russian businessman victor boot awaits sentencing in the u.s. as he faces wife behind bars for alleged gun running but insists he's innocent. public symbol of their struggle there's violence increase after the strong elderly victim of the government constitutes his own life outside parliament. and damascus says it's withdrawing troops in line with the u.n. sponsored peace plan the opposition claims it's still under attack.

it's five pm here in moscow this is r t coming to you live on the east now a with our top story american prosecutors are seeking life imprisonment for russian businessman victor boot was convicted of arming terrorists and conspiring to kill u.s. citizens a new york court will announce the sentence later on thursday but it's attorneys stress that he's innocent and that his case is fabricated to see a turk and now reports. years spent fighting us 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 flown to the u.s. and police in solitary confinement for months before a trial found him guilty on all four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and. employees three

conspiring to use and acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the stark the forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood wanted ritual. requests. and only army on the right. mood 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 award of war. the merchant of death right and you've got him in your hands right he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars a so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as fart members a colombian group deemed 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

west reportedly plea dirty 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 in the case of the extradited marshall say kidnap and boot family also called us actions entrapment and kidnapping but i can accept the possibility that victim 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 those people and surveyed territory what 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 mean arguments of the defense that the u.s. lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court rules defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real far remembers this and all he was trying

to do to cargo planes get magically crimes manufactured jurisdiction and manufactured evidence curios george matt has attended every hearing in the case he says is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play i feel that victor in this particular charges that were brought against him that he is innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man. russian citizen writable or troy davis to be you know sentence to life or convicted of a crime to commit victim hood is the second. russian citizen in the year to face sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in a third nation for peace is a major precedence and represents a worrying us trend to simply override the legal systems of other countries as this is shaping up pretty. well these are birds wife spoke to r.t. in moscow before the new york trial and she says nobody was looking for victor until the u.s. to sign it one of them but all you bloomberg in the konar got the or when you have

a state department spokesperson describing how much money and effort are they putting to get it to 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 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 the un with russia and integral would have certainly known about it and would have done something but in reality nobody did anything nobody was really looking for viktor 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 here on our to the muslims on

a mission to make an impression on my groups including the muslim brotherhood from egypt go to capitol hill in booths to try and boost their image i should say in relations with the u.s. . and india's beleaguered army in-doors major bribes and corrupt or prey shots of russian firm say there are ready to support the world's largest defense and that's coming up. first greeks are mourning the pensioner who shot himself dead in front of the parliament in athens seventy seven year old retired pharmacist demetrius christoulas left a suicide note accusing the government's costs of destroying his livelihood for his death triggered clashes hundreds gathered on scene thomas where to lay flowers and candles violence erupted as groups of protesters hurled past the police responded with tear gas athens has been steadily slashing pensions and salaries raising taxes

to secure e.u. and i.m.f. bail outs on thursday greece also extended the deadline for the last part of a bond swap which would see private investors shoulder massive losses economic analyst nick scratches says the policy of cuts should be given a major rethink. but this points inside we have about a third of the population in greece living underneath the poverty line we've got about a million people unemployed and probably half a million kids really don't we very well and all all we need is something like these to catalyze opinion and send us into deep reflection i think the more austerity cuts that all those awful cuts to pensions public sector wages and tax increases are an absolute nightmare it's like putting an anorexic 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 kids in the very rich to pay their share as well because at

the moment it's the unemployed people it's the pension is ahead 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. euro zone unemployment is that its worst since the currency was born and the newest members who had nothing to do with the piling debt are being dragged down to a story as prime minister is finding it increasingly hard to sell the idea of valley out larger economies to his citizens take of graves reports from the capital tallent. two thousand and eleven as the new welcomes in. and a new era as part of the euro club is a moment of triumph of the years of tough financial discipline for the nation which just 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 survive. as the new kid in the block is the only played no part in amassing the devastation get tracking it down and it's still being asked to contribute to the multi billion euros designed to cushion the currency against a 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 has little appetite for sending money abroad to richer countries particularly when it's their new 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 their new sovereignty by limiting say over their own budget yesterday in my original decisions would require only eighty five percent of the wall of the country so 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 by large countries such as germany france italy and spain the one point three billion euro stone is being asked to hand over a piece small in the scheme of things but as a. poorest member it's 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 one euro coin to be equated to ten billion euros this is how their efforts would differ journey spending one hundred sixty nine billion euros making this small change to repeat help create that according to a percentage of g.d.p. then it paints a very different picture for the stonier seeming to be forking out more on this basis a stone is contributions than that eight point five percent of g.d.p.

