on yeas 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 that 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 has 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 on substantial ones like we don't have to have this treaty if we don't have a nuclear treaty with the u.k. and one 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 get a check on our team washington d.c. . and obviously direct so the new peace foundation in new york a longtime companion of american and world nuclear disarmament says the deal's just one step in the right direction. as far as the cuts go it's

a modest treaty because let's face it there are twenty three thousand nuclear weapons on the planet and twenty two thousand are in the united states they're talking about cutting deployed weapons those are the ones that are on notice ready to fire from twenty two hundred down to fifteen hundred and that's good but what's even more important is that we install our ability to inspect each other's nuclear weapons facilities which expired with the last start treaty last december we now we haven't even been able to see what russia is doing in russia can't see what we're doing so this new start allows us to have inspections and verification and this is very important to build trust so that we can actually go to disarmament and the other very good thing about storage is that it shows that the u.s. and russia can make a deal and that we now have to move forward these cuts have been on the table since the end of the cold war i mean gorbachev and reagan talked about going to zero and

reagan wouldn't give up his missiles and star wars and gorbachev said well we can't make a deal and then pull off the clinton deal to cut to a thousand deployed warheads back in the one nine hundred ninety s. and clinton but he said only provided we stopped with these missiles and clinton said no we have to continue with our missiles and putin pulled the deal off the table too so it's still confronting us and we have to make moves in the united states to rein in the military industrial complex that's driving this own stories. and you can get much more details on this story on our website r.t. dot com and also hundreds of jailed after protests the president took a train goes election victory in batteries more of what's been happening on the streets of the capital and why. plus it's down to the last eleven to become the winning mascot for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi

everything from bad to flying creatures out buying to represent russia take a look at some of them on t.v. dot com. russia's most famous former agent is making new foray into politics as a leader of the ruling united russia party his youth movement chapman short to frame during the summer in the us as one of a member of a number of agents between moscow and washington after they. have the high rather uncovered a russian spy ring artie's tom bought and watched as she took on 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. but chapman turned up gave her blessing to the 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 power and fame and money but does all this make us happy probably we simply need positive human emotion is there would be listening to t.v. society if each of us woke up with a smile now faces a loved our close ones and what matters most if we dream the bold is dream news well that might seem a little bit rich coming from a child. one who has pursued quite ruthlessly the goals of publicity fame and fortune but if we just say. do it she says no 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 to do it on the chapman being deported back to russia as part of a swap since then you 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 a visor 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 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 figure they could have chosen a far worse one and

a half less attractive one mr chapman. russian football fans are finding themselves caught in the middle of extreme nationalists notoriety it's not a ethnic riots were sparked by the death of a spartak moscow fire thought to have been killed by a caucuses man and at this moment prime minister vladimir putin has been meeting and needing 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 pap talk and showing yellow cards but show much that you know when you get throughout its history russia has always had a strong immunity to nationalism and xenophobia but now it seems this immunity has started disliking and you can see that in the activities of the fan movement to nationalistic calls are sometimes heard of the stadiums the killing of a football fan in moscow allegedly by a caucasus man 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 used to be. 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. during 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 nationalists and he said. to scoring this particular goal these fans from the same region where they found suspected murderer came from said that regardless of that 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. effort but there are still some forces who want to prevent the championship from coming to our country against. 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 criticised 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 future is to create a level playing field for everyone kind of worker or thirty. turners looking to offer some financial muscle to beleaguered european economies to hold them out of their debt crises the suggestion to buy up some of those sovereign debt came at a high level meeting with the union beijing and economist mark. told us 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 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. let's have a look at some other they do national news stories in brief president obama has had a successful day in the u.s. senate on other fronts aside from. approving rather the new start treaty signed as

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 that forcing gays and lesbians serving in the u.s. military to keep their sexuality secret was also repealed approval of the measure is marked as significant to you turns for the republican party which has threatens to block that. france is urging its citizens to leave ivory coast after a political crisis in the african state erupted into deadly violence the u.s. secretary general elliott warned the situation is becoming increasingly volatile and risks a return to civil war given citing un peacekeepers have been forced out by the incumbent president after it recognized his rivals election victory more than fifty people have reportedly died since the ballot. scientists across italy launched against university budget cuts are expected to be approved by the parliament

