six days of debates were really a marathon a number of republicans kept stalling the vote for as long as they could as of now democrats are sure that they have enough moments to do provided the passage of this treaty they need at least sixty seven out of one hundred so much as a stake with this new start treaty both for us and russia and for the whole of the international community and yet a number of republican senators just went out of their way to undermine it without having substantial reasons and as many believe just to give back obama or to bargain for it to have this bargaining opportunity for something that they will want in return for their road vote and their actions provoked an avalanche of criticism from the nation's top security experts who fear that the deal could become a hostage a victim of political games on capitol hill in the final days of the debates they wanted to rewrite the language of the treaty which would have actually killed the treaty they wanted to take out this line in the preamble of the deal that states

the fact of the connection between a fancy even defensive flap was anyone any security expert will tell you that the connection is obvious and in fact all of those from the military who testified before the senate said were saying exactly that they also maintain that it's not the start treaty that would make the united states we currently fact the treaty explicitly states that either side control out of it if they deem it threatens their national security for russia's this new start treaty is all about balance and equality and they made it clear they will be in it as long as the united states respects that balance we have some very serious very significant reductions on the way both countries will cut their nuclear arsenals by a third down to some fifteen hundred fifty war has the treaty will also limit the number of delivery the poles and launchers but even with those costs that two countries will still have more than ninety percent of the walls nuclear weapons so many see the. that the value of this arms reduction treaty is not just being with

options it's in the trust and cooperation that goes with it and russia welcomes this agreement and sees a lots of opportunities for cooperation behind it and that's exactly the point that president medvedev makes being that. moment is impossible in the nearest future if i said anything different you would think i'm telling you however i am convinced that russia and the u.s. have made an important step to the non-nuclear environment by signing the start treaty in april this year my colleague barack obama is now struggling with his lawmakers in attempts to persuade them to ratify the document i hope people succeed . with them well for weeks and months the president of the united states all of his administration all members of his administration all of the military all living former sectors of state and of the fans were really calling for senators not to ruin this reset opportunity for us russia relations and the outcome of the vote

will show whether their calls fell on deaf ears or not. oh let's get more on this from victor meason who's a political analyst from the institute for strategic assessments in moscow and mysteries of the start treaty is on the homestretch now do you think it will be finally sealed in this year. well or at least the course of the optimism in the moscow and we are sure that mr obama who is usually successful in all his primary goals in politics could get through at the market rectified. with this republican obstruction in the senate ok you're talking about cautious optimism city you think there is a chance the u.s. could still fail to ratify the treaty. where we're pretty much sure because i mean the last month of the early. is he is

a pretty much in favor of. many. republican senate siding with democrats. is very beneficial for the united states security ok well if the u.s. senate approves the deal it will be a major victory for president obama and this treaty has international importance so why do you think those republicans in congress have been driving wedges into this initiative. well i think i'm sorry to say. you know in the vein of the. movement in the united states. to force the country and we know that conservatives saw very influential specially in places like. there is a new thing. and there anything. with obama

notwithstanding what they had. gone through the interests of all the republicans efforts to debate the voting to submission have failed how do you think these amendments were eventually dismissed because of party politics. well i think. russia first of all and with all that the russian foreign minister dismissed any possibility. which was great. their resolve very strained out of. both the united states and russia i'm going to gauge shrooms. would actually mean killing. a matter of principle for the russian side just to prevent it which would kill. the entire three q. which would of the entire document ok let's look at the bigger picture how crucial . the treaty from both russia and the us. well of course many people

in the. negotiations many influential people in russia in the lead was saying of course russia would die with these documents. finally it's the result of well balanced compromise and it's in the interest of both country is because it introduces the deceased. wage. in great danger. of the last start treaty be in the. military build up in strategic forces and a change of the material information and i think it's very important. for the stability of predictability of. the development in all the strategic

nuclear forces. actually told. to the. most stable and more reliable international and downs. of a more stable and reliable international and as russia hope that the final approval of the treaty will be an important step towards a non-nuclear environment for other countries to follow now will the spirit of this treaty extend to other nations where concerns remain over their nuclear capabilities. well you know i think. result of the signing of the three g. in april by dual young dynamic president. is basically blood it's not just by. old people. reasonable people iran because they understand as i say signing this kind of treaty of moving through about. bigg boss will drawl it only strengthens

the informational stability and it only adds to the after three and a field goal for weapons of mass destruction nonproliferation goals and b. for the position of the russian so i guess i understand that any. gods being nuclear strategic forces would be impossible with all the other members of. joining and i speak about france. britain then joined and some so-called none of your soul nuclear states all right thank you very much for inside that was victor music the moscow based institute for strategic assessments. and now still to come in the program the call from russia's deaf community to be heard.

