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with twenty four hour news from russia and from around the world this is in moscow so the race is all to get a key nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia through the senate in the u.s. the final session is started before president obama sees the democrat majority culture in general when it will get much tougher for him to get his policies through well let's get more on the story from or to go to church in washington d.c. good to see you there tell us just how desperate is the obama administration to push the start treaty through. well this bill obviously this is going to be a last minute push to get this landmark deal passed through the senate before newly elected officials step into office in january there is a very tense part is going game going on here in washington on the a lot of observers say that for many on capitol hill the five is not about the content of the treaty but rather about scoring political points and the point scoring is expected to intensify after republicans gain

a considerably bigger influence in the senate in january compared to what they have now the republican senate minority leader has already said their priority will be to have obama voted out of office in two thousand and twelve so basically to make sure that the president fails on his major initiatives so the obama administration is very eager to get the treaty passed on this so-called lame duck session in order to avoid a bumpy ride after january when obama's arguably major foreign policy achievement could well be on the line in the u.s. state and hillary clinton and defense secretary robert gates have just published an urge for the senate to hurry up with a ratification saying the u.s. national security depends on it. as you say time is tight on this one so what are the chances they'll get it through in time do you think. well bill the prospects of the treaty to be ratified by by this look promising the treaty was earlier approved by the senate foreign relations committee there had been

a long buildup to it over many months of hearings america's key military officials had been unanimously testifying in support for the treaty leading security experts in the country were saying it's only common sense to have a new arms reduction deal in place actually among those who testified in support for the trade there were more republicans than democrats so it's wrong to think republicans are all against it some very influential republican senators like richard lugar are have strongly advocated for the trade to be passed they've been they've been calling for their party members to put partisan games aside to put their overwhelming desire to undermine obama aside and do what they believe is right for their country and for me on many cut capitol hill observers the whole debate that really comes down to this question will some republican senators sacrifice a landmark historic deal just for the sake of denying the obama this feather in his foreign policy cap and but what's at stake the treaty will create nuclear arsenals

of both russia and the u.s. by a third it's meant to increase the level of trust between the two nuclear superpowers it's meant to show an example of nonproliferation to other countries and is expected to pave the way for us russian cooperation in other areas as well and many believe what's on the line now is the well advertised reset and not ratifying the treaty could well put the leaders other cooperation plans on. feel all right we'll leave it there for the moment thanks very much indeed for that he's going to reporting live from washington d.c. . political expert dr dominick leavin says a bomber is desperate to make the streets you work to win points at home. well of the moment everything's less important than internal battles on capitol hill. you know within the sort of american political elite there's simply obsessive lee hostile to each other and competing for power nothing else really counts and therefore you know international treaties the whole range of foreign policy issues

to simply become again essential to see in and who's out in washington well i think it's partly that they feel the document is important to you know this treaty as a significant part of their whole foreign policy and obviously they are committed to you know better relations with russia and trying to stabilize the nuclear relationship but beyond that if the senate throws out this treaty it will make the rest of the world believe that obama is powerless if you can't even get this treaty through what else is he you know going to be able to do probably nothing i think most of the rest of the world regards this is a good treaty the administration is committed to it if the senate throws it out all filibusters it out then it will make the american administration look powerless and of course that will have a very bad effect for the next two years so there's a you know a general issue surrounding the trade ability of the effectiveness of this administration there's also of course the broader issue of the nuclear arms balance

with russia and a deed of collaboration with russia on nuclear arms in general which presumably would also affect american plans as regards iran that it's not at all surprising that. gates and indeed our barbara pretty desperate. and in a few minutes from now here in r.t. will be looking at the stealthy sweet now the u.s. is offering israel four planes in exchange for a new assault in the west bank construction but critics say bribes won't solve issues that decades of talks fail to deal with. the first the center of economics and power is shifting quickly to asia pacific that's the view of russia's foreign minister who's been in china for a three way meeting of nations. widely seen as shaking up the old order of global politics russia china and india a part of the increasingly influential bric brazil the growing dominance of this scene by analysts is changing the world centers of power to today's meeting china has already overtaken japan become the world's second largest economy and is false

