russian businessman victor boot awaits sentencing in the queue asking faces life behind bars for a gun running but insists he's in his head. a potent symbol of their struggle there is violence in greece after a strong elderly victim of a government cuts takes his own life outside parliament. and here is a curative council calling on the syrian regime to pull out troops by april the time of death mind and a full cease fire on both sides in the following forty eight hours. the cells in the u.s. come out that's an expression of the russian markets managed to win

a rebound in the final minutes of trading with the obvious my stocks up three quarters of a percent more of this and so much of it's really. it's seven pm here in moscow this is r g coming to you by and i'm just now a with your top story this evening american cross accuser seeking life imprisonment for russian businessman victor boot was convicted of armed terrorists and conspiring to kill u.s. citizens a new york court will announce the sentence later on thursday but it's attorney stressed that he's innocent and that his case is being fabricated so let's see a churchill now reports. here is spent by the us to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash who are into a sting operation snatched out from

a third country alleged arms dealer viktor boot was handcuffed whom should you wes and placed 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 an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for inspiring to provide material support to the for the forty four year old russian air cargo business and i'm fascinated hollywood running our recall. request. i don't we are any other over who lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion long before his trial kicked off raising concerns about the fairness of his trial this is the lord of war. the merchant of death. and you've got him in your hands 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 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 played 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 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 but there is someone who has some interest in information and why don't those governments just drag 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 would defend says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real far members and all he was trying to do was sell to all the cargo planes of magic crimes when in fact that jurisdiction 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 and i feel that victor in this particular charges that were brought against him that he is innocent so i you know i don't i don't want any innocent man whether it be russian citizen who are trying to be you know sentence life or chemical crime and it didn't commit it 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 bookies assert meijer precedence and represents

a worrying us tragedy to simply override the legal systems of other countries is this a trigger that pretty. picture good wife spoke to our two year in moscow before the new york trial and she says nobody was looking for victor until the us decided it wanted him after all you going to give the canal both of them when you have a state department spokesperson describing how much money and effort they've put in to get bitter 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 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 at 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 victor they all claimed they were looking for him but they did nothing she wasn't hiding she was openly living in russia under his real name. so i had for you this hour on art's need the muslims on a mission to make an impression on the groups including the muslim brotherhood post about egypt go to capitol hill abuse their image and relations with the u.s. . and india's beleaguered army in tours of major bribes and corruption corporations corrupt corporations i say but ross and firms say they're ready to support the world's largest defense important story coming up. but first greeks are mourning the pensioner who shot himself dead in front of parliament in athens seventy seven year old retired pharmacist demetrius crystal this left a suicide note accusing the government's cuts of destroying his livelihood while his dad triggered clashes hundreds gathered on sometimes was square to lay flowers

and like handles the final interrupted as groups of protesters petrol bomb police responded with tear gas and it has been steadily slashing pensions and salaries by raising taxes to security e.u. and i.m.f. bailout greece is now extended the deadline for the last part of a bank which is leaving i've been investors shouldering massive losses economic analysts nick says the cuts policy needs a major rethink. at 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 who really dudley very well at all all we need is something like these to catalyze opinion and send us into deep reflection but i think that the more austerity cuts that follows on to approach to pensions public state the wages tax increases are absolute nightmare it's like putting it out of the car in

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 some of 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 real costs that are suffering while the people that have stashed away close to a trillion overseas have gotten away with it. well years on unemployment is at 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 serving as prime minister is finding it increasingly hard to sell the idea of bally out larger economies to his citizens take aggrieved reports from the capital. two thousand and eleven estonia 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

is 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 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 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 when it's tony salaries of a full well below the e.u. average even key legislators think this massive financial safety net for the euro zone threatens its stone your sovereignty by limiting say over their own budget use

that in one year decisions would require only eighty five percent of the world of the countries let me remind you that the share of the stone on war 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 one point three billion euro estonia is being asked to hand over a piece small in the scheme of things but as a zones poorest member is still a heavy price on the face of it no parenting bias tonia isn't all that much. other euro club members germany for instance or one euro coin to be equated to ten billion euros this is how their. journey spending one hundred sixty nine billion euros making this small change to recalculate that according to a percentage of g.d.p.

