publicans senators say the votes 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 won't want any democrat initiatives if they don't extend tax cuts for the rich so you get a sense so 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 vital importance to american fees schoo of trust in 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 treaty bogged

down 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 host are will put off the new start indefinitely maybe for months or even years going to check on our t. washington d.c. . the wiki leaks founder has been granted bail by a british court but with strict conditions will stay in jail until another hearing in the next two days as swedish prosecutors are repeating the bell decision so-called wants to extradite him to answer questions of a rape allegations which he denies sweden's chief prosecutor canceled a previous arrest warrant saying there was no reason to suspect that he committed the assault the wiki leaks side still operating and continues to publish confidential american diplomatic cables journalist afshin rattansi told me the most essential thing is that the website is still operating. everyone thought that he

had one of the one with his bail application but his mother left the board everyone left the goods and then it's urns out to appeal the decision the crown prosecution service here automatically has to act on the swedish authorities decision and now it seems like he's one bail but he's going to be in jail for forty eight zero is very confusing situation how ironic that we're talking about justice in the british goods when that he leaks so much about injustice around the world i think what's really important though is that the daily wiki leaks information is brought out and the next week the leaks are supposed to be about the bank of america so we'll hear a lot more about business news from wiki leaks regardless of his predictability. but the judge is really generous mood as are two reports in a few minutes. the russian girl accused of spying whilst working for a british m.p. has been released on bail i've spoken to her and i'll bring you all the details during the program. also to go beyond the scenes of the upcoming launch that will

take the next international space station crew into orbit. tonight kosovo's prime minister has been named as the head of a math feel like the in-group sponsible for smuggling human organs drugs and weapons by a council of europe inquiry the two year probe obtained by britain's guardian newspaper head to head of its release says that she has been violently controlling the heroin trade in the region over the last decade some members of his group are also accused of smuggling individuals into albania after the nine hundred ninety nine constable was served prisoners were killed or their organs harvested the revelations come unstuck she declared victory in the first parliamentary election since the sample claimed nation split from serbia will comment on this developing story tonight marco gas it is from the serbian british alliance for peace is joining us on the line from london very good evening to you what do you think is their head now after this news for their chief when this report is fully released.

i think he's face is to put it mildly a difficult time but i think the time he faces is nothing compared to time those living human beings who were kept in concentration camps and were systematically cut up and then sewn back up again after organs that we removed from them in a series of episodes till they were finally begging to be murdered rather than continually chopped up and let live in that condition i'm sure that anything that happens to him will be mild compared to what he's done it's a group at the head of the k.l.a. which took over kosovo from serbia were responsible for and it was made clear this probe is not a criminal investigation is it its findings be ignored at the end of the day now when this report comes out by bodies like for instance the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia. well the international criminal tribunal the hague tribunals as it's called according to its own chief prosecutor was afraid of

the albanian reach in other words they were scared of raising these issues too strongly and they also had no cooperation either from the course of our albanian or foreign seas under nato his watch nor from nor any cooperation from unmik why it was kind of along to because of the cost of albania all thought is were themselves so completely implicated in this systematic cold blooded murder of living human beings that they couldn't cooperate because they would be opening themselves up to exposure just the very exposure which is now happened unmik which was put there in essence to keep the cost of a part of serbia but to develop organs of self-government for it turned into a vehicle for nato to completely secession process in other words through ward the carvers up of human beings with an independent state of their own where serbia had previously been so that's why none of them could cooperate with an inquiry designs

established this truce what do you think will happen next i mean suspected war crimes committed by members of the cost of the liberation army have been largely ignored before while crimes by serb forces during the conflict in consular were deeply condemned by the western community do you think they'll be a sea change of attitude now. it depends whether whether this creditable report by the council of europe actually is seen in its proper significance because it is so significant that this group of people who before the war were peace criminals during the war may have been war criminals and after the war post war criminals were given an independent state carved out of somebody else's country so these people were given the ability to continue with their organ harvesting a living human beings who only crime was a rather serbian or supported serbia in that place this ignorance is so huge they basically they never deserved independence they got independence they should not