growth to be speaking as high germany france or italy my own i think the chancellor of justice does the right thing challenging the ears same treaty in the constitutional court the pointers as the e.u. and the years on a developing its use in marriage regarding partial transfer of national sovereignty to these institutions politicians and course may be debating but the nation appears to have made up its mind opinion polls suggest most are against the bailout fund they wonder why their stumping up for the mistakes of others degrees r.t. talent stony. europe's money troubles are explained it analyze that archie dot com also online you'll see that some prefer to drown their sorrows friends business drinking culture is killing thousands every year and it's a bargain that's being blamed for a report on why few think the cost is the cure. and fine art in the mainframe unique priceless collections and russians renowned galleries are now up

to a google project so everyone can explore some of the culture details are c dot com . syria's president says he's implementing the un backed peace plan by withdrawing 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 come to un as deploying negotiators to syria to pave the way server mission the security council is to consider a new statement of pressure both the mask and the rebels to comply with a total cease fire on the twelfth morning other nations against arming the syrian rebels saying it will only fuel the conflicts events in syria are proving hearts and 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 while ensuring foreign

intervention was ignored. they were helping the. government once it got out once. you know those began so. you know communication tools are put out this is so they want to smuggling them into the sea and you are from the borders from lebanon as i knew it was. obvious the. militants firing from the borders to syria and clashing with the syrian army that was actually away from the borders like three kilometers about time we were able to spot these militants who took some footage of those people and later on the china refused to speak shows. 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 on civilians on innocent

people are. without showing that there are militants also i think the army and killing also civilians from the other sides though those who support the syrian regime at the same time the. media also lost trying to show that there were only militants who are fighting the regime and there were no people who are asking for freedom and reforms and then the country now senior members from islamic groups including the muslim brotherhood are in washington trying to use their image and relations the u.s. it's ahead of the first post revolution presidential election in egypt next month where political battles are heating out but power of based political sociologist saif setback says the new egyptian leaders are bringing nothing new to the table. there was a historical friendship between political islam. and this is a very order if you remember in the fifty's you had. in the.

world the way to do that was. to cia and americans and. european colonialists the give should go to political islam the nationalist movement in. the political islam movement that came to call off the screen of time to send a message to the us and you need that we are not doing change the foreign policy call for. countries that we are now leaving and we will continue the same policy and so will do you have a lot of. credibility is the climbing rapidly so why what was the evolution all about if you are going to be this see him like all big peoples who used to also put. the laws of the white house in other news to decades ago the start of europe's bloodiest military conflict since the

second world war and bosnia more and a breakup the former yugoslav army out reignited ethnic conflict between muslims and serbs over four years around one hundred thousand people were killed and more than four million displaced workers also nato's first ever peace mission in the alliance is history sending a template for incursions into foreign trouble spots and a nato activist rose after i just now live from chicago he's out and i'm with us thank you for being with us the area of course just falling apart thousands dying millions displaced surely someone had to step in. if you're asking me if i believe that somebody had to step down i think we're jumping out a little bit too quickly for fragmentation of the socialist southern republic of yugoslavia getting a ninety minute run not coincidentally i'm convinced the very same year the soviet union was for i've never been to fifty constituents either republics was in large

part engineered by the major western powers recently at that time recently a unified germany in the first instance thinking of chancellor helmut kohl and the foreign minister hans-peter gunship but nevertheless having developed in the us civil conflict nato which celebrated its sixty third kind of birth rate the sixty third anniversary of its found yesterday decided it had a chance at a proposed cold war kerry had been on the parts of the soviet union to intervene militarily it was not so much nato first he's keeping mission bosnia rep made those first congress. and nine hundred ninety four outside of the capital of the bosnian serb republic prime yarmulke us. just fighters shot down for serbian airplanes the following here he was framed and shot the pilot was captured and in one thousand nine hundred five sitting here are you know brought in since two thousand troops in the bars were there since the thousand troops under nato command

so you know you're correct in the in what you said in the lead of the story and this is i'm sorry it's the template that has been used subsequent birth of the war against the federal republic of yugoslavia in ninety ninety nine i would argue subsequently in libya last year and the model is being worked in the various degrees in syria o'connor so i see the hardly anything to celebrate i'm convinced that if a major western powers and i'm not aware of an internal yugoslav affairs starting in one thousand nine hundred one you would not have seen a civil war in bosnia and second of all one sort of third the u.s. and its nato allies counter entirely on the side of one of which runs against the other hand you know a wage bombing campaign you know the north korean. acts of aggression go as far as the servant problem to bring up. the berbers well. but certainly i mean like i said thousands were killed you obviously think that but nato used it as a pretext for their strategic interests there but if we focus on the people that were being killed then again the millions displaced what else could have been done . you know again this is a good question

a standing offer problem before it develops rather than you know the oil on the frames and then once it reaches a crisis point demand that somebody intervene but even if we want to watch for the one nine hundred ninety five or the situation or the dark and for all there are other ways of resolving an internal civil conflict brain has dominated military walking. to again unilaterally on one side of living wage war against one of the boardrooms on behalf of the other this is not for any of these this is solving the civil war it's time for another country let me give you a good example if in the eight hundred sixty polian bone of louis bonaparte who controlled mexico's i'm sure on the birth of issue are still in canada i didn't pray to the united states from both directions on the behalf of the confederacy and the war it would not have been seen as a peacekeeping intervention in washington i've been assured. it's a day of conflicts nato appears is is that here is action intervening under the

