did you go and. read this and the colonel was such a treat. the bombers raced to ratify the president makes a final appeal to congress to get the new treaty agreed before the current session runs out of time. it's the last kick of the game for the football world cup but it's trying to press fi for officials a day before they make their choice with russia on the favorites to host in twenty eight. and boiled all frames f.b.i. says it's called a teenage terrorist but say agents been looking into becoming a bomber. you're watching r t well live from moscow welcome to the program president obama

has used his last opportunity to push for us that just a test to ratify the nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia before the holidays as republicans continue to try and stall the process obama wants the senate to put aside political squabbles and focus on security what's he's got richer counties following the meeting in washington. obama 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 partisan games 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 desired to undermine his presidency and really look at the treaty itself and how important it is for the u.s. national security to take a listen are reminded that the room the the street has been vetted for seven months now it's gone through eighteen hearings it has support from senators of both parties it has broad bipartisan support from their tional 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 will 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 to change that the start treaty is not just about reducing both countries' 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 cooperate. 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 that the mild stopes of this we set that was artie's going to check out reporting from washington d.c. but meanwhile robot god from the center for owns control and nonproliferation says the republicans want to prevent an obama foreign policy victory that'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 to give him more might appear as a foreign policy success it will be more difficult if it's too late to next year because you must start the process all over again you must hold hearings in the committee 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 ministration wants to get it passed before the end of the year rather than having extended in the next year with the new congress of

defense artist lawrence korb says bowman has to make a stronger case and push the benefits of an agreement with russia. you know our system of government was created to prevent things from happening and one or two legislators can prevent 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 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 it 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 . well the talks over the atomic treaty get people avails cross-talk panel fired up

in about three hours here noting. their enemies have been improved u.s. russia relationship in the united states but the point also has to be made that there are enemies of an improved u.s. russia relationship also in russia and and i think this agreement by getting this agreement ratified we will open the doors for greater cooperation in the future ok if i go to you you agree with the ambassador there are people in the political establishment rush would say yeah see you can't trust these people see you can't ok and it feeds upon the extremes in both sides unfortunately be extreme in the u.s. seems to be mainstream go ahead.

once a partnership with the west there's a warning from the russian president a new arms race could develop russia and nato compromise on a joint missile system or its annual state of the nation address. there's a ten year window of opportunity to make alterations and reality or a new wave of confrontation could be get up arms control expert tom collins says the united states on your list of the lucky to choose the path of partnership. i think we should certainly take the first option and come to cooperation and i think the united states and russia can they made a very good start at the russian nato council meeting just a few days ago and so i think if the u.s. and russia and nato can really work out a joint process to see missile defense through i think we can we can resolve a lot of the issues here. well security in europe is in the spotlight as the fifty six member states of the sea gather in kazakhstan for its first top level silent in

more than a decade russia says it wants to see reform of the organization for security and cooperation in europe so the group can function properly with our live pictures here of that summit which has just started the key issues include overcoming disagreements to european conventional arms treaty which russia backed away from three years ago due to u.s. missile defense plans or c. secretary general says dimitri met relatives plans for a new security system in europe have shaken up these talks the interview is in twenty minutes time but i has a preview for you. propose of my present medvedev had one great merit because there were sort of a wake up call that not. everybody was happy with the family of greater europe with a current radiance regarding security a fresh look fresh approach to be given to the issues clearly energized in

discussions here recently i think this laid the groundwork for a strong push to cover travel should to have this summit to have a home. part of this to renovate to give a new foundation to european security. now there is a bidding to host the football world cup are set to make their final presentations to fee for the big announcement on thursday russia is hotly tipped in a twenty eighteen race as it looks horns with england as well as joint it's from spain and portugal and the netherlands and belgium parties alexy are sure skills. twenty eighteen we believe this banner at russia's latest international friendly describe how fans felt about russia getting the world cup but does the country with a rich football tradition stand a chance of becoming the hosts. the dutch coach of the

national team certainly hopes so even though his home country is among the big. we need the world to. put the infrastructure. because the majority of the. many experts agree with that notion believing that russia lags behind its rivals in terms of food infrastructure but that is about to change according to those behind moscow's bid this is the denominator stadium moscow's oldest this is where history's greatest football goalkeeper russian spent his glittering career the game's legend did not live to see his home ground being transformed it is now under construction to become and stadium. all in all russia plans to build sixteen stadiums for the world cup games a graphic presentation shows clearly that all grounds will be high tech the head of

russia's bidding committee says even if it loses the right to host the cup it has won in other ways to look at sochi and every promise that we have made to the city is being fulfilled right now as we speak. we do have a lot of things to build but experience no secret and we have already started that even regardless of the first choice. of sixteen stadiums will be built regardless of the outcome of the december second. playing both in russia and abroad are relishing the prospect of playing on world class pitches but they say russia needs the world cup to both revive its one strong for. traditions and to open the country to the rest of the footballing world. but i won't be playing of that cup anyway but i think it will be the biggest victory for my country. it's a world game brings brings people together you know it's it's

a great tournament huge storm in europe even south africa is a great success you know and something like that is a huge thing and i'm sure the people are actually grew up in that area experts say thursday's voting in syria will be completely unpredictable the british press however believes that russia's bid and the joint one of spain portugal are favored to win the russian delegation heading to switzerland hopes it will be able to impress defeat executive committee just as russia's olympic bid team didn't want tamala to win the winter games for sochi. russia ski r.t. reporting from moscow. and of course over across that story for you online that let's have a count what else we're bringing you at r.t. dot com today russia's foreign legion on the rules are changing downing immigrants to sign up to seven but a tree for the first time. i meet one girl you don't want to mess with a team that sumo wrestler proving she's tough enough to beat the boys.

