the gateway to the grand imperial truly the george west. you can go with a tow truck. to go. run this is the kind of it was her job as a retreat. the bombers race to ratify the president to make some appeal to congress to get the nuclear cuts treaty agreed for the current session runs out of time. it's the last kick of the game for the football world cup it is trying to press free for a day before they make their choice with russia among the favorites to host twenty eight. boiled frames the f.b.i. claims its quarter teenage terrorist. agents made it to the boy into becoming a bomber. and all of their posture as the latest pending acquisition will make you better go the largest energy company in russia i'll have more on that in about

twenty minutes time. well news and much more this is r.t. welcome 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 obama wants 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 off. is that many of them are skeptical about the

treaty where they seem to the substance of the start treaty its content has long stopped being the focus of discussions here in washington or in partisan game sort of scoring of political points 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 her to call for republican senators to step away from this all while main 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 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 the national security advisors and secretaries of defense and sectors of state from previous administrations both democrat and republican and that is 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 any to change that the start treaty is not just about reducing both country's nuclear arsenals by a third it's seen as a symbol of trust between the two nuclear superpowers and obama made it clear that further cooperation plans with russia could really go south without these key trading places he stressed how important russia's assistance is in afghanistan how crucial russia's cooperation was on iran and the aspect of the u.s. and some other aspects of the u.s. russia reset and everybody here realizes that the new start is sort of. that the

mile stoke of this we set. it's a kind reporting that from washington d.c. well a robot dog from the center for arms control and known for the for ration says the republicans want to prevent in 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 wade through next year because you must start the process all over again you must hold hearings in the committee here will be new senators who will have questions and it will prolong the whole process

and this is in the mutual interests of both the united states and russia and the administration wants to get it passed before the end of the year rather than have any extended in the next year with the new congress or the fence on this lawrence korb says obama has to make a stronger case and push the benefits of an agreement with russia. they 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 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 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 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 or the talks of the atomic train to get people develop fired up in about an hour's time as a preview. 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 rather of by we will open the doors for greater cooperation in the future ok if i go to you agree with the ambassador there are people in the political establishment rush would say yeah i see you can't trust these people see you can't ok he feeds upon the extremes in both sides unfortunately the extreme in the us

seems to be mainstream go ahead. well the start treaty ratification also came up when the russian prime minister spoke to us prime time talk show host larry king but they were putin said that if america fails to seal the deal russia will have no choice but to build up its nuclear forces several other topics also came up in the latest wave of wiki leaks with putin saying it was no catastrophe because it was such a poorly kept secret but he did last out the assessment office with nations with as an inventive saying the comparison to robin was arrogant and unethical routines interview on c.n.n. on wednesday evening in the u.s. and is likely to be the last statesman to appear on their evening live as a veteran interviewer time soon. security in europe is in the

spotlight as the fifty six member states of the overseen 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 key issues include overcoming disagreements over european conventional arms treaty which russia backed away from three years ago because of america's missile defense plans interim and that it is also pushing his own proposal for better europe wide security. but. 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 a nation initiative is ahead of its time but it turned will inevitably come. and later we'll be joined live by r.t.

to turn over to her for more on that summit. is it willing to host football's world cup are about to make their final presentations to fee for the big announcement to you on thursday in the twenty eighteen race russian box hones with england which is considered its main rival also running out joint bids from spain portugal and the netherlands and belgium ati's next year especially 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 hosts. the dutch coach of the national team certainly hope so even though his home country is among the bidders we need the world to. put a stadium 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 an ultra morden 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. we do have a lot of things to build but 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 food 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 book tradition. and to open the country to the rest of the footballing world. i will be playing at that cup anyway but i think it will be the biggest victory for my country forgets that. it's a game brings people together. it's a huge form an instant success you know and something like that is a huge thing and i'm sure the people are. 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 the fee for executive committee just as russia's olympic bid team didn't want tamala to win the winter games for sochi. russia ascii r.t. reporting from moscow. across that story few online that let's have a look at what else we can bring you just a click away russian history to sell thousands of letters photos postcards and drawings of the lost sas are going under that. one girl you don't want to mess with tina said no rest easy she's tough enough to beat the boys.

for the f.b.i. seems like an early christmas present for a tattoo of a terror suspect who it claims was plotting to set off a bomb during a ceremony to switch on festive lights but former agents on so short the nineteen year old somalia american was led into the plot by officers parties and society trick or 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 have the alleged plot or is a teenager the bomb he planted a fake and the f.b.i. allegedly one repudiated him into committing a crime entrapment is not legal 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. steve said with him every step of the way because he started to say he was fifteen

years old four 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 easier and even though the device was. here spreads like bacteria the threat was very very real. the 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 a lot of 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 or 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 arrested a man for something they themselves 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 whose 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 to what would have been a catastrophic event at this christmas tree lighting the destiny of the u.s. citizen turned plotter 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 safe could one criminals are not just caught by officials but also created the idea of national security becomes just as made up. paul craig roberts is a former senior white house official who told us that the f.b.i.

