a russian businessman an arms dealer sentenced to twenty five years behind bars in the us speaks exclusively to r.t. as victor bush prepares to be sent to supermax security prison against the recommendation of his trial judge. the u.n. security council condemns deadly terrorist attacks near a military intelligence complex in the syrian capital damascus which killed fifty five this year you call for measures against foreign powers supporting terrorism. and two days after the deadly so boy super jet crash the rescue teams are battling to reach the scene in a remote mountainous region in dreadful weather conditions but are just meters from the disaster zone.

am in the russian capital you're watching r t joshing russian businessman victor borge convicted of arms trafficking by u.s. court has slammed the american justice system comparing it to a medieval style inquisition and exclusive interview with r.t. to be sent to a super maximum security prison to serve his twenty five year term that's the spy the judge in his trial recommending medium security confinement for him dubbed the alcatraz of the rockies supermax jail houses some america's most dangerous criminals the russians lawyers has filed a motion asking for the decision to be stalled while victor wood is still in a new york prison artie's an associate you're going to spoke exclusively to him and tells us what he said. this was victor boots first interview to an english

language t.v. news outlet not only since his sentencing but also since his extradition and speaking in one in six languages he's fluent in english he seemed quite candid generally we know that victor boot is quite positive considering the circumstances with personally seen him winking at his wife inside the courtroom today too he was quite calm and really shared his personal take on his case and kind of crown. were you know. you don't overreach on trial. where you know your mom accepted. but you. think some of the markers are actually showing you completion of american justice and real confusion american great comic relief and nonfunctional dictatorship of course his case has been like a hollywood blockbuster picture book is a russian air cargo businessman in his forty's he's been dubbed the merchant of

death in the united states the u.s. has spent years and tens of millions of dollars in an operation to hunt this man down of course we know that u.s. agents posing as far as members met with victor boot and then of arrested him in thailand in two thousand and eight two years later regardless of the fact that thai courts found him not guilty twice in what was called arm twisting by the united states victor boot was extradited into u.s. territory to face charges of international arms trafficking victim but himself has always maintained his innocence and believes his case to be political theatrics also asked him if he has a message for the president of the united states as well as a u.s. official in general who are behind the operation in luring in victor boot. which were used. for workers. i'm very we're going to grant a crime this rule not going to help america really for all of the problem of the

drug war and you were convicted of going through the real problem for the real problem there just isn't the crime for a group of those then your program go through somebody who vote for of all who the current group different people or the border patrol the real problem now get to boot is appealing his twenty five year sentence behind bars and says he continues to keep on fighting until he gets a chance to return back home to russia we know that he has filed an official request for the russian state duma to file a complaint against the united states and thailand victor boot himself says because he knows he's innocent he's hoping that he will not end up serving the entire twenty five years that he's been sentenced to but whether or not that's going to be the case we're going to have to wait and see a future going to reporting there well you can catch the full interview victor borge has given us the sunday here on r.t.

. the u.n. security council has unanimously and strongly condemn terrorist blast that killed at least fifty five people and wounded almost four hundred in the syrian capital damascus on thursday the twenty explosions near a government intelligence complex are the worst terror attacks in syria since the start of the uprising last year just brings us the latest from u.n. headquarters in new york. all fifteen members of the security council have recognized that terrorist networks are working in side of syria it was only just on tuesday when the syrian envoy to the united nations had accused

a number of regional air powers of sponsoring terrorism to undermine this ceasefire in syria currently being carried out in a very fragile state the syrian ambassador fahri said the syrian government has been facing a surge of terrorist threats including suicide bombings he even held up a d.v.d. claiming that on that d.v.d. was confessions of dozens of individuals that were involved in terrorist activities upon the order of what he said were state's joint special envoy kofi annan did address also the media just this week saying that right now syria can be descending into a full scale civil war if the ceasefire does not hold our first is in syria and has been speaking to all those that have lived been living through the uprisings and through the ongoing violence and she brings us their story the

sound of gunfire and heavy artillery rings out. with the u.n. observers in it live in there's been some pretty heavy go. throughout the night. no will to go to the scene as for the tight control at the center there. and the fierce fighting is continuing. here both sides we're told of violating the peace plan we fully the u.n. observers into it live on the way passing through homes and hama of the areas and it is that based on there is that is seen some of the most destructive fighting. as we pass through homes we have a brief an emotional conversation with a resident after. safety. what the people who must feel about the fighting that happens.

