decided that this was the moment to act 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 the opposition to the treaty has been huge in washington a number of groups hundred senators went out of their way to undermine it without substantial arguments against it and 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 the treaty and actually russia's foreign minister said your lover i've 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 the treaty could become a victim of political games on capitol hill in 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

back 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 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 with options it's in the trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers that goes with it. weeks and months the president of the united states all members

of the of his administration all of the military all 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 that was our. reporting there now joseph sitting shani the president of the anti-nuclear campaign group the ploughshares fund says the rock obama has done well to overcome the many obstacles and the start 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 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. and still ahead for you this hour on r.t. . they cannot hear you but have a lot to say we explore how death people of russia tune into

a world impervious to their problems. the u.s. led coalition forces in afghanistan could extend their reach into neighboring pakistan that's according to a new york times report now the paper quotes an anonymous american official who claims special forces will start targeting militants across the border the u.s. denies the suggestions washington has been using unmanned drones to strike suspected insurgency bases in pakistan and is often accused of killing civilians in the process islamabad has described the attacks as a violation of its territorial sovereignty and kathy kelly coordinator of voices for creative nonviolence says the u.s. military establishment is simply hoping to prolong its cash flow. that seems to me that the united states would have an effect similar to what has happened in the past here in afghanistan along with the drone attacks the invasion of

a sovereign country by united states joint special operations whose means of attack and the death squads and assassinations and night raids would exacerbate the tremendous almost title wave of anti-american sentiment amongst the public 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 bear the brunt 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 and the pleas of people who beg us to stop the killing. but it was kathy kelly coordinator of voices for creative nonviolence talking to us from kabul. moscow has called the expulsion of one of its diplomats by london an unfriendly move to say the spying accusations against the official were baseless russia's foreign ministry says it's regrettable that such an incident should take place just as the countries are working to reset relations laura abbott 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 diplomats 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 war what the foreign office here had done 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 and met with president 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 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 voight 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 there's always more news in the alice is at your fingertips on our website r t v dot com and here is a taste of what's on my. for you right now hundreds have been jailed after protests at president goes election victory in bello groups get more of what's been happening on the streets of the cottle and why. the last a shortlist of eleven has been revealed and russia's competition for a mascot for the twenty fourteen olympics with ideas ranging from a dolphin to a leopard what's it to be choose which one you like passed our team on.

after sealing a deal for russia a nuclear power to fuel india's growing energy demand dimitri medvedev will be discovering a different kind of our young to the letter g. on the second day of his india tour the president will take a bollywood and the taj mahal artie's natalia novikov a 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 the 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 some of their classics together with the russian directors also here in mumbai russian president is meeting with a meeting with representatives of the general public at a local university as cooperation in science and technology 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 is also trying to such as fight india's growing demand for energy it's already has already building two nuclear reactors in the south of the country altogether overlooked

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. artie's natalia novikov a bear reporting from india and now let's 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 the morning comes from u.n. secretary general ban ki moon he added that u.n. peacekeepers were being forced from the country by the incumbent laurent gbagbo after the world of body recognized the victory of his rival the president accuse the international community of trying to bring the fight to his country now the u.n. says more than fifty people have been killed in related violence in recent days. south korea is to start its largest live drill 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 near yongbyon island where both sides had a fatal exchange of artillery fire last month as well as navy mini universe off the east coast and the drill comes despite calls from the north not to escalate tension in the region. freezing temperatures and heavy snow are continuing to cause massive disruption across europe travel has been severely hampered as airports struggle to keep runways free of ice bridge it is badly affected with hundreds of flights grounded and tens of thousands of travelers stranded at the e.u. has criticized transportation agencies and says more must be done to prevent disruption in the future. students are taking to the streets across italy to protest university budget costs expected to be approved by parliament it's feared the proposed reforms will mean less funding for research and will eventually impact the standard of education police in rome have sealed off the

parliament building ahead of the demonstrations last week the capital solve violent protests after prime minister blair. scotti survived a no confidence vote. 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 build an effective team on the ground however artie's military contributor colonel you get a crucial says the diplomat failed to tackle of the most burning issue with a gradual shift of the us 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. and credibility and respect and attention from its troops let me shoot me sir paul period preys on the architect of

the drug promotion strategy in afghanistan and their main defender of the opium cultivation all across the country reach used to be general trios we know you general to stick with your sprays to richard holbrooke calling the tightening of the us policy in afghanistan and pakistan hugh might as well make his mission guilty by association he might be start with the mission creep which will be described as the titanic. both in afghanistan and across the border in pakistan and america's involvement in conflicts over the years has led u.s. soldiers to doubt if there's a just cause for their country's interventions a special report is coming your way later today but here's a taster. did i kill innocent kids allies or call the race of course and that's

