been hoping for getting through by the current. hoping for maybe getting through the senate tell us more about this. it looks like they are going to get it u.s. senators have voted to end the debate earlier today and we're finally moving to the on to the final vote which which is expected early tomorrow on wednesday and democrats are pretty sure they have the sixty seven votes needed to get this treaty ratified they need at least sixty seven out of one hundred so much is at stake advocates of the treaty are saying that. this is going to be a nod not so much for president obama's victory of a victory for the whole world dads on the one hand on the one hand it will have considerably fewer weapons of mass destruction and on the other hand it will have the two nuclear superpowers former adversaries actually trusting each other and looking to to work together to provide their security and this is what the treaty

is about but there has been so much opposition a number of republican senators went out of their way to undermine which is what is interesting without having substantial arguments against the treaty and as many capitol hill observers are saying it was the day nearly bogged down in the senate just for the sake of denying the obama he's arguably major foreign policy achievement you know their actions provoked an avalanche of criticism from security experts who feared that the treaty could become victim of political games on capitol hill in the final days of the debates start a new start they wanted to rewrite the language of the treaty which would would have actually killed the treaty they wanted to take out the line from the preamble of the deal which. the fact of the connection between offensive and defensive weapons and any security expert would say that the connection is obvious and in fact all. of those from the military who testified before the senate were saying

exactly that he also maintains that it's not the start treaty that would make the united states weaker or on able to defend itself the treaty itself explicitly says either side can pull out of it if they deem it threatens their national security for russia's new start treaty is all about balance and equality and they made it clear that they will be in it as long as the united states respects that balance there is nothing groundbreaking about the provisions of the treaty and as the chairman of the foreign relations committee in the senate john kerry is that it is a common set of agreement but it's it took so much it is taking so much effort to pass this common sense through the senate despite all this support for it and take a step back and tell us what this treaty is all about and why is it so significant . for one more time tell us one more time what's this treaty all about and why is it so

significant. well if you look at the cuts here in the treaty we have some very significant reductions on the way over the next ten years both states will cut their nuclear arsenal spy a third down to some fifteen hundred fifty warheads the treaty will also limit the number of. the livery of vehicles as well as the number of launchers but even with those cuts both countries will still hold more than ninety percent of the walls nuclear weapons so many actually. understand that the value of the arms reduction treaty is not just in production it is in the trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers that goes with it and for weeks and months the president of the united states all members of physic ministration all of the military all living former secretary of state and of the fans they were all calling for senators not to ruin this reset. community for u.s.

russia relations president obama's been tyrus leaked stressing that other doors for cooperation between the two countries could be closed without this one. can stand there is brand there are plans for cooperation on missile defense in europe and he's been very vocal about the fact that building trust with russia bring seeing united states only benefits and the new start treaty is a very important part of that trust all right art he's got a cheeky on top of the story for us in washington thanks for that before. billion dollar deal military agreements and high tech link ups there are the results of dimitri medvedev high profile visit to india the russian president also sealed a number of agreements on nuclear power and to satisfy a growing energy demands in the world's second most populous nation or he's charan singh has been following the meetings between the two countries' leaders. they've been strategic partners for over a very warm relations for several decades from the soviet times

and what's what's giving more impetus now to the bilateral ties is the growing economies of both countries both russia and india bric countries and economies are growing at a fast clip and one of the key areas that we've seen agreement signed today over a dozen agreements signed today one of the key areas was energy oil and gas and also nuclear power india has a huge demand for energy it's growing at almost nine percent annum and just two point five percent of its energy mix comes from nuclear energy it wants to increase just ten percent and sixty three thousand megawatts of nuclear energy is what it wants to add in the next twenty years and russia is going to be a leading player in this russia is set to provide world class technology in. civil nuclear energy it will also build nuclear power stations for india it's currently building two in southern india and the agreement signed today will set out the

roadmap for building two additional nuclear stations or nuclear power stations in southern india and both leaders are quite clear that any. important in their relationship. russia is positive about energy cooperation in the future i told the prime minister today that india is a convenient partner in the energy field it applies not only to nuclear energy where we've achieved a lot in the past few years but also in the extraction of hydrocarbons. i. suspect it reflects the. defense ties between both countries is also very strong or. india's largest weapons supply and most of india's weapons hardwicke comes from russia and of course before that from