that is he tries hard not to show as perfectly encapsulate the level of devastation that has been wreaked on people's lives here throughout the course of the conflict is on to it and a stretch of road this name for being extremely dangerous it's a journey that would have been near impossible without the u.n. presence and with the volatile situation criminal gangs are thought to operate in this area. we find it live under siege like conditions a quiet and intimidated city i don't know since a year and a half ago no one knows what's happening we go to sleep and wake up with fear some say is the government and other states on groups we don't know who's doing that last we get a chance to meet it lives governor and ask him about the situation here. even if there is a little unrest in some areas or in a few spots it's due to people who are breaking the. checkpoint after checkpoint

then we enter into an area outside of government control and it's a unique chance to see the u.n. monitors in action almost a month into the peace plan and you're monitors are making small steps on the ground but it's going to be a slow process throughout the course of the conflict it's been hard to come to some of the areas where the fiercest fighting is happening and get a gauge of exactly what the situation is on the ground the u.n. observers traveling to some of these areas have given them access to what we see is a frightened population and the city symbol is the olive branch the symbol of peace is right now a city at civil war sara furth r.t. . the director of the conflicts forum organization thinks the un peace effort is being undermined by outside interference in syria. having militarily experienced witnesses on the ground who can tell what is a mortar shell and what is

a burning being fired on the top of the roof more than an ordinary journalist can does help but please bring this thing that maybe possibly will contribute to stabilizing it of course military observers any sort of. determined. who wish to infiltrate the country and place explosives from the middle of a time the head of american intelligence assessment james clapper himself said that americans believe that the earlier bombings were done by groups infiltrating from iraq into syria to places who is behind them we are not quite sure but it's most likely those that are sponsoring these groups will be in the gulf states will be gulf states who will be by the funding it all stimulating these sort of attacks i think it's fairly plain in the reason why it doesn't take a great deal of investigation to work out. for both sides. the peace process is

not what they're wanting to see they want to see the bottom to overthrow of the assad regime coming up later this hour here in our t.v. locked and dad long green political parties talk still struggling to form a government fears mount a country's closer to leaving the euro than ever was chaotic consequences. plus a raft of new laws rules for the olympic games along with leading to accusations of a police state to find out why the hardline regulations are driving up discontent. days after the deadly so boys super jet crash in indonesia the first rescue teams are expected to shortly reach the side of the wreckage in remote mountains no survivors have been found yet but as our priest rita reports some relatives are still holding out desperate help. chaos of jakarta's domestic airport where hundreds gathered after russian superjet sukhoi one hundred went missing from

radars on wednesday early thursday their worst fears were realized as air force helicopters found the remains of the plane on a mountainside thirty miles outside indonesia's capital city ever since the plane disappeared off the radar members of the media and family members of those who were on the plane have been gathering here at the crisis center hoping for any word as to what could have happened to their loved ones and what caused the plane to go down. did the med has been at the airport since he found out that his wife was on board the missing plane she has been a flight attendant for twenty years and didn't think it was necessary to tell her husband about the quick thirty minute demo of the got a she didn't tell me she was going on the plane i had no idea. the super jet was performing that demonstration for airline executives and potential buyers as part of an asian tour a plane billed as state of the art with cutting edge technology the multibillion dollar project involved investors from around the world and tuesday's flight was

expected to show the super rich in all its glory no one including blogger sergei dholakia who has been following the super during the tour could have predicted this outcome but he couldn't believe because oprah winfrey's new overload was. one of the best for those in russia so we can believe that anything can happen. to the plane because we were absolutely confident in the glue that most aviation experts believe that the treacherous terrain and poor visibility probably contributed to the plane going down on wednesday details that offer devastated relatives little comfort but be able to i'm wishing for a miracle to happen to good news about i think so some of the new news means good news i still have hope to find my wife we get what you. preassure either or teach a car to indonesia. find a timeline of the tragedy on our website r t v dot com and we have plenty more on

