it 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 say and so 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 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 america the issue of trust and america's reputation globally was addressed by the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee every senator has an obligation that asked 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 a 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 hosts style will put off the new start indefinitely maybe for months or even years to get a check on our t. washington d.c. . nuclear nonproliferation when he explained why the treaty significant as he sees it definitely will be approved it confirms that the us russian relationship will remain on track i think the second thing is that it maintains the nuclear stability that we've had some see in 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 scale for the security of the world for republicans in the senate to hold this 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 nothing is certain until it's certain and and there's still a ways to go but i think i think i will feel confident that this is actually going to get ratified in the next few days. kosovo's prime minister has been named as the head of a mafia like albanian group responsible for smuggling human organs drugs and weapons by a council of europe inquiry the two year probe by britain's guardian newspaper ahead of its release says that hashem the third she's been violently controlling the heroin trade in the region over the last decade or so members of his group are also accused of smuggling individuals into albania after the nine hundred ninety nine possible war prisoners were killed in an organised harvesting revelations covers that she declared victory in the first parliamentary election since the the claymation split from serbia said from the footage said when alliance for peace

told me the price he may pay is nothing compared to the brutal crimes and committee . he's faces to put it mildly a difficult time but i think the time he faces is nothing compared the time that those living human beings who were kept in concentration camps and were systematically cut up and then sewn back up again after organs had been 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 has drawn it's a group of the head of the k.l.a. which took over kosovo from serbia were responsible for and i guess that my expectation of this report will be patched 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 that's possible for you. later on tonight here on r.t. . a russian girl accused of spying whilst working for a british m.p. has been released on bail i have spoken to her and i'll bring you all the details chairing the program. that we go behind the scenes of the upcoming launch that will take the next international space station crew into orbit. the wiki leaks founder has been granted bail by a british court but with strict conditions julian assange he will stay in jail until another hearing in the next two days as prosecutors are repeating the bail decision. to extradite assange to answer questions of a sexual assault charges which he denies sweden's chief prosecutor canceled a previous arrest warrant saying there was no reason to suspect that he committed an assault and wiki leaks site is still operating continues to publish confidential

american diplomatic a good discussion with some see says the most essential thing is that the web site is still operating everyone thought that one of the one least bail application but his mother left for dead or left the goods and then it's earns out that they've appealed the decision to grant 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 courts when that he leaked so much about injustice around the world i think what's really important now 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 judean such as predictable as a. company sharon ward from justice for sarge says swedish actions are suspicious and that the u.s. is trying to get its hands on the wiki leaks founder. we think these are very very

serious charges we think the allegations are very weak we noticed that the chief swedish prosecutor looked at these original charges and looked at the evidence and said there is no case to answer here for and immediately dropped the case so why is it now all of a sudden since the cables have been released and the government is getting more and more fires the u.s. state department other governments around the world are getting more and more embarrassed and these cables are getting more and more revelator e. why now is the swedish politician decided to take up the case of these accused of the accusers and how to push this through we just think this is a backdoor extradition to the u.s. it's just a serious charge. and the case for the british justice system bails been granted to the young russian woman arrested in london almost two weeks ago on suspicion of spying twenty five year old kathy has had to live better who's now facing deportation worked as an assistant to the british m.p. mike hancock the u.k. says she used her position to gather information about the country's nuclear facilities at his door emmert spoke to. it seemed quite an unexpected decision she

seemed to be shocked by the whole process very relieved obviously to be back at home but she says she's really had no time to even turn around sort of think about things and think about what the implications are this is not. yet it doesn't seem she has been released but she is 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 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. carry on this fight against her deportation. or was detained almost two weeks ago now so she spent two weeks in a detention center some distance from london and the original news that we received was that she was to be deported on the basis that presence in the u.k. wasn't conducive to the public good with the grounds of her deportation she'd been working inside the houses of parliament. and as

a parliamentary assistant to. mike hancock he's a member of parliament for an area in the south of england for two and a half years so she's been issued with a parliamentary posse to undergo the security checks in order to get hold of that this is a girl who is quite tall with long legs she's blown she's russian she wear short skirts and high heels according to her colleagues and she certainly did on the occasions that i've met her and so this is perfect fodder for four tabloid headlines and sure enough they didn't they didn't know the chance like that so it remains to be seen what's going to happen in the development of this story. is that alleviated 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 it was following up story online as well tonight one of your say about it r.t. dot com abroad of web site also their salary in the twenty first century russia's vote to industry showcasing its first eco friendly hybrid looks quite nice to be on the road in twenty. four of which would be

