are there and 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 would want any democrat initiatives if they don't extend tax cuts for the rich so you get a sense open the expand the will or 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 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 a vital importance to america these 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 that 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 will put off the new start indefinitely maybe for months or even years to get a check on our t. washington d.c. well republicans should move beyond the election cycle mentality and approve the new treaty so says democratic strategist well we know it 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 a new game they've been wanting to kill everything break 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. meanwhile joel rubin deputy director of the national security network think tank says do they know the ratification of the stocks 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 these to get passed now 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 foreign policy interests over the long run as the

reset begins to take a more thought environment 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 series of new discussions to the relationship rather than the older debates that seem to have dominated for the last decade or so. well still to come this hour an hour to a day to go before blastoff next crew to head to the international space station we take you behind the scenes of the upcoming rocket launch. the foreign ministers or russia or north korea have agreed that the crisis on the korean peninsula can only be resolved through diplomatic means closed door talks are being held in moscow at a time of growing tensions in the region following a recent fatal exchange of a twenty five south korean island. of expressed concern at the south's recent

live fire military drills have been aggravated the hostility said the current situation demands both korea show restraint and avoid escalating a crisis the ministers also agreed on the need for six party talks to be relaunched one leaving east asia analyst told r.t. that russia has a pivotal role in helping to stabilize the region because its goal is peace not political muscle flexing 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 have a concern in korea is stability whenever there is a situation emerging marks a major war that will inevitably not only involved both careers but also china us

will have a negative impact on us the ability in the region and on russia and hands russia's major preoccupation is actually maintaining peace. now a london court has to decide whether the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks will be granted bail during the songs he's wanted and sweden on charges of sexual assault which many of his supporters say off force the spider song is arrest in the u.k. his site is to publishing u.s. secret diplomatic cables. it has more from and. i'm here in the city of westminster magistrates' court which own choose day could be the scene of the final extradition hearing today that saunders the founder of wiki leaks he is wanted in court in sweden on charges of sexual misconduct some of which amount to having sex with two women without using a condom these are charges which are widely believed by a son just supporters to be trumped up originally when the case came before a prosecutor in sweden 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 take to be u.s. government and to other governments around the world and what's expected to happen to our stores 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 is noise is 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 or it's preparation is it cool now our soldiers which is to say that these charges are trumped up and they also say that it's a case of huge double standards he was double standards in the u.s. that they lecture other countries on their human rights situations world's committing acts such as this supporters of today massage and what wiki leaks is doing a drawing a parallel between the recent awarding of a nobel prize to

a chinese dissident and waterstones has been doing they say that that's joining a spotlight on china's human rights record whereas they really haven't. what's it like to stand on if they're going to extradite you deny sergeant put him on trial for espionage let's hear what some of the organizes of protests around 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 what a serious serious crimes against humanity and state we're trying to persecute the person who's exposing these revelations and i think that's a really sad indictment of the kind society we live and i think they're trying to shoot the messenger there's also a lot of anger being directed at sweden this is the country this request to do in a soldier's 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 and progressiveness look like a loving stock in the eyes of the world it remains to be seen what happens here on tuesday it's possible that you know a source 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. reporting there and coming up later this hour on our team. that explore how the nations are affecting the world of money.

veteran diplomat richard holbrooke has died at the age of sixty nine after undergoing emergency heart surgery and named the bulldozer. pushing the u.s. agenda in the balkans during the bosnian war more recently he became barack obama's special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan and to talk more about his role in afghanistan we're joined by ots michu contributor kind of getting who shall thank you for joining us here in the studio richard holbrooke's role in the so-called winning of hearts and minds in afghanistan he was you know as general betray is famous for being the father of a surge in iraq and later in afghanistan richard holbrooke used more famous as the father of purge purging out all the diplomatic intelligence and law enforcement community in the united states against those who were supporting actively american the only positive side of the american foreign policy

a robust counter-narcotics policy from his predecessor george bush from the previous administration so he wiped out the whole generation of american politicians and generals and diplomats and ambassadors who was actively who were taking the active active stance to be the focus on education in afghanistan and after richard holbrooke came in he started he made it he made single health handedly he made a complete overhaul of u.s. policy from counter-narcotics to. effectively promoting the u.s. pows is that drug store policy in afghanistan lading lose all these things and drug lords and that's the reason that's resulted in in effect in. the criminal drug trafficking in afghanistan so what was russia's view of those policies well russia policy is effect is a continuation of the u. s.