for the f.b.i. seemed like an early christmas present capture of the terrorist suspect who it claims was plotting to set off a bomb during a ceremony to switch on festive lights former agents aren't so sure and say the nineteen year old somali american was let into the plot by officers he's an associate explains. this winter season the f.b.i. celebrates the reason the arrest of a potential terrorist but a little something is wrong with this picture over the eighteen months they cultivated him the alleged plot or as a teenager the bomb he planted a fake and the f.b.i. allegedly manipulated him into committing

a crime entrapment is not illegal entrapment is getting someone to do something that they would normally do the guy named mohammad had his e-mails tracked by authorities while they waited for the right time to get him to act against u.s. national security or the f.b.i. as dave said with him every step of the way because he started to say he was fifteen years old for years x. amount of money and efforts from the f.b.i. later the sting mission comes to a close the nineteen year old is accused of plotting to blow up a christmas tree in portland oregon the language used against him in f.b.i. records is all too familiar to the sensitive american and even though the device was. fake here spreads like bacteria the threat was very very real. media images were quick to portray what could have and would have happened had the bottom been real. becoming yet again not

a watchdog but an echoing voice of authorities along this terrorism stuff i think is kind of embarrassing for most of the media the way the f.b.i. has official word on whatever is just taken as the truth but the obvious truth to some is what's not addressed at all when it comes to national security and terrorism it just sort of stops all conversation it's chilling conversation you immediately assume i want to be protected the f.b.i. will protect me and and therefore whatever it says is true when often it is and it's hard to defend against this even when there is an obvious element of entrapment when officials arrest him for something they even selves convinced him to do when someone brings them information that someone might want to commit a terrorist activity. they have to make sure that it was the individual's idea and someone else's idea or or someone connected with the government site via the case dubbed the christmas tree plotter is far from the first to bring to light the

practice of entrapment in the us convincing pursuing and tricking the eventually accused has become systematic according to some and they can come after you and they can manufacture crimes against you and they can make up a whole case and put you through the whole thing and eventually if they can persuade a jury that this manufactured case is valid you can go to jail for a very long time and with the case being built against muhammad not just by officials but by the media to what would have been a catastrophic event at its christmas tree lighting the destiny of the u.s. citizen turned water with a little help from the f.b.i. seems clear to the problem is that you know in court cases people juries believe the f.b.i. they are the f.b.i. they've been you know we've been indoctrinated to believe that the f.b.i. can do no wrong of course there are many many cases where the f.b.i. has done a lot of wrong the rule of law enforcement is to catch the bad guys so that the good guys feel see for good when criminals are not just caught by officials but

also created the ideal national security becomes just as made up as the means of reaching this issue going to a large city. paul craig roberts is a former senior white house official he told us that the f.b.i. is deliberately recruiting innocent people in fake plots. we know it was fake plot because the f.b.i. recruited a guy and made the bomb and gave him the fake detonator he obviously was not a terrorist since you didn't know how to make a bomb and didn't know how to recognize a fake bomb. and so the real question is why then does the f.b.i. go around creating these phony cases where it has to recruit people. into fake plots now allegedly we have real terrorists but we don't have a cancer knew them we only catch once the f.b.i. has terrific cruet united states gets

a lot of criticism and so one way to deflect criticism is to always have acts of terrorism and he's manufactured fabricated acts of terrorism are used in a propagandist way. to justify the wars against terrorists trenchers and of course also they're being used to create a police state. a fresh wave of protests has swept through britain against government plans to raise university tuition fees the reforms are part of deficit cutting measures risa tempted to contain the protesters in advance urging students to avoid a repeat of last week's violence two previous protests attracted thousands of demonstrators accusing the police of an overzealous response to our state and clashes very colorist that an independent newspaper says the government's inconsistent policies on education and largely to blame. i think there is

a trick question and one of them is not exactly to do with government cuts in spending but to do with the government not wanting to spend more so it doesn't want the money that it spends on universities at the moment to create is at the same time the policy of the last government which was the universe should increase the number of students they wanted fifty percent of people leaving school to go on to higher education over the last fifteen years universities have expanded incredibly and the number of students has expanded at the same time the employers are saying well the quality of the graduates the quality of the education that they have. isn't really good enough so you have the universe to say well if we're going to improve the quality of education then we need more money 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 britain really can't compete except in very specialist areas on manufacturing 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 they went into the city and they finance and banking. well now for a look at some other major headlines from around the world interpol has put wiki leaks founder julian assange on its most wanted list it says swedish authorities want to question him over a sex offense which he denies and dismiss it as part of a smear campaign the red notice as it's known is not an arrest warrant but a last people to contact the police if they know his whereabouts sancia former computer hacker is at the center of a global controversy over the leaking classified list diplomatic cables. at least

