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 an exclusive interview with r.t. to be sent to a super maximum security prison to serve his twenty five year term that's despite 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 buddha 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. through the. trial. where you know your mom accepted. as if you were. going through marker of actually showing them conditional formatting jump to. conclusion and reaching american comic relief and nonfunctional don't get there you can of course his case has been like a hollywood blockbuster picture book is a russian air cargo business man 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 camembert has met with viktor boot and then 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 their. they were going to grant a crime this route not only not help america really for all of the problem of the drug war and you were convicted of

a growing group due to the real problem for the real problem there just isn't the crunch for a group of older for her to go through from voting for of all to the current good crew food for the people for the corner people 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 this 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 i 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 a huge 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. 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 states 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 this 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 going. throughout the night . no will to go to the scene as for the tight control at the center there in the. live 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 how many of the areas mon 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 and emotional conversation with a resident of. safety. people who are still fighting. that is he tries hard not to show 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 live on a stretch of road this names are 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 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 the government and other states armed groups we don't know who's doing that last we get a chance to me to 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 u.n.

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 civil. r.t. . alice director of the conflicts forum organization thinks the u.n. 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 does help but please bring this thing maybe possibly will contribute to stabilizing of

course military observers any sort of. determined. who wish to infiltrate the country and place explosives from the middle of a town the head of american intelligence assessment james clapper himself said that americans believe that the earlier bombings were done by groups infiltrating from iraq syria the place is called 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 fun to get 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 the assad regime coming up later this hour here on our t.v.

locked and dad long green political parties talk still struggling to form a government here's mound the country is 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 find out why the hardline regulations are drumming 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 are we to 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 mad 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 so when they got to 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 jet during the tour could have predicted this outcome we couldn't believe because oprah would just be. one of the best for the situation so we can believe that anything can happen to the. into the plane because we were absolutely confident in the plane 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. i'm wishing for a miracle to happen and to you good news about it i think so some new news means good news i still have hope to find my wife. preassure you there are 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 these tragic photos 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 they said it can always log on to party dot com. plus one of the secrets of soviet history solved declassified archives open the lid on the mysterious death of the sun details are at. 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 a schedule financing with greece receiving one billion euro last implant country set to run out of cash in june and comic alice mike ross thanks the eurozone needs

to split to limit the damage of the crisis. what we see. it's very two. things developing but it was more planned within the your because different countries like greece and germany are not fitting into one currency and it didn't have to do. what we have no people good to do. because more violence more political insecurity. that the country also becomes impossible to govern the euro never could work everybody. who. looks for duty on an economical way knows that the eurozone just was not right the whole problem that we have in the euro zone cannot buy rescue packages cannot. cannot be solved anywhere it can only be solved by

a break up of the euro or that means to germany and the rest of the country. with the new rules on 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. he said about seriously suggesting that greece outside the eurozone would do better look at the moment. the value of the drachma before opting for the euro or arguing my view on a number of occasions the problems cause 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 experiments 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 do in acting 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 were objecting to the construction of olympic facilities near their homes argues laura smith explains. philippic tauch is late 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 sweaty millikan 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 democratic or unpopular

. furthermore these are just this legislation won't prevent people from disrupting the games to what 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. live near the stadium but would betide anyone who does this building's less than a kilometer from the eleven pick park the plan is to station a battery of highly 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 push through his door late one night some people are worried about the

effect the property values have because they could make the building a target for terrorists some people think that it's discipline is not secure enough some people don't want to be turned into some sort of military base. they really affect the quality of life. but my big argument is. nobody consulted on the mit 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. taking a look at other news from around the world now the clashes have continued in bolivia for a second day running as medical students battled riot police in the nation's capital left pas protesters threw rocks and firecrackers at officers fired tear gas

and rubber bullets one of the country's largest unions 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 had an increase in working hours and combat. 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 was the most moderate moderate islamist challenge to each other about religion's role in democracy the televised debate last. at four hours with supporters of both candidates watching closely in our door 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 united states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass market is 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 let 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 you 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 we 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 is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriots takes the unpopular course but it helps the country of wooden stakes and

even if they come this way at least from tonight 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 a terrible international security situation and i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others. well it's time now to see what's happening in the world of business hi there area well usually add the sour i me. the only thing that's working is asian markets because of the time difference there is a moscow markets here will open in a couple of hours so how's a session going there when ring of the session mixed investors who are reacting to 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 seng is dropping over one percent this hour

and that's after news about china's consumer inflation 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 constant drip earnings reports boost that some shares there and also a strong performance on wall street stocks that managed to stay in positive territory for very long but let's take a look at what happened on the wall street markets are closed at the moment what we saw there was after the longest losing streak in nine months u.s. moochers managed to turn things around that was primarily due to different jobless claims as well as signs of stabilization in europe as we can see there but unfortunately only comes through the nasdaq slipped into negative territory after the drop for cisco systems so that's why we saw and makes picture at the close in time will stay with the u.s. the biggest bank there which is j.p.

morgan chase has revealed some significant losses the bank says that due to complex investments made by its traders they saw a trading loss of around. dollars and needless to say shares fell six percent after this. and when it comes to crude prices they're heading for the second the weekly drop and that's a rise in u.s. stockpiles 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. this wait in close to ninety six dollars per hour every friday blood is heading towards one hundred and twelve dollars per barrel or i'm moving on to exchange rates there europe as a new sin against the dollar and when it comes to the move over to do it against both major currencies on thursday i will give you the updated figures for that when the russian markets open the day which is about two hours from now what you're about to see is the closing picture for those they focus like

a look at the rush of 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 rush up of the russian markets were having so many investors were abroad celebrating the holidays so that's always say it was the first proper session then leave well that's how business up it looks this hour back to you marina summary and thanks very much indeed looking forward to getting more updates next hour and of course look forward to the opening of the russian markets together picture there well right now though we continue to had and the. russian capital has to offer we're showing in moscow and that's coming your way in just a few moments after recap the top stories. we'll

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welcome back here with our t. here's a look at the top stories a russian businessman an arms dealer sentenced to twenty five years behind bars in the u.s. speaks to our team as he prepares to be sent to a supermax security prison holding some of america's most dangerous criminals well that's against the recommendation of his trial judge who asked for medium security confined to. the u.n. security council condemns deadly terrorist attacks near a military intelligence complex in the syrian capital damascus which killed fifty five syria is demanding measures against foreign powers supporting terrorism. and two days after the deadly source of her jet crash rescuers in indonesia are battling to reach the scene in every boat a mountainous region and dreadful weather.