so the top of the agenda on the table is the ratification of the new start treaty now a president obama had there reiterated his commitment to the russian president that he is going to make sure that the treaty gets done at the lame duck session of the u.s. congress i reiterate my commitment. to start tweeting. during the lame duck session. or order this would reduce the nuclear long range missiles of the two countries by thirty percent it and it would allow the two countries to check on the stockpiles of each other two presidents brought this up today but they said that they will hammer out the details of the nato summit upcoming nato summit next week in lisbon we believe that russia need to have relations have improved it's beneficial for sides right now we're working on a number of issues including the so-called european anti missile shield we've exchanged ideas as to what could be done here and will discuss this at the summit apart from that we've been working together in

a productive way and will continue to do so this being the apec summit trade and economy is a very important topic and the year two presidents discuss the ascension of russia to the world trade organization the bid of russia to join the w t o no president obama has said that russia has the full support of the u.s. and he said actually said the russia belongs at w.v.u. he spoke with the russian side they said that they expected this to happen at the earliest this spring two thousand and eleven. recently we've made serious progress in terms of russia's decision to do this is an achievement by the american president and his team who lived up to all the green is reached during my visit to washington i hope this process will continue and brush it will soon access the. positive results are that of the start treaty ratification so it is very important that this is making headway making progress and the commitment is coming from the u.s. president on this matter. for more analysis on attempts to pass this treaty on nuclear

arms reduction the main u.s. diplomat on the issue believes the ratification process has dragged on too long and says it's now critical that it happens soon. i believe there is zero chance that we can get to the negotiating table any time soon on tactical nuclear weapons unless we get this treaty ratified and entered into force it will be a profound blow to the us russian relationship and will cause some difficulties in terms of advancing our national security agenda with with the russian federation there's been a very very strong effort to understand this treaty it's been many years since we've had a big strategic nuclear arms control treaty of this type before the senate there's been a strong due diligence what i'm saying is that body of information is there nothing has changed over the ensuing period while folks have been out for the election

process it's time to take that body of material make the decisions that are necessary and move forward to a vote on the floor. it was the fringe meetings between individual nations that seemed to see the most of the progress at the asia pacific summit the only other main result being a commitment to free trade in the final declaration of countries agreed not to introduce any new trade barriers over the next three years it mirrors this week's earlier g twenty summit in seoul where leaders agreed that a currency war won't help crisis recovery but then fail to adopt any action plan parties and he said now way has more. the world after the war the weapon currency. the fallout trade imbalance the world's paying i mean the world is paying the price for the asset bubbles that are being blown throughout the emerging markets in this high stakes battle for global exchange is china versus the u.s. on the western front the fed pumping six hundred billion bucks into the american

economy devaluing the dollar while slamming china they're not readily revaluing if you want on the eastern front the chinese position is well you're depreciating the dollar why should we really value. remove the chinese currency which the u.s. keeps on insisting on so it really is the one that smacks of double standards it's absolutely true that the united states of late has made don't mess to clean self-serving policy that was shortsighted and that did not consider the rest of the world and this set up the sole summit but despite global outrage with u.s. fiscal policy they got more of a high level silent treatment than any kind of fight we're right now it's the world against the united states and in terms of an agreement to deal with the currency war nuns going to happen there is no interest coming from china or germany that's who are the key players to solve this problem not interested or protecting interest . and that was before the session even started obama might have guessed there would

be no compromising china wasn't budging and germany and export giant defends its right not to surrender its strength by spending more abroad to appease u.s. calls to help economic recovery much of europe seems to be sitting back and watching how this will all play out no one is willing to budge on the fundamentals not china not germany not the united states most certainly the group also agreed to develop early warning indicators to prevent economic turmoil but the question now is that enough to prevent this cash clash from getting out of control and he's now a r t from seoul south korea the u.s. had allegedly wanted to use the g twenty to pressure china but ended up having to explain its own actions instead it's what a leading currency analyst tells r.t. . the u.s. was really looking for the g. twenty to be