the soviet union the agreement signed today massages the joint development of the fifth generation fighting this is this is the only one outside the united states which is in the air both sides will be equal partners and in this this the development costs will be out on eight to ten billion dollars both sides will put in the money russia will develop the fight the and the propulsion systems india will develop the avionics and the navigation software and the road map will be around two hundred fifty fighter aircraft of this model will be built for the russian air force an unknown two hundred for the indian air force and the total contract will be worth a billion dollars it will be the backbone of forces for decades to come so really we're seeing this we forward. merely just buying off the shelf joint development of weaponry we've seen that with the bromo supersonic messiah and now with peace with this particular fighter aircraft. russia's prime minister vladimir putin has met

with the leaders from the country's main football supporter clubs in the wake of the recent street violence in moscow and st petersburg as follows a number of violent nationalist demonstrations after a spartak fan was killed earlier this month or he's a carried a grouch over brings us the details. prime minister putin described the killing of football fan you go to city the first a tragedy targeting the entire community of russia's food bowl fans he set we should treat these as an attack against all of you regardless where you leave your way and you are a nationality he said during his meeting with the representatives of football clubs in most cases he said he understood it well that emotions sometimes iran high as people supporting different football clubs try to settle scores up to matches about what happened in moscow last week was unacceptable he said and to the great peace he immunity against xenophobia and extremism which had existed in russia saying tourists is beginning to weaken off he promised that those responsible for the

killing of the sparta football fan will and behind bars and steal the cold of football fans to stay independent and to shrug off extremism justice as police would the current situation with russian fans is not that different to problems in other countries and europe in particular both here and there are various destructive elements tried to make their way into supporter clubs would you need to bring the clubs under their control and i'm talking about radicals and they don't do it for the sport if they don't do it to support fan clubs they do it for their own selfish political reasons as to they want to destabilize the country so that afterwards they can scream that they are the only ones that can see russia it would be a tragedy if we let that happen going on monday the investigative committee opened a criminal case against several officials who released three of the suspects linked to the killing all for the reader of the officials whose names ranks and numbers have not been identified are investigated for criminal negligence investigators

check whether they had personal interests in freeing the suspects and whether they did it on depression prime ministers said that it was unacceptable that those suspects were released over the weekend in moscow and sent his book over forty thousand people. a radical football fans that clashed with migrants and police and it ended up in a rest so over a thousand people prime minister today acknowledged that the government did not respond properly to the killing all the spark that football fans and these tributes the dissolute has parties are catarina grouch over reporting from moscow stay with us here on our t.v. still ahead controversy surrounding the apparent tit for tat expulsions of british and russian diplomats the shadow of espionage things over the dispute all the details are having your way in a couple of minutes. but first the brother of the late polish president killed in a plane crash in southwest russia has claimed that the body buried in krakow does not belong to lech kaczynski former prime minister says he's not yet decided

whether he'll ask for the remains to be zoomed but a polish political expert says that although the words of yaroslav kaczynski still carry weight their shot claims won't hinder moscow warsaw relations. he is the leader of the political party we've got those about twenty three to twenty five percent of point votes mainly older people maybe mainly traditional people maybe traditionally with some misgivings concerning russia as a neighbor so it is important about from the point of view of the foreign policy and national relations it to say it significant about not important it is very extravagant and even some leading members of the political party were very much surprised by the radical statement they didn't hear before he never before stated that absolutely there is a problem of mission of the body or rather the president. so the fact that he

actually said it openly you need a press conference was a shock to many and immediately the prosecutor general's office. that he eats the engagement with the possible of all the proceedings on the points site have stated very strongly that this is not the case that this is actually the body of a president who was believed for growth for the better. earlier war sorry jack to the findings of the investigation into the april plane crash the report concluded pilot error was among the main causes of the fatal accident that killed ninety six the polish prime minister has called the findings that acceptable and groundless the final crash report is expected in january aviation expert chris yates says the russian investigation was thorough and no further international inquiry is necessary. and i looked to you since the accident and examined the the cockpit voice recording transcript and so on and i can't fault any of the conclusions that have been leaked by the the

