with the palm of your. machine on the dot com. moscow says the sentencing of russian businessmen to boot by u.s. courts is unacceptable biased and politically motivated received twenty five years for conspiring to sell weapons to terrorists. the u.n. security council issues its toughest statement yet on syria calling on the government and the opposition to lay down arms and in a week a scene it could be enhanced peace. french president nicolas sarkozy wins a public support for his crackdown on islamic radicals and loses the faith of young muslims and see if you rejected by their own country. there's a battle brewing between the shareholders of the world's top alum

a new producer every cell to make big city thousand about twenty minutes time. hello this is our table crossing live from moscow carriages to. moscow has criticised the sentencing of it to boot in america as politically motivated and says it will seek his return home this is when he was found guilty of conspiring to sell weapons to terrorists and kill americans but 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 but not as more. the u.s. government wanted viktor group 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 bush 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. and expect to

be sentenced because they believe the judge is very intelligent very professional it's an acknowledgement that you validity of the amputations made with the prosecutors i think that the judge was much constrained by view of choosing to close the case. mr booth in a recent interview said he was the victim of a u.s. 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 he said u.s. press him the merchants of death and that he is just a legitimate businessman since very big. giving mr boot 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 and. i want to let you know. this is not the end we got the jury is just beginning. it

all you know it was positions 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 refused the u.s. extradition request the russian federation also said that mr boot a russian citizen and also former soviet military officer should not be extradited to the united states none the less in november two thousand and ten mr boot 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 personally called thailand's prime minister directly about in addition the state department's any attorney general according to weaken the documents were encouraged to call the thai embassador highlighting the massive drug enforcement administration's commitment from thailand to the us 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 in brooklyn. already from an. arena point niamh arts. or through an investigative journalist and i know a student has been following the base case from day one he says that this is minister built his defense on the facts no one ever saw the weapons he was initially trying to sell what people in iraq seeing and the mainstream press are

certainly not pressing is the point out although victor woods are convicted on the third acquisition of the use of 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 which would allegedly were selling to 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 alleged weapon 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 how things have been down right in thailand and certainly he would have won the case in that he states had he been represented by competent lawyer. well we want to know what you think about the case of picked a bit we're going to our website or not he got to come and participate in our

latest poll of the sorrow of the majority of them the reason behind he said is that he's a secret russian agent putin that he was smuggling arms to u.s. enemies come second forty percent think he wasn't competing with us that the government and the minorities so far claim that it is to move to hollywood. on line to have your say. the u.n. security council has issued a non binding ultimatum to the syrian government and opposition saying a complete ceasefire must be in place within a week the massacres has agreed to the plan with the rebels are calling on prisoners to step down the rest at least correspondent honestly there is the latest . the united nations has given its formal backing to the peace before with by the former u.n. chief kofi annan on thursday the united nations security council issued a statement on syria in which pushed 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 fighting at the same time he called for both sides and so political world now on thursday also a united nations team alive in syria they will be laying the groundwork for an 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 the plan we also know that feeling that they're going to 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 shia government is committed to making the mission of course

a successful one we are acting according to the call visions of mission and claimed he was doing of the maybe we can agree will take place. again we reached a cut commitment and the government but mr annan himself after he consults with both our saudi arabia turkey and the others that one is a government. and we respect the end of. the other parties we do the same and will not fill the vacuum but the opposition claims that fighting is continuing in damascus and in other centers and 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 an accident meet this deadline and then the skepticism being voiced by countries such as russia particularly cause we arming the opposition and the rebels and that's fine as

