don't need to go. to the kennel was such a treat. the bombers raced to ratify the president makes a final appeal to congress to get the. brief for the current time. it's the last kick of the game for the football world cup it is trying to impress people officials a day before they make their choice with russia among the favorites two hundred twenty eight. poil all framed f.b.i. claims it's called terrorist the lawyers say agents manipulated the boy into the coming up.

with r.t. broadcasting live from the heart of the russian capital welcome to the program. president obama has used his last opportunity to push for u.s. legislators to ratify the nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia before the holidays as republicans continue to stall the process. once the senate to put aside political squabbles and focus on security. 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 but it seems the substance of the start treaty its content has long stopped being the focus of discussions here in washington on 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 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 treaty itself and how important it is for the u.s. national security take a listen once i reminded 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 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 time in the 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 cooperate. 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 mild stoke of this we set. that was very typical reporting from washington d.c. well meanwhile but god from the center for ohms control the nonproliferation says

the republicans that want to prevent a bomb a foreign policy victory 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 to give him more might appears of foreign policy success it will be more difficult if it's through a do next year because you must start the process all over again you must hold hearings in the committee or 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 or. ministration who wants to get it passed before the end of the year rather than have anything extended in the next year with the new

congress. defense honest lawrence korb says obama has to make a stronger case and push the benefits of an agreement with russia our system of government was created to prevent things from happening and water to 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 our 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

. well the talks over the atomic treaty get people of bell's cross-talk panel fired up about three hours' time arundhati. there are enemies of an 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 you see you can't ok any feeds upon the extremes on both sides unfortunately the extreme in the us seems to be mainstream go ahead. and.

security in europe is in the spotlight as the fifty six member states of the gather in kazakhstan for its first top level summit 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 and we have live pictures here of that session which has started include overcoming disagreements over european conventional arms treaty which russia backed away from three years ago because of america's missile defense plans to retreat medvedev is also pushing his own proposal for better europe wide security. but he's won't go into it with the new treaty we have proposed would be aimed at guaranteeing common security for europe i think everyone who supports it here it's been discussed for two and a half years maybe the stereotypes of the past are still strong and this initiative is ahead of its time but it turned will inevitably come. in the pleasure of the us

secretary general said. dmitri medvedev the plans for a new security system in europe are shaking up these talks and you can watch the full interview in just over an hour's time but here's a pretty. good proposals by present medvedev had one great merit because there were sort of a wake up call not. everybody was happy with the family of greater europe with the current arrangements record executive a fresh look fresh approach to be given to the issues clearly energized to a discussion stimulus to me i think this laid the groundwork for a strong push to cover travel should to have this summit to have a. ritual way. to renovate and to give a new foundation to european security.

bidding to host football's world cup are about to make their final presentations to face with a big announcement the one thursday in the twenty eighteen race russia england which is considered its main rival also running a joint base from spain and portugal and then evidence and belgium. reports. twenty eighteen we believe this banner at russia's latest international friendly described 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 hope 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. 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. 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 it's it's 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. will be playing at 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 farm in europe even south africa was a great success you know and something like that is a huge thing and i'm sure the people are assured will come out various experts say thursday's voting in zurich 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 for executive committee just as russia's olympic bid team did in guatemala to win the winter games for sochi. russia ski r.t. reporting from moscow. of course they were across that story for you online as well as have a look at what else we're bringing you at r.t. dot com russian history for sale thousands of letters photos postcards and drawings of the lost stars family is getting under the auction is how. and to meet one girl you don't want to mess with the teen. proving she's tough enough to beat the boys. for the f.b.i.

