slater's 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 than 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 verification through as soon as possible so as president yet if he can hope both houses problems would do that as soon as possible and that's because russia wants to honor the original agreement 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. because it was president the signal as the president agreed ratification will be synchronized we have passed all the hearings in the committees of the state duma and said aeration 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 me to go to just one of the close just under twenty four hours that new start treaty eventually was approved was noted by seventy one votes to twenty six in the u.s. senate getting there for more support than was expected yeah. well karen 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 a 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 see. there's 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've been parsley the fanning the treaty on the senate floor over the seven days of excruciating debates and to the president of course it was fighting very hard to get the twenty past. 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 or nuclear arsenals along with russia that was a lot of doubting russia to whether or not the u.s. senators would be able to overcome all the politics and get down to the substance of the deal here is 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 their results of the votes are relevant in the 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 process we just heard about there from me in the u.s. congress what was russia so interested though in the twenty's passage through the washington machine. to live very keen both sides being keen for this to reach the stage for this new treaty to be ratified because this marks a very significant say in the road to reset of course it's been a year since the last treaty spied on now was agreed upon a over twenty years ago and so this really really says that both sides are on the same page on the long road. to nuclear free world that's

a long term goal obviously not only will this reduce the arsenals but it also mean that the russia can monitor the u.s. also vice versa so it's all about transparency and so russia was very keen that it went through the u.s. senate i'm sure the u.s. senate will be very keen that it gets ratified here early last when the bloodier talk about how we got this far out of the tree to go with us 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. kevin soon enough the u.s. can negotiate or are start 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 russian lawmakers generally made it clear that they have no objections to the treaty what 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 under way they will cut their nuclear arsenals by a third down to some fifteen hundred fifty warheads the treaty also limits the number of delivery vehicles and launchers but even with those cuts the countries will still hold more than ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons so we need a 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. will british opposition labor to be called good news a long time campaign is says that the russia us treaty is a signal for other nations to suspend their atomic activities. it's such a huge step and it's 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 weapon systems because most of 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 democrat strategist told me the new treaty wasn't easy for the senate to ratify but it could bring 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 as 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 all

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 and on friday the russian president dmitry medvedev will give his thoughts on this and the years of the key moments in the at the annual meeting between president vet isn't the heads of russia's leading t.v. channels we'll be covering that few friday and of course it'll be available any time on our website as well r t v dot com where of the you are if you mobile and you've got a photo and catch up with it there of course also play the watch on our new lot websites run you smart look to it as well if not called it recently one taken and

that's a nice christmas eve christmas well and truly coming to moscow fifteen samples of around the world hit the capital for gift giving spree the likes what's the saying is knolls couple lie about paul. allen chapman story brought yesterday moving from being the world renowned sexy spy to the role in russia's next generation politics they just two of the many many stories we've got online for you tonight at our dot com. north korea says it's ready to 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 soul of deliberately stoking tension by

staging successive joint military drills with the u.s. projects 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 involve heavy military machine or a fighter jets missile launchers and hundreds of troops and it was 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 korean foreign policy analysts stephen go and told me that so all has designs on it. northern neighbor. i think that appealing. 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

young yang are very limited. and the best 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 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 see the collapse of the north korean state and its absorption

into the south. lead 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 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 nuclear 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 strategic nuclear weapons on many north korean sites and it's because of 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 their countries with war and invasion nuclear annihilation seemed to me to a bit earlier on to the south. american soldiers who once proudly signed up to serve their country tell us how they eventually found their actions to justify. they are killing innocent kids. of course and that's never a. song in the schools with me i think of it every day. to memorise. a long time. i was ashamed. i was ashamed. i was ashamed that i had.

to go. forward. about what i was doing or words or i think. that i was a good soldier. but you know most old you're on the other side and i think i'm just as good. this is from moscow next tonight at one time leprosy struck fear because it meant a slow death but today it's supposed to pull in curable for russians diagnosed with the disease there's another problem to overcome and that's being isolated by society next artie's and so on they can show reports on those living with the condition and that stigma. lost amid vast fairlie's

russia as old as slap a village has no streets all in 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 they have 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 larry like the vast majority of people in terrorist he has been cured he could believe but says it's not the efforts of the disease which made him stay but people's reaction. towards you know the road sometimes is like a man in a snake you see a snake can 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 the bites of the snakes don't just bite out of the blue the same with letters if you hear this word you get it once you know would swats them is different. most

people's knowledge of the disease comes from engine bible stories if you realize 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 ignorance which stops many of the residents of tara ski feel unwelcome in the outside world superseded most of our sark year old so where will we go there were many cases when people were discharged and they got on 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 sometimes cure leprosy patients have to move around still laser nobody knows that. but a very vital no was among the first to receive multidrug set up 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. but i will look at my hands it's work that did this and the war all the time in bra and in the cold barbara found her killing terrorists can sure also find a husband and their life 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 reason need to keep institutions open even if they're virtually empty. if we don't leave any signs how what where and why it will be very difficult for men kind of just 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 need a medical care but a change in attitude in the outside world

