this issue did not belong in our politics but rather in our. terms of how we protect the nation opposition to the treaty has been huge in washington a number of republican senators went out of their way to undermine it without substantial arguments against it they were putting forward a man runs after a man was that would actually kill the treaty that would make the administration go back to the russians and negotiate a 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 the final days of debate on 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 a some point they deem is threatens their national security 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 being 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 are. living forms that

preserve state and up to fans were calling for senators not to ruin this reset opportunity for u.s. russia relations and the outcome of the woeful will show whether or not their calls fell on deaf ears in congress voters go to check out reporting their. well joseph cirincione the president told the campaign group the panel shares fund says barack obama has done well to overcome the many obstacles in the start treaty but if occasion princess. 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 they're a minority they're losing they were trying to run out the clock they kept making the argument we don't have time and then they started to do these little mini

filibusters around their amendments to prove they didn't have time they were waiting for something to happen they were tipped 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 well so they had this hour although it's a u.s. military expansion beyond afghanistan fiction. realistic if there's any evidence that american forces are considering ground raids in the. u.s. strongest even though it's plus.

here but a lot to say we explore how deaf people in russia see into the world and to their problems. britain's foreign secretary says the russian the u.k. each expelled one of the diplomats around spying it's the first dishonoring in the two countries relations and small school in london began working to reset ties there 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 the 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 with 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 him fat 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 do a visit by david cameron 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 william hague the foreign secretary says that he still wants to have a co-operative and productive relationship with russia we saw another tit for tat expulsion in two thousand and seven following the living and professor 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 as did not port's its extending its reach into neighboring. the new york times has quoted an anonymous american official saying special forces will start targeting but it's across the border u.s. has been using ready to strike suspected insurgents in places and style often killing civilians in the process as i'm about the attacks a violation of its territorial sovereignty michael. vice president of the washington d.c. chapter of veterans says the u.s. is not letting from past mistakes. 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. in 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 as to make it safe for the u.s. military and i mean it just seems like the u.s. doesn't learn their lessons of these things just seem seem to escalate we go into situation very easily find ourselves stuck there with no way out in it's always a bad ending for all of those involved u.s. military and of course the civilians on the ground who are indiscriminately killed by these drone attacks and america's involvement in so many conflicts over the years has led to u.s. soldiers beginning to doubt if there's just cause for it especially reporters coming away twenty minutes. did i kill innocent kids or was it

a call of course and that's never answered. miss sharp on the skull still with me i think of it every day. of the flyers fired from the memories. of so much so long time i'm just here trying to help. i was. i was ashamed that i had been. i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why. i got my legs. what i wanted to be. for. that i believe what i was doing i was or i think. that i was a good soldier. but you know most soldier on the other side and i think i'm just not good.

enough to seeing a deal for russian nuclear power to feel in his ground and then shoot them up to me that it will be discovering a different kind of oriental energy on the second day of his indian tool the president will take in bollywood and the taj mahal but he's a tough enough look at the has more from india. now that all the major deals have been signs during president the biggest high profile visit to india it's time for the russian president to explore the other side of the country here in mumbai the problem of the visit includes a trip to bollywood where russian president is meeting with a india's most. popular film directors and film stars such as indian films have always been rather welcomed in russia and now indian filmmakers are looking to reproduce some of their classics together with the russian directors also here in mumbai russian president is meeting with his meeting with representatives of the

general public at a local university as cooperation in science and need to acknowledge is crucial for the two emerging economies if two countries like ours can come together and perhaps show to the rest of the world there are these are the alternatives for the intelligentsia and countries you know we can offer alternative ways of thinking earlier during his visit to need daily billion dollar deals were signed between russian president and his indian counterparts including deals in military cooperation and russia's also trying to such as spy india's growing demand for energy to already but he's already building two nuclear reactors in the south of the country all together over thirty documents were signed back in new delhi as of course the two countries of the bric group of emerging economies have many spheres of cooperation. he's a titan of a cover there reporting from india. u.s.

