don't need to go. to the kennel was her. retreat. working with nato to prevent a new arms race and closer ties with foreign partners are the top priorities outlined in the presidential address to the federal. did spark obama's big test as he tries to break republican opposition use his final chance this year to push past production treaty with russia. also the last appeal. to the wire now in the final presentation of the other contenders hosted twenty eight. hello this is a live from moscow it's one am here now for the top story first russia's president

dmitri medvedev has warned of a new arms race unless russia and 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 in the past of modernization. as a review of the presidential speech. that easy d.m. that i see figured out. to be that boy each me to get you 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 is 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're creating a common economic area under the regime 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 doesn't make me do have pinpointed many problems and how he thinks they should be solved long term most of the issue of this. speech wasn't just about the upcoming 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 do it is too commercial bribery commute with one hundred four years from. now it's time for lawmakers to get to work the president's plan is out there dmitri medvedev has paved the road he wants to see russia 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. sort of from russia's commissar publishing house explained to me what actions had needed to be taken between russia and nato for a deal on joint missile defense. 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 russian and. western partners second thing after that of course we have to decide how we're going to redistribute who is doing war and then the question of finance and resources will come out inevitably also so. a lot of practical questions which have to be handled. coming up here on r t driving for peace but it appears no one is listening.

tara with the ball because war is terror that sounds mean to be sure you know we explore why the authorities media and marketing a blind guide the campaign is demanding the country's troops withdraw from afghanistan. and 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. president obama used his last chance to push for u.s. legislators to ratify the nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia the republicans try to stall the process of burma's address the country senate to get more support from congress what he's going to teach you can as more about the 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 it seems 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 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 main 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 once i reminded the room that 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 and 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 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 these key trading places 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 the milestone of this reset he's corresponding going to to come reporting from washington them things that really from the sense of control or nonproliferation spoke to he said these policies if the treaty will be ratified by the end of the you. think there's 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 it is time to ratified in this senate if we were delayed until the next senate that we 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 support for this treaty would demonstrate responsible serious of 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. it's the last day before

the country is going to host the football world cup and the eighteen and twenty twenty two are allowed to promote the bids the delegations have down the didn't occur the winners will be announced on thursday. in switzerland for us. the four 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 how we're going to be hosting rise of the world cup and they've also said that russia has done everything they can do they 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 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 talk to russia several times because this is a country that would be most affected should the alliance actually exist and here is a what vitale would call it 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 posey 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 now with regard to russia of course cyprus be positives the negative concern 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 very 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. normal just 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 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. to bring us up to date on that story let's take. a short while tonight one of our top stories an orphanage in russia suspected of forcing disobedient children into mental health hospitals where they were allegedly treated one of the back story. take a look at. also

a new role may be in store for immigrants. to welcome foreigners to serve in its armed forces for the first time again you want to know more about that maybe have your. home page. dot com is the place to be. this is our t. from moscow 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 deficit cutting measures police attempted to contain the protesters in advance 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.

the independent newspaper she says the education problems the u.k. is now facing a far more serious. both the last government and the current government recognize 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 the 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. three top stories in brief to

bring it up to date on hundreds of students marched in tehran to voice their anger over the double bombing to rein in nuclear scientists to separate car bomb blast killed one scientist moved to the other the raiding government blames israel and the united states for the incident the bombings 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's has said the progress in iran will not be stopped. the world's largest search engine google faces a serious antitrust probe the european commission's launched an investigation into claims that it abuses its dominance penalising competing search engines in its results google denies the allegations but said it would work with the commission. for the top story tonight in brazil say they've made the biggest seizure of drugs and weapons in the force's history in a week of raids more than forty tons of narcotics and a large amount of assault rifles and grenade launchers were recovered at least

fifty one people were killed and almost three hundred detained in the operation the raids were part of a club in preparation for hosting the twenty fourteen football world cup lympics. and some of those diplomatic cables made public earlier by wiki leaks concerned tension over north and south korea they suggested that chinese officials favor the reunification of the two countries and the souls control the documents were revealed as north korea's parliamentary chairman came to china for diplomatic talks the us south korea and japan reportedly rejected beijing's call to sit down and resume talks about north korean disarmament but offers further unnerved by a joint american south korean military exercise in the disputed waters just now we see him go it is a writer and foreign policy analyst he told this is a long standing goal of u.s. policy to keep pressure on north korea. is certainly the case that tensions are being ratcheted up in south north and south korea in the western sea area.

and it's certainly been a longstanding goal of u.s. foreign policy to maintain considerable military pressure on north korea and the events that have happened in the last few weeks in particular the movement of the u.s. aircraft carrier george washington in the area certainly intended to continue to escalate the military tension. there's no shortage of skepticism in europe over the war in afghanistan even dead antiwar activists a big camping outside parliament for nearly a decade opposing danish participation in the so-called war on terror they want to make politicians stand up and listen but the calls are falling on deaf ears as a teacher when he found out. they've been here for nine years and they're not planning on leaving anytime soon among us. we're like 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 by 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 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 davis troops from afghanistan 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 young to those 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. 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 continued participation. even. before the 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 their nine years. here. but if the. current couple new. programs continue the u.n.