catching up with the u.s. he's had reports now on the weakening of the asian giant. from a pile of ruins right after the second world war to an economic powerhouse second only to the us all in the span of a single lifetime major pan asia economic miracle. you know you but nowadays the land of the rising sun is becoming the land of rising discontent. the unemployment rate itself is. around five percent but what's problematic is the quality of the jobs. salaries are being cut. even when companies hire new people. on the condition. without social security so the social benefits economic growth is on a standstill and export the engine of its economy are hurt by

a soaring him pushing them to take their business elsewhere. to do the news the increase in his prevention will be increasingly important parts or near. by overseas he's referring to china also known as the factory of the world with a major chunk of every manufactured item today either fully or partly made in china i'm here in the heart of the largest. there been four generations of chinese that moved to japan and they've been greatly from the rise of this country economically but ironically erosional country they have left has now overtaken their adopted homeland to become the so. second largest economy in the world which means japan is now chasing the pack rather than leading it japan you're quite right still seniors stuck in the mud struggling to generate. growth beyond us a sluggish. and i'm not sure either of

those things are changing many would say we're witnessing the beginning of china's era its economic clout is undeniable at the recently concluded g. twenty and apec summit barack obama repeatedly demanded that china lets the you want appreciate seeing below chinese currency is hurting u.s. exports chinese president hu jintao remained unmoved china gets the last word that's the new reality in asia if not the whole world. r.t. yokohama japan. the u.s. is desperately trying to revive the stalled middle east peace talks it's offering some early christmas gifts to entice israel into extending a freeze on building in the occupied palestinian territories washington's put twenty stealth fighter jets were three billion dollars on the table and a pledge to fight any international resolutions against israel in exchange america wants israel to pause construction in the west bank for three months and promises

to request another freeze when. palestinians are criticizing the plan angry that the proposal will not apply to east jerusalem. economics minister says it shows how israel is twisting washington's arm. but i think we're talking about blackmailing israel blackmailing america and mailing the world for stably seeing some kind of pseudo moratorium on the settlement activities settlement activities have been characterized by the whole world as illegal and i think the fact that israel is negotiating with an american an american administration the terms of a deal where they could have this pseudo murder turning for three months is in my opinion very very serious breach of the neutrality of the american government and very serious breach of the international community this will not work because even if they have the return for themis it will not be for the old palestinian territory but what will happen at the end of the three months nobody knows israel will stall

the process even if it starts at the end of the three months they will have another route another round of a new blackmailing long list of things that they will demand israel with the negotiating terms with the americans concerning the coming back to the peace process is establishing for a fact that this is a country above the accountability and this is a country where the international law is not subjected to i think it is very high time for other countries to step in the united nations especially the other members of the quartet like russia and the european union russia and the libyan union have an equal stake in this peace process and i don't think they should accept to continue or say to be continued sleep sidelined by the way the americans are dealing with there is no way this. talk to their palestinian economics minister talking to. lebanon's prime minister's praise russia's important role in mediating

peace talks in the middle east and promoting stability saad hariri is on a two day official visit to moscow here and caught up with him ahead of his trip you can watch the full interview in an hour from now but in the meantime here is a brief preview. i think russia could play a very important role it has many friends in the arab world we need to use our relations with russia in order to communicate the arab stance on things to the international community because it's very unnerving to see the injustice done by israel to palestinians as well as to lebanon and syria we can no longer ignore this political relations with russia very important to us we would like these relations to be economically beneficial as well and we would also like to find out how russia could assist lebanon and equipping our army and security forces in this respect we're going to propose some ideas for russian friends.

