the russian lawmakers say they're ready to quit may follow the u.s. senate in ready flying the treaty unlike in washington both houses of the russian parliament the state duma and the federation council must approve it and as early as a anytime soon here at the state duma the first deliberations could start the treaty will cost through three readings the fust rate being the voting on the first reading on the actual text of the treaty will take place to date for during the sessions russian lawmakers makos could come up with their amendments to the treaty but this will most likely have an option new year from the very beginning it was clear that the timing of the procedural brush is a really big ation of a lot you need to pound on the wording of the so-called were to pick a should resolution which the u.s. senate approved last minute the document in particular us says that neil stock should not contain the u.s. and to me sell programs development is what you of course russian lawmakers will

seriously consider the document which was pushed through by republican john mccain who is widely known as one of the most regular opponents of preparation long with russia even stunned russian limit lawmakers could also come out with their demands of most of the main script which you know it seems that there is a smooth plan of least in the dumas and that it's on the fast track for passage here but the treaty had to clear a lot of hurdles in the u.s. before the senate approved it tell us a little bit more about. yes it was definitely a lone star and the way to this start was rocky to say the least even before the president sealed the deal in april in prague there had been more than a year of intense negotiations between the delegations all both countries and just as expected very lengthy process of education followed on capitol hill with for these full games between the two parties the republican side and democrats to ensure that the new treaty is ready five. democrats needed some seven votes from

the republicans all in all they got eleven votes from them and of course they celebrated a tremendous victory over a budget constraint concerns had been that this new start new treaty could if fact the u.s. defense capabilities than president obama did practically everything to ensure it was at twenty five billion dollars ten year plan to modernize the existing nuclear weapons and to ensure that it's the trade it does not to attack the us defense capabilities and still republicans managed to come up with these really big case and resolution of the new company you know if the deal isn't finally ratified by russia we know it's already passed in the senate when will we see the first a sex of this treaty go into in place. on thursday the u.s. assistant secretary of state throws go to mothers as early as forty five days up to the two sides ready by the treaty the first cuts in nuclear stockpile save the united states of america could start all little on this new start the both sides

will have to cut their arsenals by a third from the current twenty two hundred eighty a piece to thousand five hundred fifty each of course they'll be also cuts in delivery systems also new stars will reinstate inspections and there would be case shows which actually ended when the previous ninety ninety nine arms reduction treaty sponsored and most importantly that new start seals a link between a fancy weapons on the defensive capabilities of the both sides to the treaty. ok thank you your company you know of course we'll come back to you as this develops throughout the day because you know groucho the live from moscow. former democratic party strategist and white house insider robert wiener says he's glad that many republicans are finding finally realize the treaty will make the world a safer place. one of the debates that made no sense was the republicans 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 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 with this same story chuck hagel a former republican senator in the u.s. believes that the deal is possible because moscow and washington understand there are areas where they need each other

a russian 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 than 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 . in his final speech of the year u.s. president obama has described the start treaty as the most significant agreement for his country in decades in about two hours president dmitri medvedev is also planning to give his thoughts on the deal and the year's other key moments it'll be

at the annual meeting between the russian leader and the heads of the country's main t.v. channels we'll be covering this for you and of course it will be at your fingertips any time on our website r.t. dot com. tensions are spiraling on the korean peninsula as the north threatens to launch what it calls a secret nuclear war against its neighbor if seoul strikes first on thursday the south military held a live fire drills some of the largest in its history the exercises brought heavy military equipment fighter jets missile launchers and the troops within thirty kilometers of the border with the north souls recent series of war games have come in the wake of a cross border artillery exchange that killed four south koreans last month foreign policy analyst stephen downwards told that souls military strategy is imposed by washington and its goal is the end of north korea. 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. the lead government is more closely aligned with u.s. foreign policy goals on the korean peninsula than say the governments of presidents rowan presidents kim. in south korea. president lee is oftentimes seen as a puppet of the united states and the area around his office is called by many south koreans the news united states of south korea south korea certainly seized on any opportunity it can to escalate tensions there is the sinking of the south korean corvette chain on then which was immediately blamed on north korea over north korea and denials and there are many in south korea who do not believe the official inquiry then we have the artillery exchange that happened on november twenty third

which has been blamed on north korea however the exchange was triggered by south korea and marine garrison on an island that lies very close to the north korean coast you consider that you consider president leaves hostility toward north korea . it's his policy of confrontation deescalating war games and it's hard not to conclude that south korea is trying to precipitate a fight to to pick a fight and trying to provoke its northern neighbor washington based investigative journalist wayne madsen says the south korean leaders policies totally contradict the more conciliatory approach of his predecessors and the peninsula may indeed see a nuclear war. last few presidents south korea had had what were known as sunshine policies with the north they opened up to the north they they had cross border visits trade all that has been stopped by this present south korean president lee