. it paints a very different picture for the stonier seeming to be forking out war on this basis a slow news 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 i think the chancellor of justice does the right thing challenging the e.s.m. treaty in the constitutional court the pointers as easy to on the use developing its use of 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 their stumping up for the mistakes of others degrees r.t. time to study it in other news the un security council is calling on damascus to meet the april tenth deadline to pull back troops but a full cease fire on both sides in the forty eight hours which follow president says he's already withdrawing its military from certain areas let's get more now

from our media correspondent was earlier who joins us live what actual progress is there in complying with the u.n. peace plan and are you now. well the united nations has given its formal backing to the peace put forward by the former u.n. chief kofi annan on thursday the united nations security council issued a statement on syria in which its push the syrian president bashar assad to hear to his commitments and then told the united nations that syria had pledged to cease all kind of movement towards population centers he also say that he was in contact with the opposition and urging them to stop fighting at the same time he called for both sides to show political world now on this day also a united nations team arrived in syria they will be the groundwork for an observer mission which is to come and they're also preparing the scene for the april tenth

deadline now that is the deadline according to the nuns then we also know that following that they found it would be forty eight hours for the opposition to lay down arms with a final deadline being on april the twelfth at six am now the syrian regime has indicated that it has already begun preparing the ground work for observing that deadline it says that it has started moving its troops out of volatile cities there they're moving towards the perimeter and in the much calmer cities its troops have already withdrawn on to the barracks but the opposition claims that fighting is continuing in damascus and in other same tears and that the fighting is actually getting worse. there's still some skepticism about whether the charges will work out what about reports that the rebels are still being for weapons from outside. there certainly is a lot of skepticism with relations with both sides as far as bashar assad goes

there is skepticism that he will continue with his troop withdrawal and actually meet this deadline and then the skepticism being voiced by countries such as russia particularly amid calls for arming the opposition and the rebels and that's follows a friends of syria meeting that countries like qatar and saudi arabia pledging millions of dollars to pay the salaries of rebel fighters and at the same time we've heard from the united states a pledge that if it would provide communication equipment so there is a lot of skepticism as to whether or not the deadline for the cease fire will be named and indeed whether or not these political will to actually meet and here to it. we of course will continue to monitor the situation closely as will you our middies correspondent paula slayer live from tel aviv. and senior members from islamic groups including the muslim brotherhood or at washington to try and boost their image and relations with the u.s.

it's all ahead of the first post revolution presidential election in egypt next month where political battles are heating up but political sort of the ologists says the new egyptian leaders are bringing nothing new to the table. there was a historical friendship between political slam and us and this is very all different remember in the fifty's you had the fender schoolman purpose for independence from the world we could do that was to support political islam to cia and the americans and the european colonialists the give should go to political islam to hide the nationalist movement in. and the political islam movement that came to power after being trying to send a message to the us and e.u. and need to that we are not blowing change the foreign policy health. care

continues and we are now leading and we continue the same policy and saudi have a lot of mistakes and could ability is the climbing rapidly so why or what was that evolution all about if you are going to be this see him like all dictators who used to also preparing commish to the laws of the white house. we have more world coverage for you at r.j. dot com including britain's drunk obama the fence drinking culture are there kills thousands every year and the bars and bruises being blamed on the report on why few think it's the cost that could be into our. lives and fine art in the mainframe you need a priceless collections in russia's right now galleries are now open to a google project so everyone can explore something unique culture check out all the details plus much more at our teen takaka.

is easy. to. see official allocation and join a phone call charge from the. one shown she is on the go. video on demand all season long the old girl's. owner says feed now in the palm of your. on the wall she called. two decades ago saw the start of europe's bloodiest military conflict since the second world war the bosnian war in the break up of the former yugoslavia reignited

the conflict between muslims and serbs over four years around one hundred thousand people were killed and more than four million displaced by the war ventilation nato's first ever peace mission in its history setting a template for incursions into foreign trouble spots and the nato activists rolls off the alliances current interventions make it hard for nations to resolve their conflicts themselves. it was not so much negro's first peacekeeping mission bosnia rep made his first contact and this is i'm sure this the time what that has been subsequent with the war against the federal republic of yugoslavia nine hundred ninety nine i would argue subsequently libya last year and the model is being worked in various degrees in syria because every decent human being wants to see them disability and doubts come to argue no internal strife and particularly armed conflicts within conflicts and even make it i think is that when the model has been

