moscow says the sentencing of russian businessmen to boot by u.s. courts is unacceptable biased and politically motivated received twenty five years with conspiring to sell weapons to terrorists. the u.n. security council issues its toughest statement yet on syria calling on all sides to respect the deadline set out in kofi annan peace plan. french president nicolas sarkozy wins public support for his crackdown on islamic radicals and this is the faith of young muslims who say they feel rejected by their own country. there's a battle boiling between the shareholders of the world's top albanian producer

resell the need for a d.v.d. tower in about twenty minutes time. so you watching r t welcome to the program russia has criticised the sentencing of big to boot in america as politically motivated and says it will seek his return home but this isn't was found guilty of conspiring to sell weapons to terrorists and kill americans but the judge will it was no proof he would ever have committed the crimes if it wasn't for the u.s. sting operation that snagit team was not. the u.s. government wanted victor route 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 boots 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 a victory 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 yes i expected

it was because i believe the judge is very intelligent very professional it's an acknowledgment that you really did see. major but you prosecutors i think the judge was much constrained by the rule of choosing 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 about him the lord of war and. us press him the merchants of death and that he is just a legitimate businessman since the very big. ginning mr bush has maintained his innocence he continues to do so his defense attorney following the sundin thing came outside of the courtroom and said that. is an innocent man. i want to let you know that this is not the aims that the journey is just beginning. no

you know it was decisions are clear. and he released conviction. was arrested in thailand in a 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 courts used the u.s. extradition request the russian federation also said that mr pruett 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 boot was taken out of thailand by a group of u.s. officials according to documents released by wiki leaks the government spent an

enormous amount of time trying to get custody of viktor booth following his arrest in thailand according to u.s. cables you was president rock obama was urged to rationally call thailand's prime minister directly about in addition the state department and the attorney general according to we documents were encouraged to call gets high highlighting the massive drug enforcement administration commitment to thailand to the u.s. 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 morning from manhattan federal courthouse where you know our team. a little thread investigative journalist i know a student has been following its case from day one and he says that this is merely should have built his defense on the facts and it was the weapons he was allegedly trying to sell. what people are seeing and the mainstream press are certainly not

pressing is the point out there was are convicted of the third position of produce and 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 and which would allegedly also into these ullage of 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 in their power not to look for these are legit weapons so again if you have no weapons you have no proof it was kidnapped from thailand he was brought to its states illegally victor boot should have been a whole three years ago had things have been done right in thailand and certainly he would have won the case in that he states had he been represented by competent lawyer. oh you want to know what you think about the case of it to be to log on that website r.t.

dot com and participate in our latest web poll where the moment it's the week to send the reason behind the sentence is that he's a secret russian agent targeting those who said he was smoking in the arms of the u.s. enemies of those who think he wasn't u.s. backed governments and minorities so far playing that as a victim of hollywood mythology we're going to cost you a bit. the u.n. security council has issued a non binding ultimatum to the syrian government in opposition saying complete cease fire must leave in place within a week and isis has agreed to the plan the rebels are calling on president assad to step down first a middle east correspondent i want to sleep has the latest. the united nations has given its formal backing to the peace plan 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 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 to show political world now on thursday also a united nations team arrived in syria they will be vain 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 the announced plan 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 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 the mission. a successful

one we are acting according it will be just a mission and then. with agree we'll take leash. the thing we need. commitment and the government but mr annan himself after with both our saudi arabia turkey and the others. one is the government. and we respect the end of. the other. we seem and will not fill the vacuum but the opposition claims that fighting is continuing in damascus and not the same terms and that the fighting is actually getting worse there certainly is a lot of skepticism with relations with both sides as far as the cyrus side goes there is skepticism that he will continue with his troop withdrawal an accident meet this deadline and then the skepticism being voiced by countries such as russia particularly i mentioned cause for we arming the opposition and the 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 would provide communication equipment so there is a lot of skepticism as to whether or not the deadline for the cease fire will be met and indeed whether or not there is political will to actually get here to this . paula slater reporting there all still to come this hour attacked on the watch the son of moammar gadhafi saif al islam was reportedly assaulted in custody the international war crimes court the bounce he's had over. bosnians about twenty years since the start of a deadly conflict that left the country shattered and take a closer look at the driving force behind it. french president nicolas sarkozy has unveiled his latest vision for the country less than three weeks before the presidential vote gets on the way he's been boosted by his anti radicalism

