yes seventy one votes for and twenty six against in the treaty heated up list sixty seven to be approved it's a big day for everyone for a lot of people here in the uighurs who've been pushing so hard for the trade is ratification for the president and certainly for senators who've been tirelessly the fanning the treaty on the senate floor over the last seven days of excruciating debate they was a marathon i'll tell you so what do we get with the treaty we have some very significant reductions underway 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 the deal also limits the number of delivery vehicles on launchers but even with those costs the countries will still hold hold hold and more than ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons so many agree that the value of this arms reduction treaty is not just being reductions it's in the trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers that goes with a full weeks and months the president of the united states all members of his

administration the military law living former secretary of state and of the fans were calling for senators not to ruin this reset opportunity for u.s. russia relations and the message did behind eternity and its significance did resonate with many senators and they voted yes to the treaty president obama's being tarsus stressing that other doors for cooperation with russia would it could be close without this one opened and it was open there is you know there's a gallows there is iran's there are plans for cooperation on missile defense in europe has been very vocal about the fact that building trust with russia brings the u.s. only benefits and the new start is a very important part of that trust. to bring you into a coma so you should. know of course it's russia's too and to follow suit and ratify the new arms reduction treaty is not what reaction coming expect from russia . those were weeks and weeks of heated arguments pro and cons in washington and

of course small scale has been watching counseling the vote was more about the u.s. credibility abroad rather than that of russia's because president medvedev assured the rock obama from the very beginning that russian lawmakers were ready for a new start as soon as it was clear that the united that the u.s. senate voted in favor of it and that it was just a matter of time and indeed the heated debates were on capitol hill and republicans and democrats had blamed each other that they were getting to these last minute crash because the treaty was signed by presidents mitt bed and obama in april this year and avaricious there have been these lengthy and very delicate process operative occasions but most good has been saying that the new start does not draw a line between wieners and losers that both sides come out as wieners by working towards global design mind the two countries which accounts for ninety percent of

global nuclear stockpile i leading by example and the question is whether well everyone else follow russia will of course while come today's news these last minute use that the u.s. senate finally ready for this crucial document just days before christmas and new year. katrina was touching on it there you've also mentioned it but you can't underestimate the rocky path that this treaty how to succumb to get past at the end of the day why was the so much obstacle put up to it why the how difficult how close was it to get through the end of the day tell us more about the background. well kevin you one thing triggered that had so much support you know both from democrats and republicans but yet as we all know . a it's way through the senate was sold it was called but this not because of its

substance that's will shore a number of senators really went out of their way to undermine the treaty without having substantial arguments against it probably just to get back at obama as many thing in the final days of the debates and start they wanted to rewrite the language of the treaty which could have actually killed the treaty they wanted to take out this line in the preamble of the deal which states the fact of the connection between a fan saver and defensive weapons any security expert would tell you the connection is obvious and in fact all of those for the military would testify before the senate were saying exactly that but some republican senators were sticking to that point. you know that would make they were they were making the point that that he would make the u.s. on able to defend itself which is not the case russia always said the u.s. can defend itself as much as he wants as long as america's defense capabilities don't breach the arms balance that the two countries have established in fact russians have said so many times that they would want to build a joint missile defense system together with the united states and for russia as

this new start treaty is really all about balance and equality and that treaty explicitly says the other side can pull out of it if it's some point they deem it threatens their national security russia made it very clear there and as long as the united states respect that precious balance. russia's pushing of those need for those treaties rather for all along the way how crucial is it for the much talked about a reset of relations between the two countries. the wait for the new start has been a long time coming it even missed last year's december deadline when the previous nine hundred ninety nine treaty spawns and there were fears among skeptics that there will be these down time with no record in place between moscow and washington and the two countries will study increasing that you can use stockpiles but these did not happen and washington managed to agree. the major nuclear agreement in almost two decades of course this was

a culmination of intense talks between the delegation not so both countries of telephone and face to face conversations between presidents obama and mitt trim it very well talks were tough to say the least and some of the decisions made by the us administration were sent and complicated matters worse with regard to the decisions by the u.s. president the placement of missile defense system in eastern europe in poland and romania but still the two presidents managed to find a compromise and they in april this year and probably they mat to sign the new strategic arms reduction treaty with pomp and ceremony but of course the two presidents were while aware that their signatures alone would not be enough for new start to go into force and just as expected this lengthy process over to the cation polo tendinitis states of america specifically but now that these treaty has been

finally ready by then we can say that it's been a tremendous victory for both sides and of course this news starts could pave the way for a straying off new research in the near in the u.s. russia relations because many say that all my re find this treaty the most can washington push the very the largest reset button in the u.s. russia relations which they promised to hit two years ago of course part of the katrina over there in moscow and also granted to kind of taking us there from washington d.c. let's go to charles corruption he's from the council on foreign relations who says ratifying the start treaty is a boost to president obama's political momentum. well there's no question that it's a feather in obama's cap in the sense that the midterms did not go obama's way he then had this lame duck congress where he tried to set a lot of things in course and he succeeded or i think obama goes into twenty eleven with a lot of wind in his sails he had the domestic side and now he's got the foreign

