on r t working with nato to prevent a new arms race out of forging closer ties with foreign partners there the top priorities outlined in dimitri would read a presidential address to the federal assembly. it sparked obama's big test as he tries to break republican opposition and use his final chance this year push past congress in arms reduction treaty with russia report coming up on that one. and peace activists in denmark have been demonstrating for almost a decade against its involvement in the afghanistan war but the protests are falling on deaf ears.

this is r t welcome it's a pm here in moscow i'm kevin zero in with our top story tonight and russia's president dmitri medvedev has warned of a new arms race unless russia or a nato compromise on a joint anti missile system addressing the two houses of the russian parliament he also underlined the importance of intensifying the fight against widespread corruption one of the main obstacles on the path to modernization artes in this and now it gives us a preview and a review of the presidential speech. but easy g.m. or a seascape figured out see to me that during each meeting video of the state of the nation a perfect way to make a statement about how to protect the interests of a state russia sees missile defense as the number one priority on its global agenda not for today but for the future it is racially distillate here in the next decade we have the following alternatives either we reach an agreement on missile defense

and create a full blown mechanism for cooperation or if we fail to have a constructive agreement a new stage of the arms race will start and we will have to make a decision on creating new strike forces it was one of his strongest statement one which experts think will get across how much russia wants cooperation not confrontation full as they say in the united states is a game changer something which will dramatically change the strategic equation if it does not happen he wanted to say then we may be for a new period of confrontation the president made a david didn't mention the us or their so-called reset the focus on countries like china when talking about trade and investment back home that i should add to it could i just step up economic diplomacy it should provide specific results for modernization of foreign policy should not just be based on missiles we have already for the customer and currently we are creating

a common economic area under the range an economic community that we're testing cutting edge integration patterns as well as programs of effective cooperation basically we must move towards a common economic area spreading from the arctic to the pacific ocean of true eurasia of course a good part of the address focused on domestic goals from pensions to pay checks doesn't mean they do have pinpointed many problems and how he thinks they should be solved but long term they must have a shrewd. the speech wasn't just about the up calling it was a blur trisha's plans for many years to come here's what the president said about russia's raging corruption problem but because of our experience shows that even facing a true jail term does not stop corrupt people we think that sometimes economic measures such as a fine could do it if you too commercial bribery commute punished with one hundred forty fine. now it's time for lawmakers to get to work the president's plan

is out there to meet the needs of a diff has pave the road he wants to see rush on now it's time for these men and women to get the country on match track and stay the course for morning from the kremlin and he's there now a party. a bit more insight into the presidential address now i'm joined by dmitri babbage from the reno vesty news agency always good seeing so dimitri medvedev says that russia or nato should assess military threats together otherwise a new arms race may start one of the obstacles to that well i mean the main problem is how is russia going to be viewed by a need to isn't going to be viewed as a serious partner in building that anti-missile defense that old gower or if it's viewed seriously then there is no point or another arms race that made a video for made it very clear just a few days ago. that he doesn't want a formal but you said russia and the project by not going to be part of the furniture as he said. they think here in just

a little more clear terms he reiterated the same and also proposals today again to create that economic space spreading from the arctic to the pacific ocean covering the whole of the regime has been put is that possible is that really realistic at the end of the day could it be done well just a few days ago prime minister. forced the same common economic space for the e.u. and russia. i think it's not only realistic it's actually happening because you cannot survive without russia and russia even more cannot survive without the e.u. the whole problem is they're part of the politicians you want to forget about russia as they say they want all their communications to bypass russia but this is not really stick economically politically culturally it's not fairly strict so the longer you waste its time trying to achieve that end the great great it will be

even worse for the you in the first place and of course that longstanding very long standing issue of russia's entry to the world trade organization and very expressing hope that the european union will again reiterated support to russia to give its full support didn't it back in two thousand and four if the input is still there from the e.u. and what will both sides gain from that russia and the we will see what happens because as you may know right now russia's turns into the w.t. always basically a blog by two countries and there are problems with the united states and there are problems with georgia which a few years ago already agreed to russia's inclusion in w altered by then suddenly with rules its agreement i think a couple of years ago when we had a brief war with georgia. now the main problem is what will be they use position on georgia's demand i think their demands is just laughable because it's the first time in the history of the show that a country that will give its agreement away would cost in

