rushing places meant victor boot is given a minimum sentence of twenty five years in a new york court conspiring to sell weapons to terrorists the judge ruled groups would never have actually committed the crimes. even the security council he says it's tough a statement getting syria calling on the authorities on the opposition to lay down arms unconditionally in a week. french president nicolas sarkozy winds up in support of his crackdowns on a radical he says the great young muslims say they feel checked it by their own country.

around the world around the clock you're watching r t a u.s. court has given a russian businessman to fit to boot a minimum sentence of twenty five years for conspiring to sell weapons to terrorists and kill americans as our teams report on explains that was immense pressure from washington to convict the russian. the u.s. government wanted victor boot to spend the rest of his life in an american prison however a u.s. federal judge has sentenced the russian citizen to twenty five years behind bars and that is for conspiring to sell millions of dollars of weapons and surface to air missiles to colombian for rebels those rebels were really agents that were posing undercover us federal judge delivered her sentence into manhattan. thursday afternoon that was the mandatory minimum sentence that she could give mr

boot the u.s. federal judges said that mr hasn't been an active arms dealer since two thousand and three and believes that there is no proof that mr bush was looking for opportunities to deal with terrorists kill americans victor boot for the first time stood up and addressed the courtroom he said that he never intended to kill anyone or sell arms to anyone he said that is the truth and then he turned around and pointed his finger at the d e agents that testified against him saying that they know that what he's saying is the truth. and expect to be sentenced because i believe the judge is very intelligent very professional it's an acknowledgment of the invalid it's. made by the prosecutors i think because the judge was much constrained by dual should choose a juggler's the case you know mr booth in

a recent interview said he was the victim of a u.s. propaganda and mainstream media narrative that was stone upon him without any truth there was a movie made of him made about him but ward of war and he said u.s. press dubbed him the merchants of death and that he is just a legitimate business man. since the very beginning mr brook has maintained his innocence he continues to do so his defense attorney following the sentencing came outside of the courtroom and said that victor boot is an innocent man. i want to let you know that this is not the end. of the journey is just beginning. no you know most decisions are. we. should think was arrested in thailand in a sting operation in march two thousand and eight following his arrest the us was

pressing for him to be taken to the united states but the russian citizen was in. jail for some two years and during two different court hearings courts refused the u.s. extradition request the russian federation also said that mr pruett a russian citizen and also former soviet military officer are should not be extradited to the united states nonetheless in november two thousand ton mr bhutto was taken out of thailand by a group of u.s. officials according to documents released by wiki leaks the government spent enormous amount of time trying to get custody of viktor booth following his arrest in thailand according to u.s. cables u.s. president barack obama was urged to rationally call thailand's prime minister directly about in addition the state department and the attorney general working to

weaken the jockey ments were encouraged to call for its high embassador highlighting the massive drug enforcement administration is commitment in thailand to the us federal judge says she will recommend that mr bush remains in the prisons general population for now the russian citizen heads back to a maximum security prison in brooklyn mourning for many times federal courthouse. artsy. but rest of the journalist in georgia has been following the case from the start says america used any means of either bill to entrap and convict the russian business now. the judge said that if it wasn't for the d e d e a sting operation which was actually termed a sting operation relentless if it wasn't for the sting operation she said there was no evidence in her in her court room during the whole trial or in the pretrial that route to boot would have tried to you know. he wanted terrorist activities

towards america it didn't add up and you know if you read the facts and find out to do some digging and don't take what the media. to the characters fascination that was built up against recruits by the media and really studied the case you know it's very clear cut that in the us he is out to get for human victor boot by any means necessary it's just been a huge media campaign against him in this country has been gone for years and there's been millions of dollars spent on this case something i mean there's been estimates as as as much as half a billion dollars for the operation relentless and it did his da operations spanned over three continents you know that and da obviously was involved with their case they used the f.b.i. came out during the trial they used this i'm sure the n.s.a. were involved with the wiretaps and sort of cia the cia was a lot of obviously going to come to court and say that you know we helped with the case. well to access more information on the case or pick to bring it to log on to

