you don't need to go. back to the kennel was such a treat. obama's race to ratify as the president tries to save the russian reset with a final appeal to get congress to agree on cuts treaty. and on the other side of the atlantic president pushes for common security in europe telling the always the summit that the stereotypes of the past have to be overcome. the last kick of the game the football world cup that is trying to impress speaker officials the day before they make their choice with russia on the favorites to host in twenty eight team. all of their pasta as the latest pending acquisition will make euro savannah go the largest energy company in russia i'll have more on that in about twenty minutes time.

around the world and around the clock 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 honor once the senate put aside political squabbles and focus on security. is 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 this is 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 being desire to undermine his presidency and really look at the trade itself and how important it is for the u.s. national security take a listen once i reminded the room that the street has been vetted for seven months now it's gone through eighteen hearings it has support from senators of both parties it has broad bipartisan support from their national security advisors and secretaries of defense and sectors of state from previous administrations both democrat and republican and that it's absolutely essential to our national security we need to get it done if you look at key questions concerns whatever senators had regarding the new start those were all the drafts the country's military unanimously testified in support for the treaty and number of

former secretary of state both republican and democrat former defense secretaries all said having starred is in u.s. national interest so there is a huge bipartisan support for the treaty among experts but not on the hill and obama has very little timing needs to change that the start treaty is not just about reducing but it's country's nuclear arsenals by a third 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 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 that the milestone of this we set that was artie's got its account reporting from washington d.c. well but god from the center for arms control and don't prefer ration says the republicans

want to prevent to 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 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 because 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 it extend in the next year when the new congress.

well the talks over the atomic treaty get peace in the bells cross-talk part of fired up in about three hours time has 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 agree with the ambassador there are people in the political establishment rush would say yeah i see you can't trust these people you see you can't ok and it feeds upon the extremes in both sides unfortunately the extreme in the us seems to be mainstream.

while the start treaty is the basis of rebooting relations between moscow and washington another reset of ties on the table this time between russia and the european security group fifty six member states of sea have gathered in kazakhstan for its first top level summit in more than a decade their russian president dmitry medvedev is pushing for a new security treaty for europe and it's ready to resolve differences over conventional arms in europe. and africa has more from mr no. president it has set out that. there's asian 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 their relations have been severely damaged during the years of bush administration and jersey russia had to pull out souls agreements on conventional arms in europe because all of 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 aim deep plans for europe and to introduce nuclear warheads otherwise another arms race will begin if you also spoke of the end of his ability or security and the ban european security treaty proposed by the russian president back in two thousand and eight has 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 here be in security

architecture let's listen to what president a president but he's one going to do what you must do with the new treaty we have proposed would be aimed at guaranteeing common security for europe i think everyone who supports it isn't unusual that it's been discussed for two and a half years maybe the stereotypes of the cost is still strong a mission issue dave is ahead of its time but it turned will inevitably go. and in fact here we see a lot of received a lot of support from the european leaders who have spoken during this the summits and they have spoken in favor of president invidious idea. but emerging threats there's no european missile defense agreement also came up in conversation between the russian the premier and us prime time talk show host larry king but in that putin said that if joint efforts on new european security failed russia will have no choice but to ensure its safety by building up forces so full of topics also came up including the latest wave of wiki leaks but putin saying it was no catastrophe because it was such

a point kept secret but he did lashed out at the assessment of president medvedev saying the comparison to batman and i was going to an ethical or putin's interview airs on c.n.n. on wednesday moving in on us is likely to be her last statesman to appear on larry king live but as a veteran interviewer soon. you're with r.t. and a few minutes we ask if the end justifies the means for us the war in force and. what goals are not just caught by officials but also the idea of national security becomes just. looks into what critics allege or entrapment practices used by the f.b.i. to tackle terrorism. now those bidding to host the football world cup are set to make their final presentations to feed her with a big announcement do you on thursday russia is hotly tipped in the twenty eight

race as it looks horns with england as well as joint it's from spain portugal the netherlands and belgium. zurich where the world cup voting will take place let's have a look at the currently in the ready for the hosting rights and today i'm joined by our t.v. presenter after a forward to give us a bit more insight about the bits how does russia fare compared with the other competitors and i think russia's bid is very strong because it is so different from its money. on the joint bid from spain. in portugal or russia has never hosted a world cup before england had it albeit back in one nine hundred sixty six and spain had it in nine hundred eighty two and feature is very conscious that it should be giving the world cup's new parts of the world on top of that faith is very interested in the development of a legacy in the country so for example if russia was awarded this world cup it would be the catalyst for huge amounts of infrastructural development so perhaps that would take a box that other nations wouldn't take there was

a lot of scandals of you all to the last minute there's the scandals of surfacing all but he's ever at the voting process yet of course favre isn't happy with what's going on but particularly i don't think it is happy at all i've come out and said this and that's because the english media whatever you think of the journalism the english media has led to the suspension of t. feed for executive committee to committee members after they were alleged to be involved in corruption a b.b.c. documentary that was aired on monday then claimed it three other committee members that were involved in bribery this is something that faith deny but whatever you think about that it's clear that the fee for exactly committee members are not happy in english but fears that that might lead to a backlash when it comes to voting all right well thank you very much for your insight add here that i have a closer look at the russian bit how they got there here is a story father my colleague alexei out of shots 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 produce stand a chance of becoming 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 stadiums the infrastructure. because the majority of the. many experts agree with. 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 dinar most 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 tac 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 sea is being fulfilled right now as we speak. we do have a lot of things to build but it's 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 footballers playing both in russia and the broad 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 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 for just as it. brings brings people together. it's a great song it's a huge film in europe even in the south africa is a great success you know and something like that is a huge thing and i'm sure the people are actually broken. 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 swear. sarah lunde 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. and of course we're across that story for you on line let's have a look at what else is just a click away r.t. dot com russian history for sale thousands of letters photos postcards and drawings of the lost exhausted family appearing under the auctioneers that. meet one girl