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 a vertical 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 and here to us. policy are reporting there will still to come this attack on the watch the captured son of moammar gadhafi saif al islam was reportedly assaulted in the custody of the international war crimes court demands his hundred over. and there is a bosnians mark twenty years since the start of a deadly conflict left the country shattered it took a closer look at the driving force behind it. french president nicolas sarkozy has unveiled his latest a vision for the country less than three weeks before the presidential vote gets on

the way he's been boosted by his anti radicalism stones or in the recent shootings and news because he's cracked down on religious extremism that followed as if to many other countries muslims are being isolated what is the source of the reports. this may be a film about the struggle to live with the french suburbs but this. is reality. the shooting of seven people a delusive by a frenchman of algeria in december was the latest incident to intensify an already heated debate on security immigration and its aggression in a country with the largest muslim population in europe where there is a criminal so firstly i must say this is an isolated case and unfortunately most 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 this in the words of this 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 the truth when young people apply for jobs and listen resume raise 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 the problem the federal public's values of liberty equality and fraternity seems to exclude those living on the periphery like this parisian suburb of not there where we chanced upon a law that encouraged test to be good you need my queen the right to live like everyone else that if you earn between one thousand and thirteen year olds you live in as investors you live in the middle of electromagnetic waves of leaks and

instead of cheering just five minutes from posh areas like the. people dying here and trolling different i say no no i denounce that fact in france where you will have a revolt there's a french saying to describe the country today losing translated as a france or moving a two speeds up of the young people while themselves stuck on the slower moving frame some say they belong to a generation already lost by the stay. they 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 it's a man not only on people but there are those who create heroes like robin hood it's the wife of osama bin ladin or other so-called leaders who create ideas there's a new generation that is hungry and vicious and aggressive and if there is a conflict then it creates an easy access to information freely in easily and the worst as it is reinforced spread in around this is

a huge the to be 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 which critics say are hall of presidents circles he has really tried to espouse the line of the right. party here as well. you know ways attacking immigrants talking about. making issues coverings of muslim girls these are 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. but as near as marking twenty years since the start of one of the bloodiest conflicts since the second world war around

a hundred thousand people were killed and more than four million displaced was plunged into conflicts and left the country's ethnic groups deeply divided as the former yugoslavia split up last minute muslims are sponsored to break free from former federation of bosnian serbs want to remain even stronger because it broke out on the day the european community recognized me as an independent country just one of part of the following three years taking something like forty four which helped bring me to stop what end and un peacekeeping troops remaining present in the area to this day that serbian historian question of which claims that western countries rushed into military action a peace pact was really on the way. dear ironically still trapped in the conflict in a sense it's always ninety ninety two will be there. the elite love cheese sherry it will. be more sorted. still. and it keeps reminding

you once. it is just one hundred ninety two themes we haven't changed much and moved on since even years there's a musical of bosnia that it was a concept that ran rampant on its own and that the west had to step in and stop it in fact there was a bosnian peace process and it had actually the results it was constitutional we meant a compromise between the two parties you're refusing to get the communities and if it was set for a peaceful resolution of the practive the constitutional crisis and then it was going to do worse testimony's it information the american ambassador stepped in council be muslim party to these you need to only react when you didn't and what it was only having been promised american backing which is what ended up happening in this week or sedated in war. but coming up on our t.v. environmentally unfriendly. our taxpayer money going into these they're destroying

thousands of acres they're actually hurting the environment california residents who say living in the shadows of a wind farm is too high a price to pay for a new whole energy. some more stories are making headlines around the world at least ten suspects but a tense have been killed in air strikes in southern yemen security has been reinforced in a couple of horns of a possible al qaeda attack in yemen has seen a rise in bought it since president how they took office or. just because it. was the products of the protests. this time. at least that. dead. homes have been damaged. twenty three the city of sixty lost. cleanup crews are now with clear that there still is.

in mali three secretaries to the north declared independence it's not what it was or what region the group says it's kept in enough territory to form its own state says in three main towns in the area the host of the chaos that you couldn't in two weeks ago you know the west african leaders are calling for want to be restored and this one situation i mean he's crossed 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 and we're going to be dealing with these outflows from libya

in the next year or two several years all cross the sub region ok peter bergen stay with you because this is been predicted should've been predicted i think you wrote about it before this happened. and it was already building up weaponry and they could go. elsewhere as well as libya before the fall of gadhafi. all coincidental in terms of timing and then it is how to intensify it and speed up. but this rebellion was going to take place at some point at some point reasonably soon anyway with or without. that full debate is coming up paradox he can stay. and it may be a defense team of the market after his most influential son claim saif al islam was assaulted while in custody it comes days after the international criminal court over the rights to surrender his son was wanted for crimes against humanity even