proactive counter-narcotics policy that was pioneered in of dennis pioneered in afghanistan even before the previous u.s. ambassador in. in afghanistan really and will would who was pushed out from his position by richard holbrooke in effect the russian stance is a logical continuation and extension of the president bush policy of zero tolerance towards drugs whether in afghanistan or anywhere else so that's why in effect the russian policy is just the same a continuation and expansion of the only option to deal with the afghan drug trafficking trafficking and even funding which is a hole that is committed on your blog haven't you friendly fire you've been quite a. busy for us about it haven't you yeah and i have to come clean that i believe that not only for me but. even i may say so on behalf of the russian military

intelligence and law enforcement community here was he persona fight the betrayal of the historical us counter-narcotics approach in afghanistan just for the benefit of the leap service of preventing the so-called friendly farmers from going to tell about completely losing the picture that there is no delineation or any any ally any distinction between the narco farmer the bomb maker and the and the local peace and all of them insurgents bomb makers and narco farmers all of them of the same names the same faces in the same family and especially in marjah area where the main u.s. offensive started this year in february so how likely is it now that these policies will change will hopefully somebody will take that it's a said event i express my apologies personally it's

a big loss to richard holbrooke family but at least. now the united states the drug enforcement administration. the state department have by default a unique opportunity to reset and jump start the russian american cooperation specific. on that counternarcotics with the main focus on education because no other alternative and the reason no other persons no other personalities. in the state in the us in the white house who are opposing. richard holbrooke to be but i don't have any who should thank you very much indeed . now the next space. is now ready for blastoff from wednesday it will take a crew of three russian and american talian to the international space station. one

of the reports are true to its own science in kazakhstan. here by going all the final preparations are being made ahead of the launch of the soyuz t.m.a. twenty rocket which will carry the meat to an. end katherine coleman up to the international space station now later on today the rocket will be blessed by a priest of the russian orthodox church and tradition here a bike you know that's always carried out and plenty of other traditions here as well before the astronauts and cosmonauts of being to visit because not museum bike you know if you dish and it's always carried out they go and have a look at what those who go before them brought back from space based signed a board as well inside them is the right message they make their own history all of this. now there's been plenty of astronauts and cosmonauts and it's a lend support to the mission crew that are heading up later on this week. and then matter what the weather is it doesn't matter what you know it's just

a very robust and strong system that can withstand just about anything nature can throw at it and you know it's been flying since the sixty's was a rare exception. every time and some of those who have been up there before say it's those little things that can make life hard when you're up in space i think probably the biggest challenge for me you know i think it sounds kind of trivial but it was the lack of variety of the food after you know you know one month it's ok two months it's ok and then you know three months you know exactly how many brownies are in the desert have been you know exactly how many fake eaters are in the meat tray and because it's all the same so that's how it's looking here at the moment in baikonur the coast minolta astronauts are currently tucked away so they can catch any sniffles all colds or coughs it's very cold here in baikonur of course they if they do get sick they can be pulled from the mission and the whole team of. coleman would be removed from the mission and replaced with the crew so

they're desperately trying to make sure that that doesn't happen they're all talked up nice and warm and that's how it looks at the baikonur cosmodrome peter all of a bike and. yes for the forward to the launch that well you can always keep up to date with that turned other stories on our website the latest news blogs on the net asis here's just some of what's on the line right now tom. a swiss woman becomes a mother for the first time the age of sixty four thanks to russian doctors plus. a russian billionaire rim on a move it had to wait a year to splash out on the world's most expensive luxury yacht find out why and what's unusual features in store for his creative artist one of the t. dot com.