policy that doesn't mean it's smooth sailing because he'll face a republican congress come january but it is certainly a boost of obama's political momentum but i think it's also important to say that the significance of the treaty is much larger than the implications for arms control it really does give a lot of momentum and boost to the broader u.s. russia reset and i think puts obama and medvedev on course to cooperate more closely on a whole host of issues that it may well be that this is seen as a turning point in which the russia us rivalry of the past is finally laid to rest we're not there yet but it would maybe turning the page in the right direction. charles corruption there we bring you more reaction to the breaking news tonight that the new start treaty has been ratified on the u.s. side a little bit later in the program let's take a low what's online feuds of modern a new look web site r t dot com all there tonight hundreds jailed after protests

for president lukashenko election victory to better route get more of what's been happening there on the streets of the capital over last week and why a lot more background to that story darting dot com we of course have your say as well the comment button by any stories you see and also give me this down the last eleven hours become the winning mascot for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi as you can see everything from things flying creatures of buying to represent russia take a look at some of them maybe you got a favorite you can pick a self our team dot com. russia's most famous female agent is now starting a political career as one of the leaders of a use movement than a chapman became known worldwide after the spy scandal earlier this year between

moscow and washington that saw agents from both sides being swapped. out and watched as she took on a 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 who are super power and fame and money does all these make us happy probably who simply need positive human emotion is he would be less negativity in society each of us woke up with a smile and now he sees our clothes is in the matters most if you dream the ability to use 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. do what she says 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 supply swap since then you would have thought her coming home with her tail between her legs that she would've 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 friend fertile figure carrying a reputation before her so the quest. really is is she going into politics well who knows but if this organization wanted to go they could have chosen a far worse one on a hot less attractive one than miss chapman. says our correspondent mr tom they are reporting you're watching r t it's forty minutes past midnight our top story the breaking news using c. on the bottom your screen is there but in the past the u.s. senate has finally approved a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia after months of wrangling up on capitol hill it was a close call but eventually seventy one vote said of one hundred so it through is above the sixty seven votes needed the two thirds of the one hundred to get it through so it go through with a majority so bring into the equation get some of. these are political analysts from the independent institute in washington thanks for being with us mr eland well

and what do you think the turning the only it was for those senators today were earlier on oppose the treaty but then it seems finally supported in the end. well i think this happens on many senate votes is that they dig in their heels they try to build up the price and what the administration has to pay to get the treaty not in physical cash but in programs handed out to their constituents and everything they pretend to be on the line so they can get more playing hard to get and then when the treaty comes they don't want to be seen as having missed a chance for a historic vote on a major treaty and this is a major treaty since i'm sure control treaties are the most important treaties that u.s. signs and particular with russia because they have so many warheads pointed to the other so i think they kind of like to play hard to get and then they they're in the end they want to they want to be part of history and their part are on the right side of history very quick reaction from the russian side of the foreign minister

to. the move on capitol hill also pointed out that russia now will very carefully want to look at exactly the words. you know what was voted through the devil is always in the detail but the the general thoughts all that will be no problem getting it through moscow how quick do you think moscow will be able to ratify the document in the federal council and what's next as far as that side of it is concerned. well i think the russians will go ahead and that ratified of course they want to look at the what the congress did congress didn't alter the treaty itself but it passed resolutions and that sort of thing in interpret again and that sort of thing it's only natural that the russian duma would want to look at that but i think it's probably going to go through on both sides and i think it's a good thing principally because of the verification provisions but also because of the thirty percent warhead and so i think it's a good treaty and i think it's you know i thought it was going to pass all along

and i because that's the way these things go it went down to the last of the wire the wheeling and dealing but it finally got done ok well how much is this new do you think it will open doors for most of whom washington to those corporations and i'm thinking other areas beyond the military. why they gets opens the door for cooperation in other areas but it also opens the door for corroboration in further arms control maybe tactical nuclear weapons you know the shorter range battlefield nuclear weapons and then of course the the two countries have been cooperating on iran more and on us supplies to the afghan war the russians are helping us out with that so i think the rise of china has brought the two countries together out of self-interest and i think this is one step on the road but they arms control it's always been sort of the central. pillar of the relationship ever since the cold war is on and that's still the case because the most important thing in the world is these two huge arsenals which dwarf any other countries arsenals and so i think

it's rightly the main pillar of the relationship but the treaty does allow. russians and the u.s. to cooperate war and i think the general. better relationship is good if there's an end potential nuclear accident or something like that as we had in one thousand nine hundred five we had good relations back then and i think that really prevented an accident or nuclear war and i think so the relationship has a variety of good good things to come out of and i think this is this is a great development. even to learn from the independent institute in washington thank you for your views on r.t. tonight. thank you. russian football fans of finding themselves cold in the middle of extreme nationalists notoriety these days it's after ethnic riots was sparked by the death of a spotter. thought to have been killed by a caucasus man earlier this month prime minister vladimir putin's been meeting the

