i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. the top story. of time back in russia's presidential saddled with his plans and policies the latest wave of discontent with retaking the top job. they carried out a deadly bombing in the syrian capital in response to the actions of government troops confirming fears the terror group saw fighting on the rebel side. for the country's streets for a second day is anger and hurt over. the protests small. greece puts a question mark over the fate of the euro. and russian rescue teams join the search

for answers in indonesians at the site of the sukhoi superjet crash which killed all forty five. now russian business and victor been exclusively to r.t. about what he believes is really behind the twenty five year jail term he's now serving in the united states. victor boot a russian air cargo businessman dubbed the merchant of death in the u.s. sentenced to twenty five years behind bars for allegedly arms trafficking in april years and tens of millions of dollars pumped into hunting him down u.s. agents posing as fark members how to arrested in a sting operation in thailand in two thousand and eight found not guilty by thai courts twice he was still extradited to the u.s. russia called the move illegal victor boot now speaks to our t.v. exclusively from jail. victor thank you very much for calling in today i want to

start by asking you you were sentenced to a quarter of a century behind bars what does that feel like. there's no holding with you is it clear your father brother cronk you know you know you security code if you figure it out every time you understand both of the freedom it's impossible to break you down to bring it to me to pick on you know war i know i don't commit to anything to have that punishment. when i was a major media crime these crimes would never exist i live the u.s. government would not have read the crime i sent a result it would be a conspiracy row ballplayer bold. decision to kill americans which is i'd like a magic bullet or pull the trigger a few and kind of. hurt or you know barely or through the do you feel you know reach trial. where you know your mom accepted. that

your own people but i think some of. that will help i understand the reality and i understand time i'm trying to bring a message to my friends my family and russian people that listen what is happening to me it's a pure political case you are in the process of appeal and you've also asked the russian state duma to file a complaint against the united states. in thailand why hoping for legally add politically or well legally i'm maybe not the best person toss or use a needle or is would know better and i'm not trained to especially an american president lol i'm allowed to tell you what my perspective or whatever is the law and i'll be going to do but i have thought most non hope because the way the system works once you label to the ones you put to the so-called. jury's decision so no judge or even supreme court would have all counsel that because like this is the

truth in the. hoopers state nobody can ever order through reconsider their decision or know some essential employees and it's accepted that the jurist cannot fail now we know that you are about to be transferred to a prison in colorado and considering your lawyer and your families here in new york city will this affect you a lot this move this transfer but that's another despite a judge's decision on the recommendation to keep me somewhere nearby because i've never been is not a state i don't have no i and a family here except my wife is it to me. my lawyer based in new york they're trying to deal with me so it's lost through to most of the countess you know jail which isn't about them hidden on the ground so i never could see daylight again as a punishment but as a chance to create more obstacles to prepare the proper appeal as

a kind of the riverbank for all that you know we brought the issue of the they keep me and shoot for more than one at home for years without solid reason and i'm broke please i'm planning to know the tricks that can play with me later after you learned your sentence in court on april fifth you turned to the d.n.a. agents who were inside the courtroom when you said god knows the truth. you know the truth what is your message to u.s. officials today and maybe even the u.s. president well i have a message for you is president if you will keep using these folks who have a name of did a drug enforcement agency and they would invent the crimes this world not only not help america to really solve the problem with a drug for sale anywhere but it's that of going to the a real problem to solve the real problem they just inventing the crime because a little clue there is no danger for him go to somebody who would not hide provoke

do the kind o. the dirty tricks and the in frame that people instead are going to solve the real problem with the real drug cartels and then it's also hypocrisy of this administration if they you know sentence me to twenty five years daredevil status and they don't want to go and then sent those old guys. dealers in america who's selling the arms and these are my ending up in mexico and by these arms the killing of the same american citizen in mexico it's been reported that you knew you were dealing with undercover agents or at least not by members all along in that in the days in the time leading up to your rep is that the case. i don't think we could really now talk about the you know these details i don't remember that they. stated that i was dealing with undercover agent was that i was not sure who they are and for me to be or they've been very strange people they posing like you know these but they way they pose the way they talk i understand immediately they have nothing

