you can to let the socialist. run this in the can it was a. retreat. work together with a nato base the possibility of a new arms race and president dmitry medvedev gives a stark warning in his annual address to the federal assembly. it's persuasion time for barack obama as he makes a last ditch appeal to the senate to ratify arms reduction treaty with russia. and the final whistle blows for bids to host the next two football world cup says competing nations await the decision from the sport's governing body. six am in moscow i'm good to be with you you're on r t our top story russia's president dmitry medvedev has warned of

a new arms race unless russia and nato compromise in a joint missile system addressing the two houses of the russian parliament he also underlined the importance of intensifying the fight against widespread corruption one of major obstacles on the path to modernization. way has a review of the presidential speech. that easy g.m. that i see figured out. to be the door each need 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 us or their so-called reset he focused on countries like china when talking about trade and boosting investment back home on that issue would it be ready 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 me do have pinpointed many problems and now he thinks they should be solved long term most of the free world. this speech was he just to build the upcoming year it was a blow trisha's plans for many years to come here's what the president said about russia's raging corruption problem with because that we are experiencing 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 if you so commercially bribery commute punished with one hundred fold fine. now it's time for lawmakers to get to work the president's plan is out there to meet the needs of a diff has pave the road he wants to see rush on now it's time for these men and women to get the country on that track and stay the course reporting from the

kremlin and he's the way r.t. . sergey stroken from russia's commerce publishing house explains what actions are needed to be taken between russia and nato for a deal on joint anti-missile defense is that 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 and your western partners check on thing after that of course we have to decide do you see how we are going to redistribute the rules who use new in war and then the question of finance and resources will come out inevitably also so so there's a lot of practical questions which have to be handled barack obama used his last chance to push for us legislators to ratify the nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia as republicans try to stall the process obama has addressed the nation the senate to get more support from congress or he's got a cheeky 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 but it seems 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 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 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 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 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 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 the milestone of this we set so he's got a cheeky on reporting from washington robert garde from the center for arms control and nonproliferation says republicans want to keep an obama foreign policy victory but it's become politicized because the minority party in the senate has said that its first priority is to prevent the reelection of president obama so they are reluctant to support his initiatives and give him what might appear as a foreign policy success it will be more difficult if it's delayed till next year

because you must start the process all over again you must hold hearings in the committee that comes here will be new senators who will have questions and it will prolonging the whole process and this is in the mutual interests of both the united states and russia and ministrations and wants to get it passed before the end of the year rather than having it extended in the next year with a new congress lawrence korb a senior fellow at the center for american progress says obama has to make a stronger case and highlight the benefits of an agreement with russia. they our system of government was created to prevent things from happening and water to legislators can prevent of course 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 our 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 worried 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 short 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 stay with us here on r t still ahead driving for peace but no one is listening. you cannot fight terror with all because wall is terror and that's our main issue to. really explore why authorities and the media in denmark are turning a blind eye to campaigners demanding that countries 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 tough for them to get an education. but first it's the last day before countries vying to host the football world cup in twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two are allowed to promote their bids that allegations have gathered in zurich where the winners will be announced on thursday our teams tests are so yeah as more from switzerland. 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 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 no they have expressed their confidence in the chances of russia winning be 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 will be most affected should the alliance actually exist and here is a what vitale more 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 policy 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 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 there will be in in almost eighty years. of course much changes will occur and we have. submitted all the documents signed by our government these changes are guaranteed to happen there have been a lot of serious talk surrounding be a dating process 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 it 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 are across the globe say the confidential reports of u.s. officials offer few new facts washington says it's only an attack is it is an attack not only on the u.s. but the whole international community investigative journalist ross baker says the data was widely available and contain little if any sensitive material. 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 and other parts of government 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 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 and what's interesting is that sucking that 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 as 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. british students have gathered for a third nationwide day of action in protest against government plans to raise university tuition fees reforms are part of the u.k.

government's deficit cutting measures police tried to contain the protesters in advance urging students to avoid a repeat of last week's violence two previous protests to thousands with demonstrators accusing the police of an overzealous response to isolated clashes married a jet ski columnist at the independent newspaper says the education problems in the u.k. is facing are 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 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 thinking 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. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe hundreds of students marched in tehran the boys their anger over the double bombing of two iranian nuclear scientists to separate power bomb blast killed one scientist and wounded another the iranian government blames israel and the u.s. for the incident the bombings happened ahead of a possible meeting between tehran and major powers next month to discuss the country's nuclear program iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad has said progress in iran will not be stopped. police in brazil say they've made the biggest seizure of drugs and weapons in the force's history and 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 almost three hundred detained in the operation were part of a clamp down in preparation for hosting the two thousand and fourteen football world cup and the olympics. at least twenty one people have died in floods and landslides caused by torrential rain in venezuela more than five thousand others have been forced to flee their homes the worst hit areas the mountainous vargus state near the capital caracas president hugo chavez has declared a state of emergency in the west of the country. there's no shortage of skepticism in europe over the war in afghanistan in denmark though anti-war activists have been camping outside the 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 it seems their calls are falling on deaf ears as artie's arena reports. they've been here for nine years and they're not planning on leaving anytime soon among us the i'm through.

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 but participating in the war in afghanistan you cannot fight terror with a wall because war is terror that's our main issue you know denmark has more than seven hundred troops in afghanistan a soldier killed recently brought the total number of danish losses to thirty nine so peace watch believe very case is as important today as it was in two thousand and one this is the danish ministry of defense right across the street from 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 days 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 there's a majority of the population against continued participation. 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 you know their nine years you know i won't stay here i'm too little but if you meet the.

current tea cup you can mark. that a u.n. conference underway in mexico climate change is the main question on the table the copenhagen agreement signed in january sets a global goal of limiting global warming but many countries are unhappy with the document we talked about russia's position with mainstream advent as advisor on ecology issues and the president of the world meteorology association that interview is coming your way next.

thank you for sitting down with us the first question is about protocol what's your take on it. your lives and it is an efficient 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 and it's current former president new video of us said russia was not going to take part in the second period of the political realm or 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 a 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 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 it's pointless i 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 that are calculated these models show that there is a link as the concentration of greenhouse gases grows so the global temperature

levels there are 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 log 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 who 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 condom use today depend 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 connally's 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 you could decrease the energy cost of our g.d.p. by twenty percent you. using 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

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 calm she 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 various effects it is believed that global warming will lead to

a colder climate in europe which is linked to a series 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 melt down 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. started up such a project consisting in creating the arctic project but the project has not gained momentum yet while our colleagues and us canada and the will are actively working to syria because the one who manages to receive information and regular basis will first strengthen their knowledge and second their positions the arctic regions need 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 the number of scientific mechanisms in place which help us understand what's going on as well as to sum 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. for six months the russian capital was in a state of siege days and nights people lived in serum occupation and were preparing for the desperate defense and. took a heavy toll. to. the summit on me switch to the

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