when could we see the first indications of that well kerry now that the treaty is approved it will go onto the president's table for a signature that is just a formality but only then it will be considered officially ratified and only when the two countries have the trivial ratified it will come into effect what will follow we all know they will start dismantling the bombs and traveling to each other to see that the other side is complying with their obligations under the treaty is the key stark negotiator in the us rose go to miller said the whole verification process will start some time in spring as as of the russians russian lawmakers made it really clear that they have no objections to the treaty and they will ratify very very soon now that the u.s. senate gave its approval there are no obstacles remaining there. let's cross to moscow now to your country there so it's now russia's turn to follow suit to the proof of the treaty what we've been hearing so far. well immediately after the

votes were counted on capitol hill moscow force applauded the outcome because yesterday evening minutes before the final vote we were still talking tossup today we're talking a done deal of course the kremlin has been watching council all those heated arguments pro and cons in washington d.c. and the press reaction came from the prominence press office and from the russian foreign ministry who both while come this decision by the u.s. senate to ratify this crucial major nuclear agreement in almost two decades sergei lavrov said that as far as russian lawmakers are concerned they will of course need some time to study the british vacation resolution which the senate voted for but that it will be no problem with russia that it would be a mere matter of time indeed the code was more about the u.s. credibility abroad rather than that of russia's president very assured the rock obama from the very beginning that the russian parliament would approve. read it

proved the new strategic arms reduction treaty immediately after it was clear that the u.s. senate would vote for eight and indeed the most heated debates had been in washington despite the treaty was signed by the president in april this year and probably all this time there had been these lengthy and very delicate process over it if occasion republicans who largely opposed the plan kept saying they were jammed to sign such a crucial agreement last days before new year and democrats pushed back this in the treaty has been on and on for months and months that it was time to finally ready five and moskos been saying to its partner new start to still draw a line between winners and losers both sides come out as winners by working towards global design of a man's america and russia leading by example two largest nuclear superpowers which account for ninety percent of global nuclear stockpile but the question being is what will everyone else follow. indeed go back to. before the treaty was cleared

forty three patients there are many obstacles in the way when there. that's right carried this fight all the huge support that the treaty has received you know the country's top security experts are saying that it is a win win deal and number of republican senators who are going out of their way to on the minded as many say just for the sake of denying obama is arguably major foreign policy victory and the treaty could have easily become a victim of political games on capitol hill at some point it got really nasty and you could say is that it was all about politics and no substance so more on the data on the day of the vote and the excruciating detail of debate before that it was my report will mark. the vote. on this resolution are seventy one twenty six nays two thirds the senate president having voted in the affirmative the resolution of ratification is agreed to. and with this

approval russian the u.s. 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 parallel 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 trade if we don't have a nuclear treaty with the u.k. anglin 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 will 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 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 two nuclear superpowers former adversaries actually trusting each other and looking to work hand in hand to provide their security get a check on our team washington d.c. . well i haven't either and a political analyst from the independent institute think tank in washington says the cut still is an important step and even those who put up objections to it recognize this. they arms control has 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 the treaty does allow russians and the us to cooperate war and i think the general. better relationship is good if there's a 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 accidental nuclear war i think this happens on many senate is that they dig in their heels they tried to build up the price on 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 online 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 trading. well lawrence korb

a senior fellow for the public policy research center of american progress in washington believes the treaty helps address the danger of nuclear weapons falling to the bone. i think it's significant for two reasons number one it helps us get our relations with russia back where they they they should be and get the russian help and things like stand and and ran and the other is that the real danger to the security of the united states is a nuclear weapon or nuclear material falling into the wrong hands and this treaty is a first step to dealing with that problem what it is is if we get all of the countries of the world including russia the united states signed the nonproliferation treaty which they agreed that if all the countries would develop nuclear weapons they would reduce they i was and really we haven't had anything for a decade so we're still moving in that direction. greg thielmann a senior fellow at the arms control association in washington says the treaty sets

of good example for other nuclear powers to fight it this treaty itself does not affect directly the nuclear arsenals of other countries any of the permanent five members of the u.n. security council or countries like india pakistan israel and perhaps north korea that may have nuclear weapons what it does is that the u.s. and russia 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 there will bring you more comment on analysis of the start treaty approval from leading experts throughout the day of course of course you can always have your say on the issue on our website that's r.t. dot com. china says it will help struggling european economies combat their debt

