horse trading in washington over the treaties signed by both presidents in april he's going to check out his faltering developments on capitol hill for us. senators have agreed to vote on the new start no later than this thursday democrats predicted will happen much sooner the chairman of the foreign relations committee john kerry said they would vote as early as in the afternoon on wednesday he also said he is sure the democrats have the sixty seven votes of approval needed to get the trade ratified. this would not have happened without bipartisanship and i'm very grateful to a number of senators i'll talk about the middle more tomorrow on the other side the who. decided the this was the moment for the national security interests of our country that this issue did not belong in our politics but rather in our minds in terms of how it protects the nation senator kerry also said that they count on at least seventy votes he added senate with seventy votes in today's

congress is like ninety five votes in the past the of course was referring to the past arms without generators with russia which have all we see no last the ninety votes of four through fault so much is at stake with this new starts both our friend the e.u. west and also for the whole of the international community and yet the opposition to the treaty has been huge in washington a number of republicans that are as went out of their way to undermine it without substantial arguments against that they were putting forwards and man meant after a man was that would actually kill the treaty that would make the administration go back to the russians and negotiate the treaty and actually russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov said the treaty is based on the best interest of both the u.s. and russia and it doesn't need to be changed their actions provoked an avalanche of criticism from the country's top security experts who fear of the treaty could become a victim of political games on capitol hill in fall the. final days of debate don't

start they wanted to we write the language of the treaty which would have actually killed it they wanted to take out the line in the preamble of the deal which states the fact of the connection between offensive and defensive weapons in a security expert would say the connection is obvious and in fact all of those from the military who testified before the senate were saying exactly that they also maintained it's not the start treaty that would make the u.s. we curd the treaty itself explicitly says either side can pull out of it if at some point they deem is threatens their national security for russians the new start treaty is first of all all about balance and equality and they will be ended as long as the u.s. respects that balance if we look at the cots part of the do we have some very significant reductions on the way over the next ten years both states will cut their nuclear arsenals by a flurried down to some fifteen hundred fifty warheads on each side they do will also limit the number of delivery vehicles and launchers but even with those cuts

both countries will still have more than ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons so many agree that the value of the arms reduction treaty is not just the reductions it's in the trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers that goes with it for weeks and months the president of the united states all members of the of his administration all of the military all living former secretary of state and of the fans were calling for senators not to ruin this reset opportunity for u.s. russia relations and the outcome of the old will will show whether or not their cause fell on deaf ears in congress. and the president of the fund jersey tree sione believes that republicans have failed in that times to sing the star treaty. most of the opposition to this relatively modest treaty has been political the opposition what thought they could deliver a knockout blow to president obama they missed and he struck them down instead part

of it is ideological there's about twelve to twenty senators in the car in the senate that are just opposed to arms control treaties they're arguing to the bitter end but there are a minority there was what they were trying to run out the clock they kept making the argument we don't have time and then they started to be do these little mini filibusters around their amendments to prove they didn't have time they were waiting for something to happen that would tip the balance in fact what happened is that military officials talked to each senator they got calls from republican secretary of defense bob gates from every clinton the secretary of state they got classified briefings and republican senator senators were reassured so you saw the moderate senators senators breaking from their own leadership this is actually an unprecedented split in the senate republican leadership we haven't seen anything like this all year where you going to lose ten to twelve senators are going to break with their own leadership to support this treaty that is in the national security interest. billion dollar deals military agreements anti tackling caps that

the results of that as far as the day of the high profile visit to india the russian president also sealed a number of agreements a nuclear power aiming to satisfy a growing energy demands and the world's second most populous nation. has been following the meetings between the two countries. they have been strategic partners for over a very warm relations for several decades from the soviet times and what's what's giving more impetus to the bilateral ties is the growing economies of both countries both russia and india bric countries and economies are growing at a fast and one of the key areas that we've seen agreement signed today over a dozen agreements signed today one of the key areas 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 lead in the next twenty years and russia is going to be a leading player in this russia is said 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 and 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. difference between both countries is also very strong over. india's largest weapons supplier and most of india's weapons hardware comes from russia and of course before that from the soviet union the agreement signed today. is the joint development of the fifth generation fighter 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 ten billion dollars both sides will put in the money russia will develop be 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 and on two hundred for the indian air force and the total contract will be worth thirty billion dollars it will be the backbone of forces for decades to come so really we're seeing this way forward of. merely just buying off the shelf joint development of weaponry we've seen that with the bromo supersonic messiah and now with these with this particular fighter aircraft. you know with our c.e.o. still ahead contrast this around as the apparent pop tart expulsions of british and russian diplomats the shadow is paranoid hangs over the dispute of all the details in just a couple of minutes. russia's prime minister vladimir putin has met with representatives of the country's main football club supporters of to recent rise riots involving funds in moscow and st petersburg violence followed right away nationalist demonstrations against the ethnic minorities after