have independence and that's the stats how high the stakes are here and i guess that my patients this report will be hushed up as much as it is possible to be because so many nato politicians have invested so much interest into this abysmal awful criminal state this banana republic in the heart of europe which has nothing better to do than to traffic in human beings organs drugs and women ok we've just got thirty seconds what focus is going to be on mr she now than when this report comes out. well miss the fact she will be sure wriggling extremely hard the question is how much will nato want to. wriggle with them or will it want to sacrifice even pretend it didn't know you very well according to some of the serbian investigators can't bondsteel the main u.s. military base in europe was actually one of the scenes of this organ trade but that

hasn't been reported by marti however the stakes are very high for nato as well the united states and all those who supported this man and his great it's a group in all their activities and dick holbrooke who died today and who sat down with these people and sup with them well this is that these are the people he starts with ten years ago i could guess it should be a pretty seven lines for peace thank you of being on the program tonight here on r.t. . all right let's talk now about our top story the why does come to the u.s. senate is not going to adjourn for christmas until the nuclear cuts treaty that all important nuclear cuts treaty with russia is ratified i gather we've got a guest on the line of the can talk about that he's in the shape of max bergman he's joining us now in the in from washington d.c. hello mr bergman good evening to you good to see you and there are allegations that the white house is trading approval of the nuclear cuts treaty for a major tax cut steel demanded by republicans is that a price worth paying. well i'm not sure that is the deal there's been some

speculation that that is taking place i mean i think that what's happened is that the tax cut thing was something that the white house was going to have to try to resolve anyway i think they've gotten it done in time in the senate and so now there's going to be floor time available for the start treaty i think it it's speaks to the importance of president obama puts on the u.s. russia relationship that the start treaty is actually jumped the line on some other legislative priorities such as don't ask don't tell repeal which allows gays in the military as well as legislation relating to immigration law in the books and so i think you know it's going to probably be a good it's a terribly assertion because well isn't it. security if you like and it kind of looks right now that this major international security deal is literally big held hostage to domestic infighting on capitol hill yes all the other subjects were employed as well but this is particularly important to get through right now i

think definitely and the fear is that that that he was going to be held hostage but it looks like that that's not the case and that majority leader reid the democrat who can who runs the senate is pushing now for the treaty to come to the floor tomorrow senate republicans though are look like they're going to try to delay and block that treaty not they're not saying they oppose it they just want to push it into into the next year which could endanger the treaty essentially it's still uncertain whether starkey passed but it looks like it has the votes and there's momentum on that side with all the bipartisan support that has come out in favor of the tree close is it going to go to the why do you think the democrats say you know a failure to ratify this treaty is likely to endanger u.s. national security outline for us as you say why it's so critical for america. well i think this treaty is critical for united states partly because it confirms

that the u.s. russia relationship will remain on track i think the second thing is that it maintains the new core stability that we've had since the end of the cold war importantly the start treaty maintains and monitoring and verification measures that allow both the u.s. and russia to check out what each other is doing in the nuclear arena and it enables progress to continue to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in the world so i think it's a vital treaty it's one of the priorities that the administration has set forth and it's too important for us national security for russian national security of a global national school for the security of the world for republicans in the senate to hold us hostage and i think they won't i think this will be the one piece of legislation that actually gets massive bipartisan support although you know it and nothing is certain until it's certain and and there's still a ways to go but i think i think we feel confident that this is actually going to get ratified in the next you don't the big if what if. what if it doesn't get through what then. i mean i think the fallout will be

significant i think the obama administration will then have to scramble and try to me main main make sure that u.s. russian relations are still on track will also have to try to reassure the international community that it maintains a commitment to reducing the role of nuclear weapons which is critical to the nonproliferation treaty and i also think they'll be significant blowback against the republicans there's been widespread support for this treaty more than fifty newspapers from across the country have come out in support of the treaty and i think they'll be hammered politically if they block this treaty i think you know they are they're saying that they could bring it up next year but it becomes very complicated given the result of the elections that happen in november so i think the fate of the start treaty if it's not ratified in the next week and a half becomes incredibly uncertain and it could it could very much be dead so that's why the administration is pushing hard to get this ratified now and that's

