those that are there in the new start will most likely be ratified by the end of this week it seems the only thing that could be in the way of the ratification are partisan games political bargaining which have nothing to do with the treaty itself and its content speaking of bargaining at some point the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell came out and said republicans won't want any democrat initiatives if they don't extend tax cuts for the rich so you get a sense of the expand the willard bailing culture on capitol hill and the substance of the treaty whether it's good or bad for america has long stopped being the focus of discussions here in washington to the point when it could become a threat to the u.s. national security a world without buying u.s. russia arms control treaties is a more dangerous world the obama administration is going out of its way to have the deal ratified the president's arguably major foreign policy chief meant is on the line by not only does the start cut nuclear arsenals of both countries by

a third it's also seen as a symbol of trust between the two nuclear superpowers russia has cooperated with us on critical issues to our national security like iran sanctions transit to supply our troops in afghanistan working on securing loose nuclear materials and the relationships and trust that are built from the new start treaty spill over into a whole host of other national security issues that are of vital importance to america the shoe of trust and america's reputation globally was addressed by the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee every senator has an obligation to ask that question of themselves over the course of these next days are we a credible partner can other nations rely on us what happens when the present united states negotiates a treaty. and he comes back here and the rest of the world sees their truth. not in

the substance of the treaty but in the politics of the day and if the treaty does get bogged down this year chances are the new senate which is going to be more republican and obama hosts teil who put off the new start indefinitely maybe for months or even years get a check on our t. washington d.c. of republicans should move beyond election cycle mentality and approve the new treaty so says democratic strategist well we know there would be stupid for the republicans to continue to block it but then again they want to block everything in the past republicans used to work with democrats now since new game they've been wanting to kill everything publicans have learned that sound bites can win elections instead of good governing something has to change we have to get past two year old election cycles and think in terms of the good of the country something has to happen to help us to good governance but good governance in the world not

just united states includes passage of the start treaty i think perhaps by embarrassing the republicans from trust stopping them from playing politics which is dangerous it's devastating it could cause terrorism to succeed they will come around and pass this treaty. and joel rubin that deputy director of the national security network think tank says delaying the ratification of the start treaty could seriously damage washington standing. if it doesn't get passed and actually fails there could be serious consequences for american leadership on arms control and the fallout for the american reputation around the world would be significant if it doesn't pass but it is not turned down but just delayed that too will also signal that president obama is weak at home that's why advocates for the treaty are saying he needs to get past the reset has been making gains in the immediate term there certainly are going to be many benefits that the obama administration is

going to look to certainly with regards to afghanistan and iran in our near term foreign policy interest over the long run as the reset begins to take a more thought environment and i think there will be calls for deeper economic cooperation other types of global initiatives the environment is certainly an area where there could be potential and i believe that this is going to bring in a series of new discussions to the relationship rather than the older debates that seem to have dominated for the last decade or so. still to come this hour on r.t. a day to go before. excrete to head to the international space station we take you behind the scenes coming. there's something in the. timing for. just a few minutes time. the foreign minister is over russia and north korea have agreed

that the crisis on the korean peninsula can only be resolved through diplomatic means and was done with talks are being held in moscow at a time of growing tensions in the region following a recent face of exchange of autonomy for south korean on and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov expressed concern that military drills were i think to the problems he said the current situation demands both korea showed restraint and the for the escalating the crisis. both ministers agreed on the need for six party talks to be relaunched one leading east asia and told r.t. that russia has a pivotal role in helping to stabilize the region because its goal is peace not to exercise political muscle. russia is the only country that does have a stake box no specific interest. which actually is a difference between russia and the european union so russia can actually be a trustworthy and reliable mediator and neutral broker the interest that russia

does and how concerned you korea is stability whenever there is a situation emerging that might trigger a major war will inevitably not only involved both careers but also china us will have a negative effect on stability in the region and on russia and hands russia's major preoccupation is actually maintaining peace. a london court has to decide whether the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks will be granted bail during a son she's wanted in sweden on charges of sexual assault which many of the supporters say are false despite a songes arrest any his site is still publishing u.s. secret diplomatic cables parties or and it has more from london. i'm here in the city of westminster magistrates' court which on tuesday could be the scene of the final extradition hearing for chewed us sars the founder of wiki leaks he is wanted

