russian businessman victor boot awaits sentencing in the us in cases of wife behind bars for alleged gun running but insists he's innocent. a potent symbol of their struggle there's islands in greece for the strong elderly victim of the government contacts it's own life outside part of the network. and their mascot says it's withdrawing troops in line with the u.n. sponsored peace fund but the opposition claims it's still under attack.

from our studios in central moscow you're watching archie with me and he said now it's six pm here in the russian capital ten am in new york where american prosecutors are seeking life imprisonment for russian business and victor boot who's convicted of arming terrorists and conspire conspiring to kill u.s. citizens the court will announce a sentence later on thursday groups attorneys stress that he's innocent and that the case is fabricated as the last they see it now reports. 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 boot 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 employees three

conspiring to use an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the park the forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood one of our ritual. requests. going on the other eleven booed lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion long before his trial kicked off raising concerns of the fairness of his trial this is the lord of war. the merchant of death. and you've got him in your hands spread he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars a 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 many other countries and the u. 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 playing dirty by 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 kidnap them roots 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 say to themselves that there is someone who has some interesting information and why don't those governments just drive these 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 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 and what's different says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real fark members and all he was trying to

do was sell to all the cargo planes that 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 us judicial power play if you will the victor and it's particularly charges that were brought against him that he's innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man or whether it be russian citizen or troy davis to be you know sentence right or a victim of a crime to plead in commit victim hood is the second. russian citizen i mean year to face sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in a third nation peace is a major precedence and represents a worrying u.s. trend to simply override the legal systems of other countries because there's a trickle up pretty. well victor booth wife spoke to r.t. in moscow before the new york trial she says nobody was looking for victor intil the u.s. decided it wanted him. to give the canard that is when you have

a state department spokesperson describing how much money and effort they've put in to get if the extradited to the u.s. 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 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 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. still ahead for you here on our team this hour one of the muslims on

a mission to make. family groups including the muslim brotherhood from post revolt egypt to go to capitol hill to boost their image and relations with the u.s. . also india's beleaguered army and doors major brands and corporations run firms say they're out there ready to support the world's largest defense important. grades are mourning the pensioner who shot himself dead in front of part of the men in athens seventy seven year old retired pharmacist demetrius christoulas left a suicide note accusing the government's cuts of destroying his livelihood his death triggered clashes hundreds gathered on some tugman square today flowers and like candles islands rock to go as groups of protesters pro petrol bombs the police who responded with tear gas. suddenly slashing pensions and salaries by raising taxes to security e.u. and i.m.f.

bailout on thursday greece also extended the deadline for the last part of advance one which would see private investors shoulder massive losses economic analyst nick . scrapped us i should say says the policy of cuts should be given a major reason. but this point 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 at all all we need is something like these to catalyze opinion and send us into deep reflection i think the more austerity cuts horizontal cuts to pensions public sector wages and tax increases are an absolute nightmare it's like putting it on a rake sic on a very strict diet it's going to backfire when 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 hand 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 but 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 i think drag down to its thirty is prime minister is trying to get increasingly hard to sell the idea of belling out larger economies to his head a sense frank agreed reports on the capital problem. two thousand and eleven as the new welcomes in a new year and a new era as part of the year a club is a moment of triumph after years of tough financial discipline for the nation which just hit the pockets of everyone the euro zone demanded that as a condition of membership but just over a year on and the idea has lost its 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 a study of played no part in amassing that devastating debt dragging 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 gripped greece teachers 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 only salaries of a full well below the e.u. average even key legislators think this massive financial safety net for the euro zone threatens it's their only sovereignty by limiting say over their own budget yesterday in 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 the stone on world 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 and one point three billion euro stoney is being asked to hand over ok small in the scheme of things but as a zones poorest member it's still a heavy price on the face of it amelle guarantee by a stone near isn't all that much. of a euro club members germany for instance or one euro coin could be equated to time billion euros this is how. it's more difficult journey spending one hundred sixty nine billion euros making this small change to recalculate that according to a percentage of g.d.p. well then it paints a very different picture for the stone year seeming to be forking out more on this basis stoney's contributions than that eight point five percent of g.d.p. growth to be speaking that's higher than germany france or italy my own as in the

chancellor just as does the right thing challenging the ears same treaty in the constitutional court the point is as easy to on the eurozone a developing as using 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 wonder why they're stumping up for the mistakes of others degrees r.t. tallinn estonia. well europe's money troubles are explained and analyzed for you what are to dot com also online will see that some prefer to drown their sorrows drinking culture earth killing all of them or premier their bargain of being blamed for the report on why few think a cost is the cure. plus the fine art in the mainframe you need priceless collection of the brushes renowned galleries are now hooked up to

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. there's a report on. the line from moscow syria's president says he's implementing the un backed peace plan by withdrawing its military from certain areas on the ground claimed syrian troops are attacked in the capital suburbs and reports ongoing fighting in several cities now the un is to point a ghost syria at the server mission the security council has fully endorsed the april tenth ceasefire deadline for syrian troops russia is warning other nations against arming the rebels saying it will continue it will fuel the conflict events in syria are tough to verify and that's leading to claims of skewed media reporting for the former al-jazeera correspondent who quit over its coverage says the network provided material support to the rebels while ensuring foreign interventions let's

ignore. there were how big. it's what the government wants and what it's not about that wants. you know those. you know communication tools that are put out this is so they want to have gotten gun smuggling going to be from the borders from lebanon as i knew. all of us know what. the ring from the border and clashing with the syrian army that was. wait from the borders like three kilometers about time we were able to spot these militants and we took some footage of those people and later on the china refused pictures. were i was asked to forget about these militants and 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 civilians and innocent people etc etc etc without