a forum to continue to pressure china and to have you know more unified front against china and asian currencies current account surplus countries. from from the rest of the world and what it actually ended up turning into was that the u.s. had to go in there and do the tables were turned that the u.s. actually had to explain its own behavior to a whole host of countries and the chinese i think were pretty adept at turning this around and there were a lot of other countries who didn't mind actually turning the tables a little bit on the us and saying ok well why don't you guys explain what you're dealing with with the fed before your country before you start kind of throwing stones at us. there's been no shortage of opinion on george w. bush's presidency but in a few minutes we'll look at what the man himself has to say about his tenure in office. the former president's memoirs detail everything from his views on invading iraq to justifying the use of torture plus. russia

gets its first ever team in formula one and find out how woods near enough to get ahead of the field and take its place on the grid. but first the u.s. is desperately trying to revive the stalled middle east peace talks by enticing israel to extend its construction moratorium on occupied palestinian territory washington put on the table twenty stealth fighter jets worth three billion dollars in a pledge to fight any international resolutions against israel in exchange its wants the u.s. state to halt construction in the west bank for three months with the u.s. promise not to ask to prolong it further palestinians are criticizing the plan saying the proposed freeze will not apply to east jerusalem the recent round of u.s. brokered peace talks became stuck three weeks after they started after israel reaffirmed its commitment to continue building settlements in palestinian areas if a horowitz from a group that represents jewish settlements she's. says obama's trying to mend his reputation after his recent electoral hammering. it's an interesting fact after

obama's mid-term loss where he sees that americans are very upset with his domestic policy and it doesn't look like it's going to get better anytime soon then he's got to go offshore as it were and figure out how to make some kind of success of his of his regime of his presidency somewhere else and that's where we are right now. there are allegations that have dogged kosovo for years but now i have a lot at least seven people have been charged with luring foreign nationals to sell their kidneys for transplant one suspect is a link to the kosovo liberation army which was accused of harvesting body parts from captured serbs during the war in the late ninety's artie's sara first has a look. it was a war with a legacy of atrocities among the more shocking claims the alleged murders and harvesting of the organs of serbian war prisoners by members of the cause of a liberation army it's alleged to have happened in

a place that became known as the yellow house in one thousand nine hundred nineteen after the military technical agreement was signed q four two forces promise to secure the safety of all people living in kosovo regardless of their ethnicity but after the serbian forces left ninety percent of the kidnappings happened the allegations were made in a book by former u.n. war crimes prosecutor carla del ponte say but the case never made it to courts because of a lack of evidence now they it's her turn to the public attention in the wake of an investigation into another organ trafficking case in cost of. the team focused on the private clinic medicare. the indictment relating to the. medical cases currently. with the pristina district court. we're waiting. confirmation hearing what we can say is that the two indictments were

filed on fifteenth of october and there are five defendants charged with very various. organized crime illegal trafficking of organs misuse of public office they're also charges of wrong for use of the medical profession. although it's not yet officially been made public the indictment has been leaks the group are accused of removing the organs of people's poor they have been persuaded by the lure of money being offered around twenty thousand dollars for a kidney part of the leaked documents seen by a dirty also reveals that many of these people were never paid r.t. discovered that two days he'd been indicted and had been working at medicaid before it closed and now working at a private clinic medical just next door to the place they're accused of having performed the illegal operations so we went to confront your medical. we just tried

to speak to america and they want to talk to us who are asking them about the two employees who are supposedly still working there despite having been involved in the medical case piers ago where that were shut down you can see the proximity is extremely close another of the men indicted in the medical case has possible links to yellow house after a war crimes tribunal witness claimed he was at the house the new investigation stares at painful memories for those who are still trying to discover the truth about what really happened in the yellow house case and where the missing family members are now. after the war me myself my husband and our three children were living in casa who went out one day and was taken away for questioning he never came back. this causes close to days past still evident today and then i can sense that close of day is becoming an easy breeding ground for crime days he still

wonder how the family members suffocate save the truth of what happens cannot be allowed to remain buried santa. claus today. you can find more on that horrific and long running story on our website r t dot com here's what's also online for you tonight. looking shifty can get you stopped at security and israel your firm has developed i scanning techniques which it says are beyond fool proof. and it seems to be puppy law that first site when a lot of your putin was presented with this bold garion sheep dog on a trade mission to that country he joins the labrador and the tiger that he's been given in the past all that and more.

