you can go with her toe to toe she don't need to go and. run this in the kennel was her job as a retreat. obama's race to ratify the president tries to save the russian resect with a final appeal to get congress to agree on the nuclear cuts treaty. and on the other side of the atlantic the president began to push for common security in europe telling the always the summit that the stereotypes of the past have to be overcome. plus it's the last pick of the game for the football world cup it is trying to impress free for officials day before they make their choice russia among the favorites to host in twenty eighteen. and boiled all frame the f.b.i. claims it's called teenage terrorist the boy is say agents manipulated the boy into becoming a bomber. on

air and online and all the news that matters you're watching r.t. 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 of bomber once the senate put aside political squabbles and focus on security. guarantees 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 the obama started more republican senators will come will take office than many of them are skeptical about the treaty where they seemed the substance of the start treaty its content

has long stopped being the focus of discussions here in washington the partisan game sort of scoring a political point seem to be more important to some politicians don't that what's actually at stake and that's the point obama's been making for weeks we've heard him call for republican senators to step away from this all while mean 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 are reminded the room that the street has been vetted for seven months now it's gone through eighteen hearings it has support from senators of both parties it has broad bipartisan support from their national security advisors and secretaries of defense of sectors of state from previous administrations both democrat and republican and that 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 me 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 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. and some other aspects of the u.s. russia reset and everybody here realizes that the new start is sort of a milestone of this reset. doughty's going to reporting there from washington d.c.

well robot guard from the center for arms control and nonproliferation says the republicans want to prevent an obama 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 appear as a foreign policy success it will be more difficult if it's to wait till next year because you must start the process all over again you must hold hearings in the committee there 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 anything extended in the next year with the new congress. or the talks over the atomic treaty people of else cross-talk title thought up in about twenty minutes 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 ratified we will open the doors for greater cooperation in the future ok if i go to you you agree with me 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 and it feeds upon the extremes in both sides unfortunately the extreme in the u.s. seems to be mainstream. while

the start is the basis of rebooting relations between moscow and washington and other respects of ties is on the table. this time between russia and the european security group fifty six member states of the oversee have gathered in kazakhstan for its first top level summit in more than a decade there russian president dmitry medvedev is pushing for a new security treaty for europe and is ready to resolve differences of a conventional arms in europe. has more from astronaut. president it has sad that. our vision for security and cooperation in europe is currently seriously outdated indeed the last overseas summit took place eleven years ago and a lot has changed in relations between russia and or c.

in the past eleven years relations have been severely damaged during the hears of a bush administration and russia had to pull out soles agreements of conventional arms in europe because all the u.s. plans to deploy its 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 as 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 the end of his ability 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 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 for into the future that i always see is a perfect platform for these discussions on the new european security architecture let's listen to what president of had to say but he's going to do it was 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 is still strong a mission initiative is ahead of its time but its turn will inevitably come. and in fact here we see a lot it received a lot of support from the european leaders who have spoken during the summits and they have spoken in favor of president invidious idea. are emerging threats if there's no european missile defense agreement also came up in conversation between the russian premier and us prime time talk show host larry king. said that if joint efforts on new european security fail russia will have no choice but to

ensure its safety by moving up forces several other topics also came up including the latest wave of wiki leaks refuting it saying it was no catastrophe because it was such a poorly kept secret. national assessment of his relations with president again saying the comparison to batman and robin was arrogant and ethical. routines interview as on c.n.n. on wednesday evening in the u.s. is likely to be the last statesman to appear on larry king live as a veteran interviewer tossing. your without taking a few minutes we ask if the end justifies the means for u.s. law enforcement. when criminals are not just caught by officials but also the idea of national security becomes just. looks into what critics of leds are in trouble and this is going beyond business to

tackle terrorism. now the bidding to host the world cup are set to make their final presentations to fee for the big announcement due on thursday russia is hotly tipped in the twenty eighteen races it looks homes with england as well as joint it's from spain and portugal and the netherlands and belgium. reforms . 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 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 tack 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.

