on the other side of the aisle who. decided that 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 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 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 sergei lavrov said the treaty is based on the best interests 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 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 third 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 all living former secretary of state and up to fans were calling for senators not to ruin this reset opportunity for us russia relations and the outcome of the world will show whether or not their calls fell on deaf ears in congress once he's going to japan reporting their well joseph syrian siani the president told the campaign group the ploughshares fund says barack obama has done well to overcome the many obstacles in the starts treaty ratification process. 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 these 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 talk to each senator they got calls from republican secretary of defense bob gates from hillary 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 to the head of the. they cannot here but to say we explore how deaf people in russia today into

a world of this to their problems. the u.s. led coalition in afghanistan is denying reports six extending its reach into neighboring pakistan but the new york times has quoted an anonymous american official saying special forces will start targeting militants across the border the u.s. has been using unmanned drones to strike suspected insurgents and bases in pakistan is often accused of killing civilians in the process is i'm a bad has described the attacks as a violation of its territorial sovereignty well for more on this we're joined long . kathy kelly coordinator of voices for creative nonviolence who's in kabul for us now what do you know if the u.s. doesn't do you go into pakistan in this matter how effective do you think any operation would be. it seems to me that the united states would have an effect similar to what has happened in the past here in

afghanistan that along with the drone attacks the invasion of a sovereign country by a united states joint special operations who is means attacking the death squads and assassinations and night raids would exacerbate the tremendous almost tidal wave of anti-american sentiment amongst the public and i think that would be the main effect now the united states will say well we have to dismantle and eradicate this is president obama's stated goal but do we really think that our kind of figures are waiting around in the mountains of pakistan near the afghan border to see if the united states is going to come after them and so it's likely that there would be second and third level people who have been suggested as possible taliban agents whose families would be hurt whose desire for

revenge would be ongoing and the bloodshed and the killing will continue will be perpetuated and what made look like a perpetual war so if these operations do take place what's the reaction likely to be from the pakistani government and indeed the public there. and i think the pakistani government. would be aware of the strong public opinion that would demand that the pakistani government assert that it is not a sovereign nation whose goal is to subordinate subordinate itself to u.s. national interest and yet the pakistani government. very cut i think we also have to look at the fact that even now the effect of the horrific floods that left one fifth of pakistan under water is still having a terrible impact on people in pakistan the pakistani government can't continue to ignore the cries in the pleas of its own people they've already been bullied by

world bank measures by i.m.f. measures that have imposed a value added tax on people who already can't feed their families and so it's almost as though pakistan is the country where every single day you can see hunger strikes and demonstrations and people taking terrific risks to say to their government this can't continue we want relief from the suffering and if the united states is then given a green light to enter into pakistan with nitrates and just cards and assassinations to joint special operations forces it's hard to imagine that the pakistani government could withstand the outrage that could be predicted on the part of the pakistani public although one of the say briefly if you will i mean do you think the u.s. has learned the lessons and then the and bloody campaigns in both iraq and afghanistan. well i think the defense companies the united states establishment the military industrial complex companies

have learned that you can make an enormous profit you can stuff your financial portfolios and run to the bank and that you can do this in another limited way and they've learned that lesson and they would like to continue it but as far as what the united states might have learned from listening to people on the ground who are in touch with those who bags of drugs of the united states warfare i'm talking about the families first loved ones have been slaughtered i'm talking about families where people are now widow and orphan the united states doesn't learn from listening to the cries in the please. people who they got us to stop the killing there's no indication that the united states learned from iraqi families from afghan families and yet we must hope that somehow u.s. public opinion which is not in favor of warfare afghanistan or pakistan might somehow reach even the people inside the oval office and the u.s.

congress carefully but they're coordinating voices for creative nonviolence thank you very much for your views here about. britain's foreign secretary says that russia and the u.k. have each expelled one of the others diplomats in a row over alleged spying it's the first signing of the two countries of ation since moscow and london began working to reset ties him it reports from london that . 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 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 what the foreign office here had done was 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. well that's more news analysis always at your fingertips website that salty dog. this is what's on life you right now hundreds jailed off to protest to present the franco's election to roost and get more of what's been happening on the streets and the. short list of eleven has been revealed in russia's competition from moscow the twenty fourteen sochi winter olympics with ideas ranging from a dolphin to a leopard what's it to be good looking choose which one you not the best i thought

he took. off to sealing the deal for russian nuclear power to fuel india's growing energy demand nutriment get it will be discovering a different kind of oriental energy on the second indian tore the president will take in bollywood and the taj mahal. has more from india. now that all the major deals have been signed during president the biggest high profile visit to india its 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. most. popular film directors and film stars and indian films have always been rather welcomed in

russia and now indian filmmakers are looking to reproduce their classics together with the russian directors also here in mumbai russian president 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 good these are the alternatives. but the intelligentsia in both our countries you know we can all for alternative ways of thinking earlier during his visit to need daily billion dollar deals were signed between russian president and his indian counterpart including deals in military cooperation and russia is also trying to such as fight india's growing demand for energy to already but he's already building two nuclear reactors in the south of the country hold together all the thirty documents were signed back in new delhi as of course the two countries of the bric group of emerging economies have many