it's a sign of the times as the country's millions of hearing impaired people pledged to get their language recognized. well it's being reported that u.s. commanders in afghanistan are pushing to extend their presence in 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 it's something the u.s. military denies and washington has been a you sing drone strike suspected insurgency bases in pakistan and us often accused of killing civilians in the process has been a strongly protesting against the attacks describing them as a violating its territorial sovereignty pakistani officials say they are capable of handling the militants by themselves ok kelly who campaigns against u.s. led war says american military establishment is simply hoping for more money.

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 whose means of attack and 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 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 work there i'm talking about the

families first loved ones who 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 pleas of people who beg us to stop the killing. now russia's most famous female agent is now starting a political career as one of the leaders of the youth movement out of shopman became known worldwide after the spy scandal earlier this year between moscow and washington that saw agents from both sides being swapped artie's tom dart and watched as she took on her latest role. it was at this meeting of the young guards organization which was filled with a young audience looking towards a political future in russia that chapman turned up and gave her blessing to them she was elected to the public council of the organization and when she was given the microphone she gave them some words of encouragement. to do so many people

would see them and pays money does this make us happy probably the symphony through to human emotions he would be listening to to teach us something you can use your most vocal is smile when you know he's an old nose in the matters and if you meet them. well that might seem a little bit rich coming from a child man who has pursued quite ruthlessly the goals of publicists and fame and fortune but if we used to say maybe do what she says and not what she does she may not be the best spokesman ever but as one of the organizers here joked to was wherever she goes she's brilliant for publicity because she's followed by a massive pack of cameras she's certainly very notorious aspiring supposedly uncovered in the us and it was on the chapman being deported back to russia as part of a spy swap since then he would have thought coming home with her tail between her legs

that she would have been really put into obscurity quite the opposite has happened she's turned into a huge celebrity since then she has been appointed as advisor to one of the one of the russian banks she's traveled to baikonur to see a space rocket fly up to the to the international space station and perhaps most notoriously of all she says she has been in a number of photo shoots the most raunchy of all being for the russian edition of maxim magazine and her firm fertile figure carrying a reputation before her so the question. issue going into politics well who knows but if this organization wanted. they could have chosen a far worse one and a less attractive one miss chapman. well there are fresh 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 on patching up their strained relations artie's lower 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 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 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 dmitri medvedev which is quite a 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 affair 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. our london correspondent laura there and we'll get more from our team on our website for the latest news and analysis. here's what's lined up for you at all to dot com hundred seventy day old outer protests of president bashar goes election victory in bellowed roots get more of what's been happening on the streets of the capital and why. plus a shortlist of eleven have been killed in russia's competition for a mascot for the twenty fourth to insult you but your olympics with ideas ranging from a ball player to a leopard what's it going to be true is which one you like best at our team don't.

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 dalia pushkov are reports on their silence struggle. that. was. alex econ hear the song. from the family was yes he sings it with his hands touch and i should have thought of that i am. he tells me he speaks the most beautiful language in the world. and so despite living in the world of silence alex he and his fellow before must

put on a show full of life and music. the audience appreciates this theater of death is an exception in the world mostly cost 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 as solid a 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.

gracious. you. were. 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. john is one of four children feel me deaf one in the fan of oh. this is the first beauty shop for the hard of hearing and has stopped into a protest.