why the senate bring it up right now it's time to for american progress washington d.c. thank you for your thoughts on the program. bales being granted to the young russian woman arrested in london almost two weeks ago on suspicion of spying twenty five year old catch him. facing deportation worked as an assistant to the british in my can cook the u.k. says she used to position to gather information about the country's nuclear facilities it has been speaking to. it seemed quite an unexpected decision she seemed to be shocked by the whole process very relieved obviously to be back home but she says she's really had no time to even tired around sort of think about things and think about what the implications are this is not over. yet it doesn't seem she has been released but she is and very strict bail conditions she told me that she wasn't able to meet with anybody without the express permission of the home secretary so she wants to meet with anyone give any interviews talk to anybody

she has to apply in writing through her lawyers to the home office and then with five days notice and then they will decide whether or not she is allowed to meet with them so really conditions that amounts to house arrest she's also reportedly not allowed to have any contact with her boss mike hancock the member of parliament or indeed anyone that she worked with during her time in parliament she says that she's also going to do her best to comply with the terms of her is not to anybody and she still insists this time that i spoke to her at the time before that she's done absolutely nothing wrong she says that she was just doing her job working for mike. and she also said that time that she had no evidence presented really quite difficult for her she and her lawyers are trying to appeal against something that they they really don't know what they're dealing with. perhaps not straight away because she did sound extremely tired when i spoke to her this

morning but she does look set to carry on this fight against her deportation after it was detained almost two weeks ago now so she spent two weeks in a detention center. some distance from. the original news that we received was that she was to be deported on the basis presence in the u.k. wasn't conducive to the public goods that those were the grounds for her deportation she'd been working inside the houses of parliament. and the parliamentary. distant to mike member of parliament for the an area in the south of england for two and a half years so she'd been issued with a parliamentary security checks in order to get hold of that this is a girl who is quite tall with long legs she's blonde she's russian she wears short skirts and high heels according to her colleagues and she certainly did on the occasions that. this was perfect fodder for tabloid headlines and sure enough they didn't they didn't. so it remains to be seen what's going to happen in the

development of this story. that is going to stay in this country on bail for at least a short time and then and then we'll have to see what happens. let's take a look we've got online for you tonight our brand new look web site always blogs analysis is there a chance you'd have your say of course and take a look at the behind the scenes at our station anyway accelerating into the twenty first century encourage this from already exciting story for motor industry here in russia we revealed yesterday showcasing its first ever eco friendly hybrid car set to take the streets a year or two. when i'm sixty-four the song can't go anywhere swiss woman has defied the age barrier to become a mother for the first time that's what the story's about with a little help from some russian friends warm up until tonight at r t dot com.

slovakia the most recent country to convert to the euro is having a rethink about whether it should stick with the currency parliamentary speaker richard phillips says that they do need a plan b. in case they have to switch back to their old money he added that survive here needs to shore up its financial defenses if the european debt crisis worsens later the country's premier said that was never considered dropping and denied talk about reverting to form a currency i spoke to your a precision analyst at the institute of economic and social studies he told me at the time there was no need to switch to the single currency. i don't think the euro was a third of your force for that here i don't think any catastrophic scenario would wipe away the us that we're if we didn't join during the eurozone let's look at the czech republic they are very similar country with their own currency and they are doing pretty well today in slovakia many painful structural reforms happened in the

last years we have to see if our all the banks in the year two thousand and one and it cost us almost ten percent of g.d.p. so now the. it's like people don't really understand why they should send money to irish banks when we had to foot the bill for our own banks by ourselves there is also an issue that. all the talk about the european solidarity doesn't work in slovakia we have to mention that the smaller people are the poorest one in the eurozone so the people really don't understand why they should save their rich or brothers everybody thought that the greek crisis is just exit burns on the part of private markets the irish crisis shows the eurozone has huge problems especially you're banks have huge problems right now and the eurozone tries to pretend that they can guarantee that of everybody but i don't think it's a stand will i think sooner or later some countries or some banks have to default because i don't think the taxpayer. is strong enough or the economies are strong

enough to foot the bill for the banks so i would say the falls have to start and we should buy the paper processes for these before. some of these headlines in brief it was one hundred people who believed in rome as tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators protested against so good but a scholarly success in will lower house confidence vote riot police are used tear gas to try to stop the angry crowd from clashing with authorities the prime minister narrowly survived by a margin of three votes the decision came after better skolnick had already gained the necessary support in the upper house critics say mr berlusconi supports being weakened after a series of scandals and budget cuts. fire at a clothing factory near the capital of bangladesh has killed at least twenty five and injured over one hundred witnesses say the blaze broke out on the top two floors of the building at lunchtime with most workers but out of the office soldiers from a nearby military district helped in the rescue operation an investigation into the