never a. good moment sharper in the skull still with me i think of it every day. i still have the flashbacks traumatic memories. so much so that long term use here trying to tell me. i was a charade. i was ashamed that i had been wounded i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got marm i got my legs. it. was in the march. where i would be out in all the hours of our courtroom. then i'll believe where i would go in the woods 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. from stalin's scorn to soviet indifference the deaf in russia have not had an easy time even now they live in limbo the russian sign language is not officially recognised and many say social attitudes can be a problem too but deaf people are finding ways of making themselves heard as. reports. of the song. yet he sings it with his hands instead. of blood. 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. if they look at the. people he. knows. even the language doesn't officially exist all previous attempts to pass along giving official recognition to the russian side languages have failed. the. sign language is their mother tongue but like any other foreign language he has the right exists more than one percent of the russians are placing is deaf don't have a language the problem dates back more than seventy years when sign language was

banned from study at schools in one nine hundred fifty stalin made the situation even worse by calling it not even a surrogate 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 you. bring you live you. will be. the head of the 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 worlds.

crew 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 and protests . they may not hear but they're not cute and they love talking.

to those who can't hear all the same people it may be just that the music of their hearts and souls is louder but still not loud enough to be official. party moscow. or the business update is coming out shortly. he to.

be official. from the. video. and feed in the palm of your. question. to business lore of forces of reno it's an embezzlement probe it's a bank founded by disgraced former moscow may your english golf it's the bank of

moscow russia's fifth largest. in the last year to the tune of three hundred million euros in a property deal. by president medvedev in september he denies any wrongdoing. russia's biggest lenders burbank will post record profits of five point one billion dollars this year according to the bank's head graph had predicted met with top four point eight billion. to boost profits another twenty percent next year however a graph added the bank will not raise dividends despite those profits. british airways is now up two percent for the session. as airlines and rail operators return to more normal should jewels of the four days of snow related chaos but investors are cautious head of u.s. third quarter g.d.p. numbers this evening. after a poor beginning to the week the l.t.s. has had a positive start for the second day in a row russia's benchmark is up point six percent as is the my six this our in

economy news russia's g.d.p. grew four point two percent in november a year on the year which shares g.d.p. growth to three point seven percent for the first eleven months of twenty ten energy companies are gaining today as light sweet moves closer to ninety dollars a barrel russia's biggest carmaker after verse is losing however despite targeting a twenty eight percent jump in sales next year to six billion dollars. a russian diamond monopoly alrosa could sell fifty percent minus one share in several miles to mining giant rio tinto the two hundred and fifty million dollars according to a bit of mr daly several months holds the license to the diamond fields in russia's north which is said to contain two hundred twenty million carats worth around twelve billion dollars and list sale rose to needs the funds and the expertise to develop the field ratings agency fitch has raised its twenty ten growth forecast

for the rapidly emerging markets of china brazil and india but it has revised down its russia for cost partly due to the continuing effects of the severe heat wave and drought in the summer experts however say that that should not dampen invest appetite for the country. next year we expect the old fall from fixed income instruments into equities and seen these aspects of the greats of all markets in bric countries is very important for inflows as for particular number of g.d.p. growth for example target has to be lower more conservative you would have about four percent focused for next year but i would say that investors are looking more on sectors in particular sectors for example in retail in consumer such a companies are going to push into year so maybe the general number of four percent easing important for kind of a general attitude for economy but for investors who is buying particular stocks in particular sectors much more important what how deeper from. russia may be merging

from the financial crisis but company both is keeping 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 for their workers this year but twelve percent. christmas and the new year are expected to be a profitable time for banks as shoppers turn to their credit cards to buy presents and food research from home credit bank shows 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 already to spend more money on presents as confidence in the russian economy recovers after the crisis. that's the latest remember you can always find most stories on our website that's dot com slash business.

it can hit doctors wives policeman's wives ministers wires and i just prayed that if you didn't find me if i could slip through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal

abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual abuse at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are only two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him i'm me in jail or he's going to kill it me see. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. and corporations are all today. in india in the move to the joint be the children's. the gateway to

the grand imperial. told us to. go and. read this and the colonel was original as a treat. they're watching our team have a look at our headlines for this hour the u.s. senate wraps up debate on the nuclear treaty with russia clearing the way for a final vote expected to take place as soon as wednesday the democrats are sure the deal will be sealed despite strong opposition from the republicans. reports that the u.s. is planning to expand its afghan campaign with ground raids in neighboring pakistan threatened to strain relations between washington and islamabad coalition is the

claim that special forces will start targeting militants across the border. and after sealing a billion dollar defense and energy deals with india to be true medvedev is in for a cultural treat on the second day of his visit the russian leader will explore the phenomenon of the paula world film industry. and coming up peter lavelle asks is gas whether cost of zero is gradually turning into a criminal state supported by washington and its nato allies crosstalk is up next. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms of. the future.