine as reports of the come up with a new idea to diversify its gas supplies away from russia which it claims are too expensive newspaper says that the country is ready to invest around eight hundred million dollars in the construction of the trance caspian pipeline and this eight billion dollar project is backed by turkmenistan and as a by john pipeline would connect bucco which is intended to transport central asian gas to europe bypassing russia. so that's the way the market looks this nice of course we're back with more next hour looking forward to. going to take us sort of break here on r t the headlines are on the way for you and then a former f.b.i. informant tells us why america's muslims are the if in the official firing line

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