says it will try him on home soil killing protesters journalist and c says it's difficult since he's not being held before. i'm not really interesting have much power over the we're about to save gadhafi and my understanding is that the brigade in any case they were making deals with the m.d.c. in tripoli 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 oil is another factor and he reveals it being done on the as to whether we'll ever hear safe i'll get after you secrets i think that we might have

a long time to wait because he was great friends with tony blair he's great friends with the people in london one must really learn school of economics and so forth. but to access more information on the case of saif al islam you go to our website r.t. dot com let's take a look at some other stories that are on the line for you right now in the united states is going to be probably open arms during their visit to washington d.c. how well the thing ending best friends are getting about it on our website. and also online today tons of radioactive water leaks from the fukushima nuclear plant in japan to go to the pacific ocean of. course and u.s. coast guard sink the japanese and ghost ship has been drifting unmanned to the ocean ever since the devastating earthquake and tsunami swept it into port.

the 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 injuring wildlife authorities but in a question over reports now for some the problem is too close to home. vibration in the east and flushing rats troops at night are not exactly environmentally friendly save those living right next to these rotating giants were all completely paid by taxpayers subsidies clearly rate increases that's complete corruption are politicians and it needs to be stopped now 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 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 cleverly balanced far proposed two blinds on her 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 our industry and its lobbyist have promoted it as green am 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 to cope with the relatively small power generation have seen many now lying idle all go up and x.

one company executive believes the industry should be left to find its own place in the engine field instead of encouraging companies only interested in the government's turned out we should not subsidize where and are solar energy that is the wrong way to develop or avoid if. we should tree removal energy just the same way we treat electricity from any other source whether it's coal or not. nuclear gas or oil this frenzy of windmill building during the winter didn't devalue but also devastated wildlife and many of these foreign stand on my grade three pounds for birds so answered with hundreds of birds and bats being killed by the huge blaze after a year it seems the green and clean future has generated little more than brute kill and huge amount of animosity and you know which more a t.v.

reporting from california. where that's there of course to katie on the business desk thank you to russian tycoon still battling it out absolutely right there is a feud and it is escalating among the shareholders of the world's produce the result now who might talking about great stuff like the above and about across what's happening is that so but is launching a legal action against results and got a pass go over an agreement with commodities trader glencore to say that's up to all of you solve allan when you. now back some of us was against this and now lives is violated the shareholder rights earlier he resigned as a result chairman over a disagreement with the company's management he says it almost is the result into a deep crisis. there we go that's let's have a look at the markets now today is typically a light in terms of trading and that's because it's good friday in many parts of

the well today in britain in europe in the u.s. as well as in china the question markets indeed and it's no surprise that they're not saying much action as you can see b.l.t.'s on the mice so it's a relatively perhaps a busy hour they remain a pretty much the same we keep monitoring the situation for you probably seeing some very small on the stock from the my states a bit see who is gaining and who is losing our. promise see how they carrying on with their we are point five percent in negative territory is this out of the company has struck a deal to increase its presence and it via the means shelf which is rather interesting. and so they are not doing much so on us despite reporting a sixteen percent increase in net profit for the first quarter russian accounting standards but you're a company that just pretty flat today actually i'll tell you that we're going to

see much movement unless something catastrophic happens with the move we watching them for sure this we've got to see how the blue ball is performing at this hour or prices that boys hopes the russian it currency will go to hard against the u.s. dollar and also the common currency the euro as well the euro dollar is pretty strong there was some concern in france is coming out of the euro zone as this week resource problems hitting highs and an auction was pretty disappointing that's really sparking concerns that we might see the debt crisis night so to speak and moving on to other emerging markets could see growth of around five percent this year but it's a report by consultancy agency. it believes they will provide hope of global economic growth in the coming years consumption is expected to increase significantly in lee's countries and it's being helped by the expansion of the middle class the group of emerging nations includes countries such as brazil russia

india and china. such as i care it's all the quite say it's good friday so. my eyes like it was ok that's all right thanks to you thanks for that i'll be back with headlines in just a couple minutes stay with us hand out. to .

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