spears of cooperation. reporting from india about it take a brief look at some other stories from around the world the ivory coast faces the risk of returning to civil war following the disputed presidential election good morning comes from u.n. secretary general ban ki moon he added that un peacekeepers were being forced from the country by the incumbent about the world only recognized 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 into violence in recent days. south korea is to start its largest live journal exercises near the border with the north more than eight hundred military personnel are set to take part backed by fighter jets that follows exercises and you know. both sides had a face of exchange of military for last month as well as they even maneuvers off

the east coast the drill comes despite calls from the north not to escalate tensions in the region. the 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 helped to build an effective team on the ground however ati's military contributor. says a diplomat failed to tackle the most moving 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 respect and attention from his troops leveraging our propre of 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 to 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 a titanic fubar both in afghanistan and across the border in pakistan. america's involvement in so many conflicts over the years because the many u.s. soldiers beginning to doubt it is just cause for it a special report is coming your way in just over an hour's time but hasn't. that are killing innocent kids or was it a call of course and that's never around. when

the skull still. i think are really every day. try to memorise. the same assume a long time this year john. i was. i was ashamed that i. i was ashamed that i had. my legs. forward. but i'll 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 a good. from stalin's school to sylvia to difference the deaf in russia have not had an

easy time even now they even though the russian sign language is not officially recognized and many say social attitudes can be a problem too but deaf people all finding ways of making themselves heard. the reports. alex econ hear the song. with his hand such. that. he tells me he speaks the most beautiful language in the world. is the one. which will produce. and so despite living in the world of silence alex and his fellow performers put on

a show full of life and music. appreciates this theatre of the deaf actors is an exception in the world mostly hostile to those speaking with their hands. if they look at. you. know. even though language doesn't officially exist all previous attempts to pass along giving official recognition to the russian side 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 solid eight 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 more than fifty . three. year old. boy what would you be.

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. that's john is one of four children the only deaf one in the family. this is the first beauty shop for the hard of hearing and has stopped interpreter.

says. they may not hear. they're not commute and they love talking. after all those who calls here are 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 two thousand. and. r.t. moscow. for us. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. would be soon rich bright. sun from sun still crashing.

down time please don't come. to business russia's biggest lender will post a record profits of five point one billion dollars this year that's according to the bank's head herman growth list had predicted profit would top four point eight billion but plans to boost this to six point four billion dollars next year however grif said the bike will not raise dividends despite those profits. this year got the stock market is now european shares have slipped into the red in the past hour fitch has warned of a possible downgrade of greek bonds as e.u. debt problems spread the nikkei swung into the red as well at the close japan says its economy will grow only one and a half percent next year compared with this year's three point one percent export growth has accelerated however for the first time in nine months camera maker can

and went up almost two percent in tokyo. after a poor beginning to the week the r.t.s. has had a positive start for the second day in a row russia's benchmark index opened up almost half a percent is also higher this hour in economic news russia's g.d.p. grew four point two percent in november year on year which sits just. b.p. growth to three point seven percent for the first eleven months of twenty ten energy companies again in today as light sweet moves closer to ninety dollars a barrel russia's biggest carmaker after viruses also advancing after targeting a twenty eight percent jump in sales next year to six billion dollars but lou call is slightly down on the r.t.s. as investors cash yesterday's gains. now russia may be emerging from the financial crisis but company bosses are keeping their salaries in check 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 mags found c.e.o.'s have raised the average salaries of their workers this year by twelve percent christmas and the new year expected to be a profitable time for banks as shoppers turn to their credit cards to buy presents and food research from home credit shows that the number of people willing to buy gifts on credit has jumped to thirty nine percent from just twenty three percent last year research also reveals that people are ready to spend more money on presents as confidence in the russian economy recovers after the crisis. that's the business remember you can always find most doors on a website that's also a dot com slash business.

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the watching on t.v. let's take a look at the headlines for you now the u.s. senate wraps up debate on the nuclear cuts treaty with russia late for a final vote expected to take place as soon as wednesday the democrats so sure the deal will be sealed despite strong opposition from the republicans. reports that the u.s. is planning to expand its afghan campaign ground raids in neighboring pakistan threaten to strain relations between washington and there's none of that mission denies the claim that special forces will start targeting militants across the

border. and to sealing billion dollar defense and energy deals with india bed of his info cold troop treat on the second day of his visit the question even when explored the phenomenon only with film industry. makes to on a boy could talk to the georgian opposition leader you know bush and nods and about the state of democracy in the country and its relations with its neighbors. yes that was the plan. often when addressing the rallies you say your mission is to introduce democracy to dorothea to make it more democratic but this conflicts with the image of your country in the west where georgia is often presented as a beacon of democracy what don't you like about the current version of the georgian democracy. the.