she tonight working with nato to prevent a new arms race and forging closer ties with foreign partners are the top priorities outlined in to be treatment whether it's 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 you got the latest developments for your money to tonight. and the last appeal russia packer's it out to the wire in a final bid presentation with the other contenders to host the twenty eighteen football world cup winners said to be announced in two days' time.

thanks for choosing r.t. for your news tonight it's now eleven pm here in moscow i'm kevin owen with our top story and russia's president dmitri medvedev has warned of a new arms race unless russia or of 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 is innocent now i gave this a review of the presidential speech. that easy d.m. that i see figured out. to be that boy each year to view 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 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 and 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 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 pay checks president made me do have pinpointed many problems and now he thinks they should be solved long term limits the issue of this. speech was he just to build the up calling a year it was about russia'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 twelve year jail term does not stop corrupt people we think that sometimes economic measures such as a fine could be good at it if you sue commercial bribery can you conduct with one hundred four is 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 russia on 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 these are now a party let's pick this apart a bit more for analysis i'm joined by russia's commissar publishing house thinks people in the senate look at us about missile defense first of all to me too inventive says the nato have to strike a deal on a joint missile defense shield to avoid a new cold war style over the next decade as he put it in your opinion what concrete steps need to be taken now to avoid the worst case scenario but let me start by saying that it is not a new president made a video who is proposing to create this joint defense shield as early as two weeks back we had lisbon summit. nato summit which went very successful and as you remember during the summit it was nato leaders who proposed russia and into negotiations of this defense but of course the details isn't it of this. definitely

there are several concrete steps which needed to be done first of all of course we have to specify the least of threats and challenges and agree upon this because so far there's a disarray between russia and. here or western partners who are what is the real threat and the second thing after that of course we have to decide do you see how we are going to redistribute the rules war and then the question of a fine. nansen and resources will come out inevitably and also so so there's a lot of practical questions which have to be kind of yours so we're going to see something we mentioned personal questions what are we he's going to see something physical on the table when's it likely to happen if it happens a lot wildly and i can tell you that these things can be done overnight you see can be created overnight and as often are we talking times yeah yeah yeah but at the same time if we coming back to to prison and mediators address and if we're really

careful when we try to read between the lines there's a hymn there he's saying that we are at the crossroads and say you know ten in ten years we'll have to decide whether we slide into the cold war this is a very negative scenario and other scenarios that we are entering and. you're off creating a joint european all them brace and security system so i think within the time span of ten years we have to create this you know maybe less let us be optimist. let us not forget that this is not where it's simple and also on another subject a lot of talk as well about making the joint economic space so you raise an economic space how practical is that and again when would we see something like that coming into force if that were to go ahead of course joint economic space this is the broad definition but it is good what does it mean for each party that we're going to have well i can tell you that so far if we speak about you reship russia's relationship. with economic partners were mostly based on our own bilateral relations we were also trying just to to build up relations for

a prosperous regional regional blocks like i see on for example but still the relations with regional structures i would say are lagging behind our relationship we have a major asian countries and in addition to that of course if we take our political cooperation of economic cooperation with countries like india and thailand still we are not satisfied with the board of trade and investments and of course this is group. well for the element of rust areas after you ross and this is important we have underlined the importance of foreign investment to help the whole modernization process lot of ears pricked up at that what will both sides get from that and what signals will have been picked up about it will be cute to invest of course in west months this is a part impossible for me to eat as much advertising modernization drive and we know that for four years for investors were quite skeptical of what russia they were

serious reasons for that but i know for from my personal encounter with businessmen hearing business community people here the mood is changing is becoming more positive. reston as well as eastern business is saying that we are coming to a more transparent rules of the game and they encourage great peace and i hope they will be in floor of those investments which are crucial for russia's new well ok will listen to a complete list of the commerce and publishing house read a time but creative in a programs like thank you thank you still ahead on r t drumming for pace but seems no one is listening. to not fight terror with the ball because war is terror that's our main issue you know but we explore why the authorities and media in denmark and turning a blind eye to campaign is demanding the country withdraws troops from afghanistan