myung bok he's basically gone back to the cold war days. he's playing brinkmanship if the north attacks south korea the united states will respond. commiserate leave i think. you know it's very possible we could see this go nuclear that is probably something that would get out of control rather rapidly i think you would see then japan get involved obviously china we get involved where we would definitely see a lot of casualties and of course you are with r t we've got plenty more in store for you including a fresh fight for land in israel the government says bulldozing that bedouin villages and uprooting inhabitants from the desert they've lived in for over a century are looks at the reasons behind the crackdown. the united states has long championed the cause of capitalism but now with

globalization and outsourcing in full swing the country is experiencing its less pleasant aspects faced with a huge economic slump one american town is turning to an unlikely savior chinese students but as priya street of the reports for some residents pride may get in the way. millinocket mean once a booming mill town now. almost a ghost town the paper mill once a symbol of pride and prosperity in the region now a reminder of a time that has come and gone and international trade is what basically took the paper industry of the united states down it's not just here in the in the town of millinocket it's worldwide the chinese there are more clever than we are. you know we when we do a deal with them we usually. get the sour end of it. today millinocket is a small town of five thousand the closest mall or movie theater is an hour's drive

away many of the once bustling businesses in town now stand empty and abandoned and very depressing for a lot of people who have had their hopes the hopes that they would something would come along that would change everything but it has a. doctor cannot smith is the superintendent of millinocket public schools after watching his town fall apart around him he decided it was time to take matters into his own hands. myths idea is to boost the school's population by charging chinese students twenty seven thousand dollars to attend his high school for one year and they have some skills that we don't have that we'd love to instill in some of us to this desire to learn and get ahead by getting good education it's a bold idea in a town where most few china as the reason they're mill went bankrupt but smith argues that the competition the might have hurt the town's past can also help to

reshape its future but we can't possibly compete with that labor market. you know one point four billion people i think the competition good for us and we have to learn the jobs with economy work right now there are two hundred students that attend this high school even though it was built for eight hundred sixty percent of the students here qualify for a state run free lunch because their parents' income is at the poverty level school administrators say that bringing in students from china will not only save the school it will save the town and bring it back to the days when the mill was booming. but not everyone in this almost exclusively white town is excited about the idea that their school might eventually have just as many chinese kids. as kids from maine sound people will have an issue where they're going to be like oh my gosh they're not from here make them go away most students in this high school have never traveled abroad what they know about china they say they've seen

on t.v. i think the chinese are going to be total shock i think of a high tech in a way more advanced than us that ten times more money in like in a better society and then you look at them really poor and have nothing and those struggling to survive in town are angry that the country they believe took their jobs from them is now the one they're looking to for help preassure either party millinocket mean. you can always find more news blogs analysis and interviews on our web site here's just a sneak peek at what's online at our team dot com right now. the prime minister putin takes to the mat in st petersburg to show young wrestlers that you can't beat a black belt even if he is fifty eight you can join his master class online right now. and muslims in the u.s. say since nine eleven terror obsessed mainstream media has been typecast in followers of their religion as enemies and find out who's really behind those

headlines on our t.v. dot com. the israeli government is uprooting arab tribes from the desert they've lived in for over a century it says the bedouins have built their homes without permission but activists claim the crackdown on arab villages aims to replace them with jewish settlements policy or reports. in the middle of nowhere the remains of all i'm a kid village. for the third time in two weeks israeli police came with the fingers of and in little more than an hour demolished sixty houses. from a club no this is my land i have a paper i have a document this is my land i ask this government how do i live and how can i afford to buy the same land elsewhere in israel and i can't what they want me to sell my

land i won't. and as long as he and hundreds of others won't the police will continue to raid backed up by a government whose official policy states this is their land but i think the unofficial policy underneath is that the land should go to the jews not. the big ones on a medic arabs who have lived in the negev desert for more than one hundred years but off to israel took over nine hundred forty eight they've been hard placed to prove their ownership of the land israel says it's built alternative cities fill them with all the facilities they could hope for but they keep coming back to the desert. they're not abiding by the law they live inside graveyards with horses donkeys sheep the animals mess all over the graves and make it difficult for us to move them but we have to because they need permission to build on the land and they don't have it. i think that the government they would like to push them into the

townships could become simple workers they would like to give the learn to. the army and to settlements just look around here this vast uninhabited desert is home to only seven percent of israel's population several years ago the government launched an ambitious program to the value of six hundred million dollars to try and attract new jewish immigrants and israelis to live here it aims in the next three years to have more than a quarter of a million of them living in the desert but is because the desert is it seemingly not big enough for jew an arab jew mel torme has lost his way house and seven houses but he hasn't lost his resolve. we are men of peace we don't use the gun the man who came to destroy our houses are the bad faces of this land we did not fight back when they came but the fight will continue because tomorrow when the

sun comes up will build again and in a few weeks the israelis will return policy r.t. in the negev desert israel and it would seem better wins are the only ones with a bone to pick with the israeli government next hour peter lavelle and his guests examine what is being called the new exodus christians leaving the holy land as they say they are not welcome there here's a quick preview. is israel does. chris shows to live in the jerusalem area their reality is that many jews today in israel don't want to live among palestinians whether they are muslims or christians this is the truth sometimes we try to ignore this truth we try to ignore the city ality but there is a lot of racism against christians and muslims in the state of israel this is not the state of israel this is not the state of israel. this is the occupied territories and i have.