in court in sweden on charges of sexual misconduct some of which amounts to having sex with two women without using a condom these are charges which are widely believed by a songes supporters to be trumped up originally when the case came before a prosecutor in sweden is she threw it out and then it was then picked up by another prosecutor who decided to take the case into court this is believed to be linked to wiki leaks is released of cables u.s. embassy cables which were in paris stick to the u.s. government and to other governments around the world and what's expected to happen to ourselves is that if he is finally extradited to sweden he will then be almost immediately requested to appear in court in the u.s. and in fact wiki leaks his lawyers are saying that the extradition document for him to go to the u.s. has already been prepared and is about to be released to them all it's preparation is it cool now after all just wanted to say that these charges are trumped up and they also say that it's

a case of huge double standard tina's double standard in the u.s. that they elect of the countries on their human rights situations whirls committing acts such as this supporters of today massage and what wiki leaks is doing a tour in a parallel between the recent awarding of a nobel prize to a chinese dissident and waterstones has been doing they say that that starting a spotlight on china's human rights record whereas they really have to select down don't they're going to be extradited in asuncion put him on trial for espionage let's hear what some of the organizes of protests around it are songes the rest have to say about that wiki leaks has managed to expose war criminals corruption humanitarian crimes abuses of democracy backroom dealings. and instead of those people being prosecuted for a lot of serious serious crimes against humanity and stated we're trying to persecute the person who's exposing these revelations and there's also

a lot of anger being directed at sweden this is the country this requesting judith's on his extradition it's not just supporters say that sweden is essentially kowtow into the u.s. and its wish to put on trial eventually for espionage what they are saying essentially is that this is making sweden which presents itself as a model of modernity in progressiveness look like a loving stock in the eyes of the world it remains to be seen what happens here on cheese day it's possible that you know sauce could be granted bail that's what his supporters all want but it's also possible that he could be bundled into a police van and flying to sweden to face these sexual assault charges then it's interesting to see what happens from there does the u.s. weighs a little bit before issuing a warrant for his extradition to the u.s. to face espen espionage charges or does it just jump in there straightaway send this warrant to us on his lawyers and see him in the u.s. none of this is clear yet but we will be finding out later on she's day at least about the first stage of that. coming up there today on r.t.

next kaiser and stacy herbert explore how the wiki leaks revelations are affecting the world of big money. next space found so use rocket is now ready for blastoff on wednesday it will take a crew of three russian an american and an italian to the international space station lottie's put all of the reports on the rockets road to its launch site in kazakhstan. the rocket itself arrives in baikonur in three different parts and the process of putting it together is incredibly intricate every screw every pulse has to be checked and then rechecked to make sure that it's correct those putting putting in the work on the ground to make sure that's all good and safe know that they have in their hands the safety of those going up into space preparations take a long time it can take from five days to two weeks to unload all the separate parts of the rocket and assemble them after the rocket is assembled it has to

undergo a series of tests every team looks through some part of the rocket the engine the electronics now the so used him a rocket widely regarded as the best way the most safe way and the most reliable way of getting people into space and plenty of people coming gathering here most some of them former astronauts former cosmonauts going to see the rocket being loaded into place and they still get that old of knowing what it was like of launching from a republican or it's always fun to to see a vehicle getting ready to launch whether it be a shuttle or a soyuz and if it does take you back to them the opportunity that i had which was to be able to actually step onto it and it's amazing experience now the three man crew they'll be going up in soyuz t.m.a. twenty consist of cosmonaut to me to take on the wrath of an astronauts paolo nespoli and caroline coleman for me to become their activities the commander of the mission it's his first time in space and he'll be carrying out two spacewalks while he's out there he'll be removing one of the experiments that's on the whole of the

i.s.a.'s and also attaching another two to collect information from up in space to give us more knowledge about what goes on in the cosmos peter all of baikonur. and of course you can always keep up to date with that and other stories on our website the latest news blogs and assist some of what's online right now. a swiss woman becomes a mother for the first time at the age of sixty four thanks to russian doctors plus . the russian billionaire among other move it had to wait a year to splash out on those most expensive luxury don't find out why and what's on the usual features hunted installment of his flick how this started dot com.

