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brothers and the colonel was a hotel treat. lame ducks quacking a bomber faces a race against the clock to get an arms control treaty with russia through the senate before the democrats see that majority. global power shift the asia pacific region becomes a center of financial power and influence with china taking over from japan as the world's second biggest economy. and fresh organ trafficking allegations in kosovo reignite claims hundreds of serbs had body parts harvested during the ninety's yugoslav war. to fear organized crime is rife.

with twenty four hour news from russia and from around the world this is in moscow good to have you with us so the race is on to get a key nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia through the senate in the u.s. the final session the started before president obama sees the democrat majority in january when it will get much tougher for him to get his policies through when i can 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 partisan 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 because it 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 wait 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 little guard have strongly advocated for the trade to be passed they feel 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 so maybe on many cut capitol hill observers the whole thing. bate it really comes down to this question will some republican senators sekret fice a landmark historic deal just for the sake of denying obama this feather in his foreign policy cap but what's at stake 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 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 u.s. russia 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. kind of their own political expert dr dominic leven says a bomber is desperate to make this treaty work to win points at home one of the moment everything's less important than internal battles on capitol hill. you know within the sort of american political elite there 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 you're about to see in and who's out in washington well i think it's partly that they feel the document is important you know this treaty is 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 filibusters it out then it will make the american administration look powerless and of course that will have a very bad a fate 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 indeed of collaboration with russia or the 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 a barber a pretty desperate. and in a few minutes time we look at the stealthy sweetener the u.s. is offering israel war planes in exchange for halt in west bank construction but critics say bribes and won't solve the issues that decades of talks have failed to

deal with. first the center of economics and power is shifting quick. switch to asia pacific that's the view of russia's foreign minister he's been in china for 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 group alongside brazil the growing dominance of this block as seen by analysts is changing the world since as a poet the host of today's meeting china has already overtaken japan to become the world's second largest economy and as far as catching up with the u.s. . reports on the awakening of an asian giant. from a pile of ruins right after the second world war two an economic powerhouse all of the spat of a single lifetime major pan asia economic miracle won't go you but nowadays the land of the rising sun is becoming a rising discontent. on. the unemployment rate and so is has been

steady it's around five percent but what's problematic is the quality of the jobs way. out of the idea. and even when companies hire new people they tend to high on the condition of 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 in the short run you could do it used to be increasing the overseas prevention we would be increasing to be equal parts for the us use by overseas he's referred to china also known as the factory of the world with a major chunk of every manufacturer of today either fully or partly made in china i'm here in the heart of the largest china town. there have been four generations

of chinese that moved to japan and they've been fitted greatly for the rise of this country economically but ironically irrational 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 on the shore 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 good a u.s. exports chinese president hu jintao. china gets the last word that's the new reality in asia if not the whole world. r.t.d.

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 will debate on that rages in today's crosstalk that's in the next. in the meantime here's a brief preview for you. it's but the us 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 which is simply impossible. yeah it isn't possible that we talk about the welfare state we're helping making some people better off or proving their welfare but we've got at the same time and on welfare state for those people are paying the welfare state is actually extremely proper.

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 i know all of. 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 of a build in exchange once a temporary freeze on building in the occupied palestinian territories washington's put still fighter jets with 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 promises not to request another freeze when that deadline is up on the stand ins are criticizing the plan angry that the proposal will not apply to east jerusalem patricia de janeiro a political families from new york university told me earlier that the u.s. proposal is a poor solution which could undermine any further u.n. discussions. 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 and 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 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 israel with the flotilla incident that was going to gaza and the thing or any human rights. 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 a war that's been used in order to bribe 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 the prime minister has praised russia's important role in mediation peace talks in the middle east and promoting stability so ed henry is on a two day official visit to moscow and all teams caught up with him ahead of his trip and we'll bring you an interview with him in just over twenty minutes from now meantime here's 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

politically relations with russia very important to us we would like these relations to be economically beneficial as well 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 russian friends. investigators say they can prove a russian accountant who died in prison was part of a massive embezzlement scheme set again magnitsky exact role of which is capital became a massive scandal after he died of a heart attack behind bars but his attorney has the details. investigators say they have found that sergei magnitsky died in custody was not a lawyer at sea claims but was an accountant worked at hermitage capital and in particular and he was in charge of working out techs of asian steams investigators say that magnesium was a major mover in the organization of an basil wing of almost five and

a half billion rubles an equivalent of almost two hundred million dollars all the details of that were revealed at a press conference in moscow tuesday easy years since sergei magnitsky died in a prison hospital of heart attack as a game of mistake was arrested in two thousand and eight on charges of taxation and embezzlement and he died of trip 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 treatment circumstances of his death 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 case case the russian president ordered that to a major overhaul of russia's law enforcement should be carried out now lawyers all

sergei magnitsky lawyers working on time adige 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 abroad how much capital. has called on the european parliament and legislators in britain the united states and poland to impose their views abandon some sixty russian officials to the pond beliefs are not to see what needs to escape now investigation into magnitsky case continues while investigation of the so called the hermitage capital case is officially over and added instead has been handed over to prosecution. katrina trover from moscow there. now have a look at some other world headlines this hour an inferno the for 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 when a fire broke out on scaffolding 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 white robed worshippers climbed mount arafat to have a forgiveness from which prophet mohammed is believed to have delivered his last sermon the grand mufti of saudi arabia gave a sermon at arafat saying islam renounces all violence and terrorism and those involved are working against the religion. words of australian and i want to continue plane flight 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 it's the fourth incident this morning following a fire engine broke out on november the fourth which grounded its entire a three hundred feet from singapore. at least seven suspects in kosovo been charged with persuading people to sell their organs with false offers of cash one of the accused

previously faced allegations of trafficking body parts of serbian prisoners joining the cause of a war and a sort of first found out that conflict because of a declaration of independence has invited in organized crime. they grease him allegations claims there's no going to his 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 estate and real estate is not functioning actually and we don't have double that's why the forty's very high unemployment is increasing you by the allegations focus on the medical private clinic and first surfaced three years ago forcing the center to close

shockingly r.t. have discovered that two thirds named in the indictment have continued to work ever since as another health year 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 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 medicaid 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 cause 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 u.n.