our website at r.t. dot com let's take a look at some other stories that are online and you got it state says greeting the muslim brotherhood with open arms during their visit to washington d.c. how well do they know their new best friends. also online tons of radioactive water leaks from the fukushima nuclear plant in japan is believed to have flowed into the pacific ocean. the u.n. security council has issued a non-binding ultimatum to the syrian government and opposition saying a complete cease fire must be in place within the week the massacres has agreed to the plan the rebels are calling on president assad to step down first on into the

east correspondent paula slip with the details. the united nations has given its former backing to the police put forward by the former u.n. chief kofi iran on thursday the united nations security council issued a statement on syria in which it pushed for the syrian president bashar assad to hear to his commitment 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 to show political role now on thursday also a united nations team arrives in syria they will be main the groundwork for a observer mission which is to come and then also preparing the scene for the april tenth deadline now that is the deadline according to announce plan we also know that following that event it 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 issuing evelyn is committed to making the mission of course. we are acting according it will be just a mission and then blame. if he would agree with leash. but he did think we need. a commitment and they get a budget and then himself after he consults with. the others that one is the government. and we respect the end of. the other party we. will not feel good vacuum that the opposition claims are fighting is continuing in damascus and not the same time and that the fighting is actually getting worse there's something of

a lot of skepticism with relation to 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 and then escape this isn't being voiced by countries such as russia particularly amid calls for arming the opposition in the rebels and that's follows a friends of syria meeting with that so 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 would be made and indeed whether or not this political will to actually adhere to that. well still to come this attack to under watch the son of moammar gadhafi saif al islam is going to be assaulted in custody since the international war crimes court the monster under the prison. also bosnians mark twenty years since the start of the

deadly conflict the country and the peace it's. french president nicolas sarkozy has unveiled his latest vision for the country less than three weeks before the presidential vote gets underway he's been boosted by his anti radicalism stance or in recent shootings and means sarkozy's crackdown on religious extremism that followed his left and other country's muslims feeling isolated what is to sensitive reports. this may be a film about the struggle to live in the french suburbs. but this is reality the shooting of seven people in the loose by a freshman of algerian descent was the latest incident to intensify an already heated debate on security immigration and its gratian in a country with the largest muslim population in europe. firstly i must say this is

an isolated occasion unfortunately when i see young immigrants in france do not have this kind of behavior and i think this is a result of his personal journey he felt that it was out of place in france probably humiliation discrimination and therefore personal kind of feeling of hatred and hatred of. in the words of this second generation muslim immigrant many like yourself don't feel french. in the suburbs there is this feeling of rejection by france and the government socially resale and from the suburbs they're not taken seriously when young people apply for jobs and the sun resumes and have a suburban address it causes many problems some employers tend to favor people from central paris or sometimes she says favor a more french name and therein lies a problem the federal public's values of liberty equality and fraternity seem to exclude those living on the periphery like this parisian suburb of mont there where

we chanced upon a law that encroached asked people do you need my claim the right to live like everyone else if you were between one thousand and thirteen hundred year olds you live in as best as you live in the middle of electromagnetic waves with leaves in unsanitary conditions just five minutes from posh areas like the. people die here and totally different i. know i denounced that fact in france we'll have a revolt there's a french saying to describe the cards we today loosely translated as a frazzle moving a two speeds for the young people will find themselves stuck on the slower moving frame some say they belong to a generation all. already lost by the state may find a sense of belonging elsewhere and by the time bad habits any efforts to bring them back a likely to be seen and where some may find solace is anyone's guess it's. not only on people but there are those who create heroes like robin hood the city it's

the wife of osama bin laden or other so-called leaders who create a deal there's a new generation that is hundred competitors and aggressive this creates a conflict on the internet creates an easy access to that information freely and easily and the worst is ignorance that is reinforced by then and this is a huge danger to you in response politicians bombard the public with proposals for even more policies like policing internet behavior reducing the number of new immigrants or stripping some of their citizenship which critics say are wholly resident circles he has really tried to espouse the line of the right. nationalist party here as well. you know ways of tracking immigrants talking about . making issues coverings of muslim groups these have become major issues in france rather than the question of drugs and perhaps the question of how to bring back the very basics of a society that calls itself

