two thirds of the senate president having voted in the affirmative the resolution of ratification is agreed do. 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 that 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 continued 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 in the early sabotage that 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 us 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 us 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 us the 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 if you were weapons of mass destruction and on the other hand to nuclear superpowers former adversaries actually trusting each other and looking toward any hands to provide their security get a check on our team washington d.c. . a senior fellow the arms control association washington says the tree say should open the door to a host of new agreements and deals between russia and america. i think it's very

significant it is in effect this kind of success is 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 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 now as a result of this arms control agreement. this is on c.n.n. still to come on the program the call for russia's deaf community today. while it's a sign of the times as the country's millions of hearing impaired people pledge to get that language record tonight. russia's most famous for agent is making you foray into politics as a leader with their reading united russia party as

a youth movement on the chopper shot to fame during this summit in the u.s. as one of the number of agents swarmed between moscow and washington after the f.b.i. and covered a russian spy ring. washed ashore to call her new 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 sunni power fame and money but does all this make us happy probably we seem to need positive human emotion is he would be less negativity in society if 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 publicity fame and fortune but if we used to say maybe do it 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 strife 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 really is is she going into politics well who knows but if this organization wanted africa they could have chosen a far worse one and a far less attractive one than mr chapman. russian football farmers are finding themselves caught in the middle of extreme nationalist notoriety itself the ethnic riots were sparked by the death of a spartak moscow fun thought to have been killed by a caucuses month and this month prime minister vladimir putin has been meeting the leading football fan clubs calling on them to resist being flynn's 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 xenophobia but now it seems this immunity has started to slacken and you can see that in the activities of the fan movement two nationalistic calls are sometimes heard of the stadiums the killing of a football fan in moscow allegedly by caucasus man and he subsequently released by seemingly bright policeman prompted days of ethnic riots the violence left dozens injured and to death by surprise it clearly revealed the tensions between slavic nationalists and the north caucasus minorities. 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 costumes and laws only this way by respecting each other can we fully utilize the multicultural strength

of our country. like in any multinational country hate crimes in a for b. are nothing new for russia but never before had the situation spun out of control so quickly that groups hounding darkest. 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. into different nationalist. groups. doing a lot of progress with a lot of success not 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 for most of the.

wages 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 and the provocation. 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 fans for unsporting 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 piercer is to create a level playing field for every one of a kind of worker or three moscow. china is looking to offer some financial muscle to believing good european economies to help ease the model of their debt crises the suggestion to buy up some of their sovereign debt came at

a high level meeting with the you in beijing economist mark or peter paul it told us why china is looking at. 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 do 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. well time to have a look now at some international news stories in brief for doing it says the ivory coast after a political crisis in the african state erupted into deadly violence the u.n. secretary general earlier warned this iteration is becoming increasingly volatile and risks every turn to civil war moon said hugh un peacekeepers were being forced out of the incumbent president recognized his rivals and action 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 over. highways causing gridlock saying they were foreigners will leave education standards will suffer and there was some violence

in other words but most marchers were peaceful it contrasts with last week's wire which showed several arrests and one hundred injuries after prime minister berlusconi survived a no confidence vote. wasn't obama has had a successful day in the u.s. senate on other fronts aside from approving the new start treaty senator boxer a bill to cover the cost of medical care for rescue workers and others made by toxic fumes after the nine eleven terror attacks and a longstanding provision forcing gays and lesbians serving in the u.k. military to keep their sexuality secret was also repealed approval of the measures marks a significant u. turns for the republican party which had threatened to block them. 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 farther than their own community sign language is still not officially recognized that it was caller reports now on their

silence truckle. alex econ hear the song. he sings it with his hands. that was. 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. 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 great 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. well. 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. to. us i.

i i i. i after all those who call and 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. as you live in the. dairy bush kovach are to moscow. to our next hero and i'll say george's opposition leader talks. you know there was in moscow recently times then veiling of a monument to world war two soldiers lost a daughter destroyed a memorial to make way for government buildings despite protests. that her country

has an illusion of democracy. just that with the. often one interesting rallies you say your mission is to introduce democracy to do to make it more democratic because conflicts with the image of your country in the west georgia is often presented as

a beacon of democracy what don't you like about the current version of the children democracy. was like. the myth of georgia as a democratic country really exist to a certain extent but it's based on the fact that soon after the rose revolution we really began to bring about serious democratic reforms reformed the bureaucratic apparatus passed me laws supposed to bring the country on a democratic beeline however unfortunately even when i was in power i was talking about the problems that then existed including independence of judicial power and of the media notions that were already digging in and meant that there was also concerned about the issue of decision making when more often than not decisions were taken by a certain circle of people by two thousand and seven and in january two thousand and eight when president saakashvili was reelected for the second term there had been a chance that the saakashvili government and the team would realize the problems