a society where people care and don't stare. what r.t. it's terrible region. for top stories a brief to bring you up to date with i like her so bringing two powerful bomb explosions of embassies in rome. the first device went off at the swiss ambassador his residence and seriously injured the postal worker who opened. it a few hours later the second that a bomb exploded at the chilean embassy leaving a bell under way with minor italy's interior minister said the blast was similar to the melbourne center fourteen embassies at the last month. post-election violence in ivory coast has now claimed one hundred seventy three lives amid mounting international pressure for a long quit the presidency will recognize his rival as the winner of the runoff vote fuses to step down united nations secretary general earlier warned the situation is becoming increasingly volatile to return to civil the un human rights commission is also planning to discuss the crisis. hydrometer romania's parliament

after a man threw himself from the chamber both kidney wasn't seriously hurt the parliament building engineer was protesting against austerity cuts and jumped as the governor faced a confidence vote the ballot was abandoned the shocked opposition m.p.'s left the chamber of the ruling party chose to. wiki leaks founder and editor in chief during the sanchez told al-jazeera television that he has nearly four thousand pages of documents yet to be released about israel the secret files include more classified information on the two thousand and six war with lebanon as well as numerous assassinations carried out by the israeli intelligence service mossad the operation was detailed include the killing of a mass leader in dubai earlier this year the son said western papers have been hesitant to publish sensitive material relating to israel. past midnight here in moscow and stay on that story straight shooting for our interview coming right up

now parties paulus lear talks to dr roland bergman an israeli military intelligence analyst about what recent wiki leaks disclosures of revealed about the middle east . now i have got to win 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 wouldn't like to attack israeli leaders understand the possible horrendous results of such an attack the possible intervention of hamas possibly syria condemned nation from europe the ballistic. from from the united states in the outcomes therefore israel would be able to stop the arena nuclear initiative using diplomatic pressure economic sanctions or supporting it. is imposed by the international community in. operational intelligence means israel would prefer to take this path and the latest wiki leaks reports suggest that some arab leaders are putting pressure on the united states to attack iran's nuclear

reactor is there anything new in this and do you think america could follow the wiki leaks documents on the issue of pressure on the united states to take harsher steps these of iran i'm not. new to some of us we have tried to publish some of this information with the book but it's really really true censorship fortunately try to fight some of that but basically it says in writing what we already know but the fact that it is in reality this is an official secret american cable has an importance by its own it emphasized how profound is the fear from iran not just from the eyes of israel but also from. moderate countries in the middle east if because this is not in because all these countries leaving. egypt who persisting continuously told the americans to not engage iran.

in a sort of peace to do not enter this sort of a dialogue. it would not help and president mubarak calling the iranians. back to be a big fat liar is. i don't think that the revelation would change anything but there is something on the go not so long ago there was movement in the mediterranean sea and reports suggested that saudi arabia had given israel permission to use its airspace so do you think that something is happening below the surface i read as far as you know. all the news and they were not they did not appear just recently. back into. the saudi arabia given permission to israel to have free passage through its area of space to iran in back as far as i know these are all force you are currently writing a book entitled must side and the art of assassination is there going to be

anything new about the mossad the israeli secret service in this book that has not already been written before we have a lot of the details. of numerous assimilation parishioners that took place for. nine hundred forty nine until today but we also have a lot about the decision making process how. in a summation a targeted killing is being authorized what is the procedure what are the limits. who are the people involved in just to give you one very interesting question about the people involved many of the leaders of israel in the villages of the army or the political of the political level have been personally involved in nation operations what does it do to a person to a man who was personally involved in such operations when he needs to deal with the

at least past. when he had the enemy on the inside of a sniper get him and now he needs to has sort of a dialogue what does it do to use psychology to his decision making process. we are going to have the history of israel. portrayed in weave through the use of targeted decision it's nation israel surprisingly maybe israel was the is the country who uses this. far more than any other country in history what kind of covert operations do you think are happening at the moment not so long ago the israeli defense forces unit a two zero zero was suspected of inflicting a rainy and computers connected to iran's nuclear program so do you think that there are other things like this on the go the discovery. of the. stocks that schalk the world of of computer security this is by

far the most advanced and most lethal virus computer virus ever discovered i'm not saying it's the biggest or the best book ever produced but the best that was ever discovered. the the ability of stocks that to jump from a computer to a computer reaching stand alone computers that are controlling the lost city of the centrifuges inside natanz and com the enriching your own facilities in iran. in its ability to trick to play. in to exceed in to change very fast the velocity of the centrifuge. causing it to collapse these are all extremely extremely clever sophisticated and they can be the result only of

the work of a country of a very advanced technological country that behind the scenes is the own go accusation between the secret services of the countries who were able to produce it germany france britain the united states and israel accusing each other in bringing into. the world and why accusing if it's such a such a big success because the discovery of stuxnet is a huge intelligence fiasco because now the iranians are aware that someone is able to penetrate their standalone computers they know how it was done. and they can take it out or they can prevent it not just repeat regarding stocks that but we're going to. cyber attacks. thank you very much for joining us here on.

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is the artsy news channel live from moscow these are all top stories tonight. her father knew some production treaty with washington already approved by the us. both sides is proof of a new level of trust. north korea says it's ready to unleash a sacred war on the south angered by sold massive military drills across the border . of living with leprosy russians in a remote village feel. with the disease or with the stigma that society imposes on

the. next on our t. american veterans talk about their missions at war the regrets they now have one of our special report coming right up. to be a soldier was a very important thing in a young man's life and to be not just a soldier but to be a good soldier and to be in combat and. that's where you belong. and that's the southerner in me in time of war that's where you belong.