leading football fan clubs calling on them to resist the influence of the far right . history lesson for an unlikely audience talking to football fans still fuming after the recent clashes with ethnic minorities let me put in carefully navigated between giving a pep talk and showing yellow cards but from which the throughout its history russia has always had a strong immunity to nationalism and xenophobia but now it seems this immunity has started to slacken and you can see that in the activities of the fan movement to nationalistic calls are sometimes heard of the stadiums like the killing of a football fan in moscow allegedly by a caucasus man and he set sequent rallies by seemingly bright policeman prompted days of ethnic riots the violence left dozens injured and to death by surprise it is clearly revealed the tensions between slavic nationalists and the north caucasus minorities used to be the check of the it but i wouldn't bet ten cents on

a russian man who would show disrespect to the qur'an in the north caucasus i don't think his health would stay intact but people from the north caucasus when they move to central russia also have to respect local traditions customs and laws only this way by respecting each other and we fully utilize the multicultural strength of our country. like in any multinational country hate crimes in a forby are nothing new for russia but never before had the situation spun out of control so quickly that groups hounding darker skin passers by just steps away from the kremlin all the more embarrassing for russia so soon after securing the right to host the two thousand and eighteen world cup. is working very hard to mobilize football. into different nationalist. groups. vary a lot of propaganda with a lot of success not to me putin struck a similar note praising fan clubs for their free spirit he called on them to retain

their ideological independence and avoid being swayed by nationalists and he sent. here in this particular gold the stand from the same region where they found suspected murderer a key from said that regardless of that this city football fans in russia have the same event to look forward to. for the world cup to come to russia for so long put so much effort but there are still some forces who want to prevent the championship from coming to our country against all the murders of the provocations . while police didn't confirm any such conspiracy theories after intense public pressure rearrested the suspected murderer and opened a fresh investigation while the prime minister criticized the founts point sporting behavior he also admitted that the clashes may have never flared up for it wasn't for the corruption and came from a ship involved that the only way to avoid such clashes in the future is to create

a level playing field for everyone kind of wake up r.t. moscow. it's been reported that u.s. commanders in afghanistan are pushing to extend their presence in pakistani tribal areas the new york times quoting an anonymous american official who claims special forces will start targeting militants across the border in a new front that is something that the u.s. military is denying washington's been using unmanned drones to strike suspected insurgency bases in pakistan it's often accused of killing civilians in the process islam are bad for insiders being 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 she come payne's against u.s. led war she says that america's military establishment is now 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 there along with the drone

attacks the invasion of a sovereign country. 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 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 bears the brunt of the united states wife there i'm talking about the families whose 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 a couple of world news stories in brief from citizens to me by very kosovo i'd offer a political crisis in the african state of deadly violence the u.n. secretary general earlier war the situation is becoming increasingly volatile and risks a return to civil war. un peacekeepers were being forced by the incumbent president after it recognized his rivals election victory more than fifty people have reportedly died since the bout. students across italy have marched against university budget cuts that are expected to be approved by parliament thousands demonstrated the long rows main highways causing gridlock saying the reforms would mean education standards will suffer under some volatile and paloma meantime devoting most of the market with. it contrasts with last week's why it's still several arrests and a hundred injuries after problems there but

a scholarly survived a no confidence vote. you might expect a language used by around ten. million people to be fairly well supported but for death people living here in russia communication gets no further than their own community sign language is still not officially recognized push cova reports next tonight on their silent struggle. alex econ hear the song. from the family. yet he sings it with his hands touching. that was that. 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. lutyens 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 pass a law 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.

you wish. 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. 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 self interpreted.

they may not hear but they're not mute and they love talking. to. us. i. guess i after all those who call in to hear all the same people it may be just that the music of their hearts and souls is loud but still not loud enough to be officially recognized. in the.

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communicate with the wild. and become free. nature can give you. life from central moscow twenty four hours a day this is the news channel this is our top story. on this amount on this sort of resolution are seventy one days twenty six days two thirds the senate president having voted the affirmative the resolution of ratification is agreed to and the breaking news is that it was down to the wire but the nuclear arms treaty is it through the u.s. senate the last minute rallying by democrats to win over the republicans bosco is

welcoming the move as a cornerstone of its relations with washington. also from r.t. tonight the new face of russian patrick is in the country's best known agent out of chapman proposed to start a political career in a youth movement. and media reports suggest the u.s. is planning a military push from afghanistan into pakistan despite intense opposition from islamabad. next on our team american veterans talk about their missions in war and the regrets it brought them part two of our program on air now. there was one particular incident are still disturbs me today i wish i could take the. i would give anything we went to an area near the baghdad stadium the skier came into our area.