russian authorities i do believe personally that if we bring an international investigating team into the equation the findings will be any different to what they are which seems to be the pressure groups in some way shape or form on the pilots who copilot. to make an attempt to learn and that's an important where there were no conditions at all to land too much focus not enough this ability and a lot of pressure being brought on the pilots conspire to cause that accident britain's foreign secretary says russia and the u.k. have each expelled a diplomat from their embassies in made a spat over alleged spy william hague said a russian envoy was asked to leave the u.k. two weeks ago after accusations surfaced of espionage he claimed that he claims

that russia booted out a british official a week later moscow has yet to comment artie's lawyer and it has more from london. william hague the foreign secretary wrote a letter to the house of commons explaining what had happened he said that britain had indeed expelled a diplomat from the russian embassy in london they requested that diplomats expulsion on december the tense after what hague is calling clear evidence of russian intelligence service activities acting against british interests here in london then we are also hearing of course from the other end that there was a tit for tat expulsion from the british embassy in moscow and in response to that expulsion from moscow william hague said that britain rejects any basis for that particular action despite the fact that of course it was only a response to what the foreign office here had done well this is causes a huge embarrassment for the foreign secretary william hague who when he took office as recently as may this year said that he vowed to improve relations with

moscow and here in fact went to moscow in november and met with president dmitri medvedev which is quite a rare occurrence for a lower official than the prime minister and then we're going to see the do a visit by david cameron the prime minister of the u.k. which is supposed to take place early next next year now whether that will affect the timing of that visit is obviously not clear yet we're not sure what the repercussions will be william hague the foreign secretary says that he still wants to have a co-operative and productive relationship with russia within the bounds of this country's laws we saw another tit for tat expulsion in two thousand and seven following the living and career fair three diplomats were expelled from each side then as well and that was in protest from the british side a russian refusal to extradite lugovoy to face trial in the u.k. he is of course britain's prime suspect in the murder of alexander litvinenko since

then there has been attempts on various sides to push what they're calling the reset button in russia u.k. relations this could have serious implications for that reset button. the u.s. led coalition in afghanistan is denying reports that it's pushing to extend the war into neighboring pakistan the new york times earlier quoted unnamed u.s. officials saying that special forces should start targeting militants across the border the u.s. uses unmanned aerial drones to strike suspected insurgents in pakistan often killing civilians by mistake islam a bad policy attacks a violation of the country's sovereignty for more on this we're joined live from washington by michael marceau vice president of the washington d.c. chapter of veterans for peace good to have you with us so what's your take on all this how reliable do you think these reports are. well i would not be at all surprised if there were u.s. forces on the ground in pakistan already flashing back to the late one nine hundred sixty s. and the situation in vietnam when our government and our military said we have to

go into cambodia in areas where the sanctuaries are where the training facilities are very limited to make it safe for the u.s. military i mean it just seems like the u.s. doesn't learn their lessons that these things just seem seem to escalate we go into situations very easily find ourselves stuck there with no way out in it's always a bad ending for all those involved u.s. military and of course the civilians on the ground who are indiscriminately killed by these drone attacks now pakistan being a nuclear power do you think the u.s. is taking a risk by sending troops into its territory without their permission. well i actually think the u.s. government does have permission of the pakistani government and leaders to be there all the pakistan from what i understand is denying this so i think there's a lot of underhanded stuff going on the. most of the citizens of both countries or

not informed about. now the u.s. has been hammering pakistan's border regions with drone attacks for a long time why do you think that islam about continues to tolerate. well i think this tracks them from. some of the other things that are going on i know pakistan and india have been had an ongoing disagreement for a long time and i think that it all plays into the hand of the government trying to play each other against the other half's and try to maine maintain their neutrality one when they're dealing with with both sides i think on officially and it's just a not a not a good situation for the u.s. to be involved with now despite best efforts the taliban remains a force in afghanistan despite the one hundred thousand strong u.s. presence there and coalition presence there do you think they may overextend themselves if they bring the war across the border into pakistan. i think we're

already overextended now i've talked to numerous veterans who are in the military now and some of them are on their third and fourth and fifth tours over overseas and in iraq or afghanistan and the military according to some of the pentagon people are very close if not at their breaking point it just seems to me that we are putting these people military service members into the into difficult situations repeatedly and not giving them enough time and at home to decompress to kind of realize what they've gone through what they've experienced and process that it's just we keep throwing them back into the into the war and unfortunately the u.s. military is the only segment of america that's being asked to make any sacrifices and that has to change the u.s. cannot win a war if it does not have the support of the american people and we're hearing that

