the u.s. senate to the ratification document is called the ratification resolution it's in the hands of russian legislators now we have learned there are some amendments we don't know how significant they are and it all depends on that significance because that is the deal breaker right tomorrow we'll go to the state dinner they'll study it and see if those terms and conditions set by the u.s. are the ones that they originally agreed on if they're not it's a very significant changes then and they may not end up ratifying it at all if they minor changes that they could end up voting on it tomorrow not just them but also the federal council because both houses of parliament are very keen to push this but a vacation through as soon as possible so is president yet if he can hope both house of problems would do that as soon as possible and that's because russia wants to honor the original agreement there but that the ratification process not only in the u.s. but in the in russia will be synchronized and this is what russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said earlier today. look at the door the disparity and the signal as the president agreed ratification will be synchronized we have passed all the

hearings in the committees of the state duma and federation council the foreign ministry has kept lawmakers informed on the senate plans for its ratification resolutions this is very important because on each text depends what wording our legislators will use in the russian ratification law for a little girl i just saw one of the clock back just under twenty four hours that new start treaty eventually was approved was named by seventy one votes to twenty six in the u.s. senate getting there for more support than was expected year. well kevin they thought they had seventy so it's one more vote than big ben they expected but actually the treaty deserved more votes everyone has been saying that all the previous arms reduction treaty has received no less than ninety votes of approval but this was a special year and congress was not at its best the number of senators were going out of their way to undermine the treaty many say mostly for the sake of denying obama is arguably major foreign policy achievement although the country's top security experts were saying over and over again that it's

a win win deal at some point it got really nasty you could say and something was rotten on capitol hill it was all about politics not about the substance of the treaty but really we have to give credit to those senators who'd been tirelessly defending the treaty on the senate floor over the seven days of excruciating debates and to the president of course who was fighting very hard to get the treaty passed. the democrats republicans came together to approve our top national security for the 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 there was a lot of doubt in russia to whether or not u.s. senators would be able to overcome all the politics and get down to the substance of the deal here's what the head of the most foreign relations committee said on this. the fact that the senate has been working on the treaty is ratification so long and so thoroughly means that the results of the votes are relevant and can now

be questioned by anyone the american writer for creation took place despite all the speculation surrounding the procedure which was based exclusively on the interests of domestic politics it's great that an absolute majority of the senate including a major group of republican senators decided to rise above forty interests and act for what's best for the united states and in this case in global interests. russia has been keeping a close eye on it all the way along the line in the debate process we just heard about there from gani in the us congress what was russia so interested though in their twenty's passage through the washington machine. although very keen both sides been keen for this to reach the stage for this new treaty to be ratified because this marks a very significant step in the road to reset of course it's been a year since the last treaty spied and that was agreed upon over twenty years ago

and so this really reasserts that both sides are on the same page on the long road to a nuclear free world that's a long term goal obviously not only will this reduce the arsenals but it also mean that russia can monitor the u.s. arsenal and vice versa so it's all about transparency and so russia was very keen that it got went through the u.s. senate i'm sure the u.s. senate will be very keen that it gets ratified here you're going to last when the you are in the body to talk about how we got this far the treaty got thus far if and when it is finally fully ratified now here in moscow when are we going to see some concrete evidence of the treaty and those cuts taking place. ok evan soon enough the u.s. can negotiate aerostar said they might start the verification process this spring you understand that only when both countries have their treaty ratified it will come into a fact now that the senate gave its approval it's russia's turn and there really are not many obstacles left as my colleague in moscow said russia ma makers generally made it clear that they have no objections to the treaty but will follow

we all know they would start dismantling the bombs and traveling to each other to see that the other side is complying with their obligations under the treaty both countries have some very significant reductions underway they will cut their nuclear arsenals by a third down to some fifteen hundred fifty war has the treaty also limits the number of delivery vehicles and launchers but even with those cut the countries will still hold more than ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons so many way that the value of the treaty is not just being reductions but in the trust and cooperation that comes with it and of course it's meant to be an indication to other countries that the two nuclear superpowers are committed to the goals of nonproliferation going to can the chuck hagel a former republican senator in the u.s. believes the treaty has been made possible because most school in washington understand there are areas where they need each other. a russia in the united states have many common interests and we are working together. on so many of

