until has known the historic decision. to vote. on this matter on this sort of resolution are seventy one days twenty six nays two thirds of the senate president having voted in the affirmative the resolution of ratification is agreed to. and with this approval russian the us will start the new year with a treaty that has become a symbol of trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers i am glad the democrats and republicans came together to approve my top national security priority for this session of congress the new start treaty this is the most significant arms control agreement in nearly two decades and it will make us safer and reduce our nuclear arsenals along with russia. both states have some very significant reductions underway over the next ten years the countries will cut their nuclear arsenals by a third down to some fifteen hundred fifty deployed warheads on each side the deal also limits the number of delivery vehicles and launchers but even with those cuts

both russia and the u.s. will still hold more than ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons so many agree that the value of the new arms reduction treaty is not just in reductions 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 and it may well be that this is seen as a turning point in which the russia u.s. rivalry of the past is finally laid to rest for weeks and months the president of the united states all members of his administration the military all living former secretary of state and of defense were calling for senators not to ruin this reset opportunity for us who are sure relations and the message did resonate with many senators every senator knows when you're trying to get things done relationships

matter and the relationship between the united states and russia has been critical since we fought together in world war two and will be contin and will continue to be so this is an on parallelled opportunity to enhance that relationship and to say by signature and by ratification of this treaty that yes the united states of america wants to work with russia despite the huge support the treaty had received on many levels a number of republican senators nearly sabotaged it their actions provoked an avalanche of criticism from the country's top six. already experts who feared that the treaty could become a victim of political games on capitol hill the arguments the treaty adversaries brought up on the hearings ranged from there's no earthly way to do all of this within the time that we have to even more unsubstantial ones like we don't have to

have this treaty if we don't have a nuclear treaty with the u.k. . we don't have one with france in the final days of debates on start some republican senators trying to rewrite the deal which would have actually killed it they wanted to take out the line in the preamble which makes the connection between offensive and defensive weapons stuart straight jackets the united states missile defense capabilities but all of those from the military who testified before the senate said the connection between offensive and defensive weapons is obvious they also maintained it's not start that would make the u.s. weaker the treaty itself explicitly says either side can pull out of it if at some point they deem it threatens their national security for russians this new start is about balance and equality and they will be in it as long as the u.s. respects that balance. through the established basis of the contract the principles

of equality parity and the equal an invisible security of both parties this becomes the new gold standard for the conclusion of our agreements the agreement not only strengthens the security of russia and the united states but has beneficial effects for international stability and security in general in russia the outcome of the vote in the u.s. senate has been well come from many in moscow it's a signal that the u.s. and russia can now open a new page of cooperation russian lawmakers made it clear they had no objections to the treaty and would pass it as soon as the u.s. did advocates of the treaty see the outcome of the vote not so much as obama's victory but a victory for the whole world which on the one hand is going to have considerably fewer weapons of mass destruction and on the other hand to nuclear superpowers former adversaries actually trusting each other and looking toward an enhanced to provide their security guard a check on our team washington d.c. . bugman

a nuclear nonproliferation acts that from the center for american progress think tank in washington d.c. says these start treaty will show other nations that the u.s. and russia are is about well nuclear disarmament. i think senators really had a hard time opposing this i think the arguments in favor of the treaty were were so overwhelming part of the nonproliferation regime is that the big nuclear powers the u.s. and russia agree to start cutting nuclear weapons and then exchange other countries agree not to develop their nuclear arsenals and i think over reduce the incentives for other countries not just the north koreans but countries like brazil that could develop nuclear weapons if they wanted to but i think that sends a clear signal of where the world is headed in that world with fewer not more nuclear weapons one thing i found interesting about the senate process is even some senators that voted against the treaty all agreed that it was time for the u.s. to start new negotiations with russia and so i think they'll be movement over the next year to begin talks which will take

a very long time which will be very hard on tactical nuclear weapons i think there will need to be movement on the u.s. side beginning to address the nuclear weapons in nato that there's no reason for nato to still have many of these tactical nuclear weapons i think need to be progress on the u.s. side in frankly looking at our nuclear weapons do we really even need this many under the start treaty we could make unilateral it's trying to make progress on all these fronts is going to be critical it's going to take time but i think this the start treaty what it does is it ensures we didn't take a step backward and choose where we're heading on the right path to begin to ravel the legacy of the cold war. and stay with coverage from both sides of the atlantic on the events of this stuff you can now. russia's most famous former agent is making a new foray into politics as a need to know that routine united russia party movement and the chapman shot to fame during the summer in the u.s.