it seemed like an early christmas present to the capture of a terror suspect who it claims was plotting to set off a bomb during a ceremony to switch on festive lights but former agent sounds so short and say the nineteen year old somalia american was led into the plot by officers artie's i see a truck and 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 mohammed how does 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. 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 barn 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 themselves can. vince tend to do when someone brings in 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's idea 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 away to jail for

a very long time and with the case being built against muhammad not just by officials but by the media too what if it had a strong 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 have 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. good when criminals are not just caught by officials but also created the idea of national security becomes just as made up as the means of reaching. this issue going to artsy. well 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 who made the bomb and gave him the fake detonator he obviously was not a terrorist and see 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 that we don't ever catch a new them we only catch once the f.b.i. has to recruit the united states gets a lot of criticism and so one way to deflect criticism is to always have acts of terrorism and these manufactured fabricated acts of terrorism are used in a propagandist way. to justify the wars against terrorist countries

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 reforms are part of deficit cutting measures police attempted to contain the protesters in advance urging students to order a copy to last week's violence two previous protests attracted thousands of demonstrators accusing the police of an overzealous response to isolated clashes. jet skiers harnessed independent newspaper says the government's inconsistent policies on education on largely to blame. i think there are two questions one of them is not exactly to do with government cuts in spending but to do with the government not wanting to spend any more at the same time the policy of the last got it was the universe should increase the number of students over the last fifteen years the universities have expanded incredibly and the number of students

has expanded 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 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 and they went into finance and banking. time for a look now at some other major headlines from around the world this hour. interpol has put. on its most wanted list it says swedish authorities want to question him over an alleged sex offense which he denies and dismisses as part of a smear campaign we read notice as it is not an arrest warrant but asked people to contact the police if they know his whereabouts a former computer hacker is at the center of a global controversy after leaking classified u.s.

diplomatic cables. flash floods and landslides by torrential rains in venezuela claimed at least twenty one lives the severe weather has also forced more than five thousand others to. retreat has been dispatched in rescue efforts after a state of emergency was declared in affected regions usually heavy rains which continue prost the end of the wet season affecting tens of thousands of people. allowing gays to serve in the u.s. military will carry only you those risks of fighting ability and you can study has revealed it also found that most respondents didn't object to serving with homosexuals some senior officials in the obama administration want to repeal the ban when gay troops may serve it's not reveal their sexual orientation it's been met with this position from some republicans. a female it's the business news with their stated.

welcome to our business program. russia's hydro power holding us hydro has expanded its ambitions along with its investment plans it will spend at least three billion dollars on a new plant while modernizing old ones will sting output by about one thousand megawatts profits are up ten percent so far this year at over seven hundred million dollars in the first half of two thousand and ten. 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 industry we are interested in a wide range of cooperation from engineering to exploitation this means that we represent change in electricity generation in renewable energy and the asian market is the most attractive for us at this time. and staying with energy euro said enter ago a power utility controlled by pasta says it wants to buy the aga cough three power generator from normal cynical debate involves paying two billion dollars for a seventy nine percent stake in the power generating company ogre three. hundred go says banks are already interested in granting credit for the deal if successful the

acquisition will make it the largest energy company in russia. and i once have a look at the markets the tokyo stocks edge higher with most of the banking sector finding support after a week tuesday technology stocks traded lower as the end strengthens against the us dollar and the euro and hong kong stocks in quantum as an overnight fall on wall street european debt and tensions on the korean peninsula have their impact the fall of blood by resource stocks and local property developers. meanwhile in russia the my sex and the r.t.s. finished tuesday session 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 u.s. the european the us sales data we have the auto sales to be released by major automakers in the states this 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 of 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 cities in the u.s. sales data and this will probably help the russian market as well and the 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 that the lowest level of drug was 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 pipe 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 lukoil raise profits twenty nine percent in the first nine months it cited high oil prices and their fair of all settlement and ownership dispute earnings came in at around six point eight billion dollars under international accounting rules look all credited cost controls were generating 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 lukoil 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 by john egypt saudi arabia and latin america. russia is considering postponing its first sales of ruble bonds to international investors bonds are tumbling amid concerns that portugal and spain may be next for bailouts after island put investors out of 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 russian officials say the sale of three billion dollars of ruble denominated bonds could be delayed until two thousand and eleven. and 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 minister development minister andre quick potch says that the drop in spending will also lead to a decrease in real investment spent funds will be channeled back into the country's

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