after a two week break the trial of futenma shanker ukraine's former prime minister is due to resume in kiev and many say that the court hearings are entering their final stage with debates in court to take place within the next several weeks some say that our units are sankoh by still get a prison sentence of up to seven years for the economic crimes she is being accused of but most of the experts think that she will most likely get a suspended sentence of five years and that will automatically take her out of the presidential race in twenty fifteen and that the parliamentary complaint due to be held in autumn next year i'll like to remind two of you was that huge mistake was being accused of several economic crimes one of them is according to the prosecution is that she managed to strike unlawful gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine at the same time it is very interesting because moscow is adamant that those gas agreements were signed in full of words with the international legislation and thus they must be fulfilled until they have been revised to the court hearing so be

earlier this year has been sentenced to twenty years in jail konstantin are shanker was detained in liberia in two thousand and ten and transported to the u.s. on charges of drug smuggling our correspondent has more. this case builds a major precedent this is the first time when a russian citizen is sentenced to an american prison for an intent to participate in a crime in a case that was built by special agents posing as drug dealers arrested in a third country in this case liberia now you will be edge eligible for parole in as much as thirteen years we know that his defense team has thirty dale's days to file an appeal but u.s. officials can take as much as two years to consider this appeal now the man has repeatedly pled not guilty in this case hopeful until the last minute himself and his family his mother and wife who are here to support him broke out in tears in the courtroom today as the sentence was announced to give you a bit of a background it was a family man with no criminal background he has never stood trial anywhere in the world including russia and the united states moreover

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which is being speculated by the two countries governments had their moments supporters of future shanker and those against her are being stationed at the main street in kiev the shoddy street in front of the court building for several months now and they're still here with course expecting their presence to. to multiply within the next several weeks and gentians will most likely be rising and of course we'll be keeping our focus on this case a move to bring the latest details towards as you as soon as we get them so that he will ask you there now more world news in brief is this powerful typhoon the sub struck the philippines for the monsoon rains and strong winds the flooded part of the capital at least sixty people there and kloden children have died in the storms which will force businesses to close as disrupting air travel supplies over one hundred thousand people been evacuated from the worst affected areas but thai foods expected to move across the country before reaching some china thursday we wall in china itself to. two subway trains collided in shanghai and injured more than tw

have any intention to bring drugs to the united states were found not guilty so this is a man you're shanker facing a potential thirty year prison term for a crime that you mentioned he hadn't physically committed how is the u.s. making sense of this the prosecution. well lauren you know this really is seen as part of the bigger scheme of the so-called war on terror and war and international drug smuggling the prosecution has really been showing that they're proud to having conducted this operation of having sent special agents to liberia lure this man and with conversation you know we have to keep in mind that you never even gave the green light the final yes to potentially bringing drugs to the united states so the fact that the u.s. was able to conduct this operation jointly with liberian forces is really a source of pride for the prosecution whether or not this is a source of pride for the u.s. in the eyes of the international community with the way this kind of justice sometimes gets handled is really a big question a big question and one i hope you have a really quick answer for you fr

since the start so let's back out to bring our viewers at a speed if they're not familiar with your shanker now we know his sentencing you mentioned that this is that's a very it's a precedent but what about kind of the problems with this case from the start because there were many. there were definitely a lot of curiosity is your right lauren as soon as it was made public that this russian pilot was brought on to u.s. soil the problem there was that he was snatched up as we mentioned by u.s. special agents in liberia in may last year brought to the u.s. but russian officials and the man's family did not know where he was up until june when russian officials said this is a breach of international conduct diplomatic contact you are supposed to inform another country when you're arresting their citizen for whatever climate need be the united states as you mentioned previously said they got a fax machine was to blame for this that they sent a fax to remaining on state of russia. and this was an apology that was released but we know that russian officials have been sending letters both from her