they may not hear but they're not mute and then told king. us. all true those who call others saying it may be just that the music of their hearts and so is louder but still not proud enough to be officially recognized. as you live in the. dairy bush kovach party moscow. looking around the world now

what today's other top stories for the surgery good citizens to leave the ivory coast after a political crisis of the african state erupted into deadly violence u.s. secretary general earlier wanted the situation is becoming increasingly volatile and risks a return the civil war ban ki-moon said you had 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 lab near its border with the north artillery jets at about eight hundred soldiers will take part in the large scale exercises the many of those coming at heightened tensions between the two countries following an artillery exchange last month south korea also held a live fire military exercises earlier this week a move that north korea said could ignite a war. and all the way georgia's all position leader opens up about what she sees

as her country's waning democracy but before that the latest business news with kareena in just a few moments. for the. we've got. the biggest issues getting voice face to face with the news makers. bringing you the latest in science and technology from. harvard. hello and welcome to our business bulletin law enforcers have launched an embezzlement probe at a bank founded by disgraced former moscow manner you. bank of moscow russia's fifth

largest has allegedly bailed out debt ridden wife ulan bator in the last year to the tune of three hundred million euros in a fortune and property deal who's called was fired by president of egypt in september he denies all the all allegations. and russia's biggest lenders burbank post record profits of five point one billion dollars this year according to the bank's head herman graff analysts had predicted net would top four point eight billion dollars by bank plans to boost profit another twenty percent next year however graph added the bank will not raise dividends despite the profits. alone when you produce a russo has hard merrill lynch to appraise its twenty five percent stake in. that's according to reuters news agency earlier this month or just make an offer to buy the twenty five percent stake from twelve million dollars we can produce a quickly rejected the bid saying it's holding in was a strategic investment over sources close to russia's board say that as

a publicly traded company shareholders expect all offers to be taken seriously. let's look at the markets u.s. stocks are flat in early trading after a report said the u.s. economy did not grow as quickly during the summer as predicted the commerce department said the country's g.d.p. rose two point six percent between two lines of temp work while analysts hoped for a gain of two point eight percent. and european stock struggled to extend gains into a third session on wednesday on the shares support for you this is great all gained one point three percent and volkswagen has point seven percent british airways is up over one and a half percent as airlines and rail operators return to more normal share jewels after four days of snow related tales but event. cautious ahead of us third quarter g.d.p. numbers. after a poor beginning to the week the r.t.s. is creating over half a percent for the second day in a row demise it's also high in economic news russia's g.d.p. grew four point two percent in november year on

a year which said student peoples to three point seven percent for the first eleven months of two thousand and ten. thank you companies are gaining on wednesday as light sweet moves closer to ninety dollars a barrel but his biggest carmaker up the boss 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. now ratings agency fitch has raised its two thousand and ten growth forecasts for the rapidly emerging markets of china brazil and india but it has revised down its forecast partly due to the continuing effects of the severe heat wave and drought in the summer experts however say the downgrade should not doubt an investor appetite for the country next year we expect the old fall from fixed income instruments into equities and seen these are spirits of the. world markets in the bric countries is very important for inflows as for

particular will number of g.d.p. growth for example for you has to be lower more conservative for you we have about four percent forecast for next year but i would say that investors are looking more on sectors in particular sectors for example in a retail in consumer sector the companies are going thirty percent a year so. the general number four percent use so important for kind of a general attitude for economy but for investors who is buying particular stocks in particular sectors much more important through what sort of the surface how deep or from. that's all for this hour johnny less than fifteen minutes of all business news here at.

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patroller really emotional the meridian country club suborning shirton finest piece of the first or apocalypse convince cadence with such old clothes new home built in learning about scope golden couple boutique hotel. you're watching our team let's now have a look at. top stories 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've finally secured enough support for the deal. the new face of russian patriotism the country's best known agent out of chapman appears to start a political career and you. media reports suggest the u.s. is acquiring a military push from

a gallus and into pakistan despite intense opposition from islamabad. next door just opposition leader talks to r.t. you know which of not say was in moscow recently to attend the unavailing of a monument to world war two soldiers last year georgia destroyed a memorial to make way for a government buildings despite protests now she's been telling our boycott that her country has an illusion of democracy. just that with the. often when interesting rallies you say your mission is to introduce democracy to georgia to make it more democratic victories conflicts with the image of your country in the west georgia is often presented as a beacon of democracy what don't you like the current version india crissy. the myth of georgia.