a gala tarion tesser sylvia r.t. paris. was near is marking twenty years since the start of one of the bloodiest conflicts since the second world war and around one hundred thousand people were killed and four million displaced as bosnia plunged into conflict and left the country's ethnic groups deeply divided as the former yugoslavia split up bosnian muslims and croats wanted to break free from the former federation also serves as a conflict council on the same things even community recognize them dependent country just torn apart in the following three years intending to gain. writing writing for which helped write or story and here at peacekeeping troops remaining present where a serbian historian says that western countries rushed into military action and a peace part was already underway. there

ironically still trapped in the conflict in a sense it's always going to be ninety two with there. the political option is sheriff was in power war security. is still an order and petri mining party was. it is still one thousand nine hundred two things really haven't changed much and moved on since she even goes into yours there is a myth about bosnia that it was a conflict that ran rampant on its own and at the west had to step in and stop it in fact there was a blocking these process and it had actually the results it was a constitutional we meant it compromise between two parties if you're presenting the communities and everything was set for a peaceful resolution of the crowd of the constitutional phrases and then or into the worst testimonies and information the american ambassador stepped in in concert

with the muslim party to basically didn't want to unite any movement and kuwait in on it having been promised american backing which is what ended up happening in this winter sedated the war. well coming up without a environmentally unfriendly. our taxpayer money going into the they're destroying thousands of acres they're actually hurting the environment. kind of residence you say living in the shadows of a wind farm is too high a price to pay for renewable energy. for some other top stories making headlines around the world this hour at least ten militants have been killed in air strikes in southern yemen security has been reinforced in the capital over warnings of a possible al qaida attack in sun are seen a rise in bodett since present i think. for every. sunday. after months of protests. reportedly being given seven years in

prison for posting cartoons of the prophet muhammad and. from trees new business leaders are getting free speech the protests last week which forced the previous president to resign the government has defended the sentencing saying standards of public decency. this argentinian little beast of the dead twenty injured. after winds tore through the city toppling over sixty miles. crews are now with. us. in mali the. north has to put independence in region and group says it's captured enough territory to form its and state of the seizing three main towns in the area rebels took advantage of the chaos caused by. two weeks ago un along with west

african leaders are calling for order to be restored and the situation crosstalk program. the fact is for all his faults colonel gadhafi was more or less in his box in recent years and he kept by himself all sorts of undesirable actors once that regime collapsed some of these actors including some of the toerags who are now causing the problems in northern mali returned home bringing with them weapons fighters and that has spread throughout the region we're going to be dealing with these outflows from libya in the next year or two several years all across the sub region ok peter bergen stay with you could have been predicted should have been predicted i think you wrote about it before this happened. and it was already building up weaponry and they could have got weaponry from elsewhere as

well as libya before the fall of the small coincidental in the timing and then it is how to intensify it and speed up. this rebellion was going to take place at some point and at some point reasonably soon anyway with or without the fall of gadhafi. or the thought of it is coming up here or not in two hours time. libya the defense team market off his most influential son clear insight about is that was assaulted while in custody it comes days after the international criminal court told the people forces to surrender cut off his son wanted for crimes against right here so we're trying. the killing of protesters on. release the search a promise or use of a verse to. say that i.c.c. is incapable of trying out justice and the i.c.c.

