stalling the vote for as long as they could as of now democrats believe they have enough votes to pass this treaty they need at least sixty seven out of one hundred so much is at stake with this new start treaty both for russian the us and for the whole of the international community and yet a number of republican senators were trying so hard to undermine it without having substantial arguments against it and as many saying just just to get back at obama just to to trade their vote for something else they won it their actions provoked an avalanche of criticism from the country's top security experts who feared that the truth could become a victim of political games on capitol hill in the final days of debates all start they wanted to rewrite the language of the treaty which would have actually killed it they wanted to take up this line in the preamble of the deal which states the fact of the connection between offensive and defensive weapons and in fact all of those from the military who testified before the senate who are saying that the connection there is obvious they also said that it's not the start treaty that

would make the u.s. weaker or unable to defend itself the try to explain simply says either side can pull out of it if at some point they deem it threatens their national security for russia's this new start is all about balance and equality and they really made it clear that they will be in it as long as the u.s. respects that dallas russians really welcome this treaty and see more opportunities for cooperation with the united states behind it and everyone in russia is really looking forward to his ratification believing that that is the treaty is based on the best interests of both countries let's listen to a president medvedev said. boom the. full disarmament is impossible in the nearest future if i said anything different you would think i'm telling you to mix however i am convinced that russia and the us have made an important step towards 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. in an awful lot is being said about this treaty this document but just outline for us again why is it so crucial for both russia and the u.s. well first of all we have some very significant reduction on under way over the next ten years both states will cut their their arsenals by a third down to some fifteen hundred and fifty on each side of the deal will also limit the number of the livery because on launchers but even with those cuts both 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 with options it's in the trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpower former adversaries that goes with it for weeks and months the president of the united states all members of his administration the whole of the military all living former seculars of state and of the fans who are calling for senators not to ruin this reset opportunity for us russia lation and the outcome of the vote with

will really show whether or not there are calls fell on deaf ears in congress ok ots going to come reporting from washington as you say they were expecting this vote to be any time over the next few hours when it happens we will be across it very fully with your help here on r.t. political analysts victim is in the says the politics of america's conservative wing a based on driving wedges into a bomb is initiatives which is why the treaties face so many hurdles. it's the politics you know in the vein of the. movement in the united states all conservative forces in the country and we know that conservatives saw very influential especially in places like the. bible belt that their slogan is anything but obama and they're trying to bury anything.

with obama notwithstanding whether it's important or not. vital interests the signing of the treaty in april these by two young dynamic presidents self united states and russia. was basically blood it's not just by arms control was bought by all the people as we call them in this time still the goodwill of all reasonable people iran the planet it goes to stand as i say a bad signing these kind of three d. of sound moving through. arms going through all it on the strength of the international stability and it only adds to the efforts in the field all for. weapons of mass destruction nonproliferation of course and these are the position now for the russian side as i understand it any further drastic cuts in the nuclear strategic forces would be impossible with all the members of the new

political joining us. coming up in the program tonight the call from 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 back at least. it's been reported that u.s. commanders in afghanistan a pushing to extend their presence in pakistani tribal areas the new york times quotes in a new. most american official who claims that special forces will start targeting militants across the border opening a new front it's something that the u.s. military is denying washington has been using unmanned drones to strike suspected insurgency bases in pakistan it's often accused of killing civilians in the process as i'm about to spring strongly protesting against the attacks describing them as violating its territorial sovereignty pakistani officials say they are capable of

handling the militants by themselves kathy kelly spoke to us so she complains against u.s. led war she says america's 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 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 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 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 they got us to stop the killing. and you have your nerves interested now we've got more analysis of the american presence in the region from artie's military contributor coming up a little bit later this hour here on this channel. russia's most famous female agent is no starting a political career does one of the leaders of a youth movement and the chapman became known worldwide after the spice come late this year between moscow and washington that saw agents from both sides being swapped barton 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. you know so many people will soon power fame and money but does all these make us happy probably simply need positive human emotions he would be less negativity in society each of my spoke up with a smile now he sees i'll close my eyes in the matters most if you dream the ability to use well that might seem a little bit rich coming from a chairman who has pursued quite ruthlessly the goals of a publicist to 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 her 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

if this organization wanted a p.r. figure they could have chosen a far worse one on a hot less attractive one miss chapman. reporting well meantime there are fresh spies scandals making their way. integrations against one of its diplomats who was expelled from london a baseless russian's foreign ministry says that it's regrettable that its friendly move is happening while both countries work on patching up the strained relations laura has more from the british capital william hague the foreign secretary raised a 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 of the rents 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 the foreign office here had done well 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 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 career fair three

tip. the rats 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 sites to push what they're calling the reset in russia u.k. relations this could have serious implications for that reset button. london correspondent reporting for us there you get more from our two on our new look web site of course all the stories we're covering and a lot more besides the latest news and analysis you'll say about the stories you see on our channel well here's what's lined up your dog team don't come tonight hundreds have been jailed to protest said president bush because election victory in better roost skidmore what's been happening over the past week on the streets of the government why the background to the. developing story at all t. dot com tonight for you also a shortlist of eleven has been revealed in russia's competition for the mascot for

the twenty four team that sochi winter olympics a lot of ideas there a raging from a dog with leopard what is it to be sure you'll find some you like you'd like to win we'll take a look anyway you know you can choose the best. 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 helped build an effective team on the ground but artie's military contributor says the diplomats 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 he's energy credibility and respect and attention from his troops leveraging misappropriate praise 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 women now if general to stick with us 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 start with the mission creep which will be described as a titanic fubar both in afghanistan and across the border in pakistan you're watching out looking ahead next we have an american war veterans who found

