coromandel you can a letter to those lists which i don't need to go. read this in the kernel was a joke as used to retreat. obama's race to ratify as the president tries to save the russian reset with a final appeal to get congress to agree on the nuclear cuts treaty. and on the other side of the atlantic president bush is for common security a new year of telling the always the summit that the stereotypes of the past have to be overcome. what we should be doing is saying to our friends we will help you come out of the euro and get back to having euro currency as a new way of anti all stare of the protests sweeps across european capitals experts say it's time to reconsider the euro zone's membership policy. because it's the last kick off of the game for the football world cup betters trying to influence three thousand souls a day before they make their choice with rocks so among the favorites to host in

twenty eight meet. them to you live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching our team with me and he said now way first up this hour 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 guards is going to you can't is following the meeting in washington. obama basically has two weeks or so to have his arguably a 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 dog. 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 or in partisan games 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 what 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 that the room to 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 it's absolutely essential to

our national security we need to get it done if you look at the 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 a 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 is the system 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 a milestone of this reset. he's going to can reporting there from washington d.c. well the talks over the atomic treaty get peter lavelle's crosstalk panel fired up in about two hours time here's 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 improved u.s. russia relationship also in russia 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 on both sides unfortunately the extreme in the u.s. seems to be mainstream i. think

you can. i. now of 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 european security group fifty six member of states of the 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 it's ready to resolve differences over conventional arms in europe parties that are doing the work of a house more. president it has said 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

the bush administration and russia had to pull out souls agreements on 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 aim deep plans for europe and to introduce nuclear warheads otherwise and another 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 always see is a perfect platform for these discussions on the new european security architecture let's listen to it present the data had to say but it was to 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 issue dave is ahead of its time but its turn will inevitably come. and is that here we see a lot it 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. well emerging threats of 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 live zoomer putin said that if joint efforts on new european security fell russia will have no choice but to ensure its safety by building up forces several other topics also came up

including 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 of the assessment of his relations with president medvedev saying the comparison to batman and robin was arrogant and on ethical interview on c.n.n. arrows wednesday evening in the west and is likely to be the last statesman to appear on larry king live as the veteran interviewer retire soon. here with our live from moscow in a few minutes for you we ask if the end justifies the means the last warm foresman . going criminals are not just caught by officials but also created the national security becomes just as media. party looks into why critics allies are entrapment practices used by the f.b.i. tackle terrorism. but first another eurozone country might need

a financial bailout soon italy which is the third largest economy that uses the euro currency has started plunging in the same direction as greece and ardent it comes as fresh protests sweeping across europe with people angry at facing tough cuts to pay for it all earlier my colleague carrie johnson spoke to european parliament member nigel fras who says countries are trapped inside the euro zone and should get out to save their economy. if spain went down remember that the debt they've got is about seven times the size of them so we'd be talking there about three hundred fifty billion euros and italy bigger still so you get to a point where there is no more bailout money where the euro in its current form would cease to exist i don't know whether that will happen in the next few weeks but it remains a real possibility ok but in fairness the european commission president said on sunday that the eurozone isn't to blame for greece and ireland problems and welling's would have been much worse without the euro is in there some truth in that there is not a single piece of evidence for those claims by barroso all that room point was so

listen when all enjoying the euro there were people like me saying there was no benefit for the country as most of their overseas trade was denominated in dollars anyway and to join the euro they would have to have artificially low interest rates and for the first seven or eight years of their membership of the euro irish rates were three to four percent lower than they would have been had the irish kept the poland. but the property boom became the most massive speculative bubble and that's why the bust is as bad as it is and now finds ourselves in the euro where euro zone interest rates are going to head up over the next couple of years at the very moment that they're trapped inside a deflationary downward spiral or i will euros have a question because i just listen to their farm and they look at the case of britain then as and the e.u. member signed up to take the benefits of european harmony isn't it right they treat

pain when times are hard you can have a cake and eat it any more let's examine what these benefits are show way i've been here for eleven years as an m.e.p. and i'm still struggling to find them because if what we're talking about is free trade is the ability of companies to buy and sell goods from our next door neighbor in countries look the swiss do that without being members but all we do that without being e.u. members so if what the united kingdom wants is free trade she can have that without being part of a club that makes three thousand new rules for us every year and cost us a membership fee of nearly fifty million pounds a day of the seven billion pounds that the british government has said it will guarantee for the irish frankly is money poured down the drain what we should be doing a sign to our friends in our land we will help you come out of the euro and get back to having your own currency otherwise frankly we're wasting this mother despite all the troubles for example a stoner is looking to join the euro by two thousand and eleven i should say why

