tonight a nazi russian businessman victor both awaits sentencing in the united states he faces life behind bars for alleged gun running but he insists he's innocent. the u.n. security council calls on the syrian regime for full troops the april tenth deadline and a full ceasefire on both sides in the following forty eight hours. at a potent symbol of the struggle greece mourns the distraught elderly victim of the government to suicide outside parliament clashes.

live from moscow welcome mrs arty internationally it's nine pm now my name is kevin and our top story american prosecutors are seeking life imprisonment the russian businessman vic to boot he was convicted of arming terrorists and conspiring to kill u.s. citizens a court will announce the sentence later on thursday attorney stressed he's innocent and that is cases fabricated and he said this is a a chicken to 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 out from a third country alleged arms dealer victor 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 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 fark the forty four year old russian air cargo businessman fascinated hollywood one of every twelve people. request. i don't know on the other eleven who lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion and long before his trial kicked off raising concerns of the fairness of his trial this is the lord of war. the merchant of death right and you've got him in your hands or he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as fork members a colombian group terrorist in the u.s. but not by name any 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 plea 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 and good family also told us actions entrapment and kidnapping i can accept the possibility that the boots 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 drive these people onto their territory moscow's request to send him to russia for trial were brushed aside there was no threshold decision of a tradition in russia called boots extradition illegal and question the validity of his conviction one of the main arguments a good defense that the u.s. lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court moods defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real fark members and all he was trying to do

was to all cargo planes get leaders of imaginary 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 a field of victor 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 writable or troy davis to be you know sentence right or cry and it didn't commit it to good is the second. since it isn't any new year to face sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in the third nation peace is a major precedence and represents a worrying trend to simply the legal systems of other countries is the citric in our hearts. and coming up in the program the muslims on a mission to make an impression islamic groups including the muslim brotherhood from post proposed leadership go to capitol hill in order to boost their image

relations with the united states we've got a reporter mark coming up for you. but next the u.n. security council is calling on damascus to make the april tenth deadline to pull back troops for the full cease fire on both sides in the forty eight hours that followed that president assad says he's already withdrawing the military from certain areas but the opposition claims there is still fighting more this more middle east correspondent paula slayer. 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 it pushed for the syrian president bashar assad to add here to his commitments and then told the united nations that syria had pledged to cease all kinds of movement towards population centers he also said that he was in contact with the opposition and urging them to stop fighting at the same time he

called for both sides can show political role now on tuesday also a united nations team arrived in syria they will be vain the groundwork for an observer mission which is to come and then also preparing the scene for the april tenth did line now that is the deadline according to announced that we also know that following that the advantage will be forty eight hours for the opposition to lay down arms with a final deadline being on april 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 where they are moving towards the perimeter and in the much calmer cities its troops have already with withdrawn to the barracks but the opposition claims that fighting is continuing in damascus and in other centers and that the point is actually getting worse there certainly is a lot of skepticism with relations with both sides as far as the cyrus side because

there is skepticism that he will continue with his troop withdrawal and actually meet this deadline i mean this criticism being voiced by countries such as russia particularly amid calls for arming the opposition and rebels and this follows a friends of syria meeting that's all countries like qatar and saudi arabia pledging millions of dollars to pay the salaries of rebel fighters and at the same time we heard from the unite. states occludes it would provide communique some equipment so there is a lot of skepticism as to whether or not the deadline for the cease fire would be needed and indeed whether or not this political world to accept the effort to this middle east correspondent there well from syria to libya now moamar gaddafi is most influential son won't be heading to the war crimes court anytime soon libya wants to try to follow islam on home soil over the killing of protesters in the revolt which deposed his father and did we were hoping to talk to afshin rattansi was on