the story online including the tragic holders of the crew and others on board just before takeoff with disaster to follow in less than an hour afterwards well for more on this is a soda can always log on to party dot com. plus one of the secrets of soviet history salt declassified archives open the lid on the mysterious death of stalin's told the sun the details are at r.t. dot com. greece may see new elections if political parties fail to form a government following sunday's inconclusive poll talks on forming a coalition will continue on friday political turmoil is already threatening the country's bailout agreement with the international monetary fund euro zone

governments have held back part of the schedule financing with greece receiving one billion euro less than planned the country set to run out of cash in june and get on a calloused mike ross thinks the eurozone needs to split to limit the damage from the crisis. what we see is a programmed crisis it's very sad to see these things developing but it was more or less planned within the your because so different different countries like greece and germany are not fitting into one currency and it is a end of the day you will have this what we have now people go to the street because there is more violence more political insecurity. that the country also becomes impossible to govern the euro never could work everybody who looks at it on an economical way knows that the eurozone just was not right the whole problem that we have in the eurozone cannot be solved by rescue packages cannot be

solved by modi it cannot be solved anywhere it can only be solved by a break up of the euro or that means that germany pulls out and the rest of the countries in the us who are in there with a new euro zone will devalue their money. greek political deadlock and the storm is causing in the euro zone is up for debate and peter lavelle's crossed up the full program is coming up later today. it's not about suggesting that greece outside the eurozone would do but look at the he actually or for the comic you saw . the value of the drachma before opting for the euro but arguing my view on a number of occasions the problems caused the problem have remained in place if you have an unruly teenager who's really lazy and doesn't do anything and is is draining your bank account what do you do you kick him out of the house and generally get his act together so that's the same kind of approach that could be

taken to greece and i think they without this this safety net that the eurozone provides they might actually get around to realizing oh my goodness we have an issue here and we can't just elect economists we can't just screw around we have to actually get our act together and do something productive. as london prepares for the olympics bureaucrats and lawmakers have been busy to connecting a range of rules and regulations draconian measures are already excluding some people from the country while a number of residents have been banned from the games simply because they've objected to the construction of olympic facilities near their homes argues laura smith explains. the olympic torch is lit and on its journey to london accompanying it fear uncertainty and code red level security impinging on the lives of people from london to las vegas that's where tim larkin lives he's supposed to

be in the u.k. training martial arts enthusiastic but as he was boarding his flight he discovered the home office had excluded him from the country on the grounds that his self-defense course might incite vigilanteism being that i have a fifteen year history of coming to the u.k. training thousands of people from the u.k. and also european clients coming into london and had no incidents whatsoever in and the rhetoric that's being used is absolutely inconsistent with what i teach it's a level of paranoia that increases the closer the olympics gets but london a simon mall won't get anywhere near the games he protested the building of basketball courts on a green space near the olympics and was slapped with a control order that forbids him from going near the olympics or any other celebration taking place this summer he faces five years in prison if he disobeys

these that legislation is being used to prevent. lawful and understandable protest to aspects of the games which are on them across the koran popular. furthermore these are just this legislation won't prevent people from disrupting the games the wall it will do is it will give the ability of the thirty's to to punish people more severely i think it's insane i think that it shows the prevailing state of consciousness in governments and on the world which is one of the ultimately we're in control luckily for simon he doesn't. i live near the stadium but. anyone who does this building's less than a kilometer from the eleven pick park the plan is to station a battery of high velocity missiles on the roof of this block of flats for two months over the olympics