guise of humanitarian aid how far can the banner saving and preventing civilian deaths he testified. well i mean every decent human being who wants to see and i'm disability and. you know it's arnold's strife and particularly armed conflicts within conflicts and he thing again i thank is that when the model has been established in countries like ours you know enough ninety ninety one in one thousand nine hundred five and later and possible in one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety nine that is an armed insurgency or a sucker to the spurs it's nationalist movement and goes into the political or alternately the military support of the united states and nato they are embolden those that maybe i'm going to continue an armed insurgency i think we're seeing something quite right that in syria and the fear in the prospect of a developing in any number of other companies in the future is now has you know it's is your own life because of this president the west will intervene on behalf.

long story the civil war with the full force of boots on the first of the north. is the major. all right brick roads all five of us on the line from chicago and the nato activists speaking to us on the anniversary of the bosnian war thanks for that . well a quick look now at more of the world's news for you this hour gunmen have killed policemen in an attack on a remote checkpoint in western afghanistan the militants first strangled the guard before opening fire on other security officers the taliban says it carried out the attack in an attempt for american efforts to rebuild the afghan military. well these rebels have declared a cease fire after seizing the three main towns in the north they want their own state and have effectively split the country into the rebels took advantage of chaos in the wake of the military coup sparked by the president's handling of an insurgency west african leaders will meet to discuss

a possible intervention for small these jhumpa to give up power. so proclaims mastermind of the nine eleven terror attacks has been sent to trial along with four suspected accomplices the guantanamo bay prisoners face the death penalty if convicted they're accused of planning and executing the attacks which killed nearly one thousand people in two thousand and one president obama wants of them tried in civilian court but that's assertion was reversed last year after widespread opposition. india's army is getting stuck in the trenches by dodgy weapon makers and multibillion dollar corruption all of the fight you 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 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 a long. you have decision which sometimes is a bureaucratic level you have a decision which is sometimes a level off the politicians so that in itself is a huge problem but we're doors so close for 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 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 larkin's

to india every year. thanks to their defense systems there is also very intense competition for. writing. these are electric submarines. 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 joint development of military hardware one of the classic example is. the other example is the. old saw working together on the fifth generation. of so india a string of military scandals is providing

a shakeup in its military suppliers but competition to fill the void will be fierce among the russian and international firms bidding to bring india's armed forces up to the preassure either r t new delhi india. joins us from the business us and you've got some crucial unemployment there are for us that's right in the u.s. we're talking about job list claims they decreased by six thousand to three hundred fifty seven thousand. cations now doesn't seem like much but it's a fact that jobless claims are declining and that means the u.s. economy is somewhat the. recovery although we're not seeing any changes on the markets not providing that much optimism the r.t.s. is still down point two percent on my sex well it has been flat now flat to positive doesn't make that much of a difference secular to what's going on the my sex after but as is seeing some declines up gauging in the previous session the love it or hated russian carmaker

released its new model the law which was inaugurated by prime minister blair you know and so we saw some gains in the previous session on that iana russia reported net profits of the previous year going up forty two percent yet we're seeing a correction in the stock down the around how percent some of the commodity stocks like lukoil are seeing gains well a slight rebound in resources. to move over now to currencies and the euro is losing massively for yet another session versus the greenback in this time of uncertainty a lot of people are moving out of stocks and into cash therefore a lot of demand for the u.s. currency and therefore the euro russian ruble is continuing to drop against the greenback and gauge i guess that you're. moving on now to europe and the footsie on the tax i'm not seeing as i mentioned any changes after that job claims data coming

out in the united states spain's and it's in these bomb yields have gone up well france also had an auction of bonds this morning and saw that borrowing costs went up therefore the passivism about the state of the e.u. economy and therefore the clerks. over in the commodities markets we're seeing some not of a rebound in light sweet up twenty six cents still far from one hundred five dollars per barrel that we saw just two days ago and bren's is declining twenty five cents . ukraine has reportedly come up with a new idea to diversify its gas supplies away. from russia which it claims are too expensive now cover sun newspaper says the country is ready to invest around eight hundred million dollars in the construction of the trance caspian pipeline the eight billion dollar project is backed by turkmenistan and azerbaijan this pipeline would then be connected to the bucco which is intended to transport central asian

gas to europe bypassing russia and that's all i have for you at least at this hour all right will you of course be back with more next hour looking forward to it we're going to take a short break here at the news desk as well and i'll be back with the headlines also will discuss whether russia is really america's number one far as republican presidential hopeful mitt romney recently claimed they were.

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