to do with. fog people i told you were dubbed the merchant of death the lord of war do you think these nicknames ended up affecting your case more than they should have of course this is entire story is about first you crazy me and then you bring people fall out of this building but we've pulled over to redo all this article reach and. the think a lot of tickle brought any single fact about my rock star look with all their money doing through all over the world and they brought the pilots who confronted yes my phone my company was engaging to transportation but it was legitimate conflict with a legitimate government of rwanda and we've been flying them you know accordingly they they call director over there or our offer amounted to is done properly but out of all the businessmen that they could have gone after why do you think they went after you. listen for them doesn't matter whom they're going to pick up because whenever they go spoon feed is the mainstream media spoon feeding the

american population all creating them if they don't care when they pick up we know that you've seen the movie about you with nicolas cage what do you what do you think about his performance i feel sorry for him that this is a very. middle middle career move he has a very bad general screen and i don't think it's a even interesting to watch it all it's a fair representation of the problem which is because an african nation if you knew you would be serving a twenty five year sentence behind bars do you think you would have done anything differently no i don't regret nothing in my life and i can see and face anything i did because i didn't did anything wrong with my life if you were actually a free man right now do you know what you would be doing what would you want to be doing would you change your life around start something new well of course because look around four years. of a lot behind the bar by uncle sam tyler i'm ruined completely i don't have any

money left at all they. not only close my companies they put through these executive orders which is without any due process without even chance to comment explain as they said they freeze six billion dollars and i'm asking a challenging president of united states show all the proof with i had ever six billion dollars at least i know where to get money to pay my defense team for that bukhari this is all you know stories the same and nothing showed all the smoke and mirrors like they did with a weapon of mass destruction of iraq. been even today have bill said if you repeat the lies thousand and ten thousand times it's become a true if this is exactly the recipient which these that read ministration using some of the people who've been following your case critics have been saying that the case is very much anti washup do you think that that's really the case or is it just you worse is the us government of course or isn't i rush and look or whatever

well what was happening in a thailand during the extradition procedure when the criminal court in bangkok denied extrusion they put tremendous pressure for the. government of thailand and they actually brought me out not extradited and we still have a pending legal procedures and dyna to the court because we submitted appeal there and it was not finished deal because of personal involvement big pressure numerous calls all by ambassador american ambassador going out most daily and pushing the government the government decided to pass me over to the american side like you said your papers do remain in thailand do you think they'll remain on the shelf forever or could there still be some sort of this isn't a little too little that your people are really moving if there really is or any political will of die government to prove that they have a still justice not mockery and then not a colony of the united states they had to do it there's been several cases

throughout the last several years where the f.b.i. ended up putting itself on the back for. manufacturing some cases and bringing foreigners to u.s. soil do you think this is something that we're going to see more of in the future go through this and i was close to the money toting every two weeks you have a manufactured crime and manufactured by but the idea it's regular just to watch their somebody's car caught for the trying and all conspiring to send airplane model loaded with explosives to the pentagon another one you know called. with the agent begging them please go and explore do not go look for the seven mom from day looking for their people and their desperate stage ridges in the mine and they for their agents instead of really walking through to secure this country they just plain old manufacturing the crime and trying to go you know we're preventing the crime it's old cairo or the war of terror you cannot provide against the peril

because it's not the state it's not the person now you are serving twenty five years right now but you have said previously that you think he will be released before that and will be able to return to russia a lot sooner how and why how do you think that would happen because look this is a case purely political and i think public opinion in russia understand that and know the truth because by the american procedures to my care actually showing them the condition of american justice and real condition to reach american state comic as a police state and nonfunctional don't dictatorship victor boot thank you very much for your time with us today and i want to thank the pentagon because there are tough. to what extent when i would call them paid mercenaries how much they're going to be your defense to protect your administration and your successors none none you're saying

the mercenaries like blackwater will not play a major role in this kind of this does this is one of the issues over who's going to. turn shouldn't they will be here they will be. brought to us for the afghan government schools in no way. no way no way. the budget. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact.

