russian diplomats finally promised access to a businessman victor boot was just appeared in a new york court to face arms trafficking charges. leaves him not guilty in court strickly denying all the charges u.s. officials have leveraged against him a marine a point night in new york with that story coming up a little u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton joins a growing chorus of officials are urging the senate to ratify the start nuclear cuts treaty before republicans gain the upper and in the legislative body. the. european finance ministers start work on a possible aid package for debt stricken ireland in an effort to restore confidence

in the euro zone. to am in moscow i met treasurer good to be with you here on r t our top story russian diplomats are waiting to gain access to viktor bhutto who has just appeared in court in new york over charges of gun running moscow has been pushing for the businessman to be allowed to meet consular staff but was extradited from thailand on tuesday without the russian consulate being informed during his brief court appearance in new york he was told a list of charges that he's facing. the merchant of death allegedly trafficking weapons around the world will go on trial over allegations of armed terrorists moscow says it isn't behead him over to the u.s. as quote extreme injustice and promise to support him by all means food is being held in a high security prison in new york artie's maria port and brings us the latest

shortly before mr boot appeared before the federal judge u.s. prosecutors held a press conference in lower manhattan outlining detailing all the charges against victor boots victor boot now stands charged in this district the southern district of new york with four charges. one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use and acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the fark and at the beginning of this press conference the u.s. attorney to victor boot as the so-called merchant of death and then the u.s. attorney proceeded to paint a picture of mr booth as a man who sided with violence sided with war armed very dangerous people and was

very aggressive so after quite ugly picture of one man who hasn't been able to really address the press at all yet in the u.s. and most likely will not in the u.s. attorney said quote he's innocent till proven guilty guilty so lots of mixed messages there but there are many experts believe that the real reason victor boot is someone that the u.s. has been so aggressively pursuing for this action titian is because mr boot is a former soviet military officer with what some people believe has extensive top intelligence possibly and some believe that is what u.s. officials are really after nobody proved he was that truly emboldened the old is due to dealings. sure he's accused of them. some kind of hears. rumors which of goals. for we know basically. bringing him to the united states

it was the u.s. attorney in new york that filed the charges initially when it was arrested in two thousand and eight and a new indictment in two thousand and ten some believe. it was set up in new york city because new york city about. where terrorism actually took. many believe that it serves as a good way for prosecutors to advance their story when it comes to accusing anyone of terrorism charges terrorism related charges and it would help get the sympathy of the public and have this narrative flow a lot easier moscow has called this a grave injustice they believe that prompted by on precedented political pressure that the u.s. has put on the government of thailand because in about four days before this actually addition took place. was going to expire victor boots extradition moscow

russian officials were not notified at all that citizen of their country was being extradited from from bangkok and taken to new york new york city many russian officials say that they were essentially blindsided this move was illegal victor boot taken upon a u.s. charter jet surrounded by dozens and dozens of u.s. marshals you know nobody was really informed nobody that was closest to victor was informed not his lawyer and not his wife she believes that our husband was kidnapped like an item off the shelf. what happened to two unexpected for both myself and. the time i counted how the crew. was made to extradite. the extradition to greece against you lose of the country that exists in thailand. we are just waiting to see when victor boot will be back in court before

a judge what the next moves will be by u.s. prosecutors but obviously this story does not end today. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has urged the senate to approve the new strategic arms reduction treaty before the end of the year republicans have been stalling the ratification process claim there are more pressing matters at hand the obama administration fears that its major foreign policy achievement may not pass when the senate's democratic majority is slashed in the new session starting in january or he's got a gun has more from washington. it's getting pretty tense here the informal republican leader on the new start senator jon kyl said the treaty should not be considered until next year he is saying there are other important things for the senate to talk about the economy and that's bad news for the treaty the administration is making a last ditch effort to appeal to the secretary of state hillary clinton defense secretary robert gates leading security experts in the country they're all saying

