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with twenty four hour news from russia and from around the world this is in moscow good to have you with us the race is on to get a key nuclear treaty with russia through the senate in the us the final decision is still to before president obama sees a democrat majority in general when it will get much tougher for him to get his policies through. has more now from washington d.c. . obviously this is going to be a last minute push to get this landmark deal passed through the senate before you newly elected officials step into office in january there is a very tense part is a game going on here in washington and the a lot of observers say that for many on capitol hill the fight 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 of the u.s. it proves that. 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 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 treaty 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 treaty to be passed they've been they've been calling for their party members to put partisan games aside to to put their overwhelming desire to undermine obama and do what they believe is right for their country and for maybe on. capitol hill observers the whole thing. bate it really comes down to this question will some republican senators sacrifice a landmark historic deal just for the sake of denying obama this rather in his foreign policy cap and 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. going to reporting their own political experts to dominic levens as a bomber's desperate to make this treaty work to win points. 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 which will 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 how do deed of collaboration with russia or the nuclear arms in general which presumably would also affect american plans as regards iran but it's not at all surprising that. gates and indeed our barbara pretty desperate. and in a few minutes here on our t.v. look at the stealthy sweep of the u.s. is offering israel warplanes in exchange for a halt in the west bank construction but critics say the bribes won't solve issues

that decades of talks fail to do. the first the center of economics in power shifting quickly switch 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 public. russia china and india a part of the increasingly influential bric group brazil the growing dominance of this block as seen by analysts is changing the world centers of the host of today's meeting china has already overtaken japan to become the world's second largest economy and its force catching up with the u.s. . reports now on the awakening of a nation jugglers. from a pile of ruins right after the second world war to an economic powerhouse second only to the us all of the span of a single lifetime major pan economic miracle. cure 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. 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 again pushing them to take their business elsewhere. if you do and you should really be increasing prevention or you will be increasing the youthful parts for your cities by overseas he's referring to china also known as the factory of the world with a major chunk of every manufactured art of today either fully or partly made in china i'm here in the heart of the largest chinatown. there have been four

generations of chinese that moved to japan and they've been greatly from the rise of this country economically but ironically the regional country they have left has now overtaken their adoptive home to become the 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 to the sluggish. level. 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 the low 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. governments around the world a slashing their spending in order to stay afloat in these tricky economic times and social benefits are often first for the chop so what's the future of the welfare state debate on that is raging in today's cross talk show that's in twenty minutes from now here on r.t. . government debts that the u.s. has us to made it out to be two hundred trillion dollars eight hundred forty percent of current g.d.p. . that's a remarkable number and it tells me out and it tells me that you're not going to be able to pay that kind of money back it's just simply impossible. yeah it isn't possible that we talk about the welfare state we're helping it's making some people better off or a clear proof proving their welfare but we've got at the same time went on welfare state for those people are paying the welfare state is actually extremely prop.

eight the problem is that the government doesn't believe that we can afford it well peter can you afford it. i don't see why not. crosstalk coming your way shortly here in r t america is taking a new approach in its efforts to build peace in the middle east it's offering israel twenty of the most advanced warplanes have a built in exchange it wants a temporary freeze on building in the occupied palestinian territories washington's put stealth fighter jets dollars on the table in the end of the military in a pledge to pull out any international resolutions against israel exchange america wants israel to pause construction in the west bank for three months and promises not to request another freeze when that deadline is not the palestinians are criticizing the plan and then that the proposal will not apply to east jerusalem let's discuss this further with patricia. the political analyst from new york university joining us live there in the states thanks very much indeed for joining us on our team now after weeks of stalled u.s. backed mideast talks washington now comes in with an offer that some say is simply

bribery is that the only tactic the u.s. has left and it's a justifiable tactic. it's not justifiable at all in fact it's astounding that we're even talking about freezing settlements are giving israel more you know more reasons to freeze settlements they should be frozen and we should know that they're committed to this two state solution it shouldn't be freeze or not freeze they should have been stopped a long time ago but they have to be so that others haven't it's sort to interrupt it's already well they have and what we've had all around is so you're short of being stopped you know years ago but actually it hasn't stopped short of this kind of action is exactly what is needed to get this stalled peace process on the move again isn't it. actually this action is not what is needed at all either than you do us needs to a either step back and allow him or even broker within the context of this agreement or it needs to start bringing things out of the support from