these common interests all over the world whether whether it's iran whether it's north korea economy energy europe nato. less and we are are bound together as global citizens of the world and russia is one of the leading nations of the world as is the united states we need to cooperate we need to get along we are not always going to agree but i think the ratification of this treaty for our side and i assume will be done in moscow soon i think is a very significant relationship in hampshire and builder for both of our countries . british opposition labor m.p. jeremy colvin who's a long time until nuclear campaigner says that the russia us treaty is a signal for other nations to suspend their atomic activities now it's such a huge step and it was one that was predicted to end in failure and so the fact that president obama and president medvedev come to the agreement and got it

through both of their parliamentary systems is a huge step forward and that's got to be a spy so surely the next thing is for all nations to agree not to renew their nuclear weapons systems because most are preparing some kind of upgrade or some kind of renewal and then move on to a nuclear weapons convention that can include all nations in the world including those that are not signatories to nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly israel india pakistan north korea i spoke to democratic strategist robert wiener he told me he believes the new treaty wasn't easy for the senate to ratify but could bring in a nuclear free world a little closer one of the debates that made no sense was the republican saying that it wouldn't when this allows inspections on both sides and that's really what counts is reagan always said trust but verify and this treaty gives a very strong verification apparatus it was an amazing development that the president would get seventy one votes when only sixty seven were required for the

supermajority and the reason for that is finally the republicans have decided on but only after the election that it's time to govern not to play partisan politics the fact that we're willing to cut is a moral statement that the world will pay attention to and it gives credence to the dream from reagan to obama and all the secretaries of state in between from both parties that perhaps someday we can have a nuclear free world that really is the objective that we all want and everybody makes fun of the dream but i think we none of us wants to die. the signing of the start treaty has been labeled by president obama as being the most significant document in decades on friday russian president dmitri medvedev will give his thoughts on this year's other key moments it will be at the annual meeting between president medvedev and the heads of russia's leading t.v. channels well of course we covering that for you on friday it will be available on our own you know web site r t dot com very nicely talking which the leads us on to this selection of what we picked

a few tonight that you might be interested in the course of time welcome to the coming of moscow fifty santas were around the world hit the capital for a gift giving spree what's the seasonal spirit level high on our website. and story focused on a chaplain moving from big sexy spy to a leading role of russia's next generation politics and details of getting to know more about that with a statement on that search. team from. north korea says it's ready for use its nuclear deterrent and what it calls a sacred war against the south the north defense minister's statement was reported by state media there the minister accused seoul of deliberately stoking tension by staging successive joint military drills with the us next to the north territory he

said the latest exercise one of the largest in the south history was an outright preparation for an attack against pyongyang the maneuvers involved heavy military machinery fighter jets missile launches and hundreds of troops from as hell just thirty kilometers from north korea the series of war games comes in the wake of the recent cross border artillery exchange that killed four south koreans foreign policy analyst stephen garlands told me that seoul has designs on its northern neighbor. i think that peeling. has very few options you must recognize that north korea is a military pipsqueak in relation to south korea whose military budget is many times larger than north koreans and south korea is integrated with the preeminent military power in the world today the united states. so the options available to p.r. n.p.r.