starts one of the recent shootings in toulouse but sarkozy's crackdown on religious extremism that followed has left many of the country's muslims feeling isolated but he's at their saucily reports 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 disserved the latest incident to intensify an already heated debate on security immigration and it's a gracious in a country with the largest muslim population in europe. firstly i must say this is an isolated case fortunately most young immigrants in france do not have this kind of behavior 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 france 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 sun resumes and have a suburban address it causes many problems some employers time to favor people from central paris or sometimes she says favor a more french name and therein lies a problem a federal public values of liberty equality and fraternity seem to exclude those living on the periphery like this suburb of mont there where we chanced upon a law that in protest she didn't need i claim the right to live like everyone else if you earn between one thousand and thirty hundred urals you live in as best as

you live in the middle of electromagnetic waves with leaves in unsanitary conditions just five minutes from park areas like the. people guy you're tall and different i see no no i denounce that fact in france we'll have a revolt there's a first thing to describe the country today loosely translated as france and moving up to speeds up of the young people will find themselves stuck on the slower moving frame some say they belong to a generation all. already lost by the states and they find a sense of belonging elsewhere by the time that happens any efforts to bring them back a likely to be futile and where some may find solace is anyone's guess this may not only on people but there are those who create heroes like robin hood so it's the likes of osama bin laden or other so-called leaders who created it is there's a new generation that is hundred bishops and aggressive it creates a conflict the internet and the easy access to information freely and easily and the worst is ignorance that is reinforced by that internet this is

a huge danger to the youth in response politicians bombard the public with proposals for even more policies like policing internet behavior we do see the number of new immigrants or stripping some of their citizenship rights critics say our whole president sarkozy has been really trying to espouse the line the right wing. nationalist party here as well. in ways attacking immigrants talking about meat making issues coverings of muslim girls used to be a 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 cilia r.t. paris. it was near is marking twenty years since the start of one of the bloodiest conflicts since the second world war around one hundred thousand people were killed

and more than 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 of bosnian serbs wanted to remain of the conflict broke out on the day the european community recognized person is an independent country which was torn apart of the forty three years to intervene in ninety ninety four which helped bring me water and end with un peacekeeping troops remaining present in the area to this day but serbian historian and wish him which says that western countries rushed into military action when a peace plan was already underway. but there i run into these to track to the consulate in a sense it's always going to be clear. the political option. the war story. is still an order and if he true mining.

it is going to be ninety two engine we haven't changed much moved on since she was twenty years here's a muse about bosnia. it was a conflict that ran rampant on its own and that the west had to step in and start it in fact there was a bosnian peace process and it had actually the results it was super constitutional we meant a compromise between the two we part of. the communities and everything was set for a peaceful resolution of the crack of the constitution praises and then it were going to merge testimonies and information the american ambassador stepped in council the muslim argument to basically renamed it only react when we. haven't been promised american backing which is what ended up happening in this pursuit dated war. but coming up with r.t. environmentally unfriendly. are your money going into the they're destroying

thousands of acres they're actually hurting the environment california residents who say they think in the shadows of winter he's too high a price to pay for a new bill energy. but it's a lot of stories making headlines around the world this hour at least ten suspects of it since have been killed in air strikes in southern yemen security has been reinforced in the capital over warnings of a possible qaida attack in sana'a yemen has seen a rise in violence since president hadi took office said let me. put aside it was for us to be about supporting protests. this moment argentinean capital has left at least eleven people dead. twenty. times trees to the winds tore through the city to live a sixty mph. crews working to clear their feet.

in the twenty six separatist group has declared independence it's now with us from a region the group says it's captured enough to mature to form its own state to c.c. three main towns in the area. of the chaos. some weeks ago the un along with west african leaders are calling for water to be restored as the situation in iraq he's close to a program. 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 with them weapons fighters and that has spread throughout the region and we're going to be dealing with these outflows from libya in the next year or two several years

cross the stop 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. and it was already building up weaponry and they could have got weaponry from elsewhere as well as libya before the fall of gadhafi. all coincidental in terms of timing and then it is how intense of riot and speed up operations but the civilian was going to take place at some point and at some point reasonably soon anyway with or without. well the debate is coming up here on r.t. next day. and in libya the defense team of moammar gadhafi to most influential son claim signed on islam was assaulted in custody it comes days after international criminal court told him that it all for us is to surrender that our