israel not increasing the support from israel i mean twenty more f. thirty five planes i don't think israelis need more military support from the us it's already getting quite enough. so i think this is countered that what needs to be done and within the context of the peace agreement and talk with her isn't the whole point that if they do cease vose that building the construction work that would therefore period in that three month period that would give a window a very good window for the goetia to continue but of them having a stalled peace process isn't it whereby talks would be back on the table when the politicians will think yes if there is some sort of agreement on borders and there is a stop to the construction at least that will get them back to to the talking to you bill. well it's certainly better than a stalled stalled negotiations process however what's the point of having a negotiation process that there is always this this threat of settlements hanging over the negotiation procedures and the future of the green man if if the greenman

is to states the settlements should have stopped and we already have five hundred thousand plus israelis in the settlements in the west bank and now we're talking about putting almost another six hundred thousand including east jerusalem bringing the numbers up to one million and how is that going to be able to move the peace process forward these are questions we need to ask ourselves i think it's more appropriate right now to be talking about a one state solution and what are the rights of palestinians are going to get within that context because going back to two states at this point is almost going to be a marital hall as these settlements are being built and constructed further there can we just look at another aspect told this offer from the u.s. and that is a guaranteed veto of any resolution to. it's israel in the u.n. in the u.n. now what implications does that have the consequences on the actual authority of the security council what does it say. well that's not going to be allowed to have any of the investigations on the goldstone report it's not going to allow to

proceed with any of the investigations on the incidents between turkey and as a role with the flotilla incident that was going to gaza and me thing or any human rights. and human rights issues that are brought up on the u.n. are going to be immediately vetoed by the u.s. and we're not going to be able to have any discussion about what's happening within the context of the west bank i don't i don't really think this is going to be helpful for the moving forward whatsoever we need to say you need to do this full stop it's not about what more can we give you an order to kind of and unfortunately this is the word that's been used in order to bribe you to move this two state solution or this negotiation for peace forward the intention is there or it's not and that's the question will there be an impact on regional stability from a water perspective do you think that iran is going to react angrily about israel having these still photos which someone as will say of course are capable of

reaching its borders undetected by radar what would that do about relations between israel absolutely and the u.s. . absolutely the region is already unstable because of the continued lack of the peace process you have issues in jordan and lebanon and throughout syria and now iran and the gulf because of the peace process the arab league is talking about it now part of the agreement is to put more pressure on iran i don't see this bringing peace to the region in fact it's going to bring more stresses and pressure and militarisation is not the way foreign policy needs to continue to grow we need to look at more peaceful agreements more investment more economic prosperity and that means peace not militarization in the middle east which is where we're going right now with the foreign policy we're implementing very interesting to hear what you have to say we appreciate your time here on r t patricia de janeiro political enemies from new york university joining us live there in the states thank you. investigators say they can prove

a russian accountant who died in prison was part of a massive embezzlement scheme so to magnitsky exact role of how much capital became a massive scandal after he died of a heart attack behind bars not to use it catarina has the details now. investigators say they have knowledge that sergei magnitsky died in custody was not a lawyer at sea claims but was an accountant for a debt hermitage capital and named particular and he was in charge of working out tax of asian schemes investigators say that magni scheme was a major mover in the organization of an embezzler of almost five and a half billion rubles an equivalent of almost two hundred million dollars all the details of that the rebuild at a press conference in moscow tuesday easy years since sergei magnitsky died in a prison hospital of heart attack was their game and misty was arrested in two thousand and eight on charges of taxation and embezzlement and he died of trent

eleven months after he was arrested in custody but he's lawyers claim that client died after being repeatedly refused access to medical treatment reports suggest that he suffered a cold blooded disease and needed special trip circumstances of his dad that sparked a huge scandal it quickly became a high profile case president dmitry medvedev and into it he ordered a criminal investigation and sacked a number of high ranking officials also optimized means to his case russian president ordered that to a major overhaul of russia's law in full sun should be carried down now lawyers all sergei magnitsky lawyers work in a time a ditch capital demand that apart from an investigation into their former employees case an internal probe should be carried out the case has been also taken up the role to how much capital. has called on the european parliament and legislators in

