moscow says the sentencing of russian businessman victor brewed by a u.s. court is unacceptable biased and politically motivated received twenty five years for conspiring to sell weapons to terrorists. period security council issues its toughest statement yet on syria calling on the government and the opposition to lay down arms within a week and seeing and pointing out in response. french president nicolas sarkozy went public support with his crackdown on islamic radicals but loses the faith of young muslims who say they feel rejected by their own country.

but from our studios in the russian capital you're watching archie with me and he said now our top story moscow has criticised the sentencing of victor boot in america as politically motivated and says it will seek his return home the businessman 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 crime if it wasn't for the u.s. saying operation. our teams are important has not. the u.s. government wanted victor 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 goes rebels were really agents that were posing under cover of 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 yeah he will expect to be sentenced because

i believe the judge is very intelligent very professional it's an acknowledgment of the invalidity of stations made with prosecutors i think that the judge was much constrained by gould you should have chosen to close the case. and 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 but word of war and he said u.s. press him the merchant of death and that he is just a legitimate businessman since the very. beginning mr boot has named teams 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 that the big of this is that the games. that the jury is just

beginning. to the most decisions are clear. and he really his 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 type courts refused the u.s. extradition request the russian federation also said that mr putin a russian citizen and also former soviet military officer 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 u.s. government spent an enormous amount of time trying to get custody of victim

following his arrest in thailand according to u.s. cables u.s. president barack obama was urged to russian we call thailand's prime minister directly about who in addition the state department and the attorney general according to weaken the documents were encouraged to call the thai acid or highlighting of a massive drug enforcement administration is 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 in brooklyn. reporting from manhattan federal courthouse marina point nine m. r. t. . o. author and investigative journalist daniel a student has been following boot case from day one he says the business men should have built his defense on the fact 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 all the bits of wood was are convicted of 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 of which would allegedly also into these alleged terrorists who are allegedly working for the far off colombia there are no weapons when he was caught . in thailand by the sting by the dea a sting operations the d.a. in the united states government has done everything their power not to look for these alleged weapons so again you have no weapons you have no proof it was kidnapped from thailand he was brought to various states illegally the travel should have been a whole three years ago how things are being done right in thailand and certainly he would have won the case in that he states had he been represented by competent lawyer but we want to know what you think about the case i think to a good log onto our web site r.t. dot com and participate in our latest web poll this hour what we have is the

majority believes the reason behind his sentence is that he's a secret russian agent the opinion that he was smuggling arms to u.s. enemies come second fourteen percent of you think he was in fact competing with the u.s. backed gun runners and minorities so far claims that boot is a victim of hollywood and politics let us know what you think go online and cast your vote about the. in other news the u.n. security council has issued a non-binding ultimatum to the syrian government and opposition saying the complete cease fire must be in place within a week damascus has agreed to the plan but the rebels are calling on president to step down first or mideast correspondent hopelessly or 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 it pushed for the syrian president bashar assad to

adhere to his commitment and then 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 eight pool tents did mine not and that is that they are going according to announced plan we also know that following that day down there will be forty eight hours for the opposition to lay down arms with that 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 a successful way we had acting according to the provisions that mr i manage playing he was doing the avi with agree we kicked leash. a pretty good game we need. a commitment and together but mr annan himself after he goes so much with both the saudi arabia turkey and the others that one is the government. and we respect the end of violence the other. will do the same and will not fill the vacuum that 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 side aside because there is skepticism that he will continue with his troop withdrawal and actually meet this deadline and then the skepticism being voiced by countries such as russia

particularly cause we arming the opposition and rebels in this funnel is a friends of syria meeting that's all countries like qatar and saudi arabia caging millions of dollars to pay the salaries of rebels finds has and at the same time we heard from the united states a cage 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 these political will to actually as yet to that. still to come this hour on archie attacked under watch the capture of saddam dappy safe hours long was reportedly assaulted inconstancy as the international war crimes court demands he was handed over. to the bosnians mark twenty years since the start of a deadly conflict out of their country we take a closer look at the driving force behind. french president nicolas