officials have come on the phone for the edge to shady dealings to get fuel for the american air force base in kurdistan congressional investigators say the u.s. turned a blind eye to multi-million dollar fraud schemes by the supplier peter the eurasian democracy initiative says the top three deals were a factor in sparking the popular unrest ousted former president but in april. what the congressional subcommittee on national security and foreign affairs. dealt with in the report was allegations of corrupt dealings between the subsidiaries of the pentagon which were supplying fuel stand to prosecute the war effort in afghanistan and members of the family of the deposed former president of kyrgyzstan key of the same report stated that these subsidiaries namely the mena corps and red star back in two thousand and nine to reach out to the former president's son maksim but has

subsequently followed his father in exile and is now in hiding in the u.k. to try to engage in bedore negotiations with the pentagon regarding the future of the base following kyrgyzstan's announcement that it would shut down the base so what we saw in that case was another proof of the fact that presidents family and so on were calling all the shots in the country were pretty much running the place what would eventually happened was the direct result of this relationship we saw in april two thousand and ten when president was ousted was the direct result of the popular anger that was stirred by the complete lack of accountability lack of transparency in the deals that the pentagon was cutting with. government. that was because i live on the racial democracy initiative well that more news

analysis is always at your fingertips on our website so go to look at l.t. dot com here's just a taste of what's on the line few right hundreds have been jailed off the protests at present and pushing his election victory but a recent. wants me on the streets of the capital that. shortlist of eleven has been revealed in russia's competition for mascots for the twenty four team soaking winter olympics with ideas ranging from a don't fit into a. set to be choose which one you like best dot com. u.s. commander in afghanistan general david petraeus says the late richard holbrooke made a vital contribution to the campaign in the country he claims president obama's

special representative help to build an effective team on the ground. tease meant she contributed kind of getting crucial says the diplomat failed to tackle the most burning issues. with the gradual shift of the u.s. military and intelligence community from afghanistan to pakistan i guess the u.s. commander in afghanistan has a bigger fish to fry than to waste his style his energy and credibility and the respect and attention from his troops leveraging me so appropriate praise on the architect of the drug promotion strategy in afghanistan and the main defender of the opium cultivation all across the country we choose to be general at the trio's when the men know if general petraeus stick with his praise to richard holbrooke calling him the titan of the us policy in afghanistan and pakistan

he might as well make his mission guilty by association he might be stuck with the mission creep which will be described as the titanic fubar both in afghanistan and across the border in pakistan. that it's take a brief look at some other stories around the world this hour the ivory coast places the risk of a civil war in the disputed presidential election a warning comes from u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon added that u.n. peacekeepers were being forced from the country by incumbent known about the world body recognize the victory of his rival the president accuse the international community of trying to bring the fight to his country and u.n. says more than fifty people have been killed in related violence in recent days. south korea is to start its knowledge of drill exercises close to its disputed seaboard is a minute more than eight hundred personnel are set to take part fishel saying navy

ships will follow tuna shells and anti submarine exercises. despite calls from the north not to escalate tensions in the region. freezing temperatures and heavy snow will continue to cause massive disruption across europe travel has been severely hampered as it struggle to runways free of ice britain is badly affected if hundreds of flights grounded tens of thousands of travelers stranded. has criticised the transportation agencies and says more must be done to prevent disruption in the future. from stalin's schooling to soviet indifference the day in russia have not had an easy time even now they live in limbo we russian sign that which is not officially recognized and many say social attitudes can be a problem too but deaf people are finding ways of making themselves heard as down

at the polls. alex econ hear the song. from the cavalier. yet he sings it with his hands touching. that was that. he tells me he speaks the most beautiful language in the world. and so despite living in the world of silence aleksey and his fellow performers put on a show full of life and music. the audience appreciates this theatre of the deaf actors is an exception in the world mostly hostile to those speaking with their hands.

