the sentencing of russian businessman victor boot by u.s. courts is unacceptable biased and politically motivated me to cvs twenty five years for conspiring to sell weapons to terrorists. the un security council he sees it's tough a statement yet on syria calling on the forty's and the opposition to lay down arms unconditionally within a week. french president nicolas sarkozy wins public support for his crackdown on islamic radicals loses the faith of young muslims who say they feel rejected by their own country. the rason market opens up about the slightly in the

red despite the high oil price. think it's. world news and much more twenty four hours a day this is r.t. . has criticised the sentencing of it to boot in america as politically motivated and says it will seek his return home but this isn't it was found guilty of conspiring to sell weapons to terrorists and kill americans the judge ruled there was no proof he would ever have committed the crimes if it wasn't for the u.s. sting operation that's near him or to report not as more. 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 the u.s. federal judge delivered her sentence in manhattan. thursday afternoon that was the mandatory minimum sentence that she could give mr boot the u.s. federal judge has said that mr hasn't been an active arms dealer since two thousand and three and believes that there is no proof that mr putin 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 yet he will expect to be sentenced because i believe the judge is very intelligent very professional it's an acknowledgment of the invalidity of the accusations made by the prosecutors i think that if you judge these moves constrains my dual she would have chosen to close the case. mr booth in a recent interview said he was the victim of a us propaganda and mainstream media narrative that was bestowed upon him without any truth there was a movie made of him made about him the lord of war and. us press him the merchant of death that he is just a legitimate business man. since the very beginning mr boot has maintained his innocence he continues to do so his defense attorney following the sentencing pima outside of the courtroom and said that victor boot is an innocent man. when i let

you go this is that the games. that the jury is just beginning. get over you know it was decisions are clear. you should think who was arrested in thailand in the sting operation in march two thousand and eight following his arrest the u.s. 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 type courts refused the u.s. extradition request the russian federation also said that mr bhutto a russian citizen and also former soviet military officer should not be extradited to the united states none the less in november two thousand ton mr googe was taken out of thailand by a group of u.s.

officials according to documents released by wiki leaks the u.s. government spent an 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 personally call thailand's prime minister directly about who in addition the state department and the attorney general according to wiki leaks documents were encouraged to call the thai embassador highlighting the massive drug enforcement administration's commitment to thailand to the u.s. federal judge says she will recommend that mr bloom remains in the prisons general population for now the russian citizen heads back to a maximum security prison. brockway reporting from manhattan federal courthouse you are in a court i am marty but author investigative journalist student has been following the boots case from day one he says the business men should have built his defense on the facts and no one ever saw the weapons he was allegedly trying to sell. what

people are not seeing and the mainstream press are certainly not pressing is the point out although victor boards are convicted of the third acquisition of reducing anti-aircraft weapons what we have not seen throughout the case in the united states or in thailand is where actually are these alleged weapons or virtual allegedly also into these alleged terrorists who are allegedly working for the fourth of colombia there are no weapons when he was caught. in thailand by this thing by the dea a sting operations the d.a. in the united states government has done everything they were not to look for these are legit a weapon so again if you have no weapons you have no proof but to get more information in the case of victimhood to log on to our web site r.t. dot com and let's take a look at some other stories that are on line few right now united states is a greeting that was named brotherhood with open arms during their visit to washington d.c. well today a new day new best friends that it's

a web site. also online tons of radioactive water leaks from the fukushima nuclear plant in japan and it's believed flowed into the pacific ocean. and u.n. security council has issued a non binding ultimatum to the syrian government and opposition saying a complete cease fire speed place within the week the mascot's has agreed to the plan grapples a corner president assad to step down first the middle east correspondent one slip of the latest. the united nations has given its formal backing to the peace with forward by the former u.n. chief kofi annan on thursday the united nations security council issued a statement on syria in which its pushed for the syrian president bashar assad to

adhere to his commitments and told the united nations that syria had pledged to cease all kind of movement towards population centers he also said that he was in contact with the opposition and urging them to stop financing at the same time he called for both sides and so political world now on tuesday also a united nations team alive in syria they will be 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 the nuns and we also know that filing that they found it would 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 the shooting government is committed to making that mission of course an end