the failure to pass the new start treaty this year would endanger the u.s. national security they give two reasons for that first americans can no longer track russia's strategic nuclear arsenal the other main reason is a weakening cooperation with the washes that could follow if the new start treaty is not in place joe biden and hillary clinton made it clear that the new start treaty is the centerpiece of obama's reset of relations with russia a policy that the administration credits with producing critical cooperation from moscow on of danny stan and the rand here's what hillary clinton said for anyone to see that we can't postpone or we can avoid it is i'm afraid vastly underestimating the teen you we rent that is posed to you our. job we hope our friends in the senate will bring this up past history and i can. inform the russians that it's now their you know their turn to do the same which

they told us they intend to do many believe what's on the line now is the well advertised reset and not ratifying the treaty could put the leaders of cooperation plans on ice a lot of observers say that for many on capitol hill the fight is not about the content that's pretty but rather about scoring political points republicans already said their number one priority will be to have obama voted out of office in two thousand and twelve so for many capitol hill observers the whole debate on stark now comes down to this question will some republican senators. sacrifice a landmark his story he'll just for the sake of denying obama his arguably biggest foreign policy achievement the treaty will cut nuclear arsenals of both russia and the u.s. by a third it's meant to increase the level of trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers kate hudson from the campaign for nuclear disarmament says nuclear weapons are too important an issue to be made a pawn in political games we were amongst the many people around the world who

really welcomed president obama's speech in prague where he outlined his vision of a world without nuclear weapons and of course a vision which president medvedev shares and i think it's absolutely reprehensible if senators in the u.s. congress are obstructing the passing of this very important treaty the new start treaty for party political point scoring reasons i think this is far too important on a global scale for them to stand in the way like this many people globally including i should say former cold warriors faithful like henry kissinger and george schultz many other leaders across the world now believe that it is just too jane shuras to have nuclear weapons and that is the trade that is taking place in the world towards disarmament and away from nuclear weapons and that is the trend which the u.s. senate and the u.s. congress should be going along with and following the leadership of their president

. stay with us here on r t still ahead in the program a ticket to the moon four decades ago the soviet union guided tanks into orbit to explore the lunar surface a revolution of a time in space. first though britain says it's ready to help debt hit ireland with billions of pounds of direct loans at a meeting of european finance ministers chancellor george osborne said it's in the u.k. has interest to support its closest neighbor the meeting comes amid fresh market turmoil and fears that some smaller economies like portugal and ireland are unable to service their massive debts trend forecaster gerald solenn says the eurozone has been put into its greatest test ever mention that. this is the beginning of the end of the euro and the euro was built it's on it came in at a time of high expectations it was

a time of economic euphoria as though growth would never end and growth does that and this is more than a domino effect in europe this is a global economic crisis and nothing is changed since the crisis began in two thousand and seven other than this control banks dumping trillions of dollars in trying to save a failing system it's you cannot have a currency that's going to cover all the bases of all economies equally if you look at ireland the biggest problem right now in today's news next week in my piece jane what we're seeing the beginning of are going to be currency wars and trade war and when you equal trade wars plus currency wars you start looking at real wars it's happened before and it's unfold. in front of us

again we see we see italy we can see portugal's pain greece the smaller company countries opting out of the euro look everybody that it's a long day that remembers when the your road came on back in the late ninety's and early two thousand is now inflation skyrocketed in those countries this is a scheme that could never have worked from the beginning we dated. when data has been. remember you can find more and all the stories we're covering plus blogs and video and leave your own comments out r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's on our website for you right now. extreme situation of christians in israel caught in the crossfire between jews and muslims as they get targeted by radicals from both sides. on a lighter note president medvedev on why he's with some russian bands as he talks

about his love of rock music. plus russian police detain two teenagers suspected of killing a man by throwing a car wheel from the tenth floor of an apartment building all this and more. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe clashes have escalated to the protesters and police in greece with fifty arrested and one injured near the u.s. embassy it happened as more than twenty thousand people were commemorating and one nine hundred seventy student uprising against the military dictatorship at the time protesters were venting their anger at the u.s. which supported the hunta then ruled greece. germany has stepped up security at airports and train stations across the country after getting intelligence of a possible terror plot the interior minister said he had information about an attack planned for the end of the month this comes after german security forces intercepted a mail bomb sent from yemen last month. that explosion