sarkozy has unveiled his latest vision for the country and three weeks before the presidential vote gets underway he's been boosted by his anti radicalism stance following the recent shootings in toulouse but suppose he's cracked down on religious extremism that followed has left many of the country's muslims isolated archies source of the reports. this may be a film about the struggle to live in the french suburbs but this. it is reality. the shooting of seven people had to lose by a frenchman of algerian descent was the latest incident to intensify an already heated debate on security immigration and immigration in a country with the largest muslim population in europe i'll read the article referencing firstly i must say this is an isolated case fortunately nice 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 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 here not taken seriously the truth when young people apply for jobs and we send 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 french republic's values of liberty equality and fraternity seem to exclude those living on the periphery like this suburb of non-tariff where we chanced upon a law that encroach rest to be good you need my claim the right to live like everyone else if you earn between one thousand and thirteen hundred year olds you

live in as investors you live in the middle of electromagnetic waves with leaks in unsanitary conditions just five minutes from posh areas like. people die here and it's all in 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 loosely translated as a france a movie or two speeds of the young people will find themselves stuck on the slower moving frame some say they belong to a generation already lost. state they find a sense of belonging elsewhere and 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 it may not only on people but there are those who create heroes like robin hood the city it's the life of osama bin laden or other so-called leaders who create a diest there's a new generation that is hungry ambitious and aggressive it's basic conflict the internet creates an easy access to information freely and easily and the worst is

ignorance that is reinforced by it internet this is a huge danger to the he was 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 its critics say our holo president sarkozy has really tried to espouse the line of the right wing. nationalist party here as well. you know he always attacking immigrants talking about. making issues coverings of muslim girls these have become 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.e. paris. well bosnia 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 ball palestinians serbs wanted to remain in somalia comfort broke out on the day the european community recognised last night as an independent country which was torn apart over the following three years nato intervened in one thousand nine hundred four which helped bring the eucharist of war to an end if un peacekeeping troops remaining present in the area to this day but serbian historian in both smollett says the western countries rushed into military action and a peace plan was already underway. if they're going to use to track to it in a sense it's always one thousand and you two will be there. the legal option you sharing. your story. and it keeps

reminding. it is one thousand nine hundred two engine. changed much moved on since she was going to years and years of music. it was a concept that ran rampant comments only and that the west had to step in and stop it in fact there was a causing these process that had actually the results it was constitutional we meant it compromise between the parties of the communities and it instead for peaceful resolution of the credit of the constitution praised and then it will be in tomorrow's testimonies and information the american ambassador stepped in council with the most important to basically only. having been promised american backing which is flawed and happening in this reciprocated in war. but coming up on our t.v.

and prior mentally and not only. our taxpayer monies going into these they're destroying thousands of acres they're actually hurting the environment for california residents are say living in the shadows of a wind farm is too high a price to pay her renewable energy. source of up at some other stories from around the world and briefly of this hour at least ten suspected militants have been killed in air strikes in southern yemen security has been reinforced in the capital over warnings of a possible al qaeda attack and sanaa yemen has seen a rise in violence since president hadi took office in late february his predecessor aliyev bill us that it was forced to leave up for months of protests. a fierce storm in. argentinean capital has left at least eleven people dead and more than twenty injured homes have been damaged some trees there for winds tore through the city topping over sixty miles per hour one teenager died after trying

on a power line that had been brought down the crews are now working to clear the debris and restore power to areas cut off. in mali that separatist group in the north has declared independence an area it's now calling us a lot reachin the group says it's captured enough territory to form its own state after seizing three main towns in the area the rebels took advantage of the chaos caused by a military coup more than two weeks ago the un along with west african leaders are calling for order to be restored and there's more on that situation in mali in our . program coming up. 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 same hell region and 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. and it was already building up weaponry and they could go. elsewhere as well as libya before the fall of gadhafi a small coincidental into the toyman and then it is intensify it and speed. up or a sions but these have barely and was going to take place at some point and at some point reasonably soon anyway with or without. to date on the situation in mali coming up for you next hour here on r.t.