conference underway in mexico climate change is the main question on the table right now the copenhagen agreement signed back in january set a goal of limiting global warming but many countries weren't happy with that particular document we talked about russia's position with the advisor on ecology issues and also the president of the world meteorological organization that chat is coming right up.

thank you for sitting down with us the first question is about the kyoto protocol what's your take on it. your lives and it is inefficient international regulation mechanism which allowed the participating states to get a taste of collector work it was not simple if we look at the protocol now the issue in question is whether to prolong the second period of the protocol i would say that it is an efficient and applicable in its current format president medvedev us said russia was not going to take part in the second period of the protocol or the reason for that set out in the fourth report of an intergovernmental experts group which states that global warming is accelerating in order to prevent a reversible climate change we have to make sure that global temperature grows by more than two degrees celsius if the gross to a higher level they accumulated changes in the climate and the biota will make life

on earth very uncomfortable for civilisations the numbers in the fourth report state that all developed countries and we know that not every developed country is currently a member of the kyoto protocol have to reduce their emissions by at least forty percent and then keep working on reducing them so that's why the kyoto protocol in its current form without every developed country included on amendment b. without the u.s. on the list of participants and with china being the number one source of emissions is pointless other developed countries such as india mexico and brazil that are not subject to any obligations in the current format of the protocol. some scientists believe global warming is a natural process that humans can't influence are you supportive of that theory you are new york the global warming hypothesis that we currently use and its connection to human generated emissions is confirmed by mainly models on calculated these models show that there is a link as the concentration of greenhouse gases grows so the global temperature

levels there is theory stating that the warming is connected to gel logical and cosmic cycles those theories as you understand remain the steering so what do we do what should the people on the politicians believe they can lull themselves into submission and think that nothing can be changed or they can try to influence those processes civilization burns fuel in the mid greenhouse gases as they develop those emissions can be cut the population of the earth is growing and we are at risk of finding ourselves in a very difficult situation within the next twenty or thirty years we will be lacking resources we don't work hard on the conservation of those resources and energy efficiency so from that point of view i just prefer a ball to start that process than doing nothing russia is suggesting we sign a new agreement that would include all the major polluting countries we godless so whether or not they are classified as developed or developing a lot of a conon is today depend on the growth of fuel consumption and therefore the growth

of emissions of the difficult part is finding a line of development that would lead the con and nice and while the growth without harming the climate or consuming more and more resources there are ways to do that it was done in the us in the one nine hundred seventy s. of course it will require the mobilization of our resources political will and the right public attitude and so on but it is a possibility that the president's decree to raise the energy efficiency of our economy was not an issue for nothing we have massive reserves and that sounds we could decrease the energy cost of our g.d.p. by twenty percent you. simple measures without even switching to high technology think about it if we implement the measures and then the government program will achieve the goals that are set out and that is without impeding the development of our economy if we followed the primitive path of development would be impossible to grow without increasing our emissions russian experts who criticize the kyoto

protocol have said that it would upstart russia's development was wrong and utterly popular statement because the only way the development of a country can be obscured by such an agreement is of the crime scene question is unable to fulfill the obligations it took upon itself. well global warming has a great impact on the arctic region. what is currently going on that. briefly speaking global warming reduces the ice cover smaller ice is not just mere reduction it also means there margins of icebergs this wasn't the case before so if talking of practical steps regarding self exploration for. industrial development it's definitely been done on the other hand ice is a natural component of the climate system meaning balance smaller i seriously need to be various effects it is believed that global warming will lead to

a colder climate in europe which is linked to the theories that water will impact thermal water circulation and the gulf stream flowing close to europe and reach barents sea which is never covered with ice and will become colder and the regional climate will change it is a possibility but scientists have differences as to whether it's likely to happen in other words theoretically it looks likely but we don't know exactly how much i should meltdown on the will take different assessments according to the most alarming once and may occur in twenty ten and europe will be frozen but this has not happened so far. and started up such a project consisting in creating the arctic project but the project has not gained momentum yet while our colleagues in the u.s. canada and the e.u. are actively working in the syria because the one who manages to receive information and regular basis will first strengthen their knowledge and second depositions arctic region it's serious exploration the arctic is called the weather

kitchen and climate depends on the arctic and many respects another thing i like to point out is that we have a state policy on the arctic we hold a number of scientific conferences and a number of scientific mechanisms in place which help us understand what's going on as well as to some up research data an opportunity to carry out business in the arctic while minimizing human impact on the nature i think thank you very much for this interview a. good samaritan. excellent professional. medics travel going to possessing an extraordinary car. the doctor who

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