. and british students take to the streets in their thousands to protest against new deficit cutting measures that may make you tough for them to get an education good report on that coming up for you tonight. president obama's used his last chance to push for u.s. legislators to ratify the nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia that as republicans try to stall the process of bombers address the country senate to get more support from congress he's going to teach you can it's more about that meeting from washington d.c. . bamma 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 treaty but this is the substance of the start treaty its content has long stopped being the focus of discussions here in washington the partisan game sort of scoring

a political point seem to be more important to some politicians don't that was actually at stake and that's the point obama's been making for weeks what heard him call for republican senators to step away from this all while main desire to undermine his presidency and really look at the treaty itself and how important it is for the u.s. national security take a listen are reminded that the room the this treaty 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 the 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 time in me 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 how crucial russia's cooperation was on iran and the aspect 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 milestone of this we set. our correspondent going to speak more about russia u.s.

production across the tom cleanings research director of control mystically very good evening to you thanks for being on r.t. so president obama has made his last appeal to congress tonight the big question is how to see mothers to sway those republican senators opposing it will short term. well i'm very cautiously optimistic that we're going to get a vote on the new start treaty by the end of the year in part because i think president obama has been very clear that that's what you want to happen so much so these only to make it his second highest priority and he's really challenging the republicans to get in his way and i think for most republicans they simply don't want to be on the other side of a treaty that the u.s. military source strongly supports both russian and american leaders and other international figures have been saying that this deals of huge importance that should be passed as quickly as possible is there any mollett in the thought that the unwillingness of some in the senate means that they don't actually share that view of the end of the day. well i mean i think the you know the calls from russia

from nato leaders to ratify a new start as well as overwhelming support here among editorial opinion in newspapers calling for the treaty to be ratified is having some effect and i think republicans are starting to think twice about stand in the way of this treaty and it's uncomfortable place for them to be essentially saying that they don't want to ratify this treaty when again the u.s. military is so overwhelmingly in support of where we bay at the end of the day if in fact this treaty is not ratified what then well you know as has been pointed out if the treaty is ratified by the end of this year it goes into the next congress and if that happens hearings have to be held again a new vote has to happen in the senate foreign relations committee it could take months if not years at that point to have a vote on the treaty again and the u.s. military as well as former national security officials from both republican and

democratic parties and administrations have been clear that we need this treaty ratified now we can't wait six months to a year ok tom cleaner research director of the u.s. arms control association thank you. hello again to take a minute out now to check out the latest on our web site r t dot com there tonight online an orphanage in russia suspected of forcing disobedient children into mental health hospitals where they were maltreated there's more online tonight. the role may be in store for immigrants in russia as it's set to welcome foreigners to serve in exam forces for the first time again if you want to know more about that maybe i will say to discover.

talking football next is the last day before the country's vying to host the football world cup and twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two are allowed to promote their bids the delegations are gathered in zurich where the winners will be announced on thursday marty's test for a citizen switzerland. 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 fee for voting now they have expressed their confidence in the chances of russia a winning be hosting rise of the world cup and they've also said that russia has done everything they can to be put everything they can 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 a 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 vitale would call the russia sports minister had to say on the matter. is that i'm sure the new media would be able to blame russia for doing something and fear in this period we did everything fairly old pose he was open to the public from the very beginning now 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 how with regard to russia of course cyprus be positive the negative 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 that will be in in almost eighty years. of course much changes will occur. have submitted all the documents signed by our government these changes are guaranteed to happen there have been a lot of serious talk surrounding the bidding process to be actual voting process but at the end of the day the world cup is a sporting event and so there is this spirit of competition even amongst the bidders behind the scenes. world news updates for you british have gathered for a third nationwide protest action against government plans to raise university tuition fees those reforms are part of the u.k. government's deficit cutting measures we should turn to contain the protesters in advance of it urging students to avoid a repeat of last week's violence two previous protests drew thousands we've demonstrated accusing the police of an overzealous response to isolate and clashes