crisis the offer came at an economic forum in beijing he is china's largest economic partner but cooperation has been challenged by europe's ailing financial health economist mark appear to be opening beijing's support is not a permanent remedy for the uk this extends china's political influence in europe by making a lot of european states dependent on on china to buy to buy their debt but it doesn't get away from the fundamental problem in europe europe has a big big sovereign debt crisis and the seas if you like a patch to try and help the situation until the europeans managed to put together some some proper reforms some proper fundamental structures to help the euro stay together moving forward and to date they've been very much dragging their heels in

and patching up greece and ireland rather than coming to the table to put together fundamental reform of how the euro actually operates. where they are today max keiser and co-host stacy herbert a look at the financial scandals in the debt ridden european union and on the other side of the atlantic. i'm here in london where the bankers are demanding their year end bonuses and the government is asking the blues mr berger don't steal any more our money and the bankers are saying wait a minute if we can't steal your money we might leave and the government is saying no we want you to want me meanwhile the i.m.f. is asking people ireland to suffer more austerity while the i.m.f. is redecorating its lush headquarters in washington d.c. .

bashar on the u.s. may be resetting their relations but the country still fails to see eye to eye on many issues and u.s. is one of the few countries to vote against a draft resolution table by russia the united nations and contending of course occasion of notes is an associate accept the possible reasons behind the american decision. we have one hundred twenty nine countries saying they want to fight against the glorification of not citizen and then the united states says no but we don't want to sign up to that document this is especially interesting because the united states obviously fought against naziism in the second world war and this is one of those rare opportunities 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 over the last several years there have been documents leaked and declassified revealing us cover ups of nazis right

after the second world war 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 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 cooperated with in the wars in the years after the second world war of the most important interest here though is of course the voltec waffen s.s. because the united states was really caught parading tightly with people located there to try to fight the soviet union and a lot via for example a baltic state as one of is the only place in the world right now that sees former s.s. soldiers as war heroes 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. way to get more from our to the latest

news analysis and blog as always for you on our website it's a taste of what's about to dot com right now. biding her time in russia she joins a political youth movement and what she's up to now and what her stance is. and christmas is well and truly coming to moscow and the sand to spill around the world in the capital for giving spree if you still don't believe in santa just log on to our time dot com and see for yourself. it's a disease many believe belongs to biblical times but for those struck down with their prosy it's a very present problem many people affected confined in remote villages with little

chance of rejoining society he's on a trip reports. lost amid vast families russia's oldest lapp a village has no streets only one but houses with its own fire brigade ambulance service and kindergarten it's a home for many people affected by leprosy away from the eyes of a public with little understanding of the disease when the first patients arrived face to know they were packed into just one house but now there is this a building big enough to house two families given the patients more privacy and dignity by larry like the vast majority of people in tears kay has been cured he could believe but says it's not the ethics of the disease which made him stay but people's reaction. sometimes it's like a man in a snake you see a snake and get frightened but someone who knows the snake a snake catcher is not afraid he knows which ones bite and which don't and how they

bite a snakes don't just wind out of the blue the same with letters if you hear this word you get scared once you know woods what's that is different. most people's knowledge of the disease comes from engine bible stories if you realize that they're most likely. or that after treatment for myself or is a no longer infectious in any case the condition is extremely rare it's that ignorance which stops many of the residents of testy feel unwelcome in the outside world. most of us are killed so where will we go there were many cases when people were discharged and they go to an ok until the neighbors found out about their disease and. we don't want to leave next door to the so and so's we've got kids who sometimes cure leprosy patients have to move out to a laser where nobody knows. but of our i want to know was among the first to

receive multidrug cetera before leprosy and the you were ceasar in many ways she was lucky to be treated at all at a time when diagnosis was hard the telltale patch on her food was missed by most doctors director but i'm going to look at my hands it's rugs i did this and the war over time and brine in the kool aid barbara found her killing terrorists can sure also find a husband and i live it offered her and many others the chance of a relatively normal existence you know words hope centers like these will no longer be needed in the last decade they have been hardly any new cases of leprosy in russia however doctors say the risen need to keep institutions open even if they're virtually empty. if we don't leave any signs of how what where and why it will be very difficult for mankind to start combat in leprosy all over again it's possible that one day due to poor living conditions and things like that the pandemic will

return to you for now those still live in interest no longer needed medical care but a change in attitude in the outside world a society where people care and don't stare acts on that is what r.t.e. staff are full of region now for a brief look at all the major headlines from around the world. it's far less of the russian reason cited was his failure to warn the japanese government to present forget it was a recent visit to russia's crude islands pattern has claimed the territory since world war two investor was temporarily recalled immediately after president visit to the audience last month but was later allowed to return to his post. argentina's former military dictator jorge data has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by a court in the city of color but he eighty five year old was connected. dissidents