a parish of sixty four become a model for the first time with a little help from some russian friends r t dot com. russia will buy at least one mistral helicopter courier from france the countries are currently agreeing the process which will be the largest military deal between russia and the nato country to go to prison off got the details of this long ago seated transaction. at this point it really does seem very this deal is going to be sealed at least thus according to russian officials moscow looks set to bind the mistral produced by france this is a huge. helicopter carrier ship it's also capable to transport dozens of tanks and other transport vehicles the negotiations on this deal have been continuing for

around a year and first washington has concerns on a nato member state selling. to russia you know with the restart of relations between moscow and washington the situation seems to have changed previously the french prime minister who's visited moscow just recently he said that there are no you know obstacles remaining in this deal and it's incompletion moscow wants to buy at least one mistrial and may also get the license to produce more oil it's a tory you know it's all thought just one mistral costs around eight hundred million euros dollars although the final price for this deal still hasn't been decided but russian officials say they expect the final details of the documents will be finalized on this deal before the end of this year. sort of arc here the most recent country to convert to the euros having a rethink about whether it should stick with the currency parliamentary speaker

richard simmons says they do need a plan baby in case they have to switch back to their old money he added that slovakia needs to shore up its financial defenses if the european debt crisis worsens later the country's premier said the problems now they have never considered dropping when demand to reform a currency i spoke to a euro preseason 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 failure for slovakia i don't think any scenario would. work if we didn't join during the. 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 had to save our all the banks in the year two thousand and one and it cost us almost ten percent of g.d.p. so now this 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 slow people are the poorest one in the eurozone so all the people really don't understand why they should three if they are rich brothers top level american officials were expressing their grief over the death of veteran diplomat richard holbrooke the day the bulldozer holbrooke died age sixty nine after undergoing heart surgery is best known for pushing the u.s. agenda in the balkans during the bosnian war the dayton agreement claimed by america for ending the conflict is one of his best known achievements but political writer donna johnston says the accord was orchestrated by holbrooke using questionable tactics. the reality is that the united states helped start the boston war in one nine hundred ninety two by encouraging is a beg of it's the bus and muslim leader to pull out of an agreement that was made between the three ethnic parties that would have prevented the war and then in

order to finally stop it holbrooke had to turn to slobodan milosevic who desperately wanted to make peace in order to get sanctions lifted from serbia so in fact the united city used most of it to make peace and hopeless on account of that makes it quite clear that it was mostly rich who saved the peace accords by making great compromises at the cost of busses service most of it didn't get any credit for that but in fact was in kosovo and holbrooke went and sat down in the tent of the albanian separatist just so he combined dishonesty with the next door nary a degree of ingratitude and when milosevic died in prison how burke made a comment calling him a monster so i feel that although one usually with specs the dead right after they

die hard work and self set an example of insulting the person that he owed his success to write his death. so world news headlines in brief one hundred people have been injured in a row tens of thousands of demonstrators protested against prime minister silvio berlusconi winning a parliamentary vote it's riot police said he used tear gas to try to stop the angry crowd from classic trashing of authorities but a scolding narrowly survived by a margin of three votes in the lower house after securing the necessary backing from the upper chamber critics say the prime minister's support been weakened after a series of scandals and budget cuts. a fire at a clothing factory near the capital of bangladesh has killed at least twenty five people and injured over one hundred witnesses say the blaze broke out on the top two floors of the building at lunchtime when most workers were 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 bound rocket stands

poised for wednesday's blast off russian soyuz will take a crew of three this time around a russian an american and an italian on what is the twenty sixth mission to the international space station artie's paid all of the reports next to 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 me. and astronauts. and katherine coleman up to the international space station for the rocket has received a blessing from a priest of the russian orthodox church in line with tradition here at baikonur that's not the only tradition they have here many many traditions and superstitions if you will to be carried out before the launch one of those traditions as that the astral to cosmo visits because not museum here would buy could also they get to look at what those who have gone before them they brought back from space. you see and they also sign a foolish with the picture of the soyuz t.m.a.