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 football 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 if it gets this world cup it's a world game brings people together. it's a great tournament so few strongmen europeans and 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 very well 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 executive committee just as russia's olympic bid team didn't want to do in the winter games for sochi. russia ski r.t. reporting from moscow. well there we have more on that story and let's have a look at what else we're bringing you what r.t. dot com russian history for sale thousands of letters and postcards and drawings of lost. going under the. meat one girl you don't want to mess with tina sumo wrestler even she isn't tough enough to beat the boys. for the f.b.i. it seemed like an early christmas present capture of

a terror 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 led into the plot by officers. 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 is 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 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. 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 bomb been real. becoming yet again not a watchdog but an echoing voice of authorities along as 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 arrested a man 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 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 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 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 has to catch the bad guys so that the good guys feels. 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. paul craig roberts is a former senior white house official who told us that the f.b.i. has to be recruiting innocent people in fake plots. we know it was fake plot

because their recruiter the guy made the bomb and gave him the shake detonator he obviously was not a terrorist and so 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 does the f.b.i. go around creating these phony cases where it has to recruit people. into freight plots now allegedly we have real terrorists but we don't ever catch and you know 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 actual terrorism and these 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 swept through britain thanks to government plans to raise university tuition fees their forms are part of deficit cutting measures police attempt to contain the protesters in advance edging students to avoid a repeat of last week's violence two previous protests to try to tens of thousands of demonstrators accusing the police and feels that it's response to isolate concussions where the jet ski or congress or the president newspaper says this on the rest as a result of a why the problem within u.k. society. i think the bigger problem in british education as in a way in british society is that there's been factions there been waves of graduates going into particular sectors so for the last ten years ago the brightest and the best went into banking and finally there's never really been for a very long time and a great stability in the courses that people choose and the careers that they

choose it's been very much dominated by one sector or another the balance i think has been very very bad. well now for the some other major headlines from around the world interpol has wiki leaks founder julian assange on its most wanted list it says swedish authorities want to question him about where the ledge the sex offense which he denies and dismisses 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 often leaking classified u.s. diplomatic cables. flash floods and landslides caused by torrential rain in venezuela have claimed at least twenty one lives the severe weather has also forced more than five thousand others to flee their homes the military has been dispatched to rescue efforts after a state of emergency was declared in affected regions are usually heavy rains which

of continued prost the end of the wet season are affecting tens of thousands of people. if it's sure it will be hit with the very latest business stay with us. please. hello welcome to our business program. russia's hydro power holding us hydro has expanded its ambitions along with us investment plans it will spend at least three billion dollars on new plants while modernizing old ones mostly output 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 cooperation from engineering to exploitation this means that we represent all chains in electricity generation and renewable energy and the asian market is the most attractive for us at this time. and staying with energy euro sit n. or go a power utility controlled by all of their pasta says it wants to buy the. three

power generator from nurul cynical but it involves paying two billion dollars for a seventy nine percent stake in the power generating company all three erosive enter 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 asian markets rebounded from their earlier lows on a rise in u.s. index futures boosted by weaker dollars lifting commodity prices which spurred buying in resource sector stocks. and in russia the my sax and the r.t.s. are up on the day close to a half percent gain each and most blue chips are up lukoil is up a quarter percent is pared back is up a point thirty five percent this hour. meanwhile russia's food retailer dixy group has narrowed its nine month net loss to one point two million dollars down from

a loss of over three million last year the company says it's improved its cost control measures sales in the first nine months amounted to one point five billion dollars that's seventeen percent higher than the previous year and russia's gas export monopoly gas prom 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 rail raise profits twenty nine percent in the first nine months it 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 local credit 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 look cool 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 we are actively developing the wished for new project in iraq we have large projects in kazakhstan as a bridge on egypt saudi arabia and latin america and royal dutch shell and gas promptly to expand their partnership and jointly explore oil in western siberia and russia's far east as well as on distribution projects in europe the companies have signed an agreement on global cooperation but haven't revealed specific plans the companies are already partners in major gas projects on russia's so holy an island after moscow for shell to cede control of the project in two thousand and seven. times shot retains a twenty seven point five percent stake in the south island project while gas

probably has fifty percent plus one share. and russia's crude oil export duty will increase four point five percent to three hundred three point eight per tonne from december the export duty on all produced in east siberia will amount to one hundred eight dollars per ton from the current ninety eight point eight dollars per ton the same export duty will be levied on north caspian oil export duties on light and heavy oil products will increase to two hundred seventeen dollars and one hundred sixteen point nine dollars per tonne respectively. and russia is considering postponing its first sale of ruble bonds to international investors ruble bonds are tumbling amid concerns that portugal and spain may be next for bailouts after ireland put investors out of assets they considered 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. 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 on very quick profit 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 we have for you at 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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