a guy. has left two people dead horrors injured not yet clear what caused the blast but there are some reports it may have been an israeli air strike there's been no response so far from the israeli military. heavy rain across the southwest coast of england has caused flooding in the landslides it happened in the county of cornwall with some people trapped in their cars and homes train service is in and out of the region are suspended after a mudslide blocked the line and the main roads are closed. the russians may not have sent a man to the moon but on this day forty years ago the so green guided the first unmanned rover to earth's closest neighbor the automatic remote controlled robots known as lunar tanks wander the lunar surface revolutionizing space exploration artie's murray if an ocean reports. back in the one nine hundred sixty s. ilyse were wrong day night within these walls. the soviet union had come up with a plan to send an unmanned rover into the moon but the question was how would it

move around then familiar surface once it got there the solution was finally found at the institute we institute them in the foods we wanted to use caterpillars we used to make turnings and we love to think so it will became clear that wheels when they were alone caterpillars could get stone that would ruin the who mission and we couldn't make it was the. luna who had one popularly known as the luna tank was the first to have a remote controlled berbera to land another celestial body. initially slated for a three month mission it wheeled lunar surface for eleven months during this time it traveled more than ten kilometers taken over twenty thousand images including sound with its own food trains. every lunar morning once in twenty eight days when the sun's rays touch the lunar held solar panel it would wake up bape. a

lonely sound in a silent world and set off a new adventure. exactly wait what had was decided far away at the mission control center in the crimea. fifty slopped of going to was one of the five men in a hotel which also included and navigator and ten operator and two engineers. the luna hoods camera film the moon surface up and send black and white pictures back to earth but with a delay of more than twenty seconds months or so we had to judge the situation using this picture aboard a lunar ford stood still we got basic info on what was going on outside with stones the course of the movement of craters and other such things after that the drug would choose the next day but not much to. the first steps were difficult but in time it seems the teams work became more creative what's more. we once on women's day we wanted to get our wives flowers but we didn't have time that there was so much work so our navigator suggested drawing

a flower like shape on the moon with the rover and we present the women with the pictures he even told journalists that you could see the shape through a telescope but of course that wasn't true. never had a balloon after sending his last pictures back to earth. the luna hold finally stopped in its tracks it's still there to this day but the little rovers steps were a giant leap for mankind and the tracks it left on the moon surface will forever remain a trail blazed for future explorers who on their thoughts or even we look forward to checking out the lunar soil polar areas which weren't explored during the soviet era and we know that water based on samples we found that we had that one day they will allow us to set up an inhabited lunar base for a lot of the young in the. back. the nine hundred sixty is the teeth of poets who are sending people in machines to the stars and back with only one. other videos of

dollars spent in the race to leave one another behind the case on its old friend form a phone flying faith now united nations against the big go to go to go to get it when no one has gone before. or if notion out he. broke. sixty five years since the end of the second world war the efforts of those who fought are stored guarded with huge gratitude and pride but for some painful memories from the past continue to cast a shadow. those so many years of. city's former prisoners. are still among. the swelled for. those so many years. some are holding the sign to see. others hate their executioners. for just.

so many years instead of. memory there's still a lot. as well. as. state. stay with us here on our t.v. i report coming your way in ten minutes time. first with the nato summit just around the corner we sat down with one of its key participants to get his view on what the outcome could be so if union president. says partnership with russia could play a big role in the alliances future he also talks about his country's battle with a financial crisis and whether there's any regrets about the country joining the e.u. stay with us here on r.t. .