on it i'm a writer little message of a memory of what they were about to do with this mission now there's been plenty of former astronauts and cosmonauts say it's a lend their support to the mission cruise ship or a liable to 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 we've seen you know it's been slices 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 was the lack of variety of the food after you know you know one month it's ok two months is 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. 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 there 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 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. we're keeping our fingers crossed for them we'll let you know how they get on now and next tonight fast trains trade energy were talking about russia's ties with its northern neighbor finland our interview with the president. coming up part of this quick break. it was.

thanks. thanks thanks. thanks. thanks. president hello and thank you very much for being with that today so you've just stepped off a high speed train leaving between helsinki and st petersburg how do you think this connection will change the alliance between the two you see it it's i really impact these people we have come close of the sather of course the many so good now. the

country woods is the most popular among the e.u. countries to give the recess but don't think that that's just one point but now the point is that it has to be a very popular already now to be said for that matter that's of the feeling but now we think also that perhaps would be certain you will. i will always see the sense from a feeling that we are fired because mr peters book and or the fide culture of russia what russia's w.t.r. membership should accelerate business with the neighbors what you think are some of the benefits for the finnish economy so you know because we have a work of trade between couldn't remember russia so we would hope of course that that. yes it would be and i'm sure we will be a member. because then certain issues will go away from our table and so it's it's more clear to work under the same big us and circumstances we are

keeping the feeding us that everything will happen very soon you've emphasized and by mental conversation and energy efficiency as the key platform for cooperation between russia and finland why i think so that given the other countries huge energy sources it's no idea do. you use them without any control because. if you think the whole planet the whole planet we we have really we need to be sources in and see so we sort of think well you know for the next generations then and try to be as effective as possible the second thing is of course that the price of danger might be higher will be certainly higher in the future so it's better already now to have to be effective we have to see also the resources and i notice that. all around the world also those countries which. classical resources in india have been interested to work with us

to make new ideas how to get to a nearby energy sun and wind sea and whatever you might mention and that's also something what we know well so-called clean tech or the new energy green technology and we're interested to share our. experience but finland and russia have well developed strategists in the arctic and present inventive has a strong platform for cooperation with norway now in your vision what what is your country's sustainable strategy in the arctic it's extremely important because also the nature and nature in the really north east are very fragile it's very sensitive i think that there are three different aspects who are nice for us not so or arctic i mean they're both exceed a region which will be of course covered with ice or snow in the future we hope but then they're very north very north where you have already good cooperation with no

great hero present days of wish to revive the spirit of helsinki and you have mentioned images proposed to european security what do you think are the strong points of this particular tree the stern point is that europe used to be a very long time divided divided politically it was the cold war time. now we all know that that was not could we would like to see the united europe recently made a video. to see the common european security is well come the european union countries have already discussed. the bosis and now. this see even meeting in the past also told us that it's not only the european corporations but also the simply cacs very seriously there are. these ideas now in the beginning of the into you have mentioned finland being popular with issuing visas and yes it does issue over one million visitors to russians

every year and plus this high speed train link connecting our two baltic cities could finland be the first country to offer a visit free regime to russian citizens under certain circumstances so i think that the aggressor is ready were already involved in the european union piece of poetry is so that the call me so. and then then unanimous this is the. basic when has now become. very pragmatic that. what's not needed in order to take that away would make of me stephanie so it would take me. back to get me yes that's that we don't say anymore if we say what it's said to be stephanie that. why we still use the i hope that it should be so so perfect methinks open i think out and no not at all two months waiting while queuing there so that we hope to serve us quite as well as president helen with

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a hotel retreat. the top stories no christmas break for the u.s. senate until the new. democrats wrestled to harness republican support for one of president obama's was crucial for. kosovo's prime ministers accused of being behind organ trafficking and drug smuggling as a council of europe investigation says he's been running a mafia group for over a decade. and the wiki leaks founder get bail and britain is his supporters insist the charges against him are a cover for the u.s. to get their hands on the whistleblower. coming up next kaiser and stacy herbert explore how the wiki leaks revelations are affecting the world of big money the kaiser report next on this.

my stars are this is the kaiser report you know we got those fools on the run not only are we sure did the bankers with their show but we got folks like wiki leaks going after all taken in from the cyber direction they got in the crosshairs it got the pincer movement. glued talk just days ago but 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 so they're chronicling foreclosure gate and you know all these bad debts that they own and wiki leaks then they say quote to make matters worse the company isn't battled in several legal suits and other allegations of fraud including market manipulation of silver cars.