the line from london to bring us up to date on that story that we've just lost the line. we don't have ok we will be going back to the story in just a bit let's talk about something else that should we see members from islamic groups including the muslim brotherhood are in washington there to try and boost their image in relations with the united states it's ahead of the first post revolution presidential election in egypt next month where political battles are heating up think has crossed your to me live on the line for the u.s. state of virginia is frank silva frank i can see you that is good news. you're from the independent think tank basic research good to see you on the program. let's talk about this that we're going to try to woo washington it appears what reception do you think we're going to expect. cautious reception from from the people in washington from the white house it's going to be a welcoming and welcoming reception. you know dialogue is always a very good thing but i think they came out today by leading candidate for the

presidency in egypt was quite troubling when he showed the real was and will always be my first and final project an objective. kind of hard to put forth the. stretching over of open arms of friendship when you when you're talking about something you seriously should realize the u.s. has been quick to jump on board the arab spring revolt that we've witnessed over the last year or two despite. the rise of radical islam that it seems to have led to within the region what is washington strategy what they thought of say not cuddly how well if they did it it's just it's shocking because there were many people over here both in congress and in other think tanks and even in the media who were screaming about being very cautious about what would happen after the arab spring and as it was happening in egypt in tunisia. in libya and now we're looking at syria as well so the white house you know we would hope that they're looking at

the best case scenario but they need to be a little bit more cautious about the worst case scenario and that includes arming rebels in syria the arming of and aiding of rebels in libya when in fact we knew that they had ties to radical islamist groups and especially and specifically al qaeda. so if she's saying. this is all being fake it cautious they have a friendship because they're valid and they become america's new best friends could there be a hidden agenda there is the thought that they could play is that well there are some factions here in the united states who believe that there there is a hidden agenda and that it it has to do with. anti israeli sentiment but if the white house is thinking about that they're not saying anything about that they still claim to be great allies of israel and of democracy in the middle east but what we're seeing is as you alluded to earlier in the segment is that it's not

always turning out to be wonderful exercise in democracy we're seeing a lot of oppression and totalitarian the factions rising is the cream of the crop are also with thought as well i. thought as well is that washington could be gathering out lies against against iran. and there is something the consider as well but when you're talking about and this list goes back into islamic history. when you're talking about trying to divide the islamic world in the arab world it's a very hard thing to do you won't see ready allies for the worst especially in some of the. i'm going to use the road for lack of a better word regimes that have taken over in in some of these countries that have experienced europe spring they're not friendly to to western culture or western ideals although they might like the financial backing that would come you see a lot of these the distractions leaning towards the installation of sharia law is

something that is paramount in their constitutions so to try in a lie with someone who is putting shari'a law in place especially when it's so antithetical to our us constitution. because it is truly in the air on their. thoughts frank survivor live in the line there from the united states much appreciated thank you. greeks of mourning the pensioner who shot himself dead in front of parliament in athens seventy seven year old retired farmer says to me trysts chris to the left a suicide note accusing the government cuts of destroying his livelihood his death triggered clashes to hundreds gathered on syntagma square to lay flowers and like candles but then violence erupted as groups of protesters hold petrol bombs at police and then responded with tear gas athens has been steadily slashing pensions and salaries while raising taxes is secure those the e.u. and i.m.f. bailouts race is not extent of

a deadline for the last part of that bond swap deal as well which is leaving probably investors shoulder and massive losses economic analyst nick scrappers told us the cuts policy he thinks needs a major rethink. but this point inside we have about a third of the population in greece living underneath the property line we've got about a million people unemployed and probably half a million really very well at all all we need is something like this. catalyze opinion and send us into deep reflection i think the more austerity cuts follows on from cuts to pensions public sector wages increases are an absolute nightmare it's like putting it on a rate sick or 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. europe's money troubles are explained in and lies that r.t. dot com also discover whether dog could be closing on greece's germany seeks to bring about border controls in europe to stop the tide of illegal immigrants slipping through slack greek checkpoints that so they were examining online on our website if you didn't catch this for yes they california college costs driving students to a quiet protest nonetheless they get sprayed in the face anyway cut short the full story there it's from us at our t. dot com. if you achieved it a couple of minutes ago you know we're going to learn to talk to our should returns the what abouts i hear you ask well it was a talk about. the most influential certainly won't be heading to war crimes call anytime soon that is the story the man to talk about that are glad to see him on