as one of the number of agents sold between mostly washington after the f.b.i. uncovered russian spy ring. tone bought it which has the as she. 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 pursuing power fame and money but does all this make us happy probably simply need positive human emotion is he would be listening to t.v. in society if each of us woke up with a smile now he sees a loved our close is in the matters most if we dreamed 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 say. 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 supply 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 her firm 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 go they could have chosen a far worse one and a far less attractive one mr chapman. and more reaction now on our top story the ratification of this start treaty by the u.s. senate and we go live to greg sing a senior fellow at the arms control association a washington based think tank working towards arms limitation and a former u.s. state department of television's official during the british administration the bush administration rather i'm sorry mr chairman thank you very much indeed for being with us this hour so those senators who oppose the treaty for so long what finally do you think got them to change their mind after so many months. well i

would have to first point out that those leading the opposition to the treaty never change their mind. the senate minority leader mcconnell and senator john kyl number two senate republicans. not only ended up opposing the treaty. were negotiating in bad faith with the administration to get certain changes most of which they did and then they ended up still voting against the treaty what was really critical here was that there were. a dozen or so senate republicans who listened to the advice of the u.s. military of former republican secretaries of state republican secretaries of defense and virtually the entire national security community of experts in the u.s. who were arguing for the treaty. all right so now that big u.s. side has paused agreement what's the timeline do you think for ratification

russia's federation council which is the equivalent of the senate and. i'm not the best authority on what the timeline is the expectation certainly is that the duma will work with greater speed than the u.s. senate did in considering this treaty and i think it's very important for that consideration to the people pushing the treaty through the u.s. senate were very careful to avoid changes in the treaty that would require a renegotiation so the treaty that is being considered by the duma is the same one that they have had since since april to look at and analyze the new start treaty means means big cats in american and russian nuclear arsenals how will stars at factor is of authoring nuclear power. well i would i would say that

the cuts in the arsenals will not be big we usually describe them as modest depending on how you how you count this it's approximately thirty percent reduction in the last limits we had on strategic off and so forces of the two sides that does mean of course that there will be some hundreds of deployed nuclear weapons that will be retired. and eventually destroyed so it is it was certainly significant but i would have personally wished for even deeper cuts this treaty itself does not affect directly the nuclear arsenals of other countries any of the permanent five members of the un security council or countries like india pakistan israel and perhaps north korea that may have nuclear weapons what it does is though by the u.s. and russia that have ninety percent of all of the world's nuclear weapons by showing that they are taking another step toward significant reductions this does

put pressure on the others to become more transparent and to be more willing to engage on what they can do to move toward nuclear disarmament and i mean this treaty will definitely affect russia u.s. relations so now moscow and washington have achieved a central goal in the so-called reset in relations what could this mean for cooperation between the two powers in other areas beyond the military arena. i think it's very significant it is in effect this kind of success it's contagious and will spill over into other areas we have the u.s. russian nuclear cooperation agreement which has gone beyond the number of days in which the senate could have object objected to it so that has gone forward there are other trade agreement possibilities and other areas of cooperation that that should have greater prospects for achieving as

a result of this arms control agreement. greg thielmann thank you very much indeed for your time. let's take a look at what's online for you tonight on our new luke web site on c dot com hundreds that the president at president lukashenko his election victory in batteries that. happening on the streets of the capital and why. not sit down to the last eleven to become the reading matter what a twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi everything from fans to flying creatures are buying to represent russia take a look at some of them and. china

is looking to offer some financial muscle to beleaguered european economies to help ease them out of their debt crisis the suggestion to buy up some of these sovereign debt came at the high level meeting with the u.n. beijing and economist marco politi told it why china is looking west. i think that there's a number of issues here one is this extends china's political influence in europe by making a lot of european states dependent on china to buy to buy their debt this will help them massively in the next round of trade talks and create significant leverage political leverage with regards to to further trade talks also it allows china perhaps to slow down the appreciation of the yuan as the europeans and the u.s.

