and you can go stations dominate talks as russian president dmitry medvedev says done with his iranian counterpart mahmoud ahmadinejad on the sidelines of a key regional summit in as of a shot. president obama urges the lake is a capital hill not to the side track the ratification of the nuclear arms cost treaty between moscow and washington calling it and the national security imperative. president obama is trying to push his arguably major foreign policy achievement through the senate i'm going to check on in washington d.c. i'll be back with more in just a few moments. and also in the u.s. then edged gun drawn a big to boot claims u.s.

officials trying to force him into admitting to arms smuggling charges while they extradited from bangkok to watch. moscow says it will continue providing all necessary support to victor boot but does not proclaim whether the russian citizen is innocent or guilty. hello welcome to our c twenty four hour news live from moscow angular ship of our top story now for the first time russia of banks you are in sanctions against iran president medvedev has met with the iranian leader mahmoud ahmadinejad the vet have said russia will continue helping tehran develop a peaceful atomic program the two were meeting at a summit old of five nations bordering the caspian sea all of whom have claims to the seas vast energy resources he now reports. the meeting between the president's

office russia and iran is surely one of the biggest highlights of the summit since it's the first time that they've met since russia back to the latest set off during sanctions on iran and also cancel the shipment of the ass three hundred air defense systems a move which was strongly criticized by iran and caused a significant a significant chilling in relations between the two countries after the meeting with her that this was a positive meeting and that both presidents were not afraid to talk about complicated and even unpleasant issues and of course iran's controversial nuclear program was discussed and moscow says that it's keen to get a clearer picture of iran's of views on the situation and also explain its position in order to try to move the dispute from the deadlock it's currently in russia and iran all our neighbors in the caspian region and to moscow says that it's also keen to continue cooperation with iran in many other spheres like peaceful nuclear

energy just remind you russia built the bush era nuclear power plant for iran and also even a military trade as well if these arms the sold on this don't fall under the latest set of saying the president outlined a new job the iranian leader said of that this latest set of sanctions is ineffective and also called the international community to stop what he called was aggression one talking about iran's nuclear program if it wanted to this a long standing dispute to finally come to an end well let me just tell you a little bit about the caspian sea itself first of all the caspian sea is extremely rich in natural resources we're talking about up to twenty billion tons of oil and gas that's comparable with deposits in the persian gulf also up to ninety percent of the global sturgeon catch is done here as well and during soviet times the sea was shared between the soviet union. and iran but after the collapse of the

u.s.s.r. new new independent states emerged in the region and obviously everybody wants a piece of the plywood however the sea still hasn't been officially divided and this is the third such summit of the summit of the caspian nations it's meant to figure out how to divide the sea and to build up enough fissile status for. the decisions taken at this summit are quite important and do affect the lives of millions of people living in the in the bounding countries the us president barack obama has held a bipartisan meeting in the white house to emphasize the importance of passing the nuclear arms cut treaty with russia before the years and obama as a ready told the vice president to work night and day to get the votes needed to ratify this start to you and he also spoke of the critical importance of good relations with moscow when dealing with iran and afghanistan. and has more from

washington. but i'm a sit down with senators both democrat and republican to once again explain why the treaty needs to be ratified now is that what's at stake now is the u.s. national security and there's nothing more important for this lame duck session as this senate's time in office is running out the start treaty pensions reached their peak earlier a key republican stark negotiator in the senate jon kyl said that there are very important things to do now in the senate and shouldn't ron rush on the treaty ratification what's on the line now is arguably obama's major foreign policy achievement obama once again made it clear the start treaty is the milestone of the reset in u.s. washable nations the reset which as has been paris lee reminding resulted in critical cooperation from moscow on of ghana's stand and iran's the new start treaty is also a cornerstone of our relations with russia. and this goes beyond nuclear security russia has been fundamental to our efforts for strong sanctions in place to put

pressure on to deal with its earlier program it's been critical in supporting our troops in afghanistan through the northern distribution network it's been critical in working with us to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials around the world. to enhance european security there is an understanding that further cooperation plans could go south without this treaty this key trading place the start is not just about reducing both country's nuclear arsenals by a third it's seen as a symbol of trust between the two nuclear superpowers many capitol hill observers say the debate is really not no longer about the content of the treaty but rather about flexing political muscle there is a huge five partisan support for the treaty among experts but not on the hill today we heard the head of russians they do it for inflation committee because i think of such will say the treaty is too important to be