the line now from london actually returns is there the man who led the n.c.c. uprising against gadhafi said was wanted dead so that is secrets would die within the first time we've heard that could that be why they want to try could i think sunny libya too over what he might know. i'm not sure the m.d.c. have much power over the whereabouts of safeguard afeared my understanding is it was in town brigade in any case they were making deals with the m.d.c. in tripoli over trying not to split the country into little pieces though this is about luis moreno ocampo who is a really got himself into a muddle over this when libya wasn't even a signatory of the imperial criminal court or international criminal court maybe they were the reason why the satellite went down they seem to think they have jurisdiction over every country in africa. in tripoli trial in my hague is there a difference between the two. yes i think it's very important for sovereignty but

it does put a spotlight on the international criminal court and we will must remember it's set up under the room statute in two thousand and two i think your viewers will know that there was a certain war that happened in the middle east in two thousand and three there was another war it's. made public by moreno ocampo that they had submissions about american war crimes and this was the statute was before the grable. and he says well there isn't really that much evidence basically we all know what's happening with you that's a criminal court it is become a joke to most people in the world and it's not international is international and says every clinton used the word international i those countries threatened to succumb to threats military or financial by the united states given everything that's going on in libya let's take a look now to take a quick look back at the broader picture of me during the nato mission in libya the former rebels at the time of calling on international help to fight against gadhafi

loyalists now these days though they're issuing foreign cooperation saying they can get by on their own is that wise do you think given libya's ongoing instability that we're still witnessing. well it seems the country is breaking into little pieces the most of the international mainstream media has got bored of the subject and over here in the house of commons behind me many people seem to think it's a great success the major bombardment and so on but how many people have been killed and now of course we know the repercussions of the war. it may stretch to mali places like that creating so much instability with so many weapons on the ground listen forget the uranium close to mali the repercussions of this nature of attack and have easily you and us leaders were persuaded into it this is it's a terrifying situation to believe cause will be instability we're talking about they're going back to the possible trial of. their country yet in

a fit state to handle such a significant trial. it's very murky as to what deals are being made between all the different rebel groups the m.d.c. is so fractured at the moment and presumably there are a number of phone conversations from washington and european powers desperately trying to salvage something and stop it from breaking into pieces libya once was of course or oil is another factor and presumably deals are being done on that as to whether we'll ever get safe al gadhafi secrets i think we might have a long time to wait because of course was great friends with tony blair he's great friends with the people in london we could talk about a vision that makes sense or we could talk about this a lot more indeed we could talk about it all night i'm sure but i'm afraid we're out of time actually returns a very good of you on the line from london image appreciate it thank you governor. from the top world news stories for you now telephone government to kill ten

policemen in an attack on a remote checkpoint in western afghanistan the militants first strangle the guard for that opening fire on security offices and elsewhere a suicide bomber struck a bazaar in the northeast it killed two people wounded sixteen others violence appears to be increasing following the harsh afghan winter jur in which there is usually a reduction in fighting. marley's rebels have declared a cease fire after seizing the three main towns in the north they want their own state to move affectively the country into rebels took advantage of the chaos in the wake of the military coup sparked by the president's handling of the insurgency west african leaders are now set to meet to discuss possible intervention to force to give up power. the developing story tonight spread in the sky news television network has admitted it authorized journalists to hack into private emails on two separate occasions but the broadcaster which is of course part of rupert murdoch's media empire said its actions were actually in

a public interest so let's go with this story our correspondent in london artie's ivor bennett hi there over how is sky television news defending hacking private emails and what are they have to say. well sky news is claiming what it did was in the public interest because the e-mails the bank although they belong to them as of the public they were private they were those of suspected criminals and it's admitted actually on two separate occasions both times authorizing reporter a reporter was authorized to hack e-mails by a senior executive on the editorial board now that defense of public interest may be valid in some media cases for example to do with previously but it's not valid we're asking private e-mails of the public of members of the public isn't back to criminal offense sky news would be in breach of the computer misuse act and for that particular law the public interest defense is not in fact the balance will be very interesting to see what the police do here because it's up to them to decide whether anyone actually gets charged with this sky news has tried to diffuse the