a few years and of course everyone understands that relations between russia and georgia are not very good after the war. hopefully the e.u. will take up a really stick position i think needs russian double and it should make a choice clear when you think. well there are very very estimates of that because we have been knocking on the door back since one thousand nine hundred three when. well still general agreement on tariffs and treat and last i think there in years every year russia negotiates that set or by the end of this year so it's not so i am not going to repeat they are probably all just part of the game which is what the new year brings to me to overseas agency thanks for coming to see us. so head for you on r t tonight british students take to the streets in their thousands to protest against new deficit cutting measures that may make it tougher for them to get an education we report and. to law school russia is among those

preparing their final big presentations to host the twenty eighteen football world cup the winner will be announced in today's game got latest on that when coming up . it's the this year's last chance for barack obama to push for the u.s. legislators to ratify the nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia as republicans try to stall the process about was addressing the country senate to get more support from colleagues that is going to do you can explain exactly why someone not giving the treaty the go ahead right now. obama basically has two leaks or so to have his arguably major foreign policy achievement passed by the senate then we'll have the christmas break and after the holidays a by then the treaty is still not ratified there will be dark days awaiting obama's start more republican senators will take office and many of them are skeptical about the treaty but it seems the substance of the treaty its content has long stopped being the focus of discussions

here in washington a partisan game sort of scoring of political points seem to be more important to some politicians than what's actually at stake and that's the point obama has been making for weeks we've heard him call for republican senators to step away from this overwhelming desire to undermine his presidency and really look at the treaty itself and how important it is for the u.s. national security senator lugar who's been forcefully arguing he's a republican of course he's been forcefully arguing for the republicans to do the right thing if he can persuade enough republicans and maybe some of the outgoing republican senators to get on board maybe we could see passage but this is going to take some. some monumental statesmanship not only on the part of president obama but on the part of the democratic and republican leaders in the senate who are not trying to sabotage the start treaty with the with russia the start is not

just about reducing both countries' nuclear arsenals by a third it's seen as a symbol of trust between the two nuclear superpowers and obama made it clear in some of his earliest statements that further cooperation plans with russia could when they go south without this key trading places stressed how important russia's assistance is in afghanistan how crucial russia's cooperation was on the rand and some other aspects of u.s. russia we said and everybody here realizes that the new start is sort of the milestone of this reset in terms of substance and key questions concerns whatever senators had regarding the new start treaty those were all addressed to start is quite simply a commonsense agreement. to control the world's most dangerous weapons and then have stability between the two countries to countries that possess over ninety percent of them and what are completely opposite irresponsible decision it

would be if the united states senate just got bogged down in politics and walked away from this moment unwilling to make that kind of decision that offers the kind of leadership that the world that i think certainly the american people expect us to make the country's military unanimously testified in support for the treaty and number of former secretary of state both republican and democrat former defense secretary all fat having started is in u.s. national interest so there is a huge bipartisan support for the trade among experts but not on the hill and obama has very little time to change that. he's going to count reporting from washington ratifying the strategic arms reduction treaty will guarantee nuclear nonproliferation that is the view of richard but he was the chief negotiator of the first nuclear arms cut deal between russia we need to remember that non-nuclear nations especially signatories to the nuclear proliferation treaty negotiated in

the late one nine hundred sixty s. see a link between efforts on the part of nuclear powers to reduce their arsenals on the one hand and they're continuing to abide by the nonproliferation treaty on the other so i think the failure of start would be would undermine the credibility of the united states and i would argue other countries other nuclear countries in trying to dampen down incentives for nuclear proliferation. and just a minute more to the full version of the interview with richard burton the discussion about the start treaty ratification and i'll cross talk to big show tomorrow here on this channel r.t. from moscow. now to check out our web site tonight are. there online an orphanage in russia suspected of forcing disobedient children into mental health hospitals where they're being treated we've got more about that tonight on our website r t dot com. and a new role may be in store for immigrants in russia as it sets

a world cup for foreigners to serve in its armed forces the first time again if you want to know more about that story tonight we've got the latest on it maybe you want to have your say hit the comment button or at r.t. dot com. british students have gathered for a third nationwide day of action in protest against government plans to raise university tuition fees the reforms of part of the u.k. government's deficit cutting measures police attempted to contain the protesters in advance this time of students to avoid a repeat of last week's violence to previous protests to thousands with demonstrators accusing the police of an overzealous response to isolated clashes steve davis is director of education at the institute of economic affairs he says