mission in kosovo and yours for a long time but so far without any results the biggest problem is that those who are killing on kidnapping people in concert have changed their soldiers uniforms for the peace they gained by. 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 focus today is really on whether kosovo is up to fighting organized crime when there are still so many he said clearly because there are pieces of the surface. close to the. russia is continuing to exert its influence in the middle east and not just as a peace negotiator multi-million dollar deals are being signed on a regular basis another prime minister of lebanon has come to moscow with his checkbook at his visit saad hariri took time to talk with r.t. that's all special to be next.

and then one might have welcome to the arch an interview with great pleasure i would like to welcome lebanon's prime minister shakes hard and heavy i know hello prime minister hello has that and that do you think that is illusion of the political crisis in iraq will have a positive impact on the and could lead to a resolution of the political crisis there as well. i think the main problem here is that the key issue is ignored i mean about a fair peace for everybody in ninety ninety one there was

a peace conference in madrid then there was also the arab summit conference in beirut where the participants came up with the arab peace initiative but now the peace process is being destroyed by different amendments which will lead us nowhere but the principles behind the resolutions which were supported by everyone demand that israel should follow the resolutions that would have been no need now to talk about rome's and other problems had this peace process not been buried in the one nine hundred ninety s. we face many difficulties today because israel denies palestinians their legal rights refuses to return the golan heights to syria. the ship of foam suba and geisha to lebanon but the arab peace initiative was adopted why is israel doing that the international community has an obligation here it needs to know that we can only solve problems in the region through a fair peace for all this into israel is extensible to the deadlock in the peace process not only is it responsible israel is the main reason why the process failed

with netanyahu is government is not able nor is it willing to continue with the peace process what role could fresh play in promoting the peace process in the middle east and russia participated in the madrid conference and is part of this process it is also part of the quartet mediating in the israeli palestinian talks therefore 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 in syria we can no longer ignore this israel's trying to impose its own agenda and keep seizing lana daily unfortunately the world is not doing anything about it this is unacceptable in all aspects international of human religious it goes against the geneva convention and any other regulations israel is breaking international conventions they could. when

everybody knows that he had relationship with the russian leader is a very good what key issues really discuss this is it that you think he had the he as men and women too often politically relations with russia very important to us we would like these relations to be economically beneficial as well we would also like to find out how russia could assist lebanon and equipping on me and security forces in this respect we're going to propose some ideas for russian friends we've been promised certain assistance in lebanon is ready to work out a plan for purchasing russian weapons lebanon has purchased arms from russia in the past and now we are trying to figure out if we could get some discount on weapons for lebanon's army and security forces and us and what about jets. we will study the issue during our visit our pilots are going through training and hopefully this visit will be a successful end to what our president has started on many of you know what areas

can expect agreements to be signed me russia were considering signing an agreement on culture and between our countries ministries of justice we hope that agreements in other areas will be studied properly especially those concerning armaments for the lebanese army. and i know of at who's seen is russia maintains its position regarding the human international tribunal on the killing of former prime minister and fully supports it what is your standpoint on this position the beer but it's a natural position since russia is driven by the idea of justice and has never abandoned it and that's why we are grateful to russia for the position which we consider to be natural because russia supports lebanon not only in the matters related to the international tribunal but also in everything lebanon had to go through over the past decades with all the wars both in two thousand and six and earlier russia has always been on lebanon side and you met why aren't you willing

to satisfy the opposition's requirement. to step back from the special tribunal in order to keep the peace in the country and the. horse here who love us here we have created the government which initially was a national unity government and with no such concept as pro-government or opposition forces we must be united it would be a political mistake for anyone to consider themselves to be part of the opposition while being part of the government that's number one number two is that there are indeed concerns about the special tribunal but i think that it would be wrong to talk about this under current circumstances that require a sobriety and dialogue people need to calm down the back sensibly fighting leads us nowhere and at the end of the day will have to live together in our country and keep our dialogue if god forbid we develop different views than the country will have a problem with that we must get back to the negotiating table the country requires peace and that's the most important take yes we indeed still have some

disagreements but is it really the way out but there must be peace otherwise there is no way to achieve positive results in dialogue how can an emotional person be in dialogue with other people i keep saying it all the time that we need to calm down the lebanese people need an opportunity to live a peaceful life because people are tired of all the discord we must do everything to achieve it and know who the father of something that if pressure on you on the part of the opposition builds up you'll have to resign is that possible. then. i haven't felt much pressure on me and i think the pressure is being put on other people rather than on me as for resignation i was elected by the lebanese people majority express their trust in me so that we could form a government i became prime minister thanks to the support of the majority and i'm set to continue working together with everybody i love. you

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