situation by say any mention it did glean from these hacked e-mails was neither published nor was it broadcast however the information was clearly used as a basis for a number of stories published on its website at the times almost over four years ago now and stories are still avail we're still available on its website the earlier today of this of course is just the latest i think controversy to present sky as major shareholder rupert murdoch has visions of his neck in trouble isn't it . oh absolutely there's obviously further in but embarrassment heaped on the murdoch empire here which was really drank through the mud in the u.k. last year in the wake of a phone hacking scandal that resulted in the closure of one of the three biggest newspapers here the news that the world for widespread criminal activity which was illegal phone hacking of course and the ramifications of that scandal are still being felt here james murdoch stepped down earlier this week from being chairman of news corp at the. overall company b. sky b.

the sky news parent company is already under investigation by off com the british broadcasting watchdog that's to do with news corp shareholding in the company and with the phone hacking scandal news corp tried to downplay it to begin with they said that the illegal activity only extended to one rogue reporter wrap that newspaper however that was soon proven to be false it was a lot more widespread than a originally let on and that will be the question asked now the sky news was this really a one off or was it is it more widespread ok i have a better so to bring in so today on this developing story and i much appreciate the correspondent in london there so good or news twenty four seven and r t dot com you can keep abreast of all the latest news from us now let's talk business in a million or so is time it's now coming up to twenty three minutes past nine o'clock tarver get all the latest market figures for you the mitri is the business terrace will be catching up with here to take a look at all rebounding on the russian market after this quick break.

russia would be soo much brighter if you move it from feinstein christians. stance on t.v. don't come. good

evening and welcome to the market update on out so you with me dimitri medvedev and co and we're looking at a long weekend up ahead and what's going on the markets is of course cautious trading pretty volatile at times especially in russia first let's take a look at what's going on in the united states a lot of news coming out there jobless claims going down positive sign retail sales coming in better than expected also positive signs but as you can see the dow is barely managing to keep those levels at the close of previous session still but down right now point one percent the nasdaq is faring better than that half of the cent off over in europe trading has ended pretty much with the same feeling mixed feeling with the footsie up point three percent backs pressured still by a yields for bones in spain and italy rising also borrowing cost in france are on

the rise and therefore we have seen this cautiousness. easter holidays over in russia where the market will be trading on friday and on monday we are still working days here orthodoxies is coming a bit later this year the r.t.s. and a nice x. minus two rebound three quarters of a percent right at the end of the session when those retail sales figures came out states secular to what's going on the nice x. a lot of corporate results coming out here and video boosting their profits fifty percent on russia forty two percent for the year two thousand and eleven and therefore the seeing against in this session and lukoil among other energy companies is gaining on rebounding commodity prices will look at them in just a second verse two currencies where the euro is continuing to the client versus the dollar but that is quite logical given that a lot of selling we've seen in the past couple of sessions means people are moving

into cash notably in two dollars and the ruble managed to post some gains although it was noodling against the basket of currencies reverse that trend at the end of the session. commodities are seeing a rebound would light sweet up more than one dollar brant up around half a percent that's still on the back of those retail figures meaning that the economy in the us is still recovering and therefore despite the fact that gasoline prices are already quite high in the us there's still that process of recovery. in the other news ukraine has reportedly come up with a new idea to diversify its gas supplies away from russia which it claims is too expensive right now commissar newspaper says the country is willing to invest around eight hundred million dollars in the construction of the trance caspian pipeline now that's an eight billion dollar project that's backed by turkmenistan and by john in the end the pipeline would be connected to not bucco which is

supposed to be delivering central asian gas to europe without russia's participation bypassing russia. and business tsotsi will be back with one final update to our was the headline of something. in the. world of the. science technology innovation all the moves developments from

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