and crosstalk. well in libya the defense team of moammar gadhafi is most influential son clamps a few hours long assault of all income city becomes days after the international criminal court told the libyan authorities to surrender get out his son is wanted for crimes against humanity libya says it will try him on home soil over the killing of protesters but turning the option rattansi says it's likely to be difficult for the safe thing is not being held by the new authorities. under the m.d.c. have much power over the we're about to save gadhafi and my understanding is that there is in town brigade in any case they were making deals with the m.d.c. in tripoli over trying not to split the country into little pieces 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 are desperately

trying to salvage something and stop it from breaking into pieces libya once was of course oil is another factor and presumably deals are being done on that as to whether we'll ever get safe i'll get a few secrets i think we might have a long time to wait because goes 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. of texas more information on the case of say for all the slum khadafi on our website go to archie dot com let's take a look at some other stories that are on line for you right now the u.s. is greeting the muslim brotherhood with open arms during their visit to washington how well do they know their new best friends read more about it on the web site. also online tons of radioactive water leaks from the focusing on the nuclear plant in japan and it's believed to have flowed into the pacific ocean. plus

u.s. coast guard saying a japanese ghost ship which has been drifting around in the ocean ever since the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck it from its port. a group of residents in california say they're they're the ones paying the price for the sunshine state going green they believe the government's term mine subsidies are damaging the local environment and even in danger in wildlife thirty's medina question of our reports for some the problem is too close for comfort. vibration nice and flushing grants troops at night not exactly environmentally friendly save those living bright next to these rotating joints these turbines are all completely paid by taxpayers subsidies and utility

rate increases that's complete corruption by our politicians and it needs to be stopped and now robert moran and his wife are running you can paint to stop energy companies building the windmills even closer to his home and that'll being fought in many small rule towns in the sunshine state in the whole it's sort of a money pit where our taxpayer monies going into these the. destroying thousands of acres they're actually hurting the environment that dr rebalanced proposed to violence 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 power industry and its lobbyist have promoted it as green and clean but for many who live directly with the impact of this energy green 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. x. one company executive believes the end history should be left to find its own place in the energy field instead of encouraging companies only interested in the government's timed out we should not subsidize where 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 ruined the view but also devastated wildlife many of these farm stand on my great repass for

birds so it sounds good hundreds of birds and bats are being killed by the huge blaze every year. it seems the green and clean future has generated little more than brute kill and it's a huge amount of animosity but i do not question marty reporting from california. what's also what's happening in the financial world now understand two russian tycoon rattling it out what's happening out there. these are those are food and it is the s.k.u. say and it's among the shareholders of the world's top producer roussel i'm talking about the type. of. now what's happening is that somebody is launching a legal action against who sells may that it costs and now this is over the green with what it is traded glencore to set up call for to solve. exports now but so was against this still and now claims is violated he is shareholder rights.

he resides as resells chairman over disagreement with the company's management he says its policy was true selves into a deep crisis those who are still may ask what they really are and they talk about the markets today so it seems to we can't it's good friday which means it is a thin day of trading as you can see the russian market is the only on the ground there it's relatively flat it's been pretty much the whole day with no expecting large it moves let's have a look at the stock so and see what's happening we've got gas from the moment this hour is one point seven percent in negative territory just that the company has a strong do to increase its presence in a vietnamese that show if we lose those as well they're managing to hold on to their guys this hour and you're i cally that flouts a negative that is despite production of twenty seven percent in the quarter being

cuffed actually that's due to declining. the concern is how to look at how the variable is bearing this hour and it's hard because u.s. dollar on the euro not because of my own oil prices if you look at the euro dollar though it's flat after a poorly received spanish debt and raining concerns over the european debt crisis always was about the thought that the federal reserve didn't install most stimulus more quantitative easing so the. trade is a favorite pair is a must for this hour. how living on two hour the news that emerging economies will grow around five percent this year that's according to a report by consultancy ernst and young it believes they will provide hope for global economic growth in the coming years consumption is expected to increase significantly in these countries by expansion of the middle class the group of emerging nations includes countries such as brazil russia india and china.

and that is indeed the markets for now i'll be back in about fifty five minutes see how they're falling for you all right katie thanks for that update looking forward to seeing you next hour at the news this year we're going to take a short break and i'll be back with our top stories stay with us.

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