come in come out. and now for a brief look at other major headlines from around the world. the u.n. has recognized ivory coast opposition leader. as the winner of the country's disputed presidential election in. turn declared all mine thousand u.n. peacekeepers in the country enemy combatants the international body accuses. all obstructing access to the suspected mass graves of at least one hundred seventy three people killed in post-election violence it comes just a day after opposition to the country's only t.v. channel offline depriving the incumbent of an important propaganda tool. california has been hit by powerful storms which have flooded the state with

a year's worth of rain in just one week many people were forced to leave their homes after the downpours expired landslides and floods burying houses and cars and mud emergency services are working to clear roads governor arnold schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency in affected areas officials warn that there is a high chance of more storms in the coming weeks. and italian anarchistic group has claimed responsibility for carrying out two blasts in rome on thursday mail bombs exploded in the hands of employees at the swiss and chilean embassies injuring two staff law enforcement have launched an investigation recognizing the blasts as terror attacks italy's interior minister says the devices were similar to the mail bombs sent to fourteen embassies in athens last month. now this festive season latvians believe they have an extra cause for celebration five hundred years since the first christmas tree was decorated there but one of the

country's neighbors is bristling at the plants. found out why. it's a white christmas in a stone in la they're a fluffy snow fairy alliance and mulled wine all the ingredients of the proper christmas spirit but instead of gifts there is a pile of historic arguments on the tree the two neighbors on a bit of dispute over who was first to come up with the festive for. let's light up the tree here in riga sasha helps her daughter to decorate her fourth christmas tree there and no doubt his friends shines the brightest and for the longest time. of course is very pleasing to think that the first of a christmas tree appeared here in latvia and we have historic proof to back this claim everybody here knows that it was dressed with flowers and very soon here in riga in fifteen ten. but head north and that fear is being cut down to size

before somebody can do much to me. but. before i can believe but no i say. first christmas story about. the good you. did at the preakness has reached such a pitch that even santa claus is weighing in this is crazy to feel if you ask a fish people they were the ones to invent the christmas tree as it would not be so with a norwegian as in the germans i think what's important is not who decorated this is centuries ago but that this is a seasonal spirit a sign this symbol of contention for the to christ in neighbors shows just how much they have in common and christmas comes once a year because tony and the love trains have many ongoing haggles they also disagree about who is women are more beautiful because beer tastes better how many

bears this nation is allowed to have the nearby woods some of us say that without this legal disagreements life would be too boring. so in a way this latest christmas treat controversy is just another way of making christmas merry or somebody's got artsy. stony or whether it's a stone you know or lad seems it's in the christmas season to fight about the christmas season and a few moments business news with daniel. the business. of n.l. substantial new investments in russia's car industry with prime minister putin in

attendance the german company sealed an agreement to build sprint's of violence at the gas factory in nizhni novgorod output will be some twenty five thousand vehicles annually swedish truck giant valvo meanwhile says it will pump an additional hundred fifty million dollars into its assembly plant in the kaluga region south of the capital to do it putin said the government will help the industry with cheap loans. which despite sustainable growth the government has plans to further supply the auto industry in the future especially reserve fund was the created to ensure that. that's why in two thousand and eleven which we will continue to stimulate demand with. market over seventeen billion. markets tokyo dropped off a seven months high but still ended today a fourth straight week of gains a strong yen hit exporters come or make a limp person losing almost two percent saying also lost ground car makers suffering as beijing introduced measures to reduce the number of cars in the

capital brilliance crashed of eight percent. russian stocks meanwhile look likely to end with a full team straight week of gains b.l.t.'s is take point one percent since it opened just over twenty minutes ago the most six figures you see there are thursday's closing it opens in around four minutes time. that's a look at some russian stocks a new call has opened up point not nine percent gazprom is floods but comes on the back of a royce the oil price light sweet is currently just over ninety one dollars a barrel that's one dollar and is losing in the first few minutes of trade. invest to see russia will for the first time be able to trade russian depository receipts burbank has begun placing all deals in russia. trading. and. well officials at first liquefied natural gas projects say foreign investors can

participate in this expansion. in the countries. in the construction. as well as. to a majority share in the project several years ago but it retains a blocking state. has increased its order for. ten more than previously. to make the decision with. in favor of a brazilian rival. delivery two years ago but that has been repeatedly pushed back . to business.

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