a victim of political bickering it will be. responsibility for the american board that will be the responsibility for the senate and the port of the senate which will oppose the certification and i do not want to believe in these respective because it is too dangerous it is to run forgivable so to see in terms so for the global security we are both the united states and russia have a special responsibility to reach it can not be related to the interests of certain political parties which may be the case in the ongoing discussions in the streets and many capitol hill observers here in washington say the whole of the basestar ratification debate now comes down to the question whether some republican senators are ready to undermine the lane marked treaty which to most experts represents common sense just for the sake of picking on obama nato is poised for

a crucial summit in lisbon this weekend to map out missile defense strategy in afghanistan and the entire role of the alliance the presidents of russia and the us will meet their russia's envoy to nato says while moscow and the alliance have moving closer and some issues common ground on nonproliferation and missile defense in europe still needs work nato secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen told r.t. that russia's participation in the european security system will be talked about seriously at the session. nato will decide to develop a nato based missile defense system at the summit and of course we can't expect the russian president to give an answer just a few hours after after a nato decision but what we will do at the nato russia meeting in lisbon is to initiate a joint analysis of how nato russia corporation on research defense could be implemented and that would be

a very very positive step forward saw. i think the nato russia meeting in lisbon will be a very positive and very productive meeting. and you can see the full interview with and as for rasmussen a spotlight with al going off that's later here. and while some experts do not shot the optimistic expectations of the nacer chief political writer diana johnston is skeptical about the chances of the alliance and russia corp successfully in the future especially in areas such as missile defense i don't see how really they can work together unless it's completely on their terms or said by the united states and i think that this offer is simply to quell any objections that might exist in europe that were offending russia but in fact i think it's a perfect example of the way the obama administration says two things that are

opposite all the time we want to be friendly but we're building up our defenses we we're going to get rid of nuclear weapons we're going to develop some more i don't see that the united states has decided that it's pointless to have confrontation with russia why then is it building up forces in the arctic. bringing canadian and scandinavian forces whose only purpose could be to confront russia over resources in the arctic the united states is carrying out military maneuvers in the baltic clear whose only opposition could be russia and the black sea so i don't see it really that the united states has decided that confrontation with russia is pointless again it's a double thing they say one thing and they do another since it's a big bureaucracy the pentagon you don't really know exactly what the policy is. says r.c. and coming up in the program out of the frying pan into the fire row the people

face harassment and ultimately deportation from some e.u. countries find out later the new challenges waiting for them involved area. it's time to quit russians officially light up more than any other nation on earth find out what's being done to kick the habit that's threatening to slowly kill the country. alleged victim brood claims he's been put under severe pressure by u.s. authorities to confess to crimes he says he didn't commit has been accused of conspiring to kill american citizens and servicemen foreign minister sergei lavrov says russia wants a fair trial for its citizen were in a fortnight or has more from new york. the case surrounding viktor bout has been quite a tug of war between russia and the u.s. and the presidential aide to dmitri medvedev recently spoke out saying that the charges that the u.s. have leverage against victor boot a russian citizen

a serious and russia would like for those charges to be thoroughly investigated and russia is providing assistance to victor boot but russian officials have underscored the fact that that does not mean or should not be translated into a meeting that moscow believes victor boot is innocent or guilty they are just trying to make sure that everything is going according to plan and no laws are being violated and russian officials also said that they have nothing to hide in this circumstance the situation they're being very transparent and some have accused the u.s. of not being very transparent when it comes to picture boots extradition from thailand to new york you're what you're. willing to stress to the u.s. authorities are very serious and. russian citizen we have nothing to conceal we do consider this case is anything of the we want to see this investigation for.

the u.s. he will be given. to students who were there the me we are claiming he's innocent you know. moscow is also accusing washington of a double standard so we have to remember boot forty three year old russian citizen is being accused of smuggling weapons to fork rebels that would have been used to kill americans yet russian officials say that washington did provide georgia with several weapons many weapons that were used during the war in. which hundreds of civilians were killed so obviously a very contentious and sensitive situation surrounding victor but right now many are speculating about. the fact of whether victor boot can get a fair trial in the u.s. two russian diplomats did fit a visit with mr blewitt to the federal prison where he's being held in lower manhattan one russian diplomat said that he he is right now in