established in the countryside because you know that if an armed insurgency or some part of the streets and actually this movement knows they can. be political and alternately the military support of the united states and nato they are emboldened both to be going to continue an armed insurgency i think regime something one might note in syria from the from the prospect of a developing in any number of other companies in the future and as you know it is this year in the life for the purpose of this president the u.s. will intervene on behalf of one side of the civil conflict with the full force of its own personnel and military that is the major. oh a quick look at more of the world's news this hour taliban gunmen have killed ten policemen and an attack on a remote checkpoint in western afghanistan that militants first strangle the guard before opening fire on security officers elsewhere a suicide bomber has struck up azhar in the northeast killing two people and wounding six so now there's violence and pears to be increasing following the harsh

africa winter during which there usually is a reduction in fighting. and moammar gadhafi is the most influential son won't be heading to the war crimes court anytime soon libya wants to try safe al islam on top soil over the killing of protesters and the results are supposed his father because the death penalty if convicted in tripoli but only a prison sentence at the hague there's also concern that libya justice. system is rife with torture and human rights abuses. while these rebels have declared a cease fire after seizing the three main towns in the north they want their own state and have a factor of the split the country into the 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 a possible intervention 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 on him obey prisoners face the death penalty if convicted they're accused of planning and executing the attacks which killed nearly three thousand people in two thousand and one president obama wanted been tried in a civilian court but that susan was reversed last year after widespread opposition . now it is army is getting stuck in the trenches by dodging weapons makers a multi-billion dollar corruption some of the flaky foreign firms are being hounded out russian military manufacturers are on guard to help the world's largest importer of arms to soldier on. 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 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 terms of the bureaucratic level you have a 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 ons 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 the new air defense systems

there's also very intense competition for. new. diesel electric submarines to india. and russia also hopes to do so india also appears keen on the opportunity to let russia help modernize its defenses. comes and says a partnership with a country could be beneficial for both sides russia is one of the few countries that have joined us in joint development of military hardware one of the classic example. of that example is the. d.m.k. and we are also working together on the fifth generation for growth 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. time now to delve into the world of business with. a live update from the desk so the russian markets reversed from losses at the very close of the trading session and what happened out there they took quite a beating earlier they did they did two days of losses pretty much till the very end of the session and there was a trigger which came from the united states as it usually happens and that's retail sales in march came out better than expected now coupled with jobless claims declining we'll talk about that a bit later that created a rebound pretty much everywhere around the world and russia being some of your best performing markets the r.t.s. and the my space gaining more than half a percent you can see that three quarters of a percent secular what's moving the nice x. a lot of corporate reports coming out lately with them video gaining a net profit of around fifty percent for the previous year forced to be told you

know very thin trade of course it's not a very liquid stock on the russian market on russia said it's never a bit to forty two percent and it's off point seven percent because look well it was gaining on high at the moment seems we'll have them in just a second or two in the united states finally a rebound after several sessions of losses still we're seeing some of the best performing jobless market at the moment i mean to say that the jobs market has been recovering over the past six months pretty steadily and we're seeing double swings falling by six thousand to three hundred fifty seven thousand means as some kind of an improvement in the economy and evidence of retail sales also going out of this is driving the market. over in europe a lot of bad news coming from spain and italy notably yields. going up borrowing costs in france have also turned out to be higher for the latest auction and

therefore aren't easily pussy's out for us. point three percent the dax is still in negative territory. and the currencies market the euro continues to weaken versus the dollar has regained some of its positions still at one point three basically to the dollar and the ruble managed to gain at the very end of the session against the basket of the dollar and the. commodities we are seeing a recovery that has been providing support to the russian market in the final in the final minutes of trading that's of course on the back of signs that the economy is still recovering with people despite high gasoline prices still spending more retail sales going back better and therefore we are seeing a rebound in my suite of one dollar thirty three cents. you know the news ukraine has reportedly come out with a new idea to diversify its gas supplies away from russia which it claims are too

expensive now according to cover certain newspaper the country's regime best around eight hundred million dollars in the construction of a trance caspian pipeline and this is a billion dollar project it's backed by took matters that azerbaijan this pipeline would eventually be connected to a bucco which is intended to transport central asian gas to europe bypassing russia so ukraine is investing in it and that's all i have for you at this hour but of course i will be back around fifty five going to sign up late. actual analysis coming up at half past the hour with the kaiser report a little bit different at the spin there thanks for that update for that though we're going to take a short break and i'll be back with headlines they were. wealthy

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