a successful one we have acting according to call visions of mission and blame the was doing when the a.v. which agree will take place. but it again we need. to cut commitment and the government but mr annan himself after he consults with poker saudi arabia turkey and the others that one government. and we respect the end of voters the other parties will do the same and will not fill the vacuum but the opposition claims that fighting is continuing in damascus and now the same says that the fighting is actually getting worse there certainly is a lot of skepticism. relation to both sides as far as the cyrus side goes there is skepticism that he will continue with his troop withdrawal and acts meet this deadline and then the skepticism being voiced by countries such as russia particularly cause we 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 united states a pledge that if it were 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 made and indeed whether or not these political will to actually answer to it. will sort of commissar attacked on the watch the conflicts on a rumor go be sorry for al islam was reporting assaulted in custody but says the international war crimes court yvonne's me and the president. and there's a positons dog twenty one years since the start of the deadly conflict left their country shattered and take a closer look at the driving force behind it. french president nicolas sarkozy has on bail his latest a vision for the country based on three weeks before the presidential vote on the

way he's been boosted by his anti radicalism stance from the recent shootings and to the news that sarkozy's crackdown on religious extremism that followed has left many of the country's muslims feeling isolated that there's also a report. this may be a film about the struggle to live in the french suburbs. but this is reality a shooting of seven people had to lose by a frenchman of algeria and the serbs was the latest incident to intensify an already heated debate on security immigration and integration in a country with the largest muslim population in europe. firstly i must say this is an isolated case unfortunately in nice young immigrants in france do not have this kind of behavior and i think this is the result of his personal journey he felt that it was out of place in france the humiliation discrimination and therefore

personal kind of feeling of hatred and hatred of funds 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 when we say i'm from the suburbs you're not taken seriously the truth when young people apply for jobs and the center is a raise and have a suburban address it poses many problems some employers tend to favor people from central paris or sometimes she says favor a more french name and therein lies the problem the french republic's values of liberty equality and fraternity seem to exclude those living on the periphery like this suburb of not there where we chanced upon a low that in for a test going in need i claim the right to live like everyone else if you earn between one thousand and thirty eight hundred year olds you live in as best as you

live in the middle of electromagnetic waves with leaves and unsteady jerry conditions just five minutes from posh areas like. people die here and tolling different i say no no i denounce that fact and france will have a revolt there's a french saying to describe the country today losing translated to france and moving up to speeds of the young people why themselves stuck on the slower moving frame some say they belong to a generation of old. 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 futile and where some may find solace is anyone's guess and. not only on people but there are those who create heroes like robin hood and the likes of osama bin ladin or other so-called leaders who create ideas there's a new generation that is hungry ambitious and aggressive it creates a conflict and then it creates and the reason freely and easily and the worst as it

does reinforce. 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 our whole president. has really tried to espouse the line of the right. party here as well. you know. immigrants talking about how we make. muslim girls these are the major issues in france rather than the question of creating jobs 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 knocking twenty years since the start of one of the bloodiest conflicts since the second world war and

a hundred thousand people were killed and more than four million displaced as opposed to plunge into conflict and left the country's ethnic groups deeply divided the former he was starting a space opposing it was theirs and crowds were to break free from the former federation. wanted to remain in yugoslavia of course that broke out on the day the european community recognized as an independent country it was torn apart a home in three years nato intervened in ninety four which helped bring the stuff water and un peacekeeping troops remaining presence in the area to this day and seven historian in the bush admin it says that western countries rushed into military action when a peace plan was already underway. that there ironically still trapped in wisconsin to him in a sense it's always one hundred ninety two with there. the political option in sarajevo that was in power with the war started is still in or andy's petri mining party was. it is still one thousand nine hundred two things really haven't

changed much and moved on since even was in twenty years but there's a myth about bosnia that it was a concept that ran rampant on its own end of the west had to step in and stop it in fact there was a bosnian peace process that had actually been results it was a constitutional we meant a compromise between the parties are representing the communities and everything was set for a peaceful resolution of the credit of the constitutional crisis and then according to numerous testimonies and information the american ambassador stepped in in council building was important to basically only reject any women tend poor way to go along as having been promised american bassy which is what ended up happening in this week or sedated the war. we're coming up on our team environmentally unfriendly. our taxpayer money is going into the air destroying thousands of acres

they're actually hurting the environment. california residents who say living in the shadows or into the army is too high a price to pay for renewable energy. or some other top stories making headlines around the world this hour. but these ten suspected militants have been killed in s. trucks in southern yemen security has been reinforced in the capital warnings of a possible al qaida attack and so no we haven't seen a rise in violence and isn't ready to copy some great producers are writing to the sun it was asked to leave after months of protests. fierce storm in the argentinean capital is left at least eleven people dead and more than twenty injured himself in damage and trees are rooted out of the wounds in the city talking of a sixty mph continue to died after treading on a product that. crews are working to clear the debris mr prout.