and yang are very limited. the vast they can do is to develop what deterrence it can but it's clearly being provoked and it has been provoked for some time ever since the current south korean president lee myung bak has come to office lease policy is to confront north korea to seek its collapse and to absorb it into the south it will take for example the life fire exercises south korea has conducted forty seven live fire exercises and this year alone. there was a forty eighth ones that has been carried out yesterday. that was initially scheduled but one south korean officer said that when the head anyway because of the tensions on the korean peninsula which only makes sense if the intention is to escalate and aggravate those tensions the united states policy for the last sixty years has been to seek the collapse of the north korean state and its absorption

into the south of. the league government is more closely aligned with the u.s. foreign policy goals on the korean peninsula then say the government's president's role in president kim i don't believe that peeling yang wants to retaliate but if it's attacked it really has a few options but to retaliate but at the same time recognizing that if it does it will be pulverized president obama speaks of his dream of having a nuclear free world but that's a new. clear free world which is free of nuclear weapons except in the united states one of the principles of nonproliferation is that you don't provide smaller countries with a motivation to acquire their own nuclear deterrent the united states has targeted its strategic nuclear weapons on many north korean sites and it's because of that that north korea's decided to acquire deterrence so if you want nonproliferation if

you want to nuclear free world you have to stop threatening other countries with war and invasion and nuclear annihilation i mean time and examine it and so from institute of oriental studies believes that china and america's respective involvements with north and south korea could lead to a global conflict. will be a nightmare for many countries and first of all for the six countries we who met in the six party talks we share the common border with giving control and chang also and of course china can be involved because it gives a treat to the alliance to reach a business career first and they demonstrated the recently. read in the stool prevent the collapse of north korea and it will be true supercar we will treat united states and china. it's possible. through a world war can start the corinthian issue unfortunately. twenty three fifteen

moscow time looking ahead says something coming up next on this channel x. american soldiers who once proudly signed up to save the country tell us how they eventually found their actions to justify. did i kill innocent kids or was it a call this of course and that's never a. moment sharpless cosco. i think of it every day. the flashbacks trouble to memorise. the same i saw a long time. i was a shape. i was ashamed that i didn't. i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero was. just the way.

what i wanted to be out in all the hours of poetry. that i believe what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but you know most soldier on the other side and i think i'm just a good. house coming up in the next hours i said tonight spoke to the present one time leprosy struck fear because it meant a slow death but today it is both treatable and curable he had for russians diagnosed with the disease there's another problem to overcome that's being isolated by society at his examiner could show reports next tonight on those living with the condition and that stigma. lost amid vast families russia's oldest lapp the village has no streets only one but houses with its own fire brigade ambulance service and kinda god and 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 arrive fifteen note 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 but larry like the vast majority of people in terror scare has been the key word there. 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 is not range he knows which one's body and which is dying and how the binds of the snakes don't use the wind out of the blade the same with levers if you hear this word you get scared once you know would swats is different. most people's knowledge of the disease comes from engine bible stories if you realise that

they're most likely immune or that after treatment for myself or is a no longer infectious in any case the condition is extremely rare. it's that influence which stops many of the residents of feel unwelcome in the outside world . most of all snarky old so where will we go there were many cases when people were discharged and they got on ok until the neighbors around downs about their disease and because we don't want to leave next door will be so and so. we've got kids sometimes we will not proceeding from patients having to move mountains to laser nobody knows. but if i want to know was among the first to receive all the drugs that are before leprosy and they 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. but i will look at my hands it's work that did this and the war all the

time in bronze in the cold barbara found her killing terrorists she also found a husband and i wanted it offered her and many others the chance of a relatively normal existence you know it's 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 you would be very difficult for many kinds of them just aren't gone bad in lebanon to see all over again it's possible that one day due to poor living conditions and things like that the pandemic will return to the now those still living in terror no longer need a medical care but a change in attitude in the outside world a society where people care and don't stare acts on that if a child what r.t.e.