a part of most fun was killed by rival firms this month you can see in russia has the details from that meeting. 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 sat we should treat these as an attack against all of you regardless where you leave your weight and you are a nationality he said during his meeting with the representatives of football clubs in most 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 and to the great heat immunity against sin of both via and extremism which had existed in russia saying true is is beginning to we cannot he promised that those responsible for the killing of the sparta football fan will and behind bars and steal he called on football fans to stay independent and to struggle for. 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 trying to make their way into supporter clubs you need to bring the clubs under their control and i'm talking about radicals and they don't do it for the sport they don't do it to support fan clubs they do to their own selfish political reasons as to they want to destabilize the country so that afterwards they can. scream that they're the only ones that can see russia is just a little be a tragedy if we let that happen on monday the investigative committee opened a criminal case against several officials who released three of the suspects linked to the killing all for we read of the officials whose names rang son 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 minister said that it was unacceptable that those suspects were

released over the weekend in moscow and sent his group of over forty thousand people a radical football fans that clashed with migrants and police and it and it out in arrests of over a thousand people a prime minister today acknowledged that the government did not respond properly to the killing all this part at football fan and these triggered the disorders. because he then grabbed their reporting from moscow. the brother of the late polish president killed in a plane crash in southwest russia has claimed they bought it buried in krakow does not belong to lech kaczynski former prime minister says he's not here decided whether he will ask for the remains to be examined but a polish political expert says that although there was a chance case still carries some weight they shall claims were tame to moscow or several nations. here the leader of the political party with god knows about twenty . five percent of the world's mainly all they're made mainly traditional

people maybe traditionally with some misgivings course earning russia as a neighbor so it is important about from the point of view of the foreign policy and our relations it is significant but 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 in never before stated that absolutely there is the problem. of the body or rather the president. so the fact that he actually said it openly in the press conference was a shock to many and immediately the prosecutor general office. darkly you gauge and with possible all the things on the site have stated a very strongly that this is not the case that this is actually the border. wars believe. for the very. earlier also rejects of the findings of the

investigation into the april plane crash the report concluded that pilot error was among the main causes of the fatal accident that killed nine to six the polish prime minister has called the findings an acceptable and the final crash report is expected to be released in january and ideation expert chris yates says the russia investigation as far as a nerve survey to national inquiries granted. i've looked at the situ since the accident and examined the cockpit voice recording transcript. and i can't fault any of the conclusions that have been leaked by the russian authorities i don't believe personally that if we bring an international investigating team into be equation that the findings will be any different to what they are which seems to be the pressure. in some way shape or form

on the pilots who copilot the aircraft to make an attempt to learn and that's an airport where there were no conditions at all to be learned too much for not enough visibility. a lot of pressure being brought on the pilots conspire to cause the accident. and for more on this and all our stories god how up side here's a taste of what's on the line for you right now with all the details and which fighting has made it to the top of everyone's wish list for christmas russians are reportedly intellectually gadgets but no pass for. fitness according to a recent poll. and do not forget to check out our daily dose of the past today we explore how three cosmonauts went on a record breaking trip to space exactly twenty three years ago find out all the details about how to.

britain's foreign secretary sounds that russia and the u.k. have each expelled a diplomat from there and the cities and iran of alleged spying william hague said a russian envoy was asked to leave britain in two weeks ago after accusations of asperin are surfaced and he claims that russia booted out of british official a week later law and it reports 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 tenth 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 of course is 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 he in fact went to moscow 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. sure 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 a 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 it's extending its reach into neighboring pakistan but the new york times has quoted an anonymous american official as saying special forces should stop targeting minton's across the border the u.s. has been using unmanned drones to try to spectate insurgency bases in pakistan often coming from billions in the pros says his arm about whole of that tonks

violation of its territorial sovereignty and jason davidson these editor at antiwar dot com says pakistan and the you are supporters and can't seem to coordinate with each other. well i think they've wanted to do so for quite some time but whether they can actually do so without completely discrediting the pakistani government another matter i don't think nato would necessarily deploy the troops against the pakistani government which is those are very governments very friendly to nato and i don't think they necessarily want to completely discredit him by going in against his will it seems like both sides could do a much better job of coordinating it seems so far that the pakistani government regularly blames nato for the exact opposite when they clash with people along the border they flee into afghanistan and when nato clashes with them in afghanistan they flee into pakistan and it seems like it's such a long such a poorly controlled border that there's very little they can do about it

particularly when they're not coordinating with one another. well let's now take a look at some other news from around the world freezing temperatures and heavy snow and continuing to cause massive disruption across europe britain is badly affected with tens of thousands of travelers stranded and big government a free trip systems to keep the airports running many flights in and out of the u.k. have been grounded and travelers are likely to suffer so for several more days there were also airline consolations in paris frankfurt and brussels and some rail companies are recommending passengers don't travel the u. has heavily criticized transportation agencies for failing to deal with the situation same title regulation because suited to prevent widespread destruction. a u.s. envoy to north korea says young has promised to let nuclear inspectors back into the country after kicking them out in april of last year if the international community is this practice north korea is developing nuclear weapons which

pyongyang denies chinese are going to need multiple talks to resolve tensions in the region after an emergency u.n. security council meeting with russian requested tensions intensified after south korea carried out a new round of military exercises along a disputed border the north condemns the drills calling them a reckless revocation. the iraqi parliament has unanimously approved a new government to be led by current shiite prime minister nuri al maliki and the nine months of political deadlock elections in march so no single political bloc win a majority leading to months of negotiation to form a government of national unity but it's cool stalemate threatens to stall wikinomics development and bring a new wave of sectarian violence to the country the new government includes all iraq's major political factions including shiites sunnis and kurds. up next the you know workings of u.s.