as all good spy stories must the saga of the ten russian agents expelled from the u.s. took an unexpected turn this week a russian newspaper claimed they'd been betrayed by their own boss a man known as care colonel sher bacall is now apparently under protection from intelligence services are going off as more. that summer spy story between the u.s. and russia just a few months after dropping out of headlines around the world the biggest spy scandal between moscow and washington since the cold war iraq is back in the drama of this whole situation is that the agents were turned in by their boss. he's been named as colonel suitable cool for allegedly headed the american department of russia's foreign intelligence service neither his first name or photograph have been found to journalists from the moscow based committed news people who've held their own investigation claim he is behind blowing his colleagues cover in the united states. everyone we spoke to agreed that this was the biggest failure in the

history of the foreign intelligence service some of the agents worked undercover for decades and all were given away just like all cell. their findings have been confirmed by the president on friday dmitry medvedev said he knew who the traitor was from the thursday of the scandal it was june when american authorities announced the captured ten people suspected of being russian secret agents all were found guilty by a u.s. court and deported in exchange for four men serving time in russia themselves convicted of being foreign spies it was never going to stay out of the news for long the story instantly made headlines and especially since the russian president's first official trip to the u.s. had just come to an end it's not credible to back off russia to the united states just a few days before the meeting that if the visit and according to some reports are few months before that he was offered a promotion at work which could have seen him subjected to a lie detector test and vet some believe he's why he we jetted the job offer

instead he turned the other way by turning in his associates the media quickly found its favorite among the group of deported agents young rich and beautiful on a chapman was deemed the russian james bond girl but did the paparazzi flashes draw focus away from the. real super agent in the group mikail was in court was still in the shadows just as he had been for the past four decades. that is true this is an amazing story it doesn't only have a trader but a true hero as well so to absolute opposites i'm talking about with some coffee and his fantastic story he left the soviet union in the one nine hundred sixty s. first to spain then to south america working as a photographer he eventually married and moved to the us changing his name to one it said he continues we denied being a russian agent until kernels or work of presented secret documents that he then

revealed his true identity but intelligence experts seen naming and shaming russian operatives was probably not in the prime target. as that. was probably a us agent for a long time him self and i'm sure this whole story was instigated by the american secret service the two presidents are working to restart relations and some people are obviously against doubts the timing of the scandal was picked perfectly it puts another name in the frame for the russian intelligence service that's still trying to establish how a massive decades long secret operation could fall port so easily seemingly at the hands of one man igor is going off moscow. george w. bush broke his silence on his turbulent presidency this week his newly published memoirs see him defend the most controversial of the decisions in office and confessing to some of the blunders that sealed his reputation in the book decision points bush acknowledges what he calls a sickening feeling that he authorized the u.s.

invasion of iraq based on false intelligence but bush justifies the use of waterboarding terror suspects as a legitimate form of interrogation which in his view was useful in breaking up terror plots a former congressman tom andrews believes authorizing torture was a tragic mistake that bush failed to realize. first of all it is illegal you can get an attorney to say anything you want but the fact of the matter is it is illegal secondly it violates international law it violates the geneva convention and thirdly it puts american soldiers at risk so that when they find themselves god forbid in an enemy's hands then you they are faced with the prospect of having the same treatment given to them that george bush was authorizing given to to those who the united states brought in the custody it was a tragic mistake and the fact that the president can't recognize that mistake is is not surprising but but again unfortunate you know it's rather extraordinary for

president bush was on national television and he said that his lowest moment the lowest of the low as he described it was when a rap artist kenya west accused him of not caring about black people during the katrina debacle with the failure of the federal government to respond to that hurricane disaster when in fact you have a war against iraq violation of international law an invasion that killed thousands of american soldiers over one hundred thousand iraqis all to go after weapons of mass destruction that did not exist. commentary from former u.s. congressman tom andrews britain saw its biggest show of anger yet against the massive cuts the country faces to plug its debt this week tens of thousands of students descended on london against plans to triple their college fees they burned banners broke windows and threw objects at police more than fifty were arrested