and mistakes they had made in which try to fix that required a bully though i could see that all the promises they had given about reinforcing democracy were implemented just in a contrarian way i saw the country go towards a bigger monopoly of power more control over the media which i don't like including constitutional changes the situation with business and ministration of justice all that does not infer a democratic state because you have been in opposition for several use force trauma is the georgian opposition no in your opinion it was like there. it's hard to be strong in a nearly totalitarian state program nearly the whole business is under governmental control it's next to impossible to find ways to finance political parties when the media is under state control it's really hard to have my voice heard and convey my arguments to the people when there is no administration of justice it's very hard

to protect oneself from slender constantly being dished out toward not only from the government but also from the media under their control nevertheless i believe the active steps that they're manifested from time to time are a sign that the opposition keeps on struggling to change the topic slightly heavier to describe the current relations between our two streets russia and georgia. the holes on the globe could not be worse i guess it could have been worse only during the august events during the war indeed it was a tragic phase in tragic days not only for georgia i think today relations between russia and georgia can be described as very bad and far from normal i think the situation will hardly change for the better as long as president saakashvili is in power for a simple reason in the west see you has been trying to prove his indispensability through fighting against russia on the one hand he says yes it is necessary to have

a dialogue with russia but on the other hand his steps and even statements invalidate any normal politically correct proposals i am absolutely certain that russia georgia relations should become normal but that will be possible only when both russia and georgia have respectful lawful let me repeat this lawful interests of each other and when the relations are based on implementing the agreements that will have been achieved then most go in there and. we have mentioned the war and before august two thousand and eight russia had often expressed concern over the growing military power of george. what is going on now is georgia stepping up its military potential by requip in its army or you suggest as in europe but not any more just because there are currently no supplies or deliveries of armaments from our western allies i believe it should not be a priority for georgia stepped up its armed forces as an independent state georgia

surely must have its armed forces but they should conform to the standards georgia needs as a priority peaceful development of the country and an ability to defend itself and its interests by no means. should feel that what transpired in the tragic days of august two thousand and eight. they should be aware and be sure not through me or words but indeed that georgia would never use force against its own citizens. and no matter how complicated that might be negotiated not in the language of weapons but diplomacy and based on finding a common language. both before the war many had an impression georgia had been the darling of the west it seemed to many in the former soviet union the church it had more chances for transformation including of democracy because the west was assisting not only morally but materially do you think that

now that two years have passed since then to jail has lost its an ecumenical support from the western powers i mean benevolence and readiness to support some programs in georgia there. is what i georgia was kind of a favorite one i see that after the revolution both our government and myself felt proud because we enjoyed the support of the majority of the country and the west was loyal to us as a matter of fact during the initial period russia had the sort of let's wait and see stance although positive unfortunately i have to say my main complaint against that. really is that he destroyed all that the domestic support that used to be so high in the support from the west as well well the west does back us now but it goes beyond comparison to what we had enjoyed before the war in europe by the support from the west began to do window even before the war because the west so clearly the democratic reforms were not as quick and right as expected i remember

very well how dubious germany was about the legal system in georgia and the war surely destroyed georgia's your vacation with your mother we have mentioned the recent war of two thousand and eight i also know that today he attended a ceremony open and memorial to note the war why did you do so and you had to turn and the i'm ugly i mean. it's because this war for me same as for millions of people not only in the countries of the former soviet union but also all over the world is sacred so now to destroy a monument is absolute sacrilege some members of my family died in that war and the brother of my grandmother still alive in the war for those people the destruction of the soviet war memorial. was so painful into salting what is most amazing it was not clear what it had to be done for.

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join the her jewels church in new delhi who took the most recent babyhood to carry collection ramon the clothes of the maidens hotel. blows a movie don't read this and shift it was promised but they promise. this is also a quick check of the headlines at home past the hour. finally gets to new start ups in terms of passing on those being but obama could get his way in a last ditch post wasn't u.s. senate finally approved the start nuclear arms construct seen with russia after months of wrangling also has a cloud comes to move as crucial during good relations. and. in other news this hour the new face of russia has been the country's best known agent on the chapman

fires to start a political career an atheist movement. arab groups become infiltrated by right wing nationalist movements prime minister putin says they need to be ever to ours. up next on r.t. american veterans talk about that missions or the requests they now have a part while special report coming up next. max kaiser and this is the kaiser report i'm here in london where the bankers are demanding their year end bonuses and the government is asking the broker told still anyone who our money and the bankers are saying wait a minute if we can steal your money we might leave and the government isn't.