ok circumstances he was a bit to hydrate and he's being held in solitary confinement mr booth said that he is all of his funds were essentially stolen while he was held in prison in thailand for more than two years boot is alleging and says that during his extradition flight from thailand to the u.s. u.s. officials had tried to pressure him to admit to the charges that have been leverage against him and in return they promised him some privileges said that he did not give in to what they wanted and so at this point he is now in solitary confinement in a federal prison the u.s. attorney had also held a press conference outlining the charges against victor boot and let's take a listen to what exactly they are their tribute now stands charged in this district

the southern district of new york with four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use and acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the fark who will be in court in early january that's the next time scheduled to take place. ring up or deny that moving on now roma people are facing growing prejudice across europe sunday you countries blame the community for rising crime and tackle it by deporting them but where the rover the situation in their native countries is appalling many live in slums and are unable to access basic services on his dial bushell reports now from bob kerrey. seems like we could become common across europe the mayor of this town in southern belle geary and told r.t. he had to tear down this block of flats because the room the residents had turned

it into a slum. this pile of rubble is all that's left of the housing estate what also it is called a public health hazard infested with rats cockroaches and fleas thousands of roma called their home. so we've moved to this wasteland no shelter health care or education for the children. well dog citizens where there's a treatise like this schools won't take my son because he has lice and disease people here ask is this what the use become with winter approaching they'll be sleeping in the cold. first to you politicians bury their heads in the sunni and the only we can solve their own problems is a lot of the good. friends to send tens of thousands of rumor back to bulgaria sweden it's a leader mark in germany had similar policies used justice commissioner says it reminds her of world war two one of the evicted told me he picks pockets to feed his family member countries report rumor offenses are shooting up pushing rising

numbers into angry and see groups the biggest problem. is the crime or if you like a civil war or stealing or else or for a train seriously the life of four of the people campaign is more than most roma said by chance and other states can't integrate because there aren't enough jobs for them and paul gearing up with education opportunities limited music remains one of the few parts success. a racy gypsy style of pop called child go tops the charts but campaigners say ethnic conflicts are set to surge until the e.u. learns to live and work with roma not just enjoy their music in the nightclubs. r.t. saffir. so no international news stories this hour for you four members of the same value sitting at fifteen months old have been killed in a landslide in colombia it was triggered by containing heavy downpours rain has

been particularly bad they say in the south american nation claiming the lives of one hundred thirty eight people so our homes are rare as have been damaged in twenty eight out of fetid to prolong their provinces. has gone taleb a prisoner to be tried is in in the us civil court has been found guilty on just one count of terrorism spacing over two hundred eighty this thirty six year old ahmed ghailani was convicted for his involvement into attacks on american embassies in africa in one thousand nine hundred eighty one most. two hundred people were killed and i will now get at least twenty years in prison the gun town of the camp has faced constant worldwide criticism of the revelations of torture and abuse of detainees. as swedish court has ordered their rest of the founder of a little blowing web site wiki leaks or suspicion of rape julian assange is denies the charges are claims it's a part of

a campaign to discredit him and the project he says australian intelligence award what hear about the plan some time ago they swedish prosecutor is pushing for an international warrant issued as sons has been trying to claim political asylum in switzerland. it's official russia has the most smokers per capita in the world the statistics just released are yet another reminder to the government to the government that it needs to up its game to help people quit and as stacey brothers reports they're not taking this battle lying down. brief but graphic the world health organization and the russian government are hitting the airwaves with a campaign to stamp out cigarettes. in a nation where a pack of smokes is sometimes cheaper than a bottle of water a new study shows that more people live here than anywhere else in the world more than half of all men do the numbers smaller among women and twenty five percent but it's growing according to the world health organization diseases associated with

the addiction kills nearly five hundred thousand russians every year about forty seven percent of small cars who are smokers today they start smoking in the age of fifteen sixteen and the said thank is that tobacco industry knowing all this provides very glamorous and for a good advertising the government is taking action by banning cigarette ads and cigarette promotions in t.v. and film beginning in two thousand and eleven lawmakers are also pondering the possibility of making it more expensive to puff prime minister putin is asking legislators to lead by example actors who among government members smokes one two three see we have better statistics than in the countries none should at least on this issue. alone you know what i think they'll try to quit smoking won't they. what are you going to do to fight smoking and we should suit your own example by