budget cuts coincided with a dispute over paying to run the european union which isn't lying to get even more money from member states next year david campbell bannerman a british member of the european parliament tells r t why he thinks britain would be better off spending the money back home. when you look at where the money's going i mean the m.e.p. expenses account has gone up by eighty five percent that's for entertainment you're getting film prizes there's money going on the hunting is states and to private golf clubs you know it's a huge waste of money there's no excuse for any increase in the e.u. budget in fact it should be out so we come in as boasted about this to put nine percent increases being great cut relative to six percent that's what the european parliament here wanted a six percent increase which is outrageous really but to be honest this is not true it hasn't actually been agreed it's now is cool does only by the actual chief negotiator here they have negotiating involved with paula but he has called this

two point nine percent claim as being dissolved and the president of the european union says it's an opinion not a decision so i mean to be honest we don't know where we are the budget could be far more than two point nine percent it could go up towards six percent in siri so we really are left in limbo here but there's no excuse for this kind of increase. british m.e.p. david campbell bannerman and where britain's e.u. spending could be better use turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the worst flooding in belgium fifty years as devastated huge parts of the country and claimed two lives there's been a mom. it's worth of rainfall in the space of just two days with rivers overflowing in central and western regions the belgian prime minister says authorities are closely keeping an eye on the situation though no state of emergency has yet been declared. hundreds of opposition supporters and police have clashed for the second day in the bangladeshi capital dhaka tear gas and rubber bullets were used to

disperse protesters after the bangladesh nationalist party called for a day long national strike the demonstrations were triggered when authorities threatened to pick the opposition leader from her home or she's lived for almost three decades. a retired british couple held for more than thirteen months have been released by their somali kidnappers although happy to be free they've spoken about ill treatment including beatings at the hands of their captors they've been selling around the world when they were seized by pirates last year the ransom paid to secure their release was reportedly nearly a million dollars. an explosion at a resort hotel in southeast mexico was killed six in fifteen and investigators say it was most likely caused by a build up of natural gas under the hotel lobby. for generations the u.s. has considered itself an example for others to follow but in the next hour we asked people stateside where they think the real power may now lie. this is america and

everybody who is looked up to us. but for how much longer the resident gauges opinions on the streets of new york to find out who wields influence in today's world. russia has been making a number of firsts in formula one of late in this season saw its first ever driver taking part the country will host its first ever grand prix in sochi in two thousand and fourteen and now they'll be a russian car competing to be the first past the checkered flag. russian race trying to make sure the real shouldn is still somewhat moot. but that might not be the case for much longer he has on bishops and aims i hope that my fish will be a formal one. in the best case and they share the point but that was the age of the family this was. watching but for now he's currently stuck in go karts. that's because no russian company has ever built

a formula one car in fact the image of russian cars internationally is quite the opposite. that is until now. enter the new russian comic. they're out to build super powerful super fast cars and now they've bought a stake in britain's virgin racing team they'll be helping to build the first f one machine when not sure what it should you know discuss all the shit i would do we started working with the virgin team his technical partners a year and a half ago at this point we've bought a significant part of this team now this is going to be the first russian team to to in fact russia seems to have one and truly wave the start of flight and it's formula one and. the prime minister hopped into a rental if one comes this week and hit two hundred forty kilometers an hour and the ink's just striking a deal to host formula one races in the southern city of sochi from two thousand and fourteen but despite all this promise russian races have

a long way to go to realize their own visions of the day kind of cool. when idea of success on the day amounts the one to twelve our team will have a russian driver but it's not easy it takes time to bring up a driver just like any athlete. now mikhail will have to stay in the slower. it might seem rather menial for aspiring formula one drivers mccown says his experience on the go kart track is crucial. but from your line or a full seven years old. visit to start the feel everything the feel because it's so it's it's very important because then when you become a professional racer joe you are the don't think of all that you are doing fewer because this feeling in your head so will make challenges photographs and brace and doozy of sneak now is the kernel of the moment is the days rushes finally take those who see his footsteps even indigence it's time to create some cost when the

show more machine the next year be involved in better lives for foster sports success. and a few minutes we take a look at how families are ravaged by the hiroshima bombing are striving to keep the memory of the nuclear strike alive so humanity doesn't repeat one of its most horrific mistakes stay with us here on r.t. .

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