stabber whole region. well news a brief you tonight than a kiss a big link to pass obama explosions of embassy the first device went off at the swiss ambassador's residence seriously injuring the postal worker who opened a package there and a few hours later a second letter bomb exploded at the chilean embassy injuring the mail handlers leaving them with minor wounds quickly as interior minister said the blast was similar to the mail bomb sent to fourteen embassies in athens last month. close to . coast is no claimed one hundred seventy three lives with mounting international pressure for long but pretty quick the presidency world powers recognized his rival as the winner of the runoff vote by the refuses to step you know that nations secretary general earlier warned the situation's becoming increased. risks a return to civil war the u.n. human rights commission is also planning to discuss the crisis. high drama in romania as parliament after a man threw himself from the balcony he wasn't seriously hurt the parliament

building engineer was protesting against austerity cuts jumped as the government faced a confidence vote that you've got it was about of the shocked opposition m.p.'s left the chair of the ruling party chose not to cast its. in ten minutes times like most cars it takes a swipe at bankers law to go before bulging christmas bonuses while europeans and americans are left holding out the begging bowl. here in london where the bankers are demanding their year end bonuses and the government is asking the palooza mr berger don't steal any more of our money and the bankers are saying wait a minute if we can steal your money we might leave the government to say no we want you to stay still i want to see meanwhile the i.m.f. is asking people ireland to suffer more austerity while the i.m.f. is reject rating as large headquarters in washington d.c. .

the back in the cold. air on this channel very shortly tonight for that though it's the business news we can read america. welcome to business with maker in america and good to have you with us but over and done their bets have been are substantial new investments in russia's car industry with prime minister putin in attendance a german company sealed an agreement to build sprinter fans at the gas factory nizhny novgorod will be around twenty five thousand vehicles annually while the swedish truck make a vamose says it will pump an impish know hundred fifty million dollars into its assembly plants and congo region the government says it will continue to support the industry will further measures to stimulate demand and cheap loans. despite sustainable group the government has plans to for the support of the water industry

in the near future and special reserve fund will be created to ensure demand returns that's why in two thousand and eleven we will continue to stimulate demand with the federal budget earmarking over seventeen billion rubles. there's been another twist in the battle for control of north. also which owns twenty five percent of russia's biggest miner has called for nor neko extraordinary general meeting to elect a new board when you producer says it has concerns about plans to sell an eight percent stake in. a multinational commodities brokerage. neko offered twelve billion dollars to buy back its twenty five percent stake in the miner the offer was promptly rejected but another major shareholder of argument but has told the wall street journal he believes that decision might change as the office quite generous timing predicts there will be a resolution by spring. let's look at the markets stocks in europe finished mixed in the last trading session before the holiday discount retailer metro is one of

the year's busiest shopping days of travel is top four in london as airlines clear their flight back up to snowfield chaos and fitch ratings agency has downgraded portugal's credit rating of the country finds it more difficult to raise money markets to finance its borrowings. both theology and in the black but trade was extremely weak as many investors have already left for the holiday season energy majors finished lowers the negative trend for wrong profit forecast for next year m.p.'s was down for the second day after the now lost us from the suspension of its business in turkmenistan would be one hundred sixty million dollars. it's been a relatively quiet session with russian equities taking the lead from foreign markets john davis from where about asset management explains the russian market itself is just trading kind of sideways so there was action on the day all global

markets emerging markets or highly correlated so what happens in russia people spend the morning trying to see what's happening in shin zen in shanghai and they spend the afternoon looking to see what's going on in the futures markets in new york. that's the latest business news but remember you can always find most henri's on our website that's r t dot com slash this.

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sheraton new delhi hotel the mario eighty hoto terry collection ramona plaza the maidens hotel the leela park plaza louis da reticent shift it was promised to taper cush palace. hello this is the r t news channel my name is kevin know it and these are all top stories tonight moscow proposed to ratify the new strategic arms reduction treaty with washington already approved by the u.s. senate and praised by both sides as proof of a new level of trust. peace on the edge north korea says it's ready to unleash a sacred war on the south angered by seoul's massive military drills what it calls the. living with leprosy russians in

a remote village feel that battle is no longer with the disease but with the stigma which society imposes on them. for the banking big shots to take cover a financial guru max kaiser takes. imax kaiser and this is the cause the report 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 of our money and the bankers are saying wait a minute if we can steal your money we might leave and the government is saying no you would you still owe money meanwhile the i.m.f. is asking people ireland to suffer more austerity while the i.m.f. is redecorating its lush headquarters and wash.