investigators say they can prove a russian accountant who died in prison was part of a massive embezzlement scheme so to get magnitsky exact role at hermitage capital became a massive scandal after he died of a heart attack or to katrina cho is here to give us the details on the story. tell us exactly what investigators say they have found. all the new the latest twist in the middle east a case has been that the investigative me to now says that he wasn't actually a lawyer he's been what he referred to and described as a lawyer working for him to top it so well in fact russia's investigative committee says he was employed as an accountant and one of his main two just was to help work out checks of beijing schemes and as a result of that he wasn't able to enough embezzling almost five and a half begin. now another important thing is that investigators say that it's just a geisha into the damaged capital case is officially over while the investigation

into making its case death in a hospital at a jail still continues. now the announcement was made at a press conference tomorrow. will be a year scenes so game a nice kid died. in a hospital in custody up to eleven months after he was arrested and as his lawyers claim they say he died because. because investigators repeatedly refused to provide him with medical support and to get him treated for a full blooded disease though officially he died of a heart attack now it was indeed a huge case at that time a year ago and shortly after that meeting the very first of all order to criminal investigation into the case and you also initiated a major overhaul of russia's. interior ministry he said that about a week to the start should be part by bolton. and cases like this one should be

prosecuted. really tough. to deal with also a number of seconds all the way the middle east he's down at jail the high profile offices in russia and the case has been actually brought up has been taken up with brought just recently hermitage capital lawyers called on the european parliament and legislators in britain the united states and poland to impose a visa ban on some sixteen russian officials leadership. candidates capital considers to be involved and responsible mother needs these down. ok katrina we'll leave it there for the moment thanks very much for that update live from moscow that's our report. of the seven suspects in kosovo have been charged with persuading people to sell their organs with false offers of cash one of the cues to previously faced allegations of trafficking body parts of serbian prisoners join

the cause of a war and a sarah first found out that the conflict and cause of us later declaration of independence was invited in organized crime. they grease and allegations claims the crime group including doctors and a high level health official were involved in organ trafficking and as the investigation continues there are now growing concerns with political instability and a weak justice system because of a could be becoming a breeding ground for criminal activity we don't have very real straight and real estate is not functioning. and we don't have double of that's why the board is very high unemployment is increasing you by the allegations focus on the medicaid private clinic and first surfaced years ago forcing the center to close shockingly r.-t. have discovered that two things named in the indictment have continued to work ever

since as another health america and just next door to where the alleged crimes took place the indictments have shed a harsh spotlight on organized crime in kosovo both its government and western countries of turning a blind eye to the lawlessness has been growing ever since it declared independence from serbia three years ago there are also many who accuse the ruling authorities of miscarriages of justice that date back to the war being drawn between medicaid and the yellow house case the alleged murder and harvesting of organs of serbian war prisoners by members of the cost of a liberation army but there was insufficient evidence to bring that case because my husband was taken just after the war ended despised surveillance having been promised security regardless of ethnicity never came back to the families of kidnapped and killed people on consular have been fighting the red tape in the un mission in consular and dangerous for a long time but so far was out

a new result the biggest problem is that those who are killing and kidnapping people have changed this so do uniforms for this youth of m.p.'s the gay. overnight with the help of international institutions the focus is now fully aware that the territory is up to fighting organized crime and say many still say clearly because the pieces of the past these are the faces of some of the people that are still missing from the war and the fake of the day is really on where the cause of the if the fighting organized crime and there are still so many. pieces of the past thirty. told not to have a look at some other world headlines of the hour here in r.t. an inferno that ripped through a high rise apartment building in shanghai has taken the lives of forty two people with over one hundred others injured according to reports the twenty eight story tower was under renovation one of the scaffolding quickly spreading to the building itself people jumped out of windows in desperation to escape the flames. three

billion muslims have made their way to saudi arabia for the annual harsh pilgrimage white road worshippers climbed mount arafat forgiveness from which prophet muhammad this believed to have delivered his. grandma of saudi arabia gave us. all violence and terrorism and those involved working against the religion. for two russian cosmonauts are on a six hour spacewalk outside the international space station installing a new multi-purpose work station on the side of a russian space module carrying out extensive maintenance the rest of the six man crew awaiting aboard the soyuz spacecraft which is currently docked at the station ready to carry out an evacuation in case of an outage. brings you up to date for the moment the business news will be next with charlotte that's after a short break stay with us live here in moscow. hungry for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get