made a jet ski is a columnist of the independent newspaper the education problems the u.k. is facing a far more serious she says. both the last government and the current government recognise that there was a distortion of the british economy in favor of banking and financial services and against manufacturing but they say that services both government say that services are the future and that britain really can't compete except in very specialist areas on manufacturing so they say the future is in services it used to be that because the pay was so high in the financial sector that a lot of thinking graduates who in. previous generations would have become teachers or doctors or lawyers that they went into the city and they went into finance and banking now that's starting to be less the case because of the problems

in the financial sector over the last two years. for the top stories in brief hundreds of students marched into iran to voice their anger over the double bombing of to rein in nuclear scientists to separate car bomb blast killed one scientist wounded the other government blames israel and the united states for the incident bombing the head of a possible meeting between tehran and major powers next month discuss the country's nuclear program iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad's said progress in iran will not be stopped. of largest search engine google faces a serious anti-trust probe european commission's launched an investigation into claims that it abuses its dominance penalizing competing search engines and its results google denies the allegations but says it would work with the commission. there's no shortage of skepticism in europe over the war in afghanistan in denmark though antiwar activists have been camping outside parliament for nearly a decade opposing danish participation in the so-called war on terror they want to

make politicians stand the publicity but their calls are falling on their fears as if he's really going to. be 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 the your 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 war because war is terror that's our main issue you know denmark has more than seven hundred troops in afghanistan a subject 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 data strips some of dallas

down 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 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 there's a majority of the population against the continued participation of gotta stop even though the. georgian part of it for public opinion has become skeptical but that's

quite new but peace watch i determined to stay put until they reach their goal even if it takes another nine years well i'll stay here until the war ends whenever that may be in english carty company in denmark. tom's towards me to revive speed chill our course with the latest developments just ahead in our business bulletin randi. hello time to get the latest on the world of business president medvedev has given more details on of his plan to and what denies they can i mean the president also confirmed there brought sell off of state assets an announced earlier this year on small business medvedev said social and manufacturing sectors will be exempt for the next two years 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 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. presidential aide at a crowded bar court which added that the decrease of insurance payments would save 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 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

in 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 we form from an administrative perspective but then also investment in the basic infrastructure 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 from more competitive companies it's a lot of work and so that's that may be the biggest challenge for russia. the debt crisis in the euro zone continues to spread on tuesday the cost of corporate forwarding jumped a sign that investors are worried about the risk of lending to companies as well as

some of the european governments companies like france telecom saw their bones slip against the german benchmark. but look at the markets now u.s. stocks struggles to toss aside choose to declines both natural resource companies including united states to corporations eating afternoon gains with two point one percent as for allegedly upbeat economic reports computer with soaring wars from overseas. and european stocks declined and she was doing as the region's debt crisis intensified and the report showed us home prices rose less than four constants of p. and g. parabolic that bank stocks while all important eight day tellin and spanish government bonds slumped tortured by going to respond following the dax in certain european banks. lost two point two percent of its credit suisse power cut its rating shows for the first time in almost six years. and finally in russia the my

stocks on the r.t.s. finished tuesday's session ahead record was the biggest gain and it shares advanced three point four percent the most since june which comes after the second largest crude producer report a strong results. the russian stock markets have been quite stagnant today even despite the presidential address the director of equity sales at that creature explains. neutral impact on the markets we haven't seen any significant reaction in terms of chips on the knee of the things mentioned by presuming that if the markets are pretty weak today because the the main sort of foreground of the. of the events on the market are still not russia itself but it's foreign background it's the europe and the us spectrum so basically we've seen quite a two week while you mentioned. performance among the blue chips today everything is marginally down they haven't been any significant loggers 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 over quote posting a great set of numbers ahead of the consensus potations way ahead of consensus fixations. which gave support to local shares versus the market russia's gas exports monopoly gasp from estimates the south 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 here appears expected to cost half that and vestment decision on the project estimate by me april. actual coral the company raised profits twenty nine percent in the first nine months it cited high oil prices sent a favorable settlement in a ownership dispute earnings came in at around six point eight billion dollars on to international accounting rules credited cost controls with generating record

free cash flow. as very investment around eighty percent is planned to be spent on exploration and production twenty percent will be spent on processing and marketing currently lukoil produces 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. that's all we have time for now you can always find more stories on our website r t v dot com slash business.

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