even though language doesn't officially exist all previous attempts to pass a law giving official recognition to the russian sign language have failed the problem dates back more than seventy years when sign language was banned from soviet schools in one nine hundred fifty stalin made the situation even worse by calling it not even a sorry great language unlike what some might think it's not a primitive way of conveying basic information it's a fully fledged language capable of expressing just about anything. you wish. you. the head of the old russian federation of the deaf believes there are more than ten million hard of hearing people in the country but no interpreters no t.v. channels almost nothing to ease their interaction with the world.

yes. that's one of four children the only deaf one in the family. this is the thousand beauty shop for the hard of hearing and has a stop interpreter.

they may not hear but they're not commute and then love talking. after all those who call and hear all the same people it may be just that the music of their hearts and souls is loud but still not loud enough to be officially recognized. as you. are to moscow. as if you were cross the business desk

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business russia's biggest banks burbank has posted a record profits of one hundred sixty billion rubles that's around five point one billion dollars in twenty ten that's according to the bank's head herman graff earlier analysts had predicted the bank's profit would exceed one hundred fifty billion rubles or four point eight billion dollars we're going plans to increase this brickell profit to six point four billion in twenty eleven where the graph said the bank will not raise dividends despite the profits. let's check on the stock market's ajor is rising driving a benchmark index close to two and a half year highs as commodity prices gain on record crop for a couple prices all traded near ninety dollars a barrel and the euro is climbing after again in japanese exports boosted investor confidence in the global economic recovery nikkei has swung into the red however from the last hour down two point three seven percent. russian markets finished in

the black with most of the blue chips gaining the r.t.s. ended point nine percent higher than my six was up over half a percent trading volumes are expected to be low and quiet on the russian markets on wednesday as the holidays approach vice president troika dog gives us his take on what to expect as well as the verbal kombucha talks. today i think the market will continue to be quiet but still strong we saw in previous few days consolidation the market and i think that the market is said to going up after christmas call it is finished i think we will see inflows in the russia and will go up there are particular ideas for example as for will come this is very controversial issue so the board approved the deal but still telling or can block this deal and will be very difficult to kind of finally prove and make the deal in fact so one telling or said that they against this deal the market accepted these things very positively and was

a very good rally in the stock about two point five percent just on announcing so still the she is very controversial so i would be cautious right now about advice into buying into these top. tax revenues from russia's consolidated bhaji grew healthy twenty two point six percent in the first eleven months of this year that amounts to a little over two hundred twenty five billion dollars tax take increased in virtually every sector demonstrating the recovery of the economy profit tax rose forty three percent income tax was six point six percent now russia may be emerging from the financial crisis but company bosses are keeping their salaries in check for now most chief executives haven't raised their wages this year with the average general director still earning seven thousand six hundred dollars a month but the study by recruiters max found c.e.o.'s have raised the average salaries of their workers this year twelve percent christmas and the new year expected to be profitable time for banks as shoppers turn to their credit cards to buy presents and food service from home credit back shows the number of people

willing to buy gifts on credit has jumped to thirty nine percent from twenty three percent last year to search also reveals that people are ready to spend more money on prisons as confidence in the russian economy recovers. that's the latest to join us for the opening bell almost as though.

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. will. be a. that you're watching r t the headlines for you down the u.s. senate wraps up debate on the nuclear cuts treaty with russia and the wait for a final vote expected to take place as soon as wednesday democrats short the deal will be sealed despite strong opposition from the republicans. k.x. perils a diplomat from the russian embassy of the suspicion of western russia reciprocates the retaliation there are fears the new spy round might threaten the recent foreign relations between moscow and london. and off the ceiling billion dollar defense and

energy deals with india mitri medvedev is in for a cultural treat on the second day of his visit the russian leader will explore the phenomenon of the bollywood film industry. next in our special report we talked to american veterans about their assessment of the nation at war and the regrets that has brought them. there was one particular incident there still disturbs me today i wish i could take the. given. we went to an area near the baghdad stadium this came into our area and actually stopped about seventy five meters or front of my vehicle that tells you how far the vehicle came into our perimeter.