socialist see don't need to go and. read this in the can a listener to retreat. work together with nato or face the possibility of a new arms race president dmitry medvedev gives a stark warning in his annual address to the federal assembly. it's perswade in time for president barack obama as he makes a last ditch appeal to a set for the senate to ratify a new arms reduction treaty with russia. and the final whistle blows for bids to host the next two football world cups as competing countries await the decision from the sport's governing body. it's two am in moscow i match reza good to be with you here on r t our top story

russia's president dmitry 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 on the path to modernization parties and he said now it has a review of the president's speech. but easy d.m. i see figured out. to be. made 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 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 you 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 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 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 but long term they must have a true. this speech wasn't just about the upcoming year 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 do it it is too commercial bribery community honest with one hundred four years from. now it's time for lawmakers to get to work the president's plan is out there to meet me 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 he's there now a party. and in his speech president clearly indicated that russia is open to constructive dialogue on missile defense that's a view of better in chief of the magazine or russia in global affairs. today is actually. to continue talks which they started at the need to russian interest summit in lisbon last week because if not eve need to continuous with its own missile shield then inevitably russia will need to consider . other options and i don't believe in the our series but that will be again. shaping the confrontation of the past president obama 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 obama has addressed the country's senate to get more support from that body or he's got into turkey has more about the meeting from washington. 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 where this is the substance of the start treaty its content has long stopped being the focus of discussions here in washington or in 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 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 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 their 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 time in the to change that the start treaty is not just about reducing both country's nuclear arsenals by a third 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 reset those are he's got a chief young reporting from washington lawrence korb a senior fellow at the center for american progress so is obama has to take his case to the american people if he wants to have the treaty ratified the our system of government was created to prevent things from happening and one or two legislators can prevent it because you're going to need sixty seven senators to ratify it you one senator can create a filibuster and that's rather unfortunate but i think the president's got to be

stronger he's got a point when he talks about how it impacts on national security he's got to say look because of this the russians are allowing all material to go to war men and women in afghanistan if that doesn't happen your sons and daughters will suffer the russians have stop selling military hardware to iran and have work with us on the sanctions so if you're about the security of israel and saudi arabia you've got to ratify this treaty he's got to be i think much more forceful because the clock is getting shore here in a lame duck session just got a couple weeks before the holidays he's got to take the case to the american public . remember you can always find more on this and all the stories we're covering just a click away at our t.v. dot com. on our web site today an orphanage in russia suspect the disobedient children into mental health hospitals where they get maltreated. about more about that on line tonight. and take note how

soviet tradition provides writing paper and helps the environment all this and more a click away at our t. does. the. little. it's the last day before countries are vying to host the football world cup in two thousand and eighteen and twenty twenty two are allowed to promote their bids the delegations have been gathering in zurich where the winners will be announced thursday artie's tests are syria has more in 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 bear 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 a winning the hosting rise of the world cup and they've also said that russia has done everything they can to 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 talk 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 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 i'll 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 though with regard to russia of course i can cite for the positives 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 the 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 in you know most eighty years. of course much changes will occur and we have. submitted all the documents sunbird government these changes are guaranteed to him but there have been a lot of serious talk surrounding the dating process of the 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 wiki leaks says it will soon release hundreds of

thousands of u.s. state department documents a preview of the information caused a media storm when it was released on monday the latest data contains messages from u.s. diplomats across the world including revelations that the u.n. leadership was to be monitored by the u.s. and that arab states were calling for an air strike on iran politicians around the world say the controversial reports of u.s. officials offer few new facts washington says it is an attack not only on the u.s. but on the whole international community for more on the story we're joined live from san francisco by editor of the investigative website who what why dot com ross baker good to have you with us so we can leak says they have two hundred fifty thousand files this is a huge amount of data where do you think they got it or who do you think that our sources. well the story that is out there is that it came from this private bradley manning and very clearly these documents which are not top secret they're low grade classified documents that they were accessible to

a huge number of people perhaps several million people through this military service the reason this happened in the first place was because after nine eleven the concern was that there wasn't enough sharing of information and that made sense that they wanted to make semi non risky things available to a large cross-section of people in the military in the state department in other parts of government and the whole story is very complicated because one does wonder how it's even possible though that somebody could download this vast quantity of documents without triggering any kind of an alarm there are alarmed that could be built into systems and it would be of the most basic sort of security measure well that's my next question how do you think such a thing was possible. well i don't know but i have to tell you as an investigative reporter and based on the five years that i spent researching my book family of secrets i learned that so little is the way that we think it is that there are layers and layers and layers of things and that sometimes when there are leaks like this there may be more in play i'm not saying there is but i think we need to look