now there's a new car on the way in russia which could help reenergize the local motel market and this time it's new gas guzzler it's the country's first hybrid vehicle and designers hope it will make eco friendly driving more affordable sarah furthur takes a spin. rush is entering the hybrid calm ok this is one of the first hybrid cars you in the build we've been hearing today from the construction team some of the team behind the project we know that this car runs on a combined gas and electric engine and we've been hearing about some of the new technology sort of also being nice and it's an incredibly exciting project now one of the founders of the project mikhail prokhorov spake today and introduced the cars and he was saying that this is really about breaking stereotypes one of these being that russia can produce a good car. if. you

can see the three different types they go keep a hatchback and a minivan and we can take a look inside because we've heard a lot about what is such a going to the consumers as well as saving money on the car they're actually going to be reasonably cheap to buy so they'll go and sell for around ten thousand dollars and inside the car you can see there's quite a lot of space there's light materials to the used inside some of the similar things used in the space industry and although you can see most all it's going to be able to drive these on the roads of most russia for a while so there we go and sell hopefully around mid-way through twenty twelve so that's when people will be able to get in. and off the that's other stories from around the world this hour. italian pm

a suitable to skinny is a dream with all makers to support his government on the eve of a no confidence vote speaking to the italian senate he warned that the country would face a crisis were forced from office the referendum is expected to be extremely tight with just one or two votes of sunni and. comes as mr berlusconi faces promising support claims of sexual indecency in full well this is a. veteran american diplomat richard holbrooke has died at the age of sixty nine undergoing emergency heart surgery he's best known as the chief architect of the dayton peace agreement which ended the bosnian well recently he became barack obama's special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan the credits include being nominated for the ruble peace prize seven times praised by president obama as a giant of american foreign policy is often unrelenting stuff and in the nickname the bulldozer. raining president mahmoud ahmadinejad has

dismissed the country's foreign minister. from his post news came and it was mentally while there was on a state visit to senegal and a spot speculation of a power struggle country's top official. says interim replacement the move comes as iran struggles on the heavy sanctions aimed at curbing its richmond's activities. russia joining the world trade organization would help boost to europe's economies a hope and especially that of its neighbors that's the view of the president of finland an area other than the full interview is coming your way in just a reality star but here's a quick preview. you know because we have worked up to date between britain and russia so we would hope of course that that. yes it would be and i'm sure we'll be a member. it's more clear to work under this

a regulation circumstances we are the figures that everything will happen very soon . now that hair extensions and wigs have become all the rage among fashionistas in russia with the ever increasing numbers of women dreaming about long lustrous looks but with demand comes the need for supply and there's a really good this guy has been finding out that means some women are cashing in on their coffee. it's silky smooth and could be one of russia's major export commodities that's right apparently russian hair used for wigs and extensions has the highest rating in the hairdressing industry. give all the secured of indian and chinese hair is black you almost always have to dye them to work with them and they lose quality afterwards russian hair has a pull spectrum of colors. where than half of all trades this collected in russia

actually stay in the country because an increasing number of russian well to do women choose to go for extensions to satisfy their own blonde in the shins. and then there are women mikes with lana has got their hair most girls only dream about the bonus girl's going to get her and you know there have been times when guys would approach me and say you're having credible hair but i'm not very fond of that i certainly get attention but i try to hide my hair away now because the reaction is to predictable for some women selling their locks may be the best way to earn some quick cash whether out of necessity or on the whim one with a view it is to cost varies from fifty dollars to a thousand dollars but the basic prize is about three hundred to four hundred dollars for a kilogram of hair. so we asked atlanta would she chop it off for say forty thousand dollars if it does but it's no for me it's not worth it it's twenty five