the president of slovenia thank you very much for being with us today it's my pleasure but the nato summit is coming up in couple of days and you have played an active role in promoting closer ties between russia and nato how much do you think nato has to change in order to recognize the value of russian partnership i mean there has to change and nato is in a search for a mission for a long time after the ending of called ward the legitimate question was if nato is necessary at all but the mission was never completely defined and i think that it

cannot be confused with a true partnership with russia and we don't have a cold war anymore and we have to figure out what to do this new partnership means and i think that in has been in the coming days we should come closer to that definition mr president presently the president proposed to european security treaty do you saying it actually nato leadership into a concept review president medvedev a proposal that was said was an excellent beginning and that the agenda dated to a lot of creative thinking in nato and i think it actually contributed to the new strategic concept of nato which is much more open and which is which is much more appropriate for a partnership between nato and russia and i'm talking about the assessment of security threats a commitment to the chart that of the united nations and also on the possibility to

establish partnerships with regard to mr defense what do you expect to see. concept announcement anything new or something that you definitely do. expect to see well i think that we should see a meaningful step towards partnership with this and i think that that's the key in the new strategic concept the platform which should be used to teach a concept offers would be appropriate for reaching agreement on security so that's reaching agreement. and nuclear weapons i think that these are all security challenges which have to be addressed is through us that huge strategic concept talking about more about one slovenian concept this living is dependent on. specially now that the commitment to its rules is under review by the be our houses the opinion that has been affected very badly by the current financial and economic

crisis and that has been the impact on the system and you were told to call them cartoons to which many even members but not all be long and we are in a situation where we have to find a proper financial stability mechanism a mechanism which would be appropriate for the management of financial crisis of the future is gross domestic product dropped the most among the sixteen nations sharing the euro plus down employment that has hit through the one hundred thousand mark do you ever regret joining the currency what are the main pros and cons almost three years after the introduction of euro people have totally accept that you would sneak out of the country they know that obviously the monetary sovereignty and the inability to the national guard and sees a problem with the market the markets are low the solution is seen that there are

adjustments to he goes on and john the improvement in our competitiveness and the necessary changes in our economic. social model which will allow competitiveness to grow in those social stability to continue. angela merkel's push against to lisbon treaty budgetary criteria you see this as a power shift from brussels to berlin there has always been a division of power so to speak and i think that we should not forget the european union is not a state european union is a system of the states and in that context germany as the major contributor. and the major powers. and has a legitimate all of. us to exercise

and there are. solutions. for the private opinion also e.u. has a free regime with russia but the details are they not the ground what do you think would be a good step good step in this direction but i think we need politico determination first i think we need to change the political awareness about this things india. has it they should and i think this has a patient has to be overcome freedom of movement is a human right we should never forgot that russia is part of europe well certainly in a cultural sense in the political sense yes but i see certainly russia as a part of european space it has been so for centuries supreme slee you've called for a multilateral framework to consolidate energy supplies to the e.u. markets as of today not much has been done in that perspective how do you assure

you consumers of the security i think we need a much wider multilateral look because energy security depends on the multitude of players. russia is always there russia is a key player a key supply a key partner and most of us in europe go to extremely good experience with. my national system for thirty years as work for so there is no reason why we should be in any way comfortable we need russia in that mode to that sort of thing but we need this is where both consumers and suppliers that has not been done because we have worked on specific projects more than stream seldom stream the book call and other projects but i think the time is coming to look at the whole picture and to work. cooperatively range meant for the future well you've touched upon south stream how would the development of southeastern change to energy sector in

slovenia what exactly do you expect from that we see the multiplying effect of the gas pipeline because the gas pipeline brings not only gas it brings other economic activity see it brings. them based electricity plants which we need them others need in the region and we can develop that to produce and next you can achieve you know this is an opportunity it's really a basic opportunity and let's look at this opportunity scheme the call put it the framework with more confidence than we were used from before mr president thank you very much for this interview my pleasure. so you. are comfortable shuttle bus. it was. just a few hours observing urgent focused and scary.

on the moon. craters. scorching soil and toward there are included. a photo with the wild lunar rover for free. library mother could not live with her because. she was afraid. and she was very covert. she felt. arliss frankenstein's monster. we don't have the problem. every body and effort is made.