at least sixty percent of the people do not think that being in afghanistan is a good thing and i'm sure that number would be. similar for. going into pakistan if the taliban though when the out titling forces that are in afghanistan keep hopping across the border whenever they perceive a threat do you think there needs to be some agreement between or arrangement between the coalition forces and pakistan in order to make sure that they can pursue that. yes sure i think that would be the ideal situation unfortunately when we know that things are far from ideal and like i said it reminds me of vietnam in the late sixty's the the bad guys come across the border into south vietnam and do their raids and attacks and then go back across the border and we are unable to pursue them because of trees or diplomatic situations. until the change is just going to be a stalemate but i agree that there has to be some kind of. more more working

together between the u.s. nato forces and the pakistan forces however the pakistan government does not seem to. be very forthcoming in trying to expedite the relationships between the two military forces all right we'll have to leave it there michael marcella vice president of the washington d.c. chapter of veterans for peace good to talk to. belarus is getting is taking much heat over the way it handled the country's presidential elections hundreds of people gathered to contest alexander lukashenko is when the protests turned violent and around six hundred of the protesters got arrested the majority of them still in custody the e.u. has condemned the arrests and is calling for the release of all protesters artie's catarina explains how about unfold. this is a. ruse the new start. accounting for this is unfair and. probably over. the people may have deserved better but what they got instead

was more of the same. public good it's from the bottom of my heart i would like to kank my supporters and congratulate them on a victory. so you are not from my opponent so i have to inform you on the saddest of all cajuns for you but you will now have to do with the acting president for at least another five years. and this. opposition supporters journalists and a number of foreign ambassadors all came to a thousand strong demonstration outside the government building in the center of the capital minsk. despite calls to keep the protest peaceful some started storming the building smashing windows and breaking down doors riot police reacted immediately the result over six hundred people detained dozens

including artie's camera crew injured hit with police baton at least six of the nine presidential candidates have also been arrested many of them seem more disappearing without trace yeah. i was with my husband in the hospital when syrian men entered the room they held me down i was trying to free myself i was screaming but no one came to help the team of the bed he couldn't walk so they wrapped him in a blanket dressed him out of their room and look me inside. e.u. and u.s. officials have already condemned the violence but as with the observers president alexander lukashenko simply told everyone to mind their own business but. sometimes the o.s.c. forgets that it came to observe the election not to control. when it comes to glass it's not for them to evaluate. europe's last dictator as he has been dubbed in some western media did receive some praise from observers they've all agree this election was much more democratic than the previous one in two thousand and six the

relative freedoms given to opposition candidates in the run up to election day was marked as a positive sign the e.u. promised dollars billions of euros if there are signs of free and fair elections what they're looking to collect some cash from the e.u. while enjoying a fourth consecutive term in office is the question many are asking. alex on the question go promised his people political changes but no change in power he's already made good on one half of that promise but here on the once again quiet streets of the capital minsk not many believe that political changes are happening any time soon. catherine as are the r.t.e. minsk turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe freezing temperatures and heavy snow are continuing to lead to further disruption across europe britain is one of the worst affected so far with tens of thousands stranded flights to and from the u.k.

are grounded in travelers are likely to suffer for several more days many flights were also canceled in paris frankfurt and brussels in the u.s. heavily criticized airports for failing to deal with the situation calling it an acceptable and saying it could lead to tighter regulation. israel launches air strikes against at least seven suspected militant sites in gaza wounding three palestinians forces say the rocket squad targeted struggling smuggling tunnels and hamas training center in a weapons factory the air raids come after more than a dozen rockets and mortars were launched across the border into israel this week. and in earthquake measuring six point five on the richter scale struck southeast iran killing at least seven injuring dozens many homes and several villages were destroyed officials say they believe they pulled out all the survivors but are still searching for bodies among the rubble. i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments stay with us. funny

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lookout for extremists saying russia cannot eliminate radicalism without their help this fall the death of a supporter that prompted violent demonstrations between nationalists and groups in the caucasus region bloody mary putin also visited the great idea or sped it up to pay his respects. and poland rejects moscow's report into the april plane crash that claimed the life of the polish president and ninety five others but aviation experts say the russian probe was thorough and open meanwhile the late leader brother who's the former prime minister of the country claims the wrong body was buried. up next our special report from the icy mountain tops of siberia that's coming your way stay with us here on r.t. .