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

welcome it's ten pm moscow time it's kevin owen here tonight with our top story for you and russia's president dmitri medvedev as one of a new arms race unless russia or 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 major obstacles on the path to modernization and he's innocent now he gives us a review of the presidential speech. but easy g.m. i see figured out say to me at the door each meeting the idea of this 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 statements one which experts think will get across how much russia wants cooperation not confrontation 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 but president medvedev didn't mention the u.s. or their so-called reset he focused on countries like china when talking about trade and boosting investment back home you want to show it to everybody to step up economic diplomacy it should provide specific results for modernization of foreign policy should not just be based on missiles we have already formed the customs union and currently we are creating a common economic area under the eurasian economic community 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 through eurasia of course a good part of the address focused on domestic goals from pensions to paychecks president made you've pinpointed many problems and how he thinks they should be solved long term limits that we should go up. 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 with because of our experience shows that even facing a twelve year jail term does not stop corrupt people we think that sometimes economic measures such as a fine could be productive to commercial bribery community college with one hundred four is fine. now it's time for lawmakers to get to work the president is out there dmitri medvedev has paved the road he wants to see russia and now it's

time for these men and women to get the country on that track and stay the course reporting from the kremlin and he's there now a party. russia wants to take an active part in creating a joint defense system with nato dmitry babich from the real novice to news agency told me that's the main idea of president medvedev was trying to express in a statement about a.m.d. 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 their anti-missile defense that old or eurasia if it's viewed seriously then there is no point for another arms race. it made a video for made it very clear just a few days ago at least. he doesn't want a formal but is a patient of russia and the project we're not going to be part of the furniture he said. they think here in just a little more clear terms he reiterated the same idea. still ahead for you in our

teeth tonight british students take to the streets thousands test against me of deficit cutting measures that may make it tougher for them to get an education. called russia's among those preparing their final big presentations to host the twenty eight hundred football world cup but when it will be announced today the latest. president obama has used his last chance to push for u.s. legislators to ratify the nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia as republicans try to stall the process of bombers addressed the country senate to get more support from congress party's got a teacher can has more about the meeting from washington d.c. . bonnell basically has two weeks or so to have his arguably major foreign policy achievement passed by the senate and his pushing really hard the christmas break is coming up and after the holidays if by then the treaty is still not ratified there will be some dark days awaiting obama started more republican senators will come will take office than many of them are skeptical about the trade where this is the

substance of the start treaty its content has long stopped being the focus of discussions here in washington are partisan games sort of scoring a political point seem to be more important to some politicians don't that what's actually at stake and that's the point obama's been making for weeks we've heard him call for republican senators to step away from this all while being desire to undermine his presidency and really look at the trade itself and how important it is for the u.s. national security take a listen are reminded that the room the the street has been vetted for seven months now it's gone through eighteen hearings it has support from senators of both parties it has broad bipartisan support from national security advisors and secretaries of defense of sectors of state from previous administrations both democrat and republican and that it's absolutely essential to our national security we need to get it done if you look at key questions concerns

whatever senators had regarding the new start those were all addressed the country's military unanimously testified in support for the treaty and number of former secretary of state both republican and democrat former defense secretaries all said having starred is in u.s. national interest so there is a huge bipartisan support for the treaty among experts but not on the hill and obama has very little timing ready to change that the start treaty 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 and obama made it clear that further cooperation. plans with russia could really go south without this key trading place he stressed how important russia's assistance is in afghanistan and how crucial russia's cooperation was on iran and the aspects of the u.s. and some other aspects of the u.s. russia reset and everybody here realizes that the new start is sort of miles top of

this we set aside his girl if you can reporting from washington d.c. let's take a minute out now tonight a check of the latest on our home page t.v. so we're getting a lot of hits tonight about an orphanage in russia that suspected of forcing disobedient children into mental health for spittles where they've apparently allegedly been treated more on that story tonight on line for. a new role may be in store for immigrants in russia or is it set to welcome foreign minister so when it's on forces for the first time again that's a story that interests you deep maybe you want to get a comment but all the stories you say that it's no give us your thoughts check it out at our team dot com. there's no shortage of skepticism in europe over the war in afghanistan in denmark

go to war activists have been camping outside parliament for nearly a decade opposing danish participation in the so-called war on terrorism they want to be a politician standard for listen but the calls are falling on deaf ears is a really good found out for. i they've been here for nine years and they're not planning on leaving anytime soon among us. realize no we don't want to go home and 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 ball 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 this 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 pass by i also don't show much enthusiasm i don't see. really an. aggressive. militaristic. so why have peace watch activists not been able to gain any attention at least for their perseverence some believe it's because an anti war mood in the country is something over a new thing within the last year while the majority of the population against the