would the zone accept new members and they'd all this struggle. because this is an empire mr rosso said i think two years ago he said that the european union was the first ever nonmilitary empire and what empires try to do is expand so they'll have it into the euro they'll try and make join the european union next year over year after they think that all the while they're expanding people will say well it must be going well and it will take their attention away from what's going on with him sadly it's too late and all the opinion polls show that in germany in greece and britain and ireland the right across the european union increasingly the publics of europe are holding the political class that have done this to them in increasing contempt. you can watch the full interview with michael frost on our website r t v dot com or log on to our you tube channel. those ratings to host football's world cup are about to make their final presentations to fifo with a big announcement due on thursday in the twenty eight hundred race russia locks

horns with england which is considered its main rival also running our joint bid from spain and portugal and the netherlands and belgium are to use alexei yourself ski 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 hopes so even though his home country is among the big. we need the world to. put the infrastructure. because. 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 didn't. hold this is where history's

greatest football goalkeeper a 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. every promise that we have. to the city is being fulfilled right now as we speak. we do have a lot of things to build but it's no secret and we have already started even. 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 food produced. 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 game brings brings people together you know it's a great tournament huge storm in europe even to the south africa is a great success you know and something like that is a huge thing and i'm sure the people are short of. 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 ski r.t.

reporting from moscow. are to test our silly where the world cup voting will take place on thursday says more on russell's chances to win and the scandals behind the . let's have a look at the currently the right age for the hosting rights and today i'm joined by r.t. presenter after a forward to have 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 simply because it is so different from its rivals its main rivals which are england and the joint bid from spain and portugal and russia has never hosted a world cup before england had it 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 to new parts of the world on top of that 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 will be a lot of scandals if you get out to the last minute there's the scandals of surfacing all but these never happen voting process yet of course isn't happy with what's going on but particularly i don't think it is happy to come out and said this because the english media has led to the suspension of two feet 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 fee for. but whatever you think about that it's clear that the fee for example committee members are not happy and fears about might lead to a backlash when it comes to voting. that's coming up to eighteen minutes past the hour of let's take a look at some world news in brief for you eight people have been arrested in barcelona suspected of collaborating with a pakistani terrorist cell that's linked to al qaida are accused of providing fake

i.d. documents that were used during the two thousand and eight massacre in mumbai which claimed almost two hundred lives if not they stole power sports which were then doctored and sent to thailand for distribution to groups linked to al qaida. plus floods and landslides caused my to rental rain in venezuela have claimed at least twenty one lives this is your 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 unusually heavy rains which have continued past the end of the wet season are affecting tens of thousands of people. for the f.b.i. it seems like an early christmas present the capture of a terror suspect who claims he was plotting to set off a bomb during a ceremony to switch on festive lights the former agents aren't so sure they say the nineteen year old small the american most let into the plot why officers are

jesus does your turkey explains. this winter season the f.b.i. celebrates the reason they 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 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 easier 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 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 isn't the case dubbed the christmas tree plot or is far from the first to bring to light the practice of entrapment in the u.s.

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

also created the idea of national security becomes just is made up as a means of reaching. this issue going to. europe to date now from the news desk on his year with the latest business stay with us. welcome to our business program i'm sure on. 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 plants while modernizing old ones will stay out 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 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 oaky 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 an atrocity generation and renewable energy and the asian market is the most attractive for us at this time. and stay with energy better go a power utility controlled by. says it wants to buy the three power generator farm norilsk nickel the big involves paying two billion dollars for a seventy nine percent stake in the power generating company three. of those 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 markets are on the rise following a strong session for most asian markets with banking and insurance rebounding from recent declines footsie is up more than one percent lead by gains of around three percent for royal bank of scotland and lloyds banking group the german dax is up over one and a half percent with deutsche bank up one percent. and in russia the my sex in the r.t.s. are both up on the day most blue chips are higher oil is up one and a half percent gains over one and three quarter percent on the my sets. russian food retailer dixy group has narrowed its nine months 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. then 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. local raise profits twenty nine percent in the first nine months cited higher oil prices and favorable settlement in the ownership dispute earnings came in at around six point eight billion dollars under the international accounting rules local credit cost controls was 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 to bring the company's going to actively develop foreign projects primarily this relates to western africa.

actively developing the west corna project in iraq we have large projects in kazakhstan by john egypt saudi arabia and latin america while dutch shell and gas promptly expand their partnership and explore oil and western siberia and russia's far east along with distribution projects in europe. the companies have not revealed their specific plans they still work together on russia's subtly in island after moscow for shell to cede control of the project in two thousand and seven and favorable terms shell has a twenty seven point five percent stake in a software in project while gas problem has fifty percent plus one share. the government hikes all as for duty this month by four point five percent to over three hundred three dollars per ton the duty on oil produced in siberia will reach one hundred eight rather dollars per ton from current ninety eight point eight dollars per ton. meanwhile russia may postpone its first sale of ruble boss to

international investors the euro crisis has led ruble bonds to tumble as investors avoid assets they consider risky russia's also suffer a slow economic growth and higher inflation and other bric countries 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 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 cushion against 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 thank you stay with us.

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