son is wanted for crimes against humanity libya says it will try him on home soil of the killing of protesters journalist tensing says not to be difficult saif gadhafi is not being held in your thoughts and. i'm not really n.g.c. have much power over the we're about to safeguard our field my understanding is that the 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 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 the as to whether we'll ever hear safe i'll get after you secrets i think we might have

a long time to wait because growth was great friends with tony blair is great friends with the people in london one must really learn school of economics and so forth. no tracks for information in the case of site five it's not go to our website r.t. dot com let's take a look at some other stories that are on life you know there right now as well the united states is greeting the muslim brotherhood with open arms during their visits to washington d.c. how well they know their new best friends read about it on our website. state sinks the japanese ghost ship which has been floating there live the ocean ever since the devastating earthquake and tsunami swept into it's.

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 even in danger in wildlife and auntie's reports citing the problem is too close for comfort. vibration in ways and flushing rats troops at night not exactly environmentally friendly those living right next to these rotating joints are all completely paid by taxpayers subsidies really rate increases that's completely corruption our politicians and it needs to be stopped no robert moran and his wife are running you can paint and stop energy companies building the windmills even closer to his home about all being fought in many small rule towns in the sunshine state in the whole it's sort of our money where our taxpayer money is going in that they're destroying thousands of acres they're

actually hurting the environment that they're really balanced propose to bryanston her 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 there rapidly with the impact of this energy i mean was more about the color of money with huge government handouts when the farms began popping up all over the place but it was subsidies in the bank the high maintenance costs coupled with the relatively small power generation have seen many now lying idle all go i've been x. when a company executive believes the end history should be left to find its own place and the energy field instead of encouraging companies only interested in pick up

women standouts and we sure have a lot subset of our lives where anderson or energy that is the wrong way to develop are all energy and stare we should treat renewable energy just the same way we treat electricity from any other source whether it's cold. or nuclear gas or oil this frenzy of windmill building during the winter rush didn't just ruin the view but also devastated wildlife many of these forums turn on my great read house for birds so with hands with hundreds of birds and dads being killed by the huge blaze every year it seems the green and clean has generated little more than brute kill and a huge amount of animosity made you know which nora teen reporting from california . we're so close to kate in the business this year two russian tycoons battling it out once again. is boiling over and it's among the shareholders of all the top

alum in your producer very sol now these guys are great subjects and all they've got a pass now is launching a legal action a cancerous cells that made that a pass go now it's all over a disagreement with commodities trader core to sell up to harmful rissoles x. thought so but was against this still and now claims is violated is shareholder rights earlier he resigned as resells chairman over a disagreement with the company's manager but he says its policies brought resolve into a deep crisis. ok let's go on to the markets now today is good friday and a lot of the parts of the world including the hands than europe us a bit of russia markets are indeed i mean for today what we're seeing is been trading there's not much going on until the figures have moved but as you can see

very modest gains in these what the r.t.s. completely flat and my stakes northpoint high so i mean point zero five excuse me so there's not really much going to be happening fridays typically trading anyway you know traders go off and enjoy their millions their yachts and things so as to say good friday we're not going to be seeing too much to it but we will keep track of it for you so let's get on to the stocks and see what's happening there now gas from i do believe it is still down around a third of a percent now and the company has struck a deal to increase its presence in a vietnamese course because well posting a light gains that they reported a sixteen percent increase in net profit for the first quarter so that's on russian accounting it sounds as we've also got your eye color as well point four percent up it's a fertilizer giant here and. its composition by twenty seven percent in the first quarter and that's due to declining it's a monster that's got good as it crosses the sea the ruble is still gaining against

the u.s. oil and the euro and indeed it is we've also got the euro dollar now that's completely flat and that's the news that we have the spanish bonds options i was very disappointing indeed also italian bonds didn't sell too well at school and that's a concern because always seeing a rig knights of the silver in tech prices will certainly be watching that one for you. are moving on to other news we're going to be talking about the a mugging a markets and they are expected to grow around five percent this year and that's from a report by consultants the agency young it believes they will provide whole sort of global economic growth in the coming years consumption is expected to increase significantly in these countries why. i found a little car a group of imaginations and crews can't just such as brazil russia india and china . ok that's open i'll be back in about fifty five minutes and would like to thank you for your time and our. thank you thanks again and i'll be back with headlines

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