to start the voting process but it all depends on what amendments have been made to by 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 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 verification through soon as possible so as president of year 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 russia will be synchronized and this is what russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said earlier today. look at the door of this procedure and through

that as you see 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 bit to go to just one of the club 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 you're. 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. bombing 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 as something was rocking 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 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'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 there is still some 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 obsolete 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 the in the u.s. congress what was russia so interested though in the passage through the washington machine. live very key both sides being keen for this to reach the stage for this new treaty to be ratified because this marks a very significant stay in the road. reset of course it's been

a year since the last treaty spied on now 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 the long term goal obviously not only will this reduce the arsenals but it also mean that the russia can monitor the u.s. arsenal and 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 only last when the bloodier talk about how we got this far out of the treaty go 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. kevin sooner love the u.s. to 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 mob makers generally made it clear that they had 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 cards the countries will still hold more than ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons so many agree that the value of the treaty is not just in 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. british opposition labor and recall the news a long time and a nuclear campaign told me 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 go to 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 a nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly israel india pakistan north korea more calm and democratic strategist robert wayne believes 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 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 and the years of the key moments will be at the annual meeting between president medvedev the legs of russia's leading t.v. channels and we will be covering up for you on friday as well of course it will be

available on our website at our teeth dot com now that leads us nicely on to a quick look at what we've got there for you tonight two stories you picked out on the new look website christmas well and truly coming from moscow there they are fifty seven from around the world hitting the capital for a gift giving spree very nice to watch the seasonal spirit come alive busy time of year for them it's a dirty dot com more seriously on a challenge as we reported yesterday moving from being sexy spy to a leading role in russia's next generation politics again if you did not story want to find out more about tea dot com is the place to be. north korea says it's ready to use its nuclear deterrent to what it calls a sacred war against the south the north defense minister statement was reported by

state media there the minister accused soul of deliberately stoking tension by staging successive joint military drills with the us next to the north territories 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 launchers and hundreds of troops that was held 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 as part of foreign policy on this would go and she told me that seoul has designs on its northern neighbor. i think. 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 the young yang are very limited it. the best it 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 side 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 few options 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 the. 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 nuclear annihilation. and so i mean on the program. at one time leprosy struck fear because it meant a slow death but today it's both treatable and curable yet for russians diagnosed with the disease there's another problem to overcome being isolated by society examiner could show reports next tonight of those living with the condition and the stigma. lost amid vast families russia's oldest lap 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

fifteen no they were packed into just one house but now there is this building big enough to house two families given the patients more privacy and dignity by larry like the vast majority of people in terrorist he has been he worried he could leave but says it's not the ethics of the disease which made him stay but people's reaction. in the road 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 is dying and how the bites are snakes don't just wind out of the blue the same with letters if you hear this word you get scared once you know would swats them is different. most people's knowledge of the disease comes from ancient 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 terror ski 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 found out about their disease and. we don't want to leave next door to be so and so's we've got kids and sometimes cure leprosy a few patients have to move around to a laser where nobody knows that. but a very vital no was among the first to receive while to drug therapy for leprosy in the u.s.s.r. 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 weird that they did this and they're worn all the time in bronze 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 now is 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 sign. how what where and why it will be very difficult for men kind of 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. for now those still living in terror scheme no longer needed medical care but a change in attitude in the outside world a society where people care and don't stare at what r.t. it's terrible region. for top world news stories for your brave family coasts of being linked to possible explosions in the seas in rome the first device went off

of the swiss ambassador his residence is seriously into the post. but a few hours later the second letter bomb exploded at the chilean embassy leaving minor wounds italy's interior minister saying tonight the blast was similar to the mail bomb sent to fourteen embassies in athens about smog. post-election violence more every coast has now claimed one hundred seventy three lives with mounting international pressure for laurent gbagbo to quit the presidency world powers recognized his rival as the winner of the runoff vote but refuses to step down the united nations secretary general earlier warned the situation is becoming increasingly volatile and risks a return to civil war the un human rights commission is also planning to discuss the crisis. dramatic pictures here. parliament after a man. seriously the parliament building engineer was protesting against austerity cuts and job says the government faced

a confidence vote the ballot was about the opposition m.p.'s left the chamber of the ruling party to choose not to cast their vote. with the chief 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. the operations include the killing of a hamas leader in dubai in the year this year sorry said western papers have been hesitant to publish sensitive material relating to israel. ninety minutes past one moscow time stay with the story next in our interview artie's paulus lear talks to dr ronen bergman an israeli military intelligence analyst about what recent wiki leaks disclosures have revealed about the middle east it's here we are to use jim.

what may have been in 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. 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 condemn nation from europe the ballistic. anger from from the united states in the outcomes therefore israel would be able to stop the arena a nuclear initiative using diplomatic pressure economic sanctions or supporting economic sanctions 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 air 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 unfortunately tried 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 the american kid 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. a moderate countries in the middle east if because this is not in because all these countries leaving. egypt who persisting you continuously told the americans to not being gay. ron. sort of used to do not enter this sort of a dialogue. it would not help and president mubarak calling the iranians 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 but so far as you know. all the news and they were not they did not appear just recently. about 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 most 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 from the establishment side nine hundred forty nine until today but we also have a lot about the decision making process how. in a summation the 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 heard the enemy on the inside of a sniper get him in now he needs to sort of a dialogue what is 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 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 infecting iranian computers connected to rand's nuclear program so do you think that there are other things like this on the go the discovery. of the. stocks that shocked 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 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 last city of the centrifuges inside natanz and core 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 their own growing accusation between the secret services of the countries who were able to produce in germany france britain the united states and israel accusing each other in bringing

. this to 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 regarding stocks that but old next cyberattacks up to big men thank you very much for joining us here. that are killing innocent. allies. of course and that's never a. mom a song from the skull still with me i think of it every day. the flashbacks

from the memory. of so much so that a long time i'm just here trying to tell. i was. i was ashamed that i. i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got my legs. what i want to be. 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 as good. wealthy british style.

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