britain the united states and poland to impose a visa ban on some sixty russian officials to the pond beliefs that are not due to what needs a state now an investigation into magnitsky use case continues while investigation of the so-called hermitage capital case is officially over and i wouldn't say that has been handed over to prosecution. katrina could travel reporting from moscow where. at least seven suspects in kosovo have been charged with persuading people to sell their organs with false offers of cash one of the accused of previously faced allegations of trafficking body parts of serbian prisoners during the course of a war and sarah first found out that conflict in kosovo was later declaration of independence was invited in organized crime. they grease him allegations claims that an organized 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 that with political

instability and a weak justice system kosovo could be becoming a breeding ground for criminal activity we don't have very real street and real estate is not functioning actually and we don't have double that's why the board is very high unemployment is increasing you by the allegations focus on the medical private clinic and first surfaced two years ago forcing the center to close shockingly r.t. have discovered that to those named in the indictment have continued to work ever since as another health center a medical 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 are accused of turning a blind eye to the lawlessness has been growing ever since it declared independence from serbia really 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 medicates and the yellow house case the alleged murder and harvesting of organs of serbian war prisoners by members of the cause of a liberation army but there was insufficient evidence to bring that case to court my husband was taken just after the war and despite civilians haven't been promised security regardless of ethnicity he never came back the families of kidnapped and killed people in cos of a have been fighting the right tape in the un mission in course of a and yours for a long time but so far without any results the biggest problem is that those who are killed and i'm kidnapping people in concert have to change their soldiers uniforms for the peace begin to power. overnight with the help of international institutions these are the faces of some of the people that are still missing from the war and the fake of the day is really all weather caused by organized crime but

there are still so many. pieces that. look at some of the world headlines this an inferno that ripped through a rise apartment building in shanghai has taken the lives of forty two people with over one hundred injured according to reports the twenty eight story tower was under renovation when a. quickly spreading to the building itself people jumped out of windows in desperation to escape the flames. three million muslims have made their way to saudi arabia for the annual pilgrimage. to forgiveness from which prophet muhammad is believed to have delivered his grand mufti of saudi arabia gave a sermon at arafat. and terrorism and those involved were working against the religion. in the words of australia to continue a plane flying from sydney to argentina has been forced to make a return after experiencing a problem with its electrical system the boeing seven hundred seven carrying two hundred twenty people managed to land safely at sydney airport two hours after

departure its a fourth incident this month. the fourth which grounded its entire a three eighty feet from singapore. for the moment that's next with the business news now so after a short break stay with us live here in moscow. hello welcome to business program here on r.t. with michel 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 greece was an even worse shape than previously thought with deficits of fifteen point four percent of g.d.p. ireland which except it's become the second country to receive a bailout now the second highest deficit over 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 after three successive days of falls concerns over economic growth in europe and china

has been undermining the market but friday's report by the international energy agency showing rising demand and strong g.d.p. data from japan a lifting sentiment. from platts 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 dollar getting hurt by its 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 win more money even today 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 oil or any other commodity shouldn't fall in price then what do you think has the market tend to move bullish the market in itself leaving aside the currency e. is fairly bullish because china whatever issues they're having in the short term what they're considering to increase 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 on right now we're entering the winter which traditionally is the period for prices so right now prices are very strong. they nearly eight nine you. last week. any

implosion in the european zone i think things are very constructive for the price of oil in effect. time check the markets down here most capable it's closed. with the bench but my sex issue monday session any one percent higher played the games on the r.c.s. up to five he said recalling a rose before the save before the save all around one. the r.t.s. aims to raise up to four hundred million dollars or upcoming i.p.o. that's according to come 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 calendars potash corp after failing to gain approval from the canadian government decision gives the

green light to russia's top fertiliser wake for sagrera which is also interested in acquiring. the russian insurance market will reach pre-crisis levels within months historically russia has been under insured 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 our reports. here on tourney 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 and. it's all going on the other market responded though we are strong if you've got a window recovery on the russian troops market especially in the sector or for what interrupts the fast growing life insurance business is sin expanding by almost twenty four percent this year x. three c.

the mortgage will reach the pre-crisis levels of two thousand and eight within months one key driver is the mass to comprehend action forecast to reach one point seven million next year another grocer is buildings insurance institute president suggested the return of compulsory. fine sure after the summer's devastating wildfires however and this will take much longer than the government wants according to one of the country's leading insurers the general director of angus traffic says a negotiation so long it will take two years but there you go forth users see 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 and this deals more with property insurance the state hasn't made its decision yet i think talks will go on virtually to years but it's clear that number one drive the recovery consumer confidence is crucial as

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