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 base 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 can turn a lot of it if they deem is 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 underway both countries will cut their nuclear arsenals by a third down to some fifteen hundred and fifty war has the treaty will also limit the number of delivery the poles and launchers but even with those costs the two countries will still have more than ninety percent of the walls nuclear weapons so many see that the value of this arms reduction treaty is not just the reduction it's in the trust and cooperation that goes with it and russia welcomes this agreement and sees lots of opportunities for cooperation behind it and that's exactly the point that. resume debate if make. some amends 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 us have made an important step to the non-nuclear environment by signing the stone 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 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. political analyst victor mizzen says the politics of americans conservative women are based on constantly driving a wedge into obama's initiatives which is why the treaty faced so many hurdles.

it's a. you know in the vein of the. movement in the united states. forces in the country and we know that conservatives saw very influential especially in places like the. bible belt. is a new thing. and they're trying to bury anything in the main with obama notwithstanding what they had simply. gone through his vital interests the signing of the three g. enabled the if by dual young dynamic president self united states and russia will get basically plaudits not just by. by older people as we call them in this time so good we'll of all reasonable people iran the planet because they're just and as i said bad signing these kind of three d.

as and moving. along. for all. the strengths and the international stability and it's only. in the field. weapons of mass destruction. shown the cause and these are the position of the russian side as i understand it any further drastic cuts in the. forces would be impossible with all the members of. joining us. and 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 left to get their language recognized. 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 in the autumn us american official who claims special forces will start targeting militants across the border opening a new front with something the u.s. military denies washington has been to using drones to strike suspected insurgency basis in pakistan and is often accused of killing civilians in the process islam above has been a strong way of protesting against the attacks describing them as violating its territorial sovereignty pakistani officials say they are capable of have the militants by themselves look at the kill you 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 by a united states joint special operations who is means attacking 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 portfolio is in run to the bank and that you can do that. in a not 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 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. and will get more analysis of the american presence in the region from artie's 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 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. to watch that 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. recently people will

say you know when fame and money does these make us happy probably the symphony to city human emotions he would be listening to to society he should most vocal he is smiling no he's an old nose in the matters and if you mean the world. 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 lenny 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 have fertile figure carrying a reputation before her so the question. really is is she going into politics well who knows but if this organization wanted to be a p.r. figure they could have chosen a far worse one and a less attractive one than miss chapman. and there are fresh spy 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 laura abbott 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 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 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 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 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 get more sorority on our web site for the latest news and analysis. and here's what's lined up for you what are to dot com hundred seven jailed after protests at president lucas shank goes election victory and get more of what's been happening on the streets of the capital and why. he lost a shortlist of eleven has been revealed in russia's competition for a mascot for the twenty four thousand saucily winter olympics with ideas ranging from a dolphin to a leopard what's it to be called choose which one you like fast at our dot com.

the u.s. commander in afghanistan says the late richard holbrooke may be a vital contribution to the campaign in the country general david petraeus claims that president obama's special representative helped build an effective team on the ground but artie's military contributor says the diplomat failed to tackle 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 and accused energy credibility and respect and attention from his troops lemme hsing mr proper it preys on the architect of the drug promotion strategy in afghanistan and the main defender of the opium cultivation all across the country we used to be general trios we

didn't know if general to stick with us praise to richard holbrooke calling him that tightening 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 in a couple of hours on our team we hear from american war veterans who felt themselves fighting their own conscience. did i kill innocent. but was it a call of course and that's never a. good moment sharpless call still with me i think of it every day. as the flashback trauma to memory. loss to most or the one time

use here john. i was assure you. i was ashamed that i had been neutered i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero. i don't know i got my legs. in the market. where i would still be out in all the hours of poetry. that i'll believe where i would go in the woods or i think. that i was a good soldier. but you know shoulder on the other side and i think i'm just. looking around the world now what today's other top stories francisco urging its citizens to leave the coast after a political crisis as you african states erupted into deadly violence u.s. secretary general earlier want the situation is becoming increasingly volatile and