there is a new car on the way in russia which could help reenergize the motor 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 was affordable center for that takes a sprint. rush is entering the hybrid calm ok this is one of the first hybrid cars see you in the built in 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 spoke 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 getting 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 that there's quite a lot of space there's light material so they used inside some of the similar things used in the space industry and also you can see was on it's going to be able to drive these on the roads of moscow russia for a while so that they'll be going on self-hate so they are around mid-way through twenty twelve so that's when people will be able to get in. now for a brief look at some other stories from around the world the. italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is urging norm makers to support his government on the eve of

a no confidence vote speaking to be italian senate country would face a crisis if you were forced from office the referendum is expected to be extremely tight with just one or two votes capable of winning the result comes as mr berlusconi faces a meeting support with claims of sexual indecency and since. the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad has dismissed the country's foreign minister manouchehr mottaki from his post news came unexpectedly the minister was on state visit to senegal and a spot of speculation of a power struggle country's top nuclear fission. has been nominated as interim replacement the move comes as a run struggle result of the heavy sanctions. richmond's activities. russia joining the world trade organization would help to boost europe's economy as a whole and especially that of its neighbors that's the view of the president of finland tarja halonen from coming your way in just over an hour but here's

a quick preview. because we had worked if they. didn't rush us so we would hope of course that yes it would be and i'm sure we will be. clear to work under this state regulation circumstances we are keeping their fingers there anything will happen very soon. if you moments we'll have all the business news with kareena go away. welcome to business use the world's biggest retailer wal-mart is leaving russia

wal-mart had long tried to buy a marketplace in russia but didn't succeed the company has closed its moscow office saying that it's still interested in the russian market wal-mart has become the second big international retailer leaving the country earlier careful failed to make its business profitable here and still looking for a buy at for its two malls in moscow and across the top. and russian mobile operator has 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 them says brands grew twelve percent to seven and a half billion dollars however m.g.'s is just forty ninth in the global rankings the most valuable brand in the world coca-cola physique drinks firm is worth ten times as much as that. now the russian currency is appreciating again as oil prices continue to rally peter weston from athens says tax and bonds coupons paid in ruble that are due to at the end of the year are also lifting the russian

cuts. i think from now on though it should actually appreciate that we've had the depreciation for the last couple of months and that has been if you look at the economic fundamentals of commodity prices against what we would have believed it should have but we've had because of the loss 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 tax payment bonuses 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. russia markets are mixed in morning trading the market is trading in the red weighed by energy stocks while basic materials banks and telecommunications trading . let's look at what companies are doing well north nickel is among a few gain is on the r.t.s. point two percent energy giants who call was never an gazprom are losing between a quarter and half a percent spread back and b.c.b.

are two percent mines. stocks and bonds on tuesday but weakness in some exporters stocks is weighing on the tokyo market hong kong shares are also said by resource producers but offset declines in some property and. crude oil forced to near eighty eight dollars a barrel in asia as traders i will tell you the supply numbers. gold is advancing in asia for a second day as investors bought the metal as a hedge against currency fluctuations an ounce of gold rose point seven percent to one thousand four hundred four dollars an ounce gold has gained more than twenty eight percent this year heading for ten straight. that's all for now you can always find most stories on our website. so.

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i know that you know without the main stories we're covering this hour. the white house is confident the new clearcuts treaty with russia will be ratified before the end of the. current senate was to prolong its session and congress takes over in january the republicans will have a bigger representation and could block the deal. between hillary expounded to the song she's seeking bailouts a court hearing in london on tuesday supporters feel it's refused to be extradited to sweden and from great publications can be hard to david to the u.s. which accuses. pressure north korea's foreign ministers agree that six party talks to result tensions on the incident need to be resumed and claims that meeting also stressed that the escalating crisis couldn't be handled diplomatically. coming up max keiser and stacy herbert explore how the wiki leaks

revelations are affecting the world of big money because the report is next. for this is the kaiser report you know we got those fools on the run not only are we didn't the bankers with their shell but we got folks like we're. the leeks going after him taking it from the cyber direction they got him in the crosshairs it got the pincer movement good drama jumbo blued talk just days you heard all those daisy max kaiser well you know what it might be time to short j.p. morgan this is a critic to market shorter dot com j.p. morgan besieged on several fronts silver wiki leaks lawsuits for closure gate.