now the government's facing the consequences of an unwise policy what is going on at the moment is that there's a huge series of unexploded bombs of bad debts in various countries which is being passed around in a rather gruesome game of pass the parcel from one set of taxpayers to another it was passed on to the irish taxpayer it's proved too much for them and it's now effectively being passed on to the european taxpayers including the british ones what is needed is a mechanism for the orderly winding up of insolvent banks and financial institutions and that's what we don't have to spike two years in which we could have worked one out. thoughts there steve davis director of education at the institute of economic affairs talking to us there from london. there's no shortage of skepticism in europe over the war in afghanistan denmark though antiwar activists have been camping outside parliament for nearly a decade opposing danish participation in the so-called war on terrorism they want to make politicians stand the publicity but their calls are falling on deaf ears as

a teacher when i found out. i they've been here for nine years and they're not planning on leaving anytime soon among us through c s n is big. we are like no we don't want to go home or leave it to them again you know they are peace watch and they believe their government is doing the wrong thing but participating in the war in afghanistan you cannot fight terror with a wall because war is terror that's our main issue you know denmark has more than seven hundred troops in afghanistan a soldier killed recently brought the total number of danish losses to thirty nine so peace watch believe very case is as important today as it was in two thousand and one this is the danish ministry of defense right across the street from it is the danish parliament members of peace watch have been standing here for the last nine years day in and day out demanding the pullout of danish troops from afghanistan so has anybody been paying attention to them apparently not in fact

they say it's not just the government that ignores them but the media and the general public too sometimes they say well denmark isn't war we say to the youngsters over here coming to us they say look around where i don't see any war and occasional deeds we happen to those by also don't show much enthusiasm i don't see. really an. aggressive. militaristic promises so why have peace watch out. it's not being able to gain any attention if we stood there perseverence some believe it's because an anti war mood in the country is something when you think within the last year while there's a majority of the population against our continued participation of god the start even though there are still a large political majority in parliament for public opinion has become skeptical but that's quite new peace watch i determined to stay put until they reach their

goal even if it takes their nine years well i'll stay here until the war ends when everything me the. glory tea cup you can mark. publication of wiki leaks huge rafter communiques is work on american diplomacy but politicians around the world say the confidential reports of u.s. officials of a few new facts well to try to separate the wheat from the chaff and find out what the leak means to the u.s. when i joined from washington d.c. dear old is that of the counsel for the national interest and a former cia officer mrs roby thanks for being on the line with us and our team tonight well as i mentioned you work for the cia fanatic two decades didn't you how could these leaks have happened in the state department you have to ask didn't have it coming well i mean this is a peculiar situation where in the aftermath of nine eleven there was

a tremendous push within the u.s. government to make information more available and this has been one of the consequences of making information more available it has meant basically that relatively low level diplomatic messages in cables have been collected in a database where anywhere between half a million and two million u.s. government employees have been able to have access so shouldn't have been tied to safeguards on this information given the embarrassment it's causing now. well obviously you know. in hindsight yes it's clear that there was a now for a while these this information was viewed by the government as being relatively low level the fact is that if you go through that many documents you are going to find things that are to say the least embarrassing so the issue has now become a how do we. have allow people in the government to have access to information but at the same time control exactly what kind of information they're saying the

content in some of these cables is really quite embarrassing for the u.s. government to the diplomats who represent it is it normal to such kind of gossipy to just the best way to put it in official documents even if they know it for the general public. well actually it's it's fairly normal to have those sorts of documents in somewhere in the system in other words if you're going in having an informal chat with the prime minister of a of a country in central asia there are a lot of people who want to know what the nuances of that discussion were so some of this stuff is kind of chatty some of it's kind of amusing i think the only thing that was really surprising to me was the state department effort to collect. email address is phone numbers personal information on their counterparts overseas and also at the united nations this is part of obviously a spying that operates what you think a row of occasions are going to be will these leaks affect us foreign policy will

we see the major change in that or maybe just a superficial shop at least you know i i don't honestly think it's going to have any impact at all i think there are certain individuals that have been embarrassed by the leak of the documents that named them i think but the fact is that dialogue between the united states and between the senior officials in other countries around the world is because there's a mutual interest in having those dialogues and those dialogues will continue to be a little bit of a chill but i think after the chilled is over it will be pretty much business as usual is of course not the first leak of classified u.s. documents now do you think the u.s. will take any steps to finally try and silence the wiki leaks whistleblower he or she may be. well the u.s. is clearly taking steps behind the scenes to try to to silence them to a certain extent the swedish authorities are are moving ahead with a prosecution for possible rape there are moves in congress to criminalize what took place so that people that work for wiki leaks could be arrested and prosecuted