very very hard at who gains in a situation like this the documents themselves in the most recent release they don't really tell us a lot we didn't know at the probably the store the allegation about mr putin and the the italian premier their relationship that one could be untrue it's sort of intriguing some of the other things are a little bit intriguing most of them have a sort of a gossipy element and basically you see diplomats doing what they're supposed to be doing which is trying to assess the people they're dealing with in the problems that they're facing so it's hard to figure this out but but it is not impossible of course that there could be some larger agenda at play because there are always factions within a government who want to unsettle things and frankly i mean who loses in this situation even though a lot of this concerns efforts that began under george bush barack obama as the person who is hurt worst i think now during the cold war misinformation was used as a diplomatic tool and lately with this with this release of we're going to

documents you have mahmoud ahmadinejad saying that he believes that a lot of what was said between u.s. and middle eastern leaders was also part of a diplomatic tool do you think that this data is genuine and trustworthy or do you think there was any kind of perhaps other agenda going on. i suspect that these documents are real in that they do reflect particular situations i don't know that they reflect the totality of the situation because people know not to put highly controversial things into writing in any form because they realize that these things could come out so i think they reflect sort of superficial things but again there could be some larger agenda at work sometimes leaks are said and i'm not saying they are here this could be totally authentic when leaks are set up what they want to do is they want to put out real stuff in order to establish credibility because there's something else that they're trying to slip out at the same time and what do you think the whistleblowers in this case were after and what do you think they're idealists or are they actually after some kind of profit or fame. well certainly they present themselves as

idealist and i understand the argument and again as a journalist and a supporter of free speech and openness in government i'm all for us knowing as much as possible the problem comes in with the fact that in any organization in private conversation and in communications you say things that you are not expecting the public to hear simply if all of our private conversations our communications were put out there every e-mail you or i ever sent we might well be embarrassed and so i don't know what it contributes to just release huge number of documents per se i'm more in favor of releasing selected documents that tell a particular story and the debt then doing additional reporting to provide the public with the context that it needs to understand what is going on now just briefly the web site wiki leaks has come under repeated hacker attacks do you think that this it could go further and you think the lives of the employees giuliana songe and everyone of that could be at risk because of this. it's hard to say i

mean the reality is as long as he's as visible as he is i think he's probably safe . certainly there is a kind of a recklessness and inherent danger to the whole operation itself plus the charges that have come up against him in sweden recently so it's this whole situation is extremely volatile volatile and what's interesting is it's sucking this sort of classic kind of mainstream media into it too because establishment outfits like the new york times don't want to get left behind is everybody scrambling to get a piece of this thing i if it if it blows up a particular way everybody could end up with egg on their faces all right investigative journalist ross baker thanks. british students have gathered for a third nationwide day of action protesting 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 urging students to avoid

a repeat of last week's violence to previous protests to thousands of demonstrators accusing the police of an overzealous response to isolated clashes married a jet ski a columnist at the independent newspaper says the education problems of the u.k. faces are far more serious. 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 service is both gotta 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 at the u.n. conference underway in mexico climate change was the main question on the table the copenhagen agreement signed in january sets a global limit goal limit rather of global warming but many countries are unhappy with the document we talked about russia's position with the meter maid bettors advisor on ecology issues and the president of the world meteorology association that's coming up next. in the long.

beach thank you for sitting down with us the first question is about protocol what's your take on it. your lives of it is inefficient international regulation mechanism which allowed the participating states to get a taste of collector work it was not simple if you look at the protocol now the question is whether to prolong the second period of the protocol i would say that it is inefficient and applicable in its current form our president new video said russia was not going to take part in the second period of the protocol the reason for that is 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 out without every develop. country included on amendment b. without the u.s. in the list of participants and with china being the number one source of emissions it's pointless other developed countries such as india mexico and brazil are not subject to any obligations in the current format of the protocol. some scientists believe global warming is a natural process that he was 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 that are 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 and the politicians believe they can will mold themselves into submission and think that nothing can be changed or they can try to influence those processes civilization burns fuel and the myth 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're classified as developed or developing a lot of a con and use today that down on the growth of fuel consumption and therefore the growth of emissions the difficult part is finding a line of development that would lead the economies 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 massaged in the government program we 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 criticized 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 here 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 i'm no longer will take their 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 colleagues and us canada and the euro are actively working in the

syria because the one who manages to receive information and regular basis both first strengthen their knowledge and second depositions the arctic region needs 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 with all the number of scientific conferences and the 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. thank you very much for this interview. it was created to serve public interests. and to entertain.

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