is deliberately recruiting innocent people in fake plots we know it was fake plot because they're recruited the guy made the bomb and gave him the show a 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 trade plots now allegedly we have real terrorists but we don't ever catch him you 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 equate to justify the wars against terrorist countries

and of course also they're being used to create a police state. it was called missed and former white house official paul craig roberts that would. now returning to one of our top stories that of the fifty six member states that see gathering in kazakhstan for its first top level summit in more than a decade russia is pushing for a new security treaty for europe is ready to resolve differences over convention in your abilities joins us live from astronaut from tell us so is the current warming of relations between russia and its partners in evidence of us to those. who indeed but president did it has set out that. arbitration for security and cooperation in europe is currently seriously outdated indeed the last always see summit took place eleven years ago and a lot has changed in relations between russia and the oversea in the past eleven

years relations have been severely damaged during the years of bush administration and journey russia had to pull out of the agreements on conventional arms any europe because of nature's plans to deploy its and so i missile defense shield in europe and russian president has said that there's a need to modernize always seen of course because of the reset relations between russia and the united states as well recently during his annual address to the nation russian president has said that there is no other way forward but for russia to cooperate with nato on its a.m.d. plans for europe and to introduce nuclear warheads otherwise and nother arms race will begin he also spoke of all of the interviews of billets of security and the pan european security treaty proposed by the russian president back in two thousand and eight have been discussed for nearly two and a half years now and the russian president during this summit has said that maybe

it is not something that can be decided over just one summit. and even if we're looking far into the future that i always see is a perfect platform for these discussions on the new european security architecture and is that here we see a lot if you see a lot of support from european leaders who have spoken during this summit and they have spoken in favor of president invidious idea. ok artes and how to not have a from the overseas summit in kazakhstan thank you for. now for a look at some other major headlines from around the world this hour. 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 did not dismiss it as part of a smear campaign the red notice as it's known is not an arrest warrant but asks people to contact the police if they know his whereabouts. former computer hacker

is at the center of a global controversy after leaking classified u.s. diplomatic cables. flash floods and landslides caused by torrential rain in venezuela claimed at least twenty one lives a severe weather has also forced more than five thousand others to leave their homes the military has been dispatched to rescue efforts after a state of emergency was declared in effect region's unusually heavy rains which will continue past the end of the wet season affecting tens of thousands of people . stay with us for the business news coming up say.

hello welcome to our business program i'm sure. 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 new class while modernizing old ones bursting out flood by about a 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 plan to invest over three billion dollars around twenty percent will finance the technical upgrade of the existing plants the rest will fund construction of new hydro power facilities are key priority is to increase the value of the company in this regard the asian market offers outstanding opportunities the region has vast hydro power resources it also enjoys growing economies and business. as a company representing a whole segment in the energy industry we are interested in

a wide range of co-operation from engineering to exploitation this means that we represent all chains in an atrocity generation and renewable energy and the asian market is the most attractive for us at this time. and staying with energy euro save energy go a power utility controlled by pasco says it wants to buy power generator from norilsk nickel debate involves paying two billion dollars for a seventy nine percent stake in the power generating company. three us better though 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 the tokyo stocks edged 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 decline as over night fall on wall street

european debt and tensions on the korean peninsula have their impact the fall is led by resource stocks and local property developers. meanwhile in russia of m i six is about to open meanwhile the r.t.s. opened up on the day gaining just a notch most blue chips are down while luke oil is the biggest gainer its shares advance three point three percent norilsk nickel is also among the leaders up one point seven percent. 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 if the data is

still positive then we see a sustainable 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 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 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. raise profits twenty nine percent in the first nine months cited higher oil prices and

a favorable settlement in ownership dispute earnings came in at around six point eight billion dollars under international accounting rules credited cost controls with 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 abroad the company's going to actively develop foreign projects primarily this relates to western africa also we are actively developing the west corner project in iraq we have large projects in kazakhstan by john egypt saudi arabia and latin america and russia is considering postponing its first sale of ruble bonds to international investors bonds are tumbling amid concerns that portugal and spain may be next for bailouts after ireland put investors out of assets they consider

risky slow economic growth and a 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 on very quick potch 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 question any drop in oil prices. and that's all the updates for this hour but 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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