they're going to be doing these things but it's quite questionable to what extent they will be effective ok well thanks to be on the line with us tonight appreciate it thank you. it's the last day before the country's vying to host the football world cup in twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two are allowed to promote the bids the delegations are gathering in zero eight where the winners will be announced on thursday russia is fighting with england for the right to host in eight years time one of the planet's biggest sporting events as it is also in the running a joint bid from spain portugal and belgium and the netherlands they'll make their final presentation bids on wednesday in the us and australia are among those hoping to host the twenty twenty two meanwhile experts believe that russia has a strong chance of winning as it's well supported by the government but it has faced criticism concerning us not going into infrastructure and as the head of russia's big committee says the country has plenty of time to improve that situation. the report largely describes what is.

the state of affairs now ok we're talking about a world cup that will be in in almost eighty years. of course much changes will occur and we have submitted all the documents signed by our government that these changes are guaranteed to happen. without say from moscow thanks for being with us tonight our business team will bring you more on our top story today and on the economic aspects of dmitri medvedev speech and of course with the latest business developments next it's tuesday. that's right time to delve into the world of business a very well welcome president bush had better have has given more details of his plan to moralize the economy the president also confirmed the broad sell off or state as has announced earlier this year on small business but very upset social and manufacturing sectors will be except for the next two years from planned tax

increases but if i'm not the night we must find an opportunity to soften the impact of the measures on business i decided on a two year transition period for small firms in the social and production sectors they will have a lower level of insurance payment of twenty six percent this year i signed a decree for the list of strategic companies to be reduced by five times the main goal is to increase the efficiency of these companies to attract additional investment and to use the income to modernize the economy all norm core assets should be privatized the authorities should not own factories newspapers or ships everyone should stick to their own business. and a presidential aide of our core rich added that the decrease of insurance payments will save small business more than three billion dollars of the next two years. russian companies urgently need administrative reform to help them restructure after the recession that's according to standard and poor's ratings agency. russia

had an eight percent economic contraction brazil was i think about even so the zero growth china india very strong growth you wait nine percent annual growth in iraq it does have an economy that's more concentrated diversified outside the oil and gas sector companies are not really competitive on a global basis and there's a need for a lot of investment in just just reform from an administrative perspective but battle for investment in the basic infrastructure in the country and maybe that's the biggest challenge and really the recession exposed some of that we know so in a recessionary environment where there's economic contraction some of the poor performing companies can't perform any more so there's a massive restructuring going on in the corporate sector is still continuing getting out of the policy administrative environment right to promote business restructuring for more competitive companies it's a lot of work you know it's about maybe the biggest challenge for russia. the debt

crisis in the euro zone continues to spread on tuesday the cost of corporate board jumped a sign that investors are worried about the risk of lending to companies as well as some european governments companies like france telecom saw their bond slip against the german benchmark. let's have a quick look at the markets u.s. stocks on op down on the worries that europe's debt problems will spread to move countries and investors fled riskier assets dow jones fell zero point eight percent in early trading hewlett packard let measures klein shedding one point six percent energy components were also weak as crude oil prices slid several one point three percent while eczema both lost one percent. stocks declined on tuesday as the region's debt crisis intensified and a report showed us home prices rose less than full cost in september being p. parabolic bang. stocks lower forming for an eighth day as italian and spanish

government bonds slumped storage of bank and correspond fell on the debt striking losses and european banks that's what lost two point two percent as credit suisse group cut its rating on the shares for the first time in almost six years. and in russia the my six on the r.t.s. finished tuesday's session ahead will quarrel with the biggest gainers shares advanced three point four percent in the most since june it comes after the second largest purchaser of water strong results. russia's gas exports monopoly gasper estimates the south stream pipeline across the black sea to europe will cost about twenty billion dollars that offshore part of the pipe may cost fifteen billion dollars at current prices while the onshore section in europe is expected to cost half that and investment decision on the project is to be made by mid april and getting back to look oil the company raised twenty nine percent in the first

nine months cited high oil prices and a favorable settlement in augusta ownership dispute warnings came in at around six point eight billion dollars on the international accounting standards credit cost controls with generating record free cash flow. as for investment around eighty percent is planned to be spent on exploration and production twenty percent will be spent on processing and marketing currently look or oil producers around ten percent of its oil and gas abroad the company's going to actively develop foreign projects primarily this relates to western africa also we are actively developing the west corner project in iraq we have large projects in kazakhstan as a by john egypt saudi arabia and latin america until we have solved but you can get more stories from our website our to dot com slash business.

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