continued participation of. even. before public opinion has become skeptical but that's quite. a piece watch i determined to stay put until the . reach their goal even if it takes in no they're nine years well i'll stay here i'm too little ends but if you can't meet the. current tea company you can make. but no told top story tonight president obama low being hard to get those stuck proposals through to speak more about the russia us new deal i'm joined by kingston reef he's a way through the center of arms control and nuclear nonproliferation thanks for being on the line with us from washington d.c. tonight in the last president we heard say we need to get it done referring of course to the start treaty do you think he will finally get his way at this very late stage well i certainly hope you will he will get his way the treaty is an

urgent national security that is supported by our entire military leadership as well as five former secretaries of defense six former secretaries of state and seven former commanders responsible for nuclear weapons and all of these all of these bipartisan validators come from both parties and it's an urgent national security priority because the treaty will place important limits on the size of the u.s. and russian nuclear arsenals and at the same time it will also restore an essential means of monitoring and verifying each side's nuclear arsenal the broad support you talked about this sounds great in theory doesn't it but there's one big fly in the only one that fly in the ointment other republicans why is it so difficult was it proving to be so difficult to try and get them on board. well i wanted to speculate as to the motivations of the republican party although i still do believe that if the shoe were on the other foot and we had a republican president who was supported by a republican majority in the u.s.

senate that this treaty would be done by now i think the bottom line is that the time for raising objections to the treaty concerns through the treaty we've been we've we've evaluated the treaty for the past seven months and the time to vote on the treaty is now the treaty has been fully vetted there have been eighteen congressional hearings senate hearings on the treaty almost nine hundred questions the administration has asked from republican democratic senators so the time to vote on the treaty is now and the republicans would take an important step towards demonstrating that they are serious about responsible governance if they were to support this treaty mystery worst case scenario what if the ratification is postponed what then well i don't really like to think in worst case scenarios i think there is a good chance that that the that the treaty can be ratified before the end of the year senator john mccain a key republican leader said earlier today that he thought there was a good chance that the treaty could be ratified this year as i said before the

treaty has been fully vetted it is been evaluated closely by this current senate and it is time to ratified in this senate if it were delayed until the next senate the tree would have to go back to the drawing board in which case new hearings would have to be held and it takes a long time for the senate to get organized in any event so it could be some time before the treaty were actually ratified if we wait until two thousand and eleven to unsub it again this is just one of the last is final in some sense inside the u.s. is more important domestic matters right now to deal with other republicans maybe using this treaty simply to come from the democrats and to mine a bomb and they have any thoughts about what. sorry you broke out there for a second i could hear you saying some senators say the u.s. is more important domestic matters to deal with do you think the republicans are using maybe the treaty simply to confront the democrats and undermine a bomb or. well again i want to speculate on the motives of the republican party i would just say that support for this treaty would demonstrate responsible and

serious american leadership on the part of the republican party and the time is now to ratify the treaty because it is an urgent national security priority as our military leadership leader or the commander of our nuclear forces and numerous former officials high ranking government officials from both parties have said now is the time to get the treaty done or at kingston reach director of the u.s. and to from controlling nonproliferation thanks for your thoughts on r.t. tonight. it took in football next 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 their bids the delegations have gathered for the winners will be announced on thursday of these tests are incentives in switzerland for. the fall will make the announcement on who will host the world cup twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two on thursday so the bidding countries are the final stages they are preparing to make their final presentations in front of the representatives of the russian bid did hold an informal meeting with members of the press and this is the last one

before the lockdown period prior to the fisa voting now they have expressed their confidence in the chances of russia winning the hosting rise of the world cup and they've also said that russia has done everything they can to be put everything they could put into this bid and so it's actually just up to be a fee for judges to decide whether to award its russia or one of the main questions that the press has been asking is the reaction of russia to rumors of persistent rumors of an alliance among between a spain portugal and qatar now this has been investigated by the ethics committee and the committee has found no wrongdoing yet the rumors are persistent it's been asked to russia several times because this is a country that would be most affected should the alliance actually exist and here is what. russia sports minister had to say on the matter. i'm sure the new media would be able to. blame russia for doing something and fear in this period we did everything fairly i'll pose he was open to the public from the

very beginning no fever has released an evaluation report an assessment of the different countries and they put forth both positive and negative negative side of each country though with regard to russia of course i do aside from the positives the negative the concerned there is the transportation infrastructure that they are worried that it will not be convenient enough the air traffic is not developed enough to land traffic is not developed enough but the russian side is not there concerned about this they said there is enough time and the world cup it is being regarded as important for russia's development in general we're talking about a world cup there will be 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 there have been a lot of serious talk surrounding the bidding process of the actual voting process but at the end of the day the world cup is