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a culture in the city. called small. elegant i've been told from the strokes for us to tropicana hurtado. hello welcome to business program here on aussie with michelle there was folly the scale of the debt crisis facing europe has become clearer with the release of two thousand and nine budget figures for the eurozone area crease was an even worse shape than previously thought a deficit of fifteen point four percent of g.d.p. island was six x. become the second country to receive a bailout of the second highest deficit of fourteen percent across the whole single currency bloc the budget deficit was more than twice the three percent target set in the year it came into being. the price of oil is rebounding off to three successive days of falls concerns. of economic growth in europe and china have been undermining the market for friday's report by the international energy agency

showing rising demand and strong g.d.p. data from japan lifting sentiment who want to protect from plants and london believes the fundamentals support a bullish outlook for the market. one needs to analyze the price of oil relative of course to our currency right now with the us is all are getting hurt by it's own doing really with quantitative easing what that means is there will be more dollars chasing the same amount of goods so in theory then public and anyone will need to pay more dollars for the same price of oil perhaps another currency is if there are any there are strong then he won't be the same case but right now it seems that most countries are really on the same race to print more money even today are we in the newspapers the bank of england is also saying that maybe they should do quantitative easing so if all the countries in gauging quantitative easing they'll

be more notes chasing the same amount of goods from that point of view then or any other commodity shouldn't fall in price and what do you think has the market turned more bullish the market in itself leaving aside the currency e shoes is fairly bullish because china despite whatever issues they're having in the short term what they're considering doing greece interest rates china is consuming more and more oil. if the pace of discoveries in oil is not keeping pace with the growth and the man then of course that is bullish and right now we're entering the winter which traditionally is the period for prices so right now prices are very strong. they nearly hit nine you. last week. barring any

implosion in the european zone i think things are very constructive for the price of oil in effect. times markets down here in moscow both closed on. with the bench but life sex finishing monday session leaving one percent higher than the gains on the r.c.s. up to five percent. of the full say before there was a wall around one of. the arts yes aims to raise up to four hundred million dollars in the upcoming i.p.o. that's according to newspaper sizing a source close to the matter that is seeing all take place next year with the board's aiming to attract funds to develop its business in russia and c.i.s. . the world's largest mining company b.h.p. billiton has scrapped as hostile fourteen billion dollar bid for colored as potash corp after failing to gain approval from the canadian government the decision gives the green light to russia's top fertiliser wakeford which is also interested in

acquiring water. the russian insurance market will reach pre-crisis levels within months historically russia has been underinsured with the people rely on the government and good luck to help out in times of crisis that is beginning to change the rapid growth of life and motor insurance we did a quarter of a report. that young try any and his company and through the russian insurance market only two years ago from the start of the financial downturn two years on some saturates of the economy have almost recovery to pre-crisis levels and among them the insurance market we have followed the amp on the russian market took on them we thought going down on the other market and respond though we are strong if you've got a window recovery on russia in terms of market especially intersect or off or what insurance the fast growing life insurance business is sin expanding by almost twenty four percent this year x. three c. the mortgages will reach the pre-crisis levels of two thousand and eight within

months one key driver is domestic comprador action forecast to reach one point seven million next year another grocer is buildings insurance in september president suggested the return of compulsory. find surance after this summer's devastating wildfire however this will take much longer than the government wants according to one of the country's leading insurers the general director of. negotiations along will take two years. what we see now are only talks on how to implement mandatory fire insurance in the country if we talk about insuring apartments it mostly means insuring liability but if you talk about countryside houses then this deals more with property insurance the state hasn't made its decision yet i think talks will go on for at least two years it's clear that number one drive the recovery consumer confidence is crucial as the industry is to meet its potential my dinner which no business r.t.

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