years of growth care and memories is that kind of stuff that makes it priceless. and the cost of here extensions also makes long hair pricey getting hair extensions maybe wrong you anywhere from five hundred dollars to virtually an infinity but that doesn't stop girls from adding that extra volume to their looks that i feel. i started using hair extensions three years ago went to a salon walked out and realized i was around me i thought strange at first but now i forget i have. shows us our ecologies and they're good and there aren't many girls blessed with gorgeous hair but at the same time the procedure has become a lot more affordable now a person with a trained eye can easily recognize that right now nearly every other girl has hair extensions then again women often go to great lengths to improve their looks even if their shortcomings are all in their heads you don't like those carty moscow.

they have it in a few moments i will cross to korea on the business desk stay with us. mine. would be soo much brighter if you newly found some new from funds to print. on t.v. don't come.

at a welcome to business the world's biggest retailer wal-mart is leaving russia wal-mart had long tried to buy a market place here but didn't succeed the company has closed its moscow office saying that it is still interested in the russian market. and russian mobile over the m.t.s. has been voted the country's most valuable brand again but it's the first time it's managed to take the top spot for five years the value of m. to as brand new twelve percent to seven and a half billion dollars however emptiness is just forty ninth in the global ranking the most valuable brand is the world in the world this coca-cola fizzy drinks firm is worth ten times as much as that ts. question markets finished in the black on

monday on the back of stronger oil prices and energy was stranded outside to gas pump and lose hydro were all driving games spread banquo's the top blue chip up over two percent on both main vocal courses that's up to a source that russia's biggest lender said profits this year could top two hundred billion rubles more than spare bank's official forecast. and asian stocks i'd buy. on tuesday about weakness in some export and stocks is weighing on the top of the market so in canada losing around half a percent hong kong shares are rising boosted by resources produces that offset declines in some property and financial stocks and it all falls to near eighty eight dollars a barrel in asia as traders i weakly were supplying numbers. gold and balanced in asia for a second day as the man was sustained for the metal as a protective well for immediate delivery gold at a point six percent to one thousand four hundred two point thirty two and gold has

gained more than twenty eight percent this year heading for ten straight annual plans as investors lost confidence currency. now the russian currencies appreciating again there's oil prices surge to new highs peter weston from out on says tax and bonds coupons dominated roubles to be paid by the end of the year also speak in favor of the russian cuts think from now on though we should actually appreciate that we've had the depreciation for the last couple of months and that has been if you look at economic fundamentals and commodity prices against what we would have believed it should have but we've had because of a lot of those that have undermined the ruble if you want going into the year and we know that this will be an increased demand for rubles on the back of the tax payment bonus is another payments that should give some support for the ruble plus that we have all passed close to ninety now all of that i think he's speaking in favor of stronger by the end of the year and of corporate or news acts in mobile

and b.p. are in talks with the government have to drill in russia's offshore areas there among the twenty three domestic and foreign companies conducting exploration and oil extraction from the continental shelf. at the cost of this scheme is working quite effectively in this stock month project there are big global oil and gas companies like total and start or oil working there recently are all snapped insurance sign an agreement to work out the black sea shelf talks with big oil and gas companies including max and b.p. are on their way to show on that's their business update this hour jeremy about.

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blow you with r t the headlines for you now the white house is confident and you clearcuts treaty with russia will be ratified for the end of the game even if the current senate has to prolong its session in congress takes over in january because we have a legal representation that could block the deal. the wiki leaks founder julian assange is seeking bail out to court in london on tuesday the supporters fear it's refused extra time to street rape allegations that he wanted to rest which accuses espionage. russia and north korea's foreign ministers and read that six party talks to resolve tensions on the korean peninsula need to be resumed closed

meetings also stressed that the test next crisis can only be through diplomatic meetings. next we speak to the french finance minister and the moscow why with the u.s. seemingly on the brink of collapse france and germany continuing to champion the currency spotlight is coming up. wealthy british style. markets why not scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our.