showing that there are militants also for i think the army and killing are also civilians from the other side those who support the syrian regime other sent around the. media also was trying to show that there were only militants who are fighting the regime and they were not people who are asking for freedom and reforms in the country senior members from this time groups including the muslim brotherhood are in washington to try and boost their image and relations with the u.s. is that in the first post revolution presidential election in egypt next month where political battles are heating up cairo based political sociologists a sceptic says the new egyptian leaders are bringing nothing new to the table. there was a historical friendship between political islam. and this is very all different remember in the fifty's who had. learned that in the. world

we can do that was to support political islam to see i.e. and the americans and the european colonialists to give should go to political it's lehmkuhl fired the nationalist movement in. the political movement. after. trying to send a message through to the us and the e.u. we don't need that we are not going to change the foreign policy goal for. the countries that we are now leading and we continue the same policy and so when we have a lot of mistakes. the beauty is the climbing rapidly so why what was the pollution to look out if you are going to be this see him like all dick peoples who used to also. to the loss of the white house cairo based political sociologist said that talking there. now two decades

ago saw the start of europe's bloodiest military conflict since the second world war the bosnia war and the break up former yugoslavia reignited ethnic conflict between muslims and arabs over four years around one hundred thousand people were killed more than four million displaced of war eventually nato's first ever peace mission in its history setting a template for incursions into foreign trouble spots anti nato activists red cross off believes the alliances current interventions make it hard for nations to resolve their conflicts themselves. it was not so much nato as part of these people bosnia and started nato its first combat mission had the same story as the town but as the new subsequent birth of a war against the federal authority people saw the i came i mean i i would argue some sort of way and let me go last year and the model was being worked in various degrees and syria count every decent human being who wants to see i am disability

and. you know i'm sorry most of strife and particularly armed conflicts where in conflicts the key thing i did and i think is that when the model has been established in the countryside barzilla that if an armed insurgency or a soccer terrorist or six nationalist movement knows they can counter the political and automatically the military support of the united states and nato they are emboldened both they began going to continue an armed insurgency i think receiving something like mike had in syria come to them the prospect of a developing and any number of other countries in the future now as you know is that is going on the life of the stress and the u.s. will intervene on behalf of one side in the civil conflict with the full force of its own president a military might that is the major problem. but look now at more of the world's news this hour have killed policeman 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. moammar gadhafi is most influential saunders won't be heading for the war crimes court anytime soon libya wants to try saif al islam on the home soil over the killing of protesters in the revolt which supposed his father faces the death penalty if convicted in tripoli but only a prison sentence at the hague there's also concern the libyan justice system is rife with torture and human rights abuses. well these rebels have declared a cease fire after seizing three main towns in the north they want their own state and have effectively split the country into rebels took advantage of the chaos in the wake of a military coup sparked by the president's handling of an insurgency west african leaders will meet to discuss possible intervention to force mollies to give up

power. and the self-proclaimed mastermind of the nine eleven terror attacks has been sent to trial along with four suspected accomplices they want automobile prisoners face the death penalty if convicted they're accused of planning and executing the attacks which killed a three thousand people in two thousand and one president obama one of them tried in civilian court but the decision was reversed last year after widespread opposition. india's army is getting stuck in the trenches be set by dodgy 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 but i'm sure your story. 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 revealed he was

offered a bribe of almost three billion dollars by a lobbyist to buy substandard defense equipment he turned down the bribe but the scandal has rocked the country and caused the ministry of defense to suspend six defense firms for ten years over their lobbying tactics what happens is you have long believed you have 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 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 pie india is the world's largest importer of arms that 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. thanks to the. defense systems there's also very intense competition for. writing. into 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 or for military hardware one of the classic examples. the other example is the supporting him. and we are also working together on the fifth generation for career growth so india's 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 bidding to bring india's armed forces up to the preassure either r t new delhi india. giveaways business news now from three on the markets finally recovering after several sessions of losses it's been a tough week it has been a tough week finally we are indeed seeing a recovery on the trigger here is better than expected retail sales in the united states in the month of march a second look at how the markets are reacting right now that you would say the markets are still down though that as you can see there are lots of negative dow jones and nasdaq down by just the knowledge also another positive moment jobless claims declining by six thousand two hundred fifty seven thousand first time applications also outside of recovery in the economy now over in europe things are moving to the better also footsie is actually back into positive territory with axes down around half

a percent that's of course still moderate by the fact that the spade and italy's born yields are still growing up france is also seen an increase in costs and let's take a look at russia here everything is looking positive in the last twenty minutes of trade on my six managed to move into positive territory after really seeing a nosedive in the previous session many on the say some of the stocks were oversold and i think so seeing an increase of almost one percent after violence is continuing to gain for a second session it was one of the few where the ring the storm in the previous session as it's launched its new model the log just beyond russia's reported a excuse me forty two percent increase in net profit in the previous year now. lukoil is up on higher commodities. over on the currency is markets the euro is still down massively versus the dollar the ruble managed to gain against both

currencies and in the commodities sector we are seeing a somewhat recovery in light sweet it's up almost half a dollar whereas brant is down twenty cents and so. ukraine reportedly come up with a new idea to diversify its gas supplies away from russia which it claims are too expensive commissar newspaper says it's 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 connect in a blue car which is intended to transport central asian gas to europe bypassing russia and that concludes this edition of the business news but i will be back of course in around thirty five minutes time to bring an update and the closing bell figures at the top of the hour and he said all right we will see you then thanks for that update we. on the headlines are coming your way after a short break also coming up for you with a former f.b.i. informant and tells us why america's muslims are in the official firing line at the

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