during the late seventy's and. up to thirty thousand were tortured and killed three more to go around as argentina's more general has been serving on and off sentences for other crimes since his fall from power in one thousand nine hundred three. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad is in turkey to garner support for his country's nuclear program is with it comes as part of a broader regional summit on the dinner just this to have a one to one meeting with the turkish prime minister istanbul and the second round of the six party talks on iran's nuclear program in general after a meeting in geneva turkey maintained good relations with tehran and together with brazil. a nuclear fuel swap deal in ne the agreement was rejected by the united states. and the rain in that nuclear facilities could be attacked if diplomacy fails so says a senior israeli military analyst for the interviews coming your way this in ten

minutes but here's a taste. like to attack israeli leaders understand the possible horrendous results of such an attack however. if diplomatic pressure economic sanctions don't work in iran is getting too close to a bomb then i think that the european intelligence community and the united states who still hope close israel to launch an aerial strike on their nuclear facilities or to run. the business news next hour with ariel bushell. into business a host of political and economic deals have been signed during president medvedev trip to india these in compass the defense and nuclear power stake theirs as well

as oil and pharmaceuticals our correspondent in the vehicle a look at some of the business highlights of the two day trip. well prison be good if studio visit to india has resulted in signing about thirty deals worth billions of us dollars first of all bush as it was about all the experts together with hindustan aeronautics ltd have agreed to jointly develop the third generation aircraft a project that would be worth from eight to ten billion u.s. dollars and by the year two thousand and seventeen india wants to have about two hundred and fifty of such aircraft in its arsenal also during this visit india is use it all fresh as long as the vacation system has proved to be successful and the two countries have agreed to increase bilateral investment and trade to twenty billion u.s. dollars by the year two thousand and fifty. one of the major deals to emerge during president medvedev has been in the energy sector welshing conglomerate system and

india's state run oil and natural gas corporation are investigating a merger of the oil and gas business is in russia in the no cash deal the indian firm would require twenty five percent of the joint venture the potential merger will include three companies question if imperial energy will give over n.g.c. a stake in the russian firms i knew all production of twenty five million tonnes and an interest in the huge trips to talk of oil fields. on the stock market is now a look from asia hong kong stocks rose for a third day of the reports the us economy expanded falls to them previously estimated fueling of global economic recovery and oil producers gained along with crude prices trends nikkei is closed for a public holiday here in moscow markets finished just today on positive ground the l.t.s. ended wednesday's trading session point four percent higher on the my six was up half a percent in economic news russia's g.d.p.

grew full point two percent in november a year here which sits g.d.p. gross to three point seven percent. for the first eleven months of twenty ten. twenty eleven looks like it could be a bad year for russian row always the national operator of the d. expects profits to drop by ninety six percent this is this is down to government imposed restrictions on tariffs while the money might not be flowing passengers and goods will deeper the double digit increases in both. world prices for all sugar have hit thirty year highs and the rally is set to continue the two biggest global suppliers brazil and india have both said they will not be able to meet demand for the third straight year and another soft commodity arabica coffee is about to reach a record as colombia had its poorest harvest for thirty five years. along new year holidays in russia will cost the economy up to twenty seven billion dollar losses that's according to analysts from f b k the ten day break this starts from the

first of january sees most of the country shut down including virtually all non essential services and production of russians can help the country's budget by doing what comes naturally in the festive season due to alcohol goes up from the beginning of next year so that for every liter of vodka sold contributes three dollars to the state coffers. that's the latest remember you can always buy more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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believe what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but now most soldier on the other side and i think i'm just as good . watching out to the headlines. to moscow will be clear cut streets are singing on the center of the months of today in house wrangling russia and u.s. lead the start agreement new symbol of trust between the two nations. but some differences between them remain russia disappointed with the u.s. voting against a draft u.n. resolution condemning the increasing glorification of notes as i'm sure to respond

moscow is still adopted as it was supported by hundred twenty nine states. and an economic forum in beijing china said it would help that region in economies to tackle the crisis experts on the informal make the continent what it pendant on the regime. next with the iran's nuclear program and the concerns surrounding its you know special interview. with now have been in bergman a senior israeli military and intelligence analyst and author of the book the secret war with iran dr thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. most welcome so to cut to the chase is israel planning an attack on iran well i put it i would put it this way israel would like to attack israeli leaders understand the possible horizon.