so said he sure the democrats have the sixty seven votes of approval needed to get the trade ratified. this would not have happened without five partisanship and i'm very grateful to a number of senators on the other side of the aisle 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 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 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 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 curred 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 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 in reductions it's in the trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers that goals 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 defense or 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 calls fell on deaf ears in congress russia hopes the approval of the treaty will be an important step towards a non-nuclear environment for other countries to fall nuclear campaigner josephs it ensured he told r.t. that now that the talking marathon is over the republican minority won't be able to delay ratification any longer. 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 in the senate that are just opposed to arms control treaties they're arguing to the bitter and 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 that would tip the balance in fact what happened is that military officials talk to each senator they got calls from the 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. live from moscow this is r t and on the way the russian president's eastern adventure for political deals out of the way president medvedev heads for the movies and makes a good line for the bollywood sets. now it's being reported that u.s. commanders in afghanistan are pushing to extend their presence in a pakistani tribal areas the new york times quotes an anonymous american official who claims special forces will start targeting militants across the border opening a new front now with something the u.s. military denies 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 been a strongly protesting against the attacks describing them as violating its territorial sovereignty pakistani officials say they are capable of handling the

militants by themselves now kathy kelly who campaigns against u.s. led war says america's military establishment is simply hoping for more money. and it 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. a united states joint special operations who is. attacking the death squads and assassinations and night raids would exacerbate the tremendous almost tidal 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 portfolio isn't 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 to learn. 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 whose loved ones have been slaughtered i'm talking about families where people are now widowed 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. and we'll get more analysis of the american presence in the region from artie's the military contributor later this hour. now russia's most famous female agent is now starting a political career as one of the leaders of a youth movement and a chapman became known worldwide after the spy scandal earlier this year between moscow and washington that saw agents from both sides being swapped well let's get more on this from our teens tom. now tom you were following the meeting of the

youth movement today now why are they choosing as their figurehead. when i was at a meeting or lots of young people from the young guards organization meeting today here in moscow that was there where she made an appearance they got that from regions across russia to elect a new leader for that organization to elect people to the public council that's holding the station she was elected to represent one of the russian regions public council and she addressed the young people with words of encouragement and that was the organization itself it's part of the united russia party in russia and it's the youth wing of the party for a lot of these people looking to join the political class later in their lives and so grateful to hear those words of encouragement from this child. to remind us of what adam chapman had been doing which saw her make the news worldwide

. well yes. chapman became famous saw infamous i suppose were when back in june a spying scandal erupted in the u.s. she was taken out of the u.s. deported in july as a suspected member of part of a spy ring known and far from becoming forgotten when she got back to russia she's become something of a celebrity it might be a bit of an understatement really. before she appeared here today this being. just her latest public appearance she has posed for photos shoots she's a notable firm for tallent her looks got her a comment from u.s. vice president joe biden that he joked that he doesn't know why they're deported so he would have kept her in the u.s. she's also on the board of one of the on of russia's banks. advisory boards and she

recently traveled to baikonur in kazakhstan to see off for a russian rockets on the way to the international space station so this is merely that her latest public appearance whether or not she's going into politics it's hard to say but if the russians did want to choose a very good p.r. face for recruiting young political people to their parties they could have done a lot worse than chapman. all right well thanks very much for that our correspondent tom barton. well they are staying on the topic of spies they are fresh by scandals making waves right now moscow claims the espionage allegations against one of its diplomats who was expelled from london are baseless russia's foreign ministry says it's regrettable that this unfriendly move is happening while both countries work up work on patching their strained relations the lore and it has more from the british capital. william hague the foreign secretary recent

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 would ject 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 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 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 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 libyan young 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. our london correspondent laura and that there and still to come on the program the call for russia's deaf community to be heard.

it's a sign of the times the country's millions of hearing impaired people pledged to get their language recognized. after sealing a nuclear deal to fuel india's growing energy demand dmitri medvedev is discovering a different kind of or yentl energy on the second day of his indian tour the russian president is taking and bollywood and the taj mahal artie's natalia is following his visit. 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

director is and film stars that is 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 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 good these are the on going to do this for the intelligentsia and countries you know we can all fall alternative ways of thinking earlier injury used visit to meet daily billion dollar deals were signed between washing president and his indian counterparts including deals in military cooperation and russia's 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 altogether although 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 that was artie's a dollar novick of our reporting from mumbai. now more news on the list as always at your fingertips on our website that's r t v dot com and here's a taste of what's all the line for you right now hundreds have been jailed after protests at president of the franco's election victory in bella rooms get more of what's been happening on the streets of the capital and why. it lost a shortlist of eleven has been revealed in russia's competition for a vast top for the twenty fourth and saw she winter olympics with ideas ranging from a dolphin to a leopard what's it to be now choose which one you like best at r.t.e. dot com.