hasn't necessarily proven its ability to effectively carry out justice and there's a way that it's globally. applied and really effectively done they don't have the necessary facilities to. arrest people they don't seem to have the capability to. implement their plans and even if they did like i said their plans are often seemingly quite biased to target african leaders and so i really don't blame the libyan government for refusing to turn over a safe islam gadhafi if you're going to have an international criminal court that supposedly carrying out principles of justice if they're not equally applied then of course it's not in any way possible for them to be fair and so this is a huge issue and also there are questions over even the way it is set up for these kinds of more crimes is it really necessary to go after individuals or are there

other ways of reconciliation or local means of justice look at what happens to communities and different kinds of relationships these aren't really being factored in by the i.c.c. and so it really is a sort of colonial power play to go after a certain man who probably make the west feel good about it. there a group of residents in california say they're the ones paying the price for the sunshine state going green they believe the government's turbine subsidies are damaging the local environment and he even in danger in wildlife is rotting he's gotten over a ports for some of the problem is too close for comfort. vibration noise and flushing restaurants at night not exactly environmentally friendly see those living right next to these rotates enjoins the servants are all completely paid by taxpayers subsidies clearly rate increases complete corruption by our politicians

and it needs to be stopped and now robert moran and his wife are running a campaign to stop energy companies building the windmills even closer to his home about well being fought in many small rule towns in the sunshine state in the whole it's sort of a money pit where our taxpayer money is going into the they're destroying thousands of acres they're actually hurting the environment that gravelly balance leaves far proposed to balance on who doorstep with almost daily letters to her local governments and she succeeded with the energy company abandoning its plans but her case was very much the exception to the rule for more than thirty years now when power industry and its largest have promoted it as a green and clean but for many who live directly with the impacts of this energy reno was more about the color of money with huge government handouts wind farms began popping up all over the place but it was subsidies in the bank

a high maintenance cost coupled with the relatively small power regeneration house seen many now lying on until all go up an axe when a company executive believes the industry should be left to find its own place and the energy field instead of encouraging companies only interested in the government's hand outs and we should not subsidize where anderson for energy that is the wrong way to develop renewable energy. we should tree removal energy just the same way we treat electricity from any other source whether it's cold. or nuclear gas or oil the frenzy of windmill building during the winter rush didn't just ruin the view but also devastated wildlife and many of these farm stand on migrates repassed for birds so answered with hundreds of birds and bats being killed by the huge blaze after a year it seems the green am clean future has generated little more than brute

kill and a huge amount of animosity i do which the majority reporting from california. across to katie on the business. of looking good for today katie many markets closed reflected exactly right carrie a lot of them will be closed today we've got hong kong closed europe will be closed later on today but the japanese stocks that are open for business and stocks are taking another hit from a strengthening yet in the currency in japan the euro dropped to a four week low versus again yesterday and that means exporters particularly those that have a large a large amount trading of course for example sony they have a fifth of their styles generated in europe now down to a halt percent as you can see the nikkei point eight percent in negative territory that's how it finished up yesterday look at the you will see that it was

a mixed finish and it was data showing that u.s. jobless claims fell yet another minds of the improving at labor market recovery in the world's biggest economy they fell by six thousand now to put that in perspective that's the lowest level we've seen since april two thousand and eight best as have also got some news coming out later on today we've got u.s. jobs and unemployment for march services will be awaiting about as well as russian markets are concerned less than an hour until the opening bell yesterday the russian markets had a bit of. a day granted up and they benefited from positive. release in the u.s. as i say less than an hour's time to have the figures shortly as well as for the ruble yesterday it managed to get a against the u.s. and the euro finished up stronger euro dollar is. not having much movement.

of trade and friday typically is no way if we look at the oil prices we see that the jobless claims results in the u.s. means that the oil prices are being pushed higher because. people are claiming for . this crime said it means people have more money and therefore demanded mobilizes her it was a simple a simple method of demands and. i can move around it's going to gold now gold is bearish there's a number of reasons for that a lot of it is because the u.s. credit was didn't decide to impose more quantitative easing we've also got the strike in india as well the biggest gold can see i'm still ongoing because of those tax imposed effect of all this out and silver. is just so lightly out there it's not shining gold i found this talk about a merging market that's set to grow fine we sent the shares says a report by consultancy yes it believes they will provide health. in the coming days consumption is expected to increase significantly in these countries by

expansion of middle class the group of emerging nations includes come to such as brazil russia india china. korea but ok said the experts and all have the figures for the russian markets to join me that he thinks about katie and i'll be back with a recap of the top stories shortly stay with us here. good

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