quitting. i wish to state what are you laughing at you smoke to you've got to quit to have. some call the government's anti smoking efforts and overzealous infringement of their rights the good thing is that it's wrong to create a wall to ban me from smoking or told it's like brennen you from where is cause. i won't care if there is a ban as smoke if i want to smoke. more and more measures are on the way including a complete public ban on smoking in bars and restaurants set to take place by two thousand and fifteen so you know what it's like when you go out and like your favorite perfume or cologne but by the end of the night it's like you just rolled out of them that is as true. if this were still a vision. you'd be able to tell that the air is clear because we're moscow's first mochrie bar so you can smell the same way going out if you did coming in marbella is the baby able. who himself has been cigarette free for four years his aim is to

have the fashionable place where nonsmokers can breathe easy money look at the experience of european countries profit depends on whether one likes it here or not if i can create a couzin relaxed atmosphere and make people here feel joy and be merry i will earn my money. so for some muscovites the smoke free future is now. stacy vivants r.t. . global heavyweights have been working to find a remedy to the world's economic strife that forms and the asia pacific region to discuss the situation was no obvious solution he caught up with author and journalist donald cook to his feet.

how best to restructure global financial institutions like the world bank and the i.m.f. to better reflect today's economic landscape that's the challenge facing world leaders and businessmen and as tensions rise over the ongoing of the so-called currency war and the related to seaward global trade imbalances raising the risk of a move towards protectionism the pressure really is on to talk us through some of these challenges i'm now very pleased to say i'm joined by correspondent from the christian science monitor. thanks for being with us. mr kerik now we are in the

midst of what's being dubbed a currency war with the u.s. and china really at loggerheads each accusing the other of the currency manipulation you think of as a way out of this and well maybe a way out of a. certain that we're going to get out of it any time soon the g twenty summit did not come out with any real consensus on currency balances they certainly came out with strong resolution of the so that it's not good they said volatility is not good and all this other stuff is not good but. on a way to on the way to resolve it aside from recognising the problem and saying yes let's try to result. and then of course says will see you. issue of global trade imbalances do you think the u.s. is justified in. export having countries like china and germany succumb to their reliance on exports in order to rebalance trade equipped well you know i don't know

if the u.s. is justified but i will say the u.s. has a terrific trade deficit and the trade deficit with china is just enormous you know it's like china exports several times as much as the u.s. exports to china and so you know from a from an american point of view the u.s. has got to do something about this obviously the u.s. has to take care of a lot of domestic problems its own problems its own internal problems no doubt about that but they also have to lean on exports to raise the value of their currency to more realistic levels as president obama pointed out quite frankly in his press conference china intervenes heavily in the market to keep the you want to keep the renminbi that you won at a lower rate than it really should be so you know the u.s. has to do something and they've got to they've got to improve domestically and they've got to try to improve they've got to try to slash. you know surpluses of

other countries i can't blame the us for for behaving that way and we don't want of this squabbling going on they do you think that there really is a danger that countries might be considered local to their reign if you'd like to see a protectionist policies i think there's a real danger of that and the danger is not just countries elsewhere around the world of the dangers of in the u.s. the american congress might get protectionist if this goes on they're not going to get protectionist right away they're not going to get protectionist next year the next congress is not going to be protectionist but over the years protectionist sentiment could certainly build and finally the congress would say ok keep out all this foreign stuff you know that's. all these imports i'm not saying that's good that that part is not good. in fact that's a real danger that's not a solution that's a danger but that could happen and also other countries could certainly respond with protectionist measures of their own a lot of countries already have protectionist measures one of one sort or another

and how would you gauge global reaction to that shock announcement we recently had from the federal reserve that it was going to embark on the second round of quantitative easing that six hundred billion dollars being pumped into the economy we have partial christmas coming out from a developing economy saying that that's seriously bored that could whomp their markets but also from countries like germany right right that was a shock about. the u.s. federal reserve announced that it was buying treasury bonds worth six hundred billion dollars and this was on top of the previous purchase of treasury bonds worth one point seven billion dollars. you know it's an invitation for the u.s. to pretty ever more one hundred dollar bills you know there are some people who are not quite as critical to us as others but i don't recall anybody applauding us i don't recall anybody saying oh smart move i don't i don't think i don't think

anybody said that there were some people who were not critical but they didn't they didn't they were not in favor either you know. many thanks for joining us here on good to be with you thank you. letters that same of. immediately after the end of the second world war major nazi leaders were put on trial for war there is no doubt such crimes were committed. wealthy british style. what's really happening to the global economy.