politics at state level have been under intense scrutiny since the latest weekly leaks disclosures and. policy. artie's sitting down with broadcaster and best selling author laura flanders laura thank you very much for joining us tonight to be with you let's get right into it

my first question to you is about it being over two years since barack obama has been elected as president and through your eyes which of his very ambitious promises hasn't kept well i mean i think he's kept the one which was he's going to try and i think that he has been trying but the change that he promised the hope that people had i think it's living on life support at this point because he started on such a high pedestal what do you think it means for him in the next presidential election i mean one of the challenges this administration has and this president has is to keep in gauged space because it's only because of grassroots organizing for the obama presidency ever came about so his biggest challenge i think these next two years is to try to keep them in some way engaged when he sold out most of the signature pledges that he made to them in two thousand and eight why is that is it because there were too many challenges well i mean it's a long list but i think you've got a very very troubled democracy in the united states where corporate influence is run amuck and he came into office on the back of a lot of campaign contributions first and foremost from wall street so in some

sense if he wants to get reelected and keep friendly with those that brought him into office on the financial side well then he's going to be nervous about chomping down on the hand that feeds him he's going to be nervous about abandoning some of those folks whose contributions he took so you mentioned the hand that feeds how do you describe the relationship between washington and wall street right now well it's very complicated i mean barack obama received more money from wall street firms when he was running for office than any other candidate and yet he comes in as the progressive candidate make sense of that i don't see how we can keep having elections when anonymous sources they don't even have to reveal who they are pouring billions of dollars as they did into this midterm race over four billion dollars almost as much as was spent on the presidential race in two thousand and eight. into midterm races where little congress people who've never really had a fight for reelection suddenly found themselves up against a huge money machine that they couldn't fight back that's not democracy that's

something else what about the money being pumped into defense is it essentially worth it to be spending billions and billions of dollars of dollars on warfare and . you know what or what are these efforts for well it's been very interesting in the wiki leaks documents that have been released over the last few weeks as we've seen the american power. evident not just in how many weapons this country has but in the pressure it's able to bear on just about every embassy around the world to do its bidding the u.s. arms race to become by far the most weaponized nation on earth is an asset when it comes to the state department bullying other countries and undermining their democracy to get what they want and you've seen tremendous power come to the united states but you've come to see i think the cost as our economy probables where does this kind of right to bully other countries stem from and why do other countries allow that to happen when they don't i say about really really

about powerful well i think the other i think other countries might be about to fight back in europe we're seeing a very big explosion of fury in spain and germany as the cables reveal the degree to which the state department has tried to bully those governments now another thing that many common americans might not be aware of is that the u.s. involvement in afghanistan has actually now been longer than its involvement in the second world war and i'm sure many people when they hear this would say while that that means it's a really long time again to go back to these wiki leaks releases you've got the bastard in pakistan telling the state department this is not working we're seeing an increase in taliban strength almost in almost all across afghanistan we're certainly seeing a growth in the mountainous regions between afghanistan and pakistan we are spending millions of dollars in in pouring. aid into afghanistan and then we're seeing a great again according to these cables the vice president of afghanistan showing up in abu dhabi with fifty two million dollars in some cases a huge asset flight from an already devastated lead poor country of

afghanistan i don't think the american population is going to stand for that the question is whether they get to hear about it they know they're not winning no nobody gets we mean in afghanistan the russians knew that the british knew that it's not an easy thing to win and when we pull out as pull out we will be unsatisfied there is a poll out recently which said that fifty seven percent of americans gallup polled don't trust the media anymore i mean what does that say to us a level of distrust that i think is very dangerous and we need some new relationships between people and the politicians and yeah between people in that process laura flanders thank you very much for your time the. wealthy british style.

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this is a sacred trickle the headlines that i think. start debate me is the end the u.s. senate expected to vote on ratification of the start nuclear on sconce treaty in the next forty eight hours that ends months of delays and efforts to announce the plan which would have sunk the deal to reduce the russian and american nuclear arms by signed by both presidents in april. russia need to secure multi-billion dollar deals and a trip to new delhi by president clinton has stalled the so-called bric nations

cement nations nuclear power trade and investment or just some of the agreements sealed. prime minister putin made good will find representatives and will help to eliminate extremism following recent rising violence after a top moscow time was killed by rival. poland rejects moscow's report into a full playing fire that killed the polish president and ninety five others but aviation experts say the russian approach was open. and while the late leaders brother who's the former prime minister of the country planes they're wrong boarding was buried. there is the headline stay with us for the kaiser report where mark skies and stays the hobbit this cause the rise of financial activism. and i am a.