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now sport. hello welcome to the latest sports news yet other headlines frantic finish contacts not just the second and last champions league spot from tesco as rostov up to join vogue in the relegation playoffs at the end of this transitional season here in russia. while the champions manchester city scored twice in stoppage time to win three two at home to ten months to claim the top flight title for the first time in forty four years while bolton are relegated on an incredible final day in england. where the greeks is hot quite tasty almost to the russian house miss out on their seventh year of the crown by a single point to libya of course. but first football and spot act of one tune the

luck of marty finn the most go darby to finish runners up in the russian premier league and capture the last remaining champions league spot the red white lead from another capital side to sky into second place to see. czech defender matic suki nor did spotlight burst from a corner and way through the first half and autumns doubled their lead five minutes before the break aiden mcgeady assisted in both goals the spotlight secured a berth in the third qualifying round of europe's top top petition. also need to stand to lose it twice former champions robin and the army men played into their hands as they squandered a one goal lead to lose three one in cousin keisuke honda put the visitors in front right before the interval but it was all rubin after the restart substitute nelson valdez grabbed requires often less than two minutes on the pitch. got that he

scouted a nice was first in the rebounds to give the home side the lead eight minutes before time. then turned to provide that minutes later set upon him going into were being denied to scar the champions league next season ripping finnish six we're joined in iraq the league playoffs of lifting them made national cup on wednesday. elsewhere and cheer on the side heading into the europa league despite a two nil home defeat at the hands of champions an ace this leads in the blue heart of volatility and they are shut ins cross-wind after the break and then we thought of assisted in civil late though as this and petersburg side concluded that title defense on a high. what a lost dog go by informants visit amisom of h.k. fourth place deny my one one draw or it could be on the high side to top scorer see me try oreo the after ten minutes of play. they clung on to that lead but missed some of it salvage the draw deep into injury time midfield that was first denied by

the woodwork tattoos come to find the back and look at the net so this is how the top of the table finished isn't it we're already the champions and for the second year running and joined in the champions league by spot tax discount then our must list of things angie and russian cup winners will be in go into the europa league dr marty found them complete the top eight. while in the bottom half of the table all stars have dropped into the relegation playoffs after a late two one defeat at home in siberia and confines of finally open for the home side after fifty seven minutes then back to back on monday missed a second half penalty for rough stuff but they still levelled matters with five minutes to go with three kids get it in him but i got the boss throwing stuff a lifeline and they went all out in search of a crucial winner instead they conceded a penalty deep into injury time writes in the post sport consigned into the

playoffs to want to already relegated top of the stuff could join them in the first division should they also lose their playoff double header again shinee. while just escaping those playoffs working as of yet off after the samarra side hung on for a one one draw tend to put a grozny the visitors with a foster out of the blocks as well good they already have fired him a stunner just two minutes in. previous equalise some ten minutes later that they want to link up and. motivation. one more is how it ended just in africa you need to stay on top flight and speak once about fastolf. elsewhere and call one for one on home soil to pall mall museum vulgar who had long known that. facing the playoffs and can't have set a day now moving sent off a last ditch found just ten minutes in. the last julie converted from the spot with longer in the driver's seat but at numbers i'm calm whenever i'm gonna get

a phone call. struck within six minutes of each other if the host and lead still in the first half and then in the second and excitedly i can sort a second yellow and off he went ok ok player stepped up to finish off the penalty in style three one then alexander so boston common to the last now into gold as coffin in less than ten minutes where i said he was much more better in the playoffs. well the goals we continued in a southern russian dubey as relegation group leaders close no doubt were held to a streak for a draw a group bottom spot and now take four goals flew in within twelve first half minutes it was does massive a bit you can see that going on considine of open up. by love and igor a musky spot but each side has to make it to all with just twenty minutes gone. but it was twenty minutes left since jan netted from the penalty spot but cousins out ahead for the first time i have a need for the confidant of swifty equalised