thousands demonstrated and the main highways closing gridlock saying the reforms will be education standards will suffer ever so violence and most motions were peaceful it contrasts with last week's riots which saw several of us and a hundred injuries after prime minister berlusconi survived a no confidence. the us has voted against motion condemning glorification of narcism tabled by russia and the united nations and the situation looks at the possible reasons for the american decision. we have one hundred twenty nine countries saying they want to fight against the glorification of naziism and then the united states says no we don't want to sign up to that document secondly this is especially interesting because the united states obviously far. against naziism in the second world war and this is one of those rare opportunity is when we have countries like iran and israel even agreeing on an issue which almost never

happens but here is the united states who does not want to go along with everyone else and this is really something that americans don't like to talk about because over the last several years there have been documents leaked and declassified revealing us cover ups of nazis right after the second world war united states cooperating with nazis during the cold war to get more information and to have more power in the fight against the soviet union and of course of particular interest here is the waffen s.s. the so-called protective squadrons of the nazis that were really a militarized group that helped to carry out the goals of the nazis by doing things like ethnic cleansing to all sorts of war crimes and these were the people that the united states ended up cooperating with in the wars in the years after the second world war of the most important interest here though is of course the baltic waffen s.s. because the united states was really copulating tightly with people located there

to try to fight the soviet union and a lot of the a for example of baltic state as one of is the only place in the world right now that sees a former s.s. soldiers as war heroes there's an enormous baltic lobby in the us which is really shedding more light on exactly why this sort of issue would not be supported by the united states at the u.n. we have an interesting clip on this issue there was a systematic program by the united states government in particular its intelligence agencies to you if you choose from baltic states including criminals or people who collaborated with the nazis during the war for intelligence purposes what this has created is a situation. if there is a person who claims to be a freedom fighter or an anti communist from eastern europe that person in the us

media tends to be automatically regarded with respect to even as a hero. reality a significant portion of those people had in fact collaborated with the nazis this is something that the united states is really so far staying silent about and strangely especially when the cause is so straightforward as fighting the glorification of naziism. up next georgia's opposition leader talks starting you know there was an oscar recently totters then availing of a monument to world war two soldiers lost to georgia destroyed a memorial to make way for government buildings despite protests has been telling oksana boyko that her country has an unusual democracy.

just that with the. often when interesting rallies you say your mission is to introduce democracy to draw region 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

chrissie. was like. the myth of georgia as a democratic country really exists 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 the line 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 gaining momentum 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 sack of the government and the team would realise the problems

and the stakes they had made in which tried to fix them read a bloody 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 over that does not infer a democratic state because you have been an acquisition for several years for a stroller is the georgian emphasis you know 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 slander 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 are manifested from time to time are a sign that the opposition keeps on struggling to change the topic slightly haggard 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 and did. 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 whiskey 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 valid 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 them. we have mentioned the war and before august two thousand and eight russia had often expressed concern over the growing military power of georgia what is going on now is georgia stepping up its military potential by really equipping its army or you suggest 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 in 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 had more chances for transformation including of democracy because the west was assisting not only morally both materially do you think that now that

two years have passed since then georgia has lost its an ecumenical support from the western powers i mean benevolence and readiness to support some programs in georgia. but 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 a sort of let's wait and see stance although positive unfortunately i have to say my main complaint against saakashvili 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 have enjoyed before the war by the support from the west began to do window even before the war because the west saw clearly the democratic reforms were not as quick and right as expected of us i remember very well how dubious germany was about the legal system in georgia

and the war surely destroyed georgia's your application was there a lot of we have mentioned the recent war of two thousand and eight i also know that today he attended a ceremony open and memorial to another war why did you decide you had to turn and the i'm not. it's because this war for me same is for millions of people not only in the countries of the who are most soviet union. but all over the world is sacred so now to destroy a monument is absolute sacrilege some members of my family died in that 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.

hello again this is aussie coming to you live from moscow with a check of the headlines. but finally gets to a new start in terms of personal nobody but obama gets his way the laws ditch british big u.s. senate finally approved to start a new day on the scots treaty with russia after months of wrangling moscow has welcomes the move it's crucial to renewed relations. also the new face of russian patriotism the country's best known agent i'm going to chop and put

something in the school career and if used in. the u.s. but it's against a un resolution proposed by russia condemning the glorification of notes isn't as more than one hundred twenty countries including iran and support the mug shot. up next it's our interview show sport live with and today his guest is the state secretary of the last minute foreign ministry andries to cabinets and he also rescind a rocky relations between russian law and via a showing signs of improvement. we'll. bring you the latest in science. some of. the future.