risks a return to civil war. said that 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. students across italy have marched against university budget cuts that are expected to be approved by parliament thousands demonstrated along rome's main highways causing gridlock who believe the reforms will mean education standards will suffer i mean the peaceful protests contrasts. for the last minutes riots several arrests and a hundred injuries after prime minister berlusconi survived a bill confidence vote. south korea will hold its largest ever landed aerial simulates border with the north in terms artillery jets and about eight hundred soldiers will take part in the large scale exercises in

maneuver scum amid a heightened tension 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. now you might expect the 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 artie's daddio pushkov are reports on their silence struggle. song. with his hands. but. 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 costella to those speaking with their hands. even though language doesn't officially exist all previous attempts to possible 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 as solid a plan which 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. these. three feet look at 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 that's john is one of four children the only deaf one in the fallow. this is the first beauty shop for the hard of hearing and has stopped and protests . i

am. they may not be here but there are no commute and then told king. true those who call in here all the same people it may be just that the music of their hearts and so is allowed but still not proud enough to be officially recognized. immediately.

as. daddy bush obama are to stay. in a few minutes peter lavelle discusses the fate of the breakaway region of kosovo with his guest cross talk but first though it's time for the business update with kareena has agreed to have any major deals come out of a visit to india while there were some talks about a merger of the two countries oil and gas businesses in russia details coming up in a moment but first law enforcement bodies have relaunched an embezzlement probe at a bank founded by a disgraced former moscow mer you. bank of moscow russia's fifth largest has allegedly bailed out and why he didn't but within the last year to the tune of three hundred million euros in property deal now was fired by president gray differ in september and he denies all allegations of improper behavior. only name

producer russo has hired merrill lynch to appraise its twenty five percent stake in norris may kill that's according to reuters news agency earlier this month norilsk nickel offered to buy the twenty five percent stake. for twelve billion dollars the other medium producer quickly rejected the bid saying its holding in was a strategic investment over sources close to the. board say that as a public traded company shareholders expect all offers to be taken seriously. now let's take a look at the markets we start with the u.s. where where stocks are flat in early trading that's not a report said the u.s. economy did not grow as quickly during the summer as analysts predicted the commerce department said the country's g.d.p. rose two point six percent that's between july and september hoped for a gain of two point eight percent. cross over to europe where stocks are makes this hour with banks under pressure the pussies still trading in the black while

germany's dax straight into the red in the evening session investors are milling the latest us report on economic growth shares of german look at a point six percent and british airways rose two percent that's recovering so. from some ground lost its harsh winter weather disrupted flights across europe and the u.k. . and here in moscow markets finished in the black community has ended wednesday's trading session point four percent of them isaacs was up half a percent in economic news russia's g.d.p. grew four point two percent of them by a year on year which sets g.d.p. growth to three point seven percent for the first eleven months of two thousand and ten energy companies were gaining on wednesday as likes we've moved closer to ninety dollars a barrel for russia's biggest carmaker after was last despite targeting a twenty eight percent jump in sales next year to six billion dollars trading volumes were slimming at the heart of approach. ratings agency fitch has raised its two thousand and ten growth forecast for the rapidly emerging markets of china

brazil and india but it has revised down its russia partly due to the continuing effects of the severe heat wave and drought in the summer but experts however say that downgrade should not dampen investor appetite for the country next year we expect the old fall from fixed income instruments into equities and soon these are the. 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 more conservative you would 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 of the companies are going through to push into year so we need the general number of four percent so important for kind of a general attitude for economy but for investors who is buying particular stocks in particular sectors much more important these searchers how they perform. that's all

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. you're watching our t.v. time now to have a look at our top stories for this hour russia and america's nuclear reduction treaty is due to be voted in by the senate in washington and democrats certain they finally secured enough support for the deal. the new face of russian patriotism the country's best known agent added chapman prepares to start a political career in a group with. media reports suggest the u.s. is supplying a military push from afghanistan into pakistan despite intense opposition from

islamabad. and coming up peter lavelle asks his guests whether call civil 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 future of. any. luck. good luck in the. welcome the crush on peter lavelle again on the brink.