who don't want to mess with the teen sumo wrestler proving she's tough enough to beat the boys. for the f.b.i. it seems like an early christmas present in the 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 who was led into the plot by officers he's in a situation 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 a bomb he planted a fake and the f.b.i. allegedly went to pilate 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 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 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 barn been real. becoming yet again not a watchdog but an echoing voice of authorities long 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 arrest him 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'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 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 we'll see for good when criminals are not just caught by officials but also created the idea of national security becomes just is made up as a means of reaching. this issue going to. what american author jeffrey grove has written extensively about behind the scenes government tactics he told r.t. that he believes fake wars on terror create yes states and to terrorism. they are creating fear states that's when you have a fear state everybody loses track of their logic and i know that's a cliche but it's exactly what's going on you see you can point to examples but if the person is in that mentality of fear they don't care they just want they just want to get somebody get the enemy and there's no logic involved at all the whole point of why this can happen where the government is basically creating these criminals is very very interesting to me the government is breaking the law

basically every day they don't operate according to the constitution why does everybody stay so concerned with the constitution when the government isn't it's very troubling scenario there's a lot of totalitarian elements going on here and the whole idea of creating this war on terror creating this very profitable military industrial complex is very evident from these kinds of scenarios. the pressure wave of protests. against the government plans to raise university tuition fees reforms to deficit cutting measures police tend to contain a protest. and from students to avoid a repeat of last week's violence two previous protests tens of thousands of demonstrators accusing the police of visitors who are slow to catch was american jeff skilling a columnist and dependent newspaper says the armrest is the result of a wider problem with society. i think that the bigger problem in british education as in

a way in british society is that there have been factions that been waves of graduates going into particular sectors so for the last ten years the brightest of the best work went into banking and finance and there's never really been for very long time and the great stability in the course is that people realize that they choose it's been very much dominated by one sector or another the balance i think has been very very bad. time now for a look at some other major international headlines. interpol has put wiki leaks founder julian assange on its most wanted list it says swedish authorities want to question him over and the legit sex of friends which he denies dismisses is 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 a son from a 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 of claimed at least twenty one lives the severe weather has also forced more than five thousand dollars to flee their homes the military has been dispatched in rescue efforts to a state of emergency was declared unfit to regions unusually heavy rains which have come to me past the end of the worst season or affecting tens of thousands of people. but over to the business desk now with shit. welcome to our business program. russia's hydropower holding ross hydro has expanded its ambitions along with its investment plans it will spend at least three billion dollars on new plants while modernizing old ones boosting 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 next year we plan to invest two or 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 oki 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're interested in a wide range of cooperation from engineering to exploitation this means that we represent all change in a treaty generation and renewable energy and the asian market is the most attractive for us at this time. and stay with energy hero say about an hour ago a power utility controlled by pasta says it wants to buy the all three power

generator farm norilsk nickel but it involves paying two billion to a billion dollars for a seventy nine percent stake in the power generating company three erosive an argos 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 i was take a look at the markets european shares rose in early trading wednesday after a rebound in is in markets with banks and insurance companies among the leaders the footsie is up more than one percent lead by gains at around three percent for royal bank of scotland and lloyds banking group the german dax is up point six percent with deutsche bank up one percent the dax is also up one and a third. percents. meanwhile in russia my sex and the r.t.s. are up on the day with close to a one percent gain most blue chips are up lukoil is up one point three percent gazprom in v.t. we are up just over one percent on the my set. and russian 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 and control measures sales in the first nine months bounded to one point five billion dollars that's seventeen percent higher than the previous year and russia's gas export monopoly gas prom estimates that 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 local raise profits twenty nine percent in the first nine months it cited higher oil prices and a favorable settlement in dispute earnings came in at around six point eight billion dollars under international accounting rules credited cost controls were

generating record free cash flow. as for investment around each plant to be spent on exploration and production twenty percent will be spent on processing and marketing currently looking produces around ten percent of its oil and gas the company's going to actively develop projects primarily this relates to western africa we are actively developing the wish on a project in iraq we have large projects in kazakhstan i say by john egypt saudi arabia and latin america royal dutch shell and gas palm plan to expand their partnership and explore oil in western siberia and russia's far east along with distribution project in europe. the companies have not revealed their specific plans they still work together on russia in island after moscow for shell to cede control of the project in two thousand and seven on unfavorable terms shell has a twenty seven point five percent stake in the south island project while gas

problem has fifty percent plus one share. and the government hikes oil export duty this month by four point five percent to over three hundred three dollars for ton the duty on oil produced in each side will reach one hundred eight dollars per tonne from the current ninety eight point eight dollars per tonne. russia may postpone its first sale of ruble bonds to international investors the euro crisis has led ruble boss to tumble as investors avoid assets they consider risky russia is also suffering slow economic growth and higher inflation in russia than in other bric countries like brazil and china 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 that's around fifteen billion dollars deputy economic development minister andre cook pot says that the drop in spending will

also lead to a decrease in real investment 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 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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