cause of the fire is underway. the next space by a rocket now stands poised for wednesday's blast off russia's soyuz will take a crew of three a russian an american and an italian on the twenty six mission to the international space station peter oliver reports next on the rockets journey to its launch site in kazakhstan. hereward baikonur the final preparations underway ahead of the launch of the soyuz t.m.a. twenty rockets which will carry cosmonaut to meet to be called and astronauts apollo and katherine coleman up to the international space station for the rocket has received a blessing from a priest from the russian orthodox church in line with tradition here at baikonur that's not the only tradition they have many many traditions and superstitions if you will to be carried out before the launch one of those traditions as that the astronauts and cosmonauts visit the cosmonaut museum here and by can also they get to look at what those who have gone before them days and what they brought back from space while at the museum they also sign a board with the picture of the soyuz t.m.a.

rocket on it and write a little message of a memory of what they are about to do with this mission now there's been plenty of former astronauts and cosmonauts say it's a lend support to the mission crew. for a liable matter what the weather is it doesn't matter what you know it's just a very robust strong system that can withstand just about anything nature can throw at it and you know it's been flying since the sixty's and it was a rare exception or service 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 to 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 heaters are in the meat tray. because it's all the same so that's how it's looking here at the moment in baikonur the cosmonauts and 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 that. desperately trying to make sure that that doesn't happen they're all talked up nice and warm and that's how it looks here at the baikonur cosmodrome peach all over r.t. by. bracing i think peter's the word bracing america's federal reserve says economic recovery has been disappointingly slow down the bush will see with the business more on that next. business precious metals of gain for a second day as investors bet against the tumbling greenback the federal reserve wants to boost economic growth by increasing the amount of money available to banks but investors fear the injection of billions of extra dollars into the market will bring inflation gold's gold back over fourteen hundred dollars an ounce the price

this year has now jumped by nearly a third and is heading for its tenth straight year of growth the price of silver has also started to rise in the past few hours. wall street has settled off the fed's decision in the last few moments to keep records pending in place the shares in retailer best buy have collapsed over fifteen percent after it lowered its help look for the next year europe ended mixed as investors cashed yesterday's mining gains miners and lawmen were top losers in london down over three percent each but the dax almost recovered its losses by close of play today russian markets have ended a second day in the black the my six had a late surge to go back over sixteen hundred points on tuesday although analysts predict a topsy turvy week for the index gazprom swung into the black after early losses to close a percent higher investors were encouraged by the meeting between company head alexei miller and that should lift toys with the current key transit state to europe just rosneft and luke or both well as the price of light sweet hold on the eighty nine

dollars a barrel. russia's biggest miner meanwhile the us nickel has sold its entire stake in u.s. metals company stillwater nicol sold thirty seven million stillwater shares to the public at nineteen dollars fifty each and the remaining nine million to u.b.s. securities the russian mining joint had said it was selling its shares to focus on core operations. was biggest retailer wal-mart is leaving russia wal-mart has long been trying to buy its way into the market but says it's failed to find enough attractive targets the company has closed its moscow office saying there was no reason to remain despite its continued interest in russia wal-mart is the second big international retailer to leave this country this year of the front of these colorful fail to make its business profitable and more this may be bad for russian shoppers expert thinks is probably good news for domestic retailers. as simple as the for the russian retail companies since it basically eliminates but then sure

but still a very large competitor all the concerns about large buter. exiting the market ungrounded in in my youth because none of the russian retailers because the public wants. right now at least the prices that wal-mart is offering. that's the business you can always find most there is a website that's all to dot com slash business.

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a retreat. this is all table cussing live from moscow twenty four seven with the latest news not. substories tonight no christmas break for the u.s. senate until the nuclear cuts treaty is ratified as democrats wrestle to harness republican support for one of president obama's most crucial foreign policy court. kosovo's prime ministers accused of being behind organ trafficking weapons and drug smuggling as a legal council of europe investigation says he's been running a mafia group for over a decade. the russian woman accused of spying while working for a british m.p. is released on bail she gives her side of the story to us. coming up next my colleagues from stacey herbert explore how the wiki leaks revelations are affecting the world the big money the cars report next.

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