a soup of free kick a second goal of the ninety three the final score. so here's how the bottom of the table finished tom and now to be relegated last lost in the playoffs. survived in next season's top flight. while over in england two goals in three stoppage time minutes gave manchester city a street to win a time to ten months to hand them both as a top flight title for forty four years on a string final day in the premier league one one of the fifty five minutes q.p.r. captain joey barton was sent off for violent conduct but rain just still took the lead through jamie mackie and that's how it stood with ninety minutes gone with a late goals from edging jack and stand back to the stadium from despair to delirium city into the title on goal difference for manchester united he still won one at sunderland thanks to a wayne rooney first half strike arsenal sealed third place with

a st to win at west bromwich auctions last bank charge talking of it falling to nil and finished fourth week also assists after losing streak wanted everton to one as he beat liverpool one nil after danny graham's late strike chelsea beat doomed blackburn two one north defeated aston villa two nil and wigan trying three two against rock bottom it will be joined next season in the championship by bolton make it a little into it started the day belonged to city. in the history of the club does not this is the final like these. are taking that. i am very proud for my players because the idea that they wanted to go in this day i don't think they walked out of for the reason they want to do in these days when people are sick and there was great. so this is now the top of the table finished city win on eight goals difference from united arsenal think third place and i'm guaranteed champions league football so i'm all full which could also do the same thing but it

won't if chelsea win the champions league final munich next week do you consummate that elusive stick and everton get nasty side bragging rights after finishing about liverpool and at the bottom bolton enjoying wolves and him being relegated q.p.r. survived despite that lost city and aston villa finished two points above the drop zone. basketball now in tesco moscow have just missed out on their seventh year in the title after the army menstruate a fourteen point lead to go down to a limp jocose in istanbul and i get along i prevailed passed off but the great outfits to turn the tables on to this mission and enjoyed a future final quarter just pleased as he scored to be blessed with a second to go in limp younkers a sixteen points to sixty one victory in their second title after so in the tournament fifteen years ago. while the bronze medal goes to bosler down the spanish powerhouse with two strong from last year as well as promising michael's

muscling not that the us was their star man of the brazilian pouring in a game for a twenty one point including three travels as barcelona want seventy four sixty nine. now the ice hockey world championships russia have extended their one hundred percent winning streak to six games after a tuna went over the czech republic in stockholm i was on the job in open russia less than a minute stand before score that yes kenny malkin method best second for the powerplay his seventh goal so far russia top group week stand remained the only unbeaten side of the tournament while the usa thrashed finland five nil to overtake the co-host and go second in group a. now formula one and pastor maldonado has finished his maiden victory after winning from his first ever pole position and the spanish gong pray the venezuelan was overtaken by fernando alonso who'd started second of the opening lap pass the williams drive out would storm back into the lead up to the second pit stop on the seven time champion michael schumacher

crashed out yet again after running into the back room a sense car but modern auto hits top form of the barcelona track to beat alonzo by just over three seconds and he williams their first victory since two thousand and five zero alonso came in second ahead of the latest you are of human rights human and woman grow jacques and the ferrari man is now level on points with champion nonstandard leader sebastian vettel the german was six fastest lewis hamilton finished eight despite having started from the back of the grid. finally to tennis answer in a way as has trashed world number one victoria azarenka in straight sets to win the madrid open final the two players had never met each other on clay before particularly blue clay and despite a contract and desire was after her first title of the season however the valorization was totally outplayed losing the first set six one of the failing to give their only break point she managed to crawl that. experience then went on to

clinch the second six three record victory in just over an hour for what was number one smashed fourteen aces average to her second time here so we knew charleston last month. roger federer i came back from a set down to be much burdick and win the men's final and i take off on adults as well number two but you can't already beaten a federal twice this year six broke his opponent in the second game before taking the first set six three federal then broke twice in the seconds to level the match and finally a six five thirty two sports much going to take his third title and record equalling twentieth masters crown and. that's all the sports news and.

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