a proposal that's already triggered an explosive reaction resident brian whelan learned of the plans from a leaflet pushed through his door late one night some people are worried about how effect the property values some people think it might be building a target for terrorists some people think it's discipline as it is not secure enough so people don't want to be turned into some sort of military base you know really affect the quality of life. my big argument is. nobody consulted us the m.r.d. never spoke to us the two thousand and twelve games have spawned a level of security that's unprecedented seen by many as overwhelming and repressive the question many british people are asking is if it's like this already what's it going to be like when the lympics circus finally rolls into town laura smith london. taking a look at other news from around the world now clashes have continued in believe

you for a second day running as medical students battled riot police in the nation's capital as protesters threw rocks and firecrackers at officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets one of the country's largest you called for three days of demonstrations after rejecting a salary increase offered by the government students joined doctors and workers of public hospitals who are protesting an increase of working hours and. the front runners for egypt's top job have gone head to head in the country's first presidential debate former foreign minister under hosni mubarak and abdel moneim aboul. moderate moderate islamist challenge to each other about religions role and democracy the televised debate lasted for hours with supporters of both candidates watching closely in outdoor cafes around cairo the two are among thirteen candidates running in the election due to begin on may twenty third. nineteen people have been killed across of ghana stand as

a series of violent attacks by taliban militants continues an armed group wearing afghan police uniforms killed five in the country's east while apparently trying to attack a local government office all of the insurgents died in a firefight with troops two other roadside bombs killed several civilians including five children and a police officer in the south. claims that iraq had weapons of mass destruction led to the us invasion in two thousand and three later today on r t our special report on covered the war on iraq shows how bogus assertions were used to start a full scale conflict with catastrophic consequences here's a preview. the people of the states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder his regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we

know for a fact that there are weapons there. this work is being carried out into the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart we have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets of the intelligence community can provide. data cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search have not yet found shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment. and that. sometimes the true

patriot takes the unpopular course but helps the country and wooden stakes and even if they can't persuade at least they tried patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in the turbo international security situation but i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others. while it's time to see what's happening in the world of business hi there. well usually add the sour i mean the only thing as working as asian markets because of the time difference there is in moscow markets here will open in a couple of hours so how's a session going there when ring of the session that sort of mixed investors war reactive various economic reports but since then the neck a has slipped into

negative territory as well so it's basically a sea of red in asia right now let's take a look at the latest numbers the hang sign is a drop in the overall one percent and that's after news came out that china's consumer inflation is slowed in april that was of course after a surprise gain in the march and also we know that wholesale prices were lower but at the same time that there really helped investors as we can see that i want to concentrate on earnings reports boost that some shares there and also a strong performance on wall street stocks in managed to stay in positive territory for very long but let's take a look of what happened on the wall street markets are closed at the moment but we saw that was after the longest losing sleep and nine months u.s. moochers managed to turn the things around that was primarily due to different jobless claims as well as signs of civilization in europe as we can see there but unfortunately when we come. two the nasdaq slipped into negative territory after the drop for cisco systems so that's why we saw and make spectra at the close in

time will stay with us the biggest bank there which is j.p. morgan chase has revealed some significant losses the bank says i do to complex investments made by its traders they saw a trading loss of around. dollars and needless to say shares fell six for science after this. and when it comes to crude prices they're heading for the second the weekly drop and that's on the rise in the polls also on thursday opec the group of main two oil exporting countries said that they're producing almost ten percent more crude the necessary and as we can see the light sweet this waiting close to ninety six dollars per barrel and it's heading towards one hundred and twelve dollars per barrel or i'm moving on to exchange rates there euro is against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble are treated against both major currencies on thursday and we'll give you the updated figures for that when the russian markets

open that which is now about two hours from now what you're about to see is the closing picture for thursday because they can look at the russian markets there we go as you can see in the black there it was first the proper trading session of the world because there were bank holidays here of course and russia of the russian markets were open haven't said many investors were abroad celebrating the holidays so that's why we say it was the first session then leave well that's how the business update looks this hour back to see a marina and so maria thanks very much indeed looking forward to getting more updates next hour and of course looking forward to the opening of the russian markets to get the picture there well right now though we continue what i had and there is plenty of russian capital has to offer we're showing you and it's coming your way in just a few moments after recap the top stories. the

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