two men have reportedly been given seven years in prison for posting cartoon. on facebook i think ations that the country's new business leaders are getting free speech of the protests in germany and eleven which forced the previous president to resign the government has defended its sentencing saying it needs to uphold standards of public decency. ramadi and to our executives group in the north has declared independence but here it's no other word region to group says it's captured enough territory to form its own state of the seizing the three main towns in the area took advantage of the chaos but. two weeks ago the un along with west african leaders are calling for order to be missed. would this situation seems close to. 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 and 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 and several years all cross the sub region ok beautify can stay with you could this have been predicted should it have been predicted i think you wrote about it before this happened. it was already building up weaponry and it could have got weaponry from elsewhere as well as libya before the fall of gadhafi all coincidental into. and then it is contents are private and speed up. but these have value and was going to take place at some point to some point

reasonably soon anyway with or without. the debate is coming up here or not elected. and in libya the defense team of the mugger daffy's at least inferential son claims i thought is that was a sort of right custody comes days after the international court told the people for it is to surrender gadhafi son is wanted for crimes against humanity the list says it will try him home soil the killing of protesters based research using a person saying these the i c c's and capable of carrying out justice. the i.c.c. hasn't necessarily proven its ability to effectively carry out justice and in a way that 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 or seemingly quite biased to target african leaders and so i really don't blame the libyan government for refusing to turn over islam gadhafi if you're going to have an international criminal court that's 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 war crimes is it really vesa syria 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. him and to probably make the west feel

good about it. but a group of residents and colorful here say they're the ones paying the price for the sunshine state going green at least the government's turbine subsidies are damaging the local environment and even danger in wildlife so it seems a bit of questionable reports on the problem is too close for comfort. vibration release and flushing rats troops at night not exactly environmentally friendly see those living right next to these giants were all completely paid by taxpayers subsidies to we rate increases it's a complete corruption by our politicians. it needs to be stark no robert moran and his wife are running you can paint to stop energy companies building the windmills even closer to his home a battle being fought in many small rural towns in the sunshine state in the whole it's sort of

a money pit where are taxpayer monies going into these they're destroying thousands of acres they're actually hurting the environment that they're really valiantly fought proposed to by and so on who doorstep with almost daily letters to her local government 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 lobbyist have promoted it as green and clean but for many who live directly with the impact of this energy 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 the high maintenance cost coupled with the relatively small power generation house seen many now lying idle all guy had been axed when company executives believes the end is truly should be left to find its own place and the engine field instead of encouraging companies only interested in the

government handouts we sure have lots of our guys with anderson for energy that is the wrong way to develop or new a boy energy instead we should treat renewable energy just the same way we treat electricity from any other source whether it's coal or nuclear gas or oil the frenzy of windmill building during the winter rush didn't just ruin the view but also devastated wildlife many of these farm stand on my grade three pasture for birds so answered with hundreds of birds and that has been killed by the huge blaze every year. it seems the only clean intruder has generated little more than brute kill and a huge amount of animosity and you know which is more a t.v. reporting from california. ok let's cross to katie on the deuce news this case you

two russian the toy coons battling it out once again that is probably right your feud is escalating and it's among the sad holders of the world's top iranian producer very seldom hear my talking about i was about victor and they've got a cask up now that is launching legal action against the cells. that it passes now that's over the agreement with commodities trader playing call to sell up all the various cells. exports excel bug was against this still claims is violated his shareholder rights earlier he resigned as a result chairman over a disagreement with the company's a manager but he says its policy result into a deep crisis. i think all that money in the studio. now is good friday say so a lot of the markets are closed to get us close to europe and the hang seng in hong kong also close they're all talking into their rags but the russian markets they

are indeed i've been so let's see how they're doing now we've seen a fair more just to gains that but they were indeed in the red so they're going in the right direction and high oil prices as well so i was hoping it boost the stock price is now also going to have a look at the current does the see that the rupee rebate the ruble rather may where . now the ruble is doing better against the u.s. dollar and the euro at this hour with the euro dollar collapse now this is because of the spanish debt and it was very poorly received that some small he worries about the sovereign debt crisis being reignited so that's a concern we're also going to take a look at the individual on the my six and see how they're getting on at this hour we've got that sound the company has struck a deal to increase its presence in the shelf because most of pump itself back up into positive territory they reported

a sixteen percent increase in net profit for the first quarter but that's a russian accountings we've also got fertilizer. that is not so negative it just there and it's cut its production by twenty seven cents in the first quarter due to the climbing. now we're going to move on to talk about emerging economies apparently they will grow five percent this year that's going to report by consultancy young it believes they will provide hope of global economic growth in the coming years consumption is expected to increase significantly in these countries helped by expansion of the middle class the group of emerging nations includes such come just as brazil russia india and china. carry i'll be back in about fifty five minutes with the latest updates ok thanks kitty. care with headlines shortly stay with us here.

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