twenty one people have died in flash floods and landslides but eventually rain then is when the children five thousand members of the force to from their homes the military has been dispatched in rescue efforts offer a state of emergency was declared in affected regions but usually heavy rains which of continue past the end of the season have disrupted tens of thousands of people. coming up soon a leading figure in european security gives us his insight and where defense policy is heading next if you remember its sharona has artie's business update status. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in moscow she's available in hotels coursed i'm going to do you know over those

a military term. it is called as much an east west never told. nobody. would. say a sloviansk on. historical hotels of a culture in the city so it's in the sky. as it could have been told from the strength of this to tropicana hutto. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure. russia's hydropower holding was hydro has announced a radical change in its corporate style to keep pace with its wide scale investment plan declared earlier this year the hydropower giant's investment blueprint is almost two times larger than the one for this year earlier this month the company posted an eye for us net profit of over seven hundred million dollars in the first half of two thousand and ten that's up almost ten percent year on year ahead of us

hydro explains the details of the investment program and the company's priorities for coming years. you know what i don't know the investment program for the next three years was confirmed this summer next year we have planning to invest over three billion dollars around twenty percent will finance the technical upgrade of existing plants the rest will fund construction of new hydro power facilities our key priority is to increase the value of the company in this regard the asian market office outstanding opportunities the region has vast hydro power resources it also enjoys growing economy and business as a company representing a whole segment of the energy in st we are interested in a wide range of co-operation from engineering to exploitation this means that we represent all chains in electricity generation in renewable energy and the asian market is the most attractive for us at this time. and staying with energy go a power utility controlled by all the pasta says it wants to buy the three power generator

from nickel that it involves paying two billion dollars for a seventy nine percent stake in the power generating company three better go says two banks are already interested in granting credit for the deal if successful the acquisition will make it the largest energy company in russia. and let's have a look at the markets for the tokyo stocks edge higher with most of the banking sector finding its funding supports after a week tuesday technology stocks traded lower as the strengthens against the us dollar and the euro and hong kong stocks decline as an overnight fall on wall street european debt and tensions on korean peninsula have their impact but fall is led by resource stocks and local property developers. meanwhile in russia the my section r.t.s. finished tuesday sessions ahead lukoil was the biggest gainer its shares advance

three point four percent the most since june it comes after the second largest crude oil producer reported strong results. and russian markets may maintain the trend and investors are hoping to get positive data from the u.s. labor market as the director of equity sales that explains. the most important driver will be coming out of the us the european the us sales data we have the auto sales to be released by major automakers in the space the supposed to be a significant piece of data the consumer confidence in the state and the consumer spending has increased around three percent in the last quarter if the data so positive then we see a sustainable heads up recovery in the u.s. demand which will be a major catalyst for the u.s. markets despite the european backdrop we're expecting ten percent increase in european in u.s. sales data and this will probably help the russian market as well and most important piece of data is coming out on thursday that's the u.s. jobless claims. if positive will continue the trend that we've seen last.

week before thanksgiving where we've seen but the low was still level of those claims in the last eighteen months and russia's gas export monopoly gas problem estimates the south stream pipeline across the black sea to europe will cost about twenty billion dollars the offshore part of the pipeline may cost fifteen billion dollars at current prices while the onshore section in europe is expected to cost half of that and investment decision on the project is to be made by mid april. and luke oil raise profits twenty nine percent in the first nine months it cited higher all prices and a favorable settlement and ownership dispute earnings came in at around six point eight billion dollars under international accounting rules lukoil credit cost controls were generating record record free cash flow. as for investment around

eighty percent is planned to be spent on exploration and production twenty percent will be spent on processing and marketing currently look cool produces around ten percent of its oil and gas and the company's going to actively develop foreign projects primarily this relates to western africa we're actively developing the west corner project in iraq we have large projects in kazakhstan as a bridge on egypt saudi arabia and latin america and russia is considering postponing its first sale of ruble bonds to international investors will bonds are tumbling amid concerns that portugal and spain may be next for bailouts after ireland put investors out of the assets they consider risky slow economic growth and higher inflation in russia than in other bric countries like brazil and china are also driving the investors out of fishel say the sale of three billion dollars of ruble denominated bonds could be delayed until two thousand and eleven.

russia's budget spending for two thousand and ten could fall by up to five hundred billion rubles which is around fifteen billion dollars deputy economic development minister. says that the drop in spending will also lead to a decrease in real investment the unspent funds will be channeled back into the country's reserve fund which was set up to cushion any drop in oil prices. and that's all the updates we have for you at this hour you can always find more stories on our web site that's r t dot com slash business stay with us.

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