have been really going on about for quite a few years now the chinese even many ways are are massively overexposed to u.s. treasury bills this allows them a way of diversifying from that but also u.s. treasury bills are very low yielding at present so high yielding distressed european debts that may well seem way of diversify away from from treasury bills. still to come on the program the call for russia's deaf community to be heard. so it's a sign of the times as the country's millions of hearing impaired people pledged to get their language to recognize. russian football phones are finding themselves caught in the middle of extreme nationalists not the writing itself the ethnic riots were sparked by the dearth of

a spartak moscow fun and thought to have been killed by a caucuses money this month prime minister vladimir putin has been moving 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 led to me pushing carefully navigated between giving a pap talk and showing yellow cards but surely. throughout its history russia has always had a strong immunity to nationalism and jennifer 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 but the killing of a football fan in moscow allegedly by caucasus man he subsequently released by seemingly bright policeman prompted days of affleck riots the violence left dozens injured and took the authorities by surprise if it clearly revealed the tensions between slavic nationalists and the north caucasus minorities used to be that

you're good at it but i wouldn't bet ten cents on a russian man who would show disrespect to the ground 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 not. thing new for russia but never before had the situation spun out of control so quickly with groups hounding darker skinned 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 the nationals forward is working very hard to mobilize football in two different nationalist community groups. doing a lot of progress with a lot of success

a lot to me putin struck a similar note praising fan clubs for their free spirit he called them down to retain their ideological independence and avoid being swayed by nationalism and he sent to score in this particular goal these fans from the same region where they found suspected murderer came from so that regard most of that in this city football fans in russia have the same event to look forward to. which is 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 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 worker or three moscow. let's not check some news in brief tonight france is urging its citizens to leave ivory coast after a political crisis in the african state run to the deadly violence the un secretary general. becoming increasingly volatile and risks a return to civil war. thank you man set you on peacekeepers were being forced out by the incumbent president off state recognized his rivals election victory more than fifty people have reportedly died it says about. students across italy have marched against university budget cuts that are expected to be approved by parliament thousands demonstrated on romans main highways cause a grade not they were foreigners will mean education standards will suffer and there was some violence and i don't know but most nationals will face full control

of last week's riots which saw several arrests and one hundred injuries after prime minister berlusconi survived a no confidence vote. but you might expect a language used by around ten million people to be very well supported but for deaf people in russia communication gets no father but the own community sign language is still not officially recognised reports on the silent struggle. alex econ hear the song. of he sings it 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 alex and his fellow performers put on a show full of life and music. this theater of death is an exception in the world mostly hostile to those speaking with their hands. even their language doesn't officially exist all previous attempts to pass along 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 more. than the. krishna will bring you. will you be. 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 a 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 a staff interpreter. they

may not hear but they're not commute and they love talking. the sounds. the. after all those who calls here all the same people it may be just that the music of their hearts and souls is louder but still not loud enough to be officially recognized. the.

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world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china. today. again this is r.c. a quick check of the headlines at half past the hour. on this sort of resolution or seventy one days twenty six days two thirds of the president every voting we are firmly of the resolution of ratification is agreed. so down to the wire but in the past few hours the staunch omes const treaty was fired caused by the us senate after last minute in terms of the past not being but president

obama to win over republicans to swing the vital but is welcoming the move as a cornerstone of relations with washington. other news a solid new face of russian patrick is in the country's best known agent on a chaplain prepares to start a political career and he views movement. and also as football fans groups become infiltrated by right wing nationalist movements prime minister protests as they need to be averted out. as the headlines up next here on american veterans talk about their missions at war and the regrets they now have part one of our special report coming up. on our management.