themselves fighting their own conscience. they are killing innocent. boys. of course and that's never a. moment when the skull still. think of it every day. to memory. loss is a long time. i was ashamed. i was ashamed. i was ashamed that i had. to go. forward. where i would go in the woods or i think. that i was a good soul. but you know most soldier on the other side and i think i'm just as

good. it's a really eye opening programme if you've not seen that one already today it's coming up next hour as you say here on out so world news in brief to bring you up to date with france's citizens to leave i stopped for a political crisis an african state erupted into deadly violence the un secretary general earlier warn the situation is becoming increasingly volatile and risks a return to civil war but said un peacekeepers were being forced out by the incumbent president after it recognized his rival's election victory more than fifty people have already died since the ballot. south korea will largest ever landed ahead drills near its border with the north terry jetson about eight hundred soldiers will take part in a large scale exercises the maneuvers come amid heightened tension between the two countries following 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. students across it marched against university budget cuts little expected to be approved by parliament thousands demonstrated along rome's main highways causing gridlock saying the reforms will mean education standards will suffer there was some violence in palermo but most marches book peaceful in crunch contrast with last week's rides which saw several arrests and one hundred injuries after prime minister berlusconi survived a no confidence vote. you might expect the language used by around ten million people to be fairly well supported but for death people here in russia communication gets no further than their own community sign language is still not officially recognised pushed over reports next on this silent struggle. that. was about it. alex he called hear the song. from the

family. yet he sings it with his hands touching. that part of the time that i was her and he tells me he speaks the most beautiful language in the world. and so despite living in the world of silence alex and his fellow performers put on a show full of life and music our. audience appreciates this theatre of the 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 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. 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 that. john is one of four children the only deaf one in the family.

this is the thousand beauty shop for the hard of hearing and has started to have protests. they may not hear but they're not cute and they love talking.

was all true those who call in other people it may be just that the music of their hearts and souls. but still not loud enough to be officially recognized. the. art moscow. because sports used to come here in twenty five minutes time tonight. will be a russian driver a world formula one for at least the next two years after announcement was made today to come shortly but next tonight is business. hello welcome to business good to have you with us one of the major deals to emerge during president medvedev visit to india has been in energy sector russian

conglomerate sistema and india's state run oil and natural gas corporation are investigating a merger of their oil and gas businesses in russia in the no cash deal the indiana firm would acquire twenty five percent of the joint venture the potential merger will include three companies national and imperial energy it will give away. a stake in the russian perms annual oil production of twenty five million tonnes and an interest in the huge traps and. element of producer also has hard merrill lynch to appraise a twenty five percent stake in nora's can it go that's according to voices news agency earlier this month known as mikel offered to buy the twenty five percent stake from sol put twelve billion dollars the other when you produce a quickly rejected the bid saying it's holding in knowing that it was a strategic investment for the sources close to the board say that as a publicly 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 stocks are compared early against after a downward revision to the previous from early in the year g.d.p. rose two point six percent between july and september analysts hoped for a gain of two point eight percent. now let's cross over to europe where stocks ended mixed with banks on the pressure the footsie finished health percent higher we'll all germany's dax and that in the red investors muled the latest u.s. report on economic growth shares of german lufthansa added point six percent and british airways rose two percent recovering some ground lost as harsh winter weather disrupted plights a call through a. bank and most of all gets finished in the black reality has ended wednesday's trading session. point four percent and in my eyes exposed half a percent in economic news russia's g.d.p. grew four point two percent in november year on year. g.d.p. growth to three point seven percent for the first eleven months two thousand and

ten. now we see energy companies gaining on wednesday as light sweet moves closer to ninety dollars a barrel russia's biggest carmaker after vos lost despite targeting a twenty percent jump in sales next year to six billion dollars and the market has reacted call me to use from a moment of great m.t.s. about the costs associated with the suspension of its license and took many staff but the company's president warns it's possible the whole operation may be with no . we currently have the director of the ministry referred to a communications have to use them to speak to spend suspend the license for one month. as of december twenty first to january twenty first of two thousand and eleven therefore you the activity of the company is not that you started in two thousand and eleven we will have to write it off in two thousand eleven now overall it's been a fairly positive trading session in russia despite poike anomic data from the us and we're nascence capitals of and i saw that he says the key driver for investors

here remains the price of oil the biggest news for russian markets. is a blow for millions of dollars in the russian stocks we see a stronger up or trend continuing in the in the past four to six weeks now so when the major characters are think or know it's a very similar crisis when it's in so it was a year when the russian markets quite good rising because there and also were so it's easy to pick up the market seems to do it during this time but that's all for this i'll be back with more in about fifteen minutes from now meanwhile let's take a look at what's happening in the headlines.

it can hit dr swines policeman swines ministers why i just pray to god. 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 my only two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him i'm in jail or he's going to kill it says .

wealthy british style sun it's time to cut. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on. live

from central moscow watching r t it's eight thirty pm the. top stories russia and america's nuclear reduction treaty is to be voted in by the senate in washington with democrats they finally secured enough support for the deal. the new face of russian patrick isn't the country's best chance to start a political career movement. and media reports suggest the u.s. is planning a military push from afghanistan into pakistan despite intense opposition from

islamabad. tonight georgia's opposition leader talks to us burjanadze it was in moscow recently to attend the unveiling of a monument to world war two soldiers last year georgia destroyed the memorial to make way for government buildings despite protests. country has an illusion of democracy. yes that was the. often when interesting 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 myth of georgia as a dinner.