the u.s. commander in afghanistan says the late richard holbrooke made a vital contribution to the campaign in the country general david petraeus claims president obama's special representative help to build an effective team on the ground but artie's military contributors says the diplomat failed to talk of the most burning problem. 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 level misappropriated 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 trails 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. well looking around the world now at today's other top stories france is urging its citizens to leave the ivory coast after a political crisis of the african state erupted into deadly violence the u.n. secretary general earlier wanted the situation is becoming increasingly volatile

and risks a return to civil war ban ki-moon said un peacekeepers were being forced out by the incumbent president after it recognized his rival's election victory more than fifty people have reportedly died since the ballot. south korea will hold its largest ever landed air drills near its border with the north artillery jets and about eight hundred soldiers will take part in the large scale exercises the maneuvers combat bit hard to detention between the two countries following an artillery exchange last month south korea also held live fire military exercises earlier this week a move that north korea said could ignite a war. now you might expect a language used by around ten million people to be fairly well supported but for deaf people in russia communication gets no further than their own community sign language is still not officially recognized. over reports on their silent struggle

. alex econ hear the song. from the family. yet he sings it with his hands touching. that was that i was. 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 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 possible 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 date 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. racial. you know. 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. he's one of four children the only deaf one in the family. this is the first beauty shop for the hard of hearing and has stealth interpreter. they may not hear but there are no commute and then love talking. to the so.

it's. all true those who call all the same people it may be just that the music of their hearts and so is loud but still not loud enough to be officially recognized. as. well in a few minutes georgists opposition leader opens up about what she sees as her country's waning democracy but first let's get a business update corrina want to hear that law enforcers have relaunch an embezzlement probe at a bank of founded by moscow's ex mayor yes that's right it's alleged the bank of

moscow has bailed out debt ridden wife billionaire even about two and a more in a moment. hungry for the feel we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. which brightened if you knew me by song from silence to impression. on time please don't come.

hello and welcome to business i'm your host corrina malakand lot of forces have launched an embezzlement probe at a bank founded by a disgraced former moscow mayor you re luzhkov it's alleged the bank of moscow russia's fifth largest bank bailed out of debt ridden wife even the butler in the last year to the tune of three hundred million euros in a fortune in property deal was called was fired by president medvedev in september and he denies any wrongdoing. and russia's biggest lenders bever record profits of five point one billion dollars this year according to the bank's head herrmann graph analysts had predicted net would top four point eight billion dollars per bank plans to boost profit another twenty percent next year however graft out of the bank will not raise dividends despite the profits. to other stories other when your producer also has hired merrill lynch to appraise a twenty five percent stake in north that's according to voices news agency now earlier this month offered to buy the twenty five percent stake for twelve billion

dollars when your producer quickly rejected the bid saying it's holding the north. it was institute you can best lead however sources close to the board say that as a publicly traded company shareholders expect all officers to be taken seriously. now a quick check on the stock markets and european shares a makes this hour british airways is up over one and a half percent as airlines and will operate as we turn to more normal shareholders . shed jewels after four days of snow related chaos but investors are cautious ahead of us third quarter g.d.p. number this is seeking after a poor beginning to the week he has had a positive start for the second day in a row russia's benchmark index opened up half a percent the market was also higher because on the news russia's g.d.p. grew four point two percent in november a year on year which says g.d.p. growth to three point seven percent for the first eleven months of two thousand and

ten. energy companies are gaining today as light sweet moves closer to ninety dollars a barrel his biggest carmaker after the us is losing despite targeting a twenty eight percent jump in sales next year to six billion dollars trading volumes are slimming as the holidays approach however crocodile log still sees room for another rally. i think the market will continue to be quiet but still strong we saw in previous few days consolidation the market and i think of the market going up we see some inflows long term funds and we see these inflows coming into russia by the end of the year we know that some funds will see you shuffling of their portfolios there it could be so much too tough to christmas in europe and i still hold that. these consolidation we see right now we'll end up with short term kind of a very strong rally by the end of the year it usually comes this way and i think

you see in general was really kind of stable in terms of influencing in the russian did a good fun. 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 a study by recruiters max found c.e.o.'s have raised the average salaries of their workers this year twelve percent. and that's why we have to be back with more in about fifteen minutes.

for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in indonesia she's available in hotels. remote have been turned. spawn sunday of the choto the western

result use of doing something. the. ground as you call it a hotel full seasons hotel the sultan hotel. you're watching our tea time now to have a look at our top. for this hour russia and america's nuclear reduction treaty is due to be voted in by the senate in washington with democrats certain they finally secured enough support for the deal. the russian president's indian engagement dimitri medvedev science off billions of dollars worth of deals from energy to military have takes time out of bollywood and the taj mahal.

media reports suggest the u.s. is planning a military push from afghanistan into pakistan despite intense opposition from islamabad. and next georgia's opposition leader talks to r.t. you know bush about say was recently in moscow to attend the unveiling of a monument to world war two soldiers last year georgia destroyed a memorial to make way for government buildings despite protests now she's been telling our team six on a boycott that her country has an illusion of democracy. just that with the. afternoon when interesting rallies you say unison is to introduce democracy to draw region to make it more democratic because conflicts with the image of your country in the watched georgia is actually presented as a beacon of democracy what don't you can't connect the current version of future which india kristie.