a sporting event and the so there is this spirit of competition even amongst the bidders behind the scenes. next tonight british students have gathered for a third nationwide day of action in protest against government plans to raise university tuition fees the reforms are part of the u.k. government's deficit cutting measures police attempted to contain the protesters in advance this time urging students to avoid a repeat of last week's violence two previous protests drew thousands of demonstrators accusing the police of an overzealous response to isolated clashes steve davis director of education at the institute of economic reform fares told us that now the government is 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 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 be 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 of the top world news stories in brief your hundreds of students marching through their anger over the double bombing of to rein in nuclear scientists to separate car bomb blast killed one scientist the other government blames israel and the mounted states for the incidents the bombing has occurred ahead of a possible meeting between tehran and major powers next month to discuss the country's nuclear program iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad said progress in iran will not be stopped. the world's largest search engine google faces a serious antitrust probe the european commission has launched an investigation into claims that it abuses its dominance penalizing competing search engines in its result google denies those allegations but says it would work with the commission. the publication by wiki leaks of that huge raft of communiques has wreaked havoc on

american diplomacy and politicians around the world say the confidential reports of u.s. officials offer a few new facts though philip giraldi the head of the council national interest and also a former cia officer told me that collecting such data could be part of a spying operation i don't think it's a fair reaction because they call it a terrorist organization is stretching the definition of terrorism greatly but i think in this case it's something like political theater peter king is is portrayed himself as a hard right when he has to say the right things to his own audience i don't think it will happen just because legally it doesn't work it doesn't work and the definition of the content in some of these cables is really quite embarrassing for the u.s. government or the diplomats who represent it is it normal to use such kind of just the best way to put it in official documents even if they know it for the general public 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. e-mail address is phone numbers personal information on their counterparts overseas and also at the united nations this is part of obviously the spying operation you're watching on t.v. for most of the shoes do not go to business news coming up next and you lose more on those points that president vet of made state of the nation address india today . hello and a very warm welcome to the business program president could divert if has given more details of his plan to more denies the economy the president also confirmed

the brought a lot of state assets and announced earlier this year one small business meant that if such social and manufacturing sectors will be exempt for the next two hears from planned tax increases. 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 at 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. presidential aide that i did which added that the decrease of insurance payments would have safe small business more than three billion dollars over 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 and india very strong growth you know eight nine percent annual growth in iraq it does have an economy that's more concentrated let's diversified outside the oil and gas sector and the 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 then also investment in the basic structure in the country and maybe that's the biggest challenge in a really the recession exposed some of that weakness so in a recessionary environment where there's economic contraction some of the poor performing companies can't perform anymore so there's massive restructuring going on in the corporate sector it's still continuing getting out of the policy administrative environment right to promote business restructuring for more

competitive companies that is a lot of work and so that's that may be the biggest challenge for russia. it's called the debt crisis in the eurozone continues to spread on tuesday the cost of boring jumps as a sign that investors are worried about the risk of lending to companies as well as some european governments companies like france telecom saw the slip against the german benchmark. a quick look at the markets throughout storks down on the worries that europe's debt problems will spread to more countries and investors like risky assets the dow jones fell zero point eight percent hewlett packard that measures declined shedding one point six percent energy components were also weak that's correct while prices slid chevron fell one point three percent while exxon mobil lost one percent. and european stocks declined on tuesday as the region's debt crisis intensified under who showed us home prices rose less than full cost in

september been prepared pallette bank stocks lower the important day as a teller in spanish government bonds slumped bank and commerzbank fell on the debt striking losses and european banks misled lows last two point two percent us credit suisse corp cut its rating on the show as both us time and almost six years. and in russia the my six on the r.t.s. finished tuesday's session ahead it was the biggest gain in a chair as opposed to twenty point two percent the most since june it comes off to the second largest group producer reported strong results. russian stock walk is have been quite stagnant today despite the presidential address as the director of equities sales that created explains. neutral impact on the markets we haven't seen any significant reaction in terms of chips on any of the things mentioned by president that if the markets are pretty weak today because the the main sort of

foreground. of the events on the market are still not russia itself but the. it's foreign background it's the europe and the us spectrum so basically we've seen quite a week while the intern and we conform to most the blue chips today everything is marginally down they haven't been any significant letters or dinners or today we've seen look well which is probably. the only sort of relevant piece of data which can be talked about about the russian market today as we've seen a quote posting a great set of numbers ahead of the consensus potations way ahead of consensus fixations. which gave support to shares versus the market russia's gas export monopoly gazprom estimates the sun stream pipeline across the black sea to europe will cost about twenty billion dollars the offshore part of the pipe may cost fifteen billion dollars at current prices while the on shore section

in europe is expected to cost half that and investment decision on the project has to be made by mid april back to local news the company raised twenty nine percent in the first nine months it's science at high oil prices and they are a bill settlement and it doesn't ownership dispute earnings came in at around six point eight billion dollars on the international accounting standards credit a cost controls for generating brackets 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 will produce is 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 so we have time for knowledge join

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