responses to eternal political sort of school problems that exist in poland affected him. that poland has a lot of no problems and that the polish society is divided and this is understandable because this was a real tragedy and they had other tragedies this was a real tragedy for them but this should not affect our relations and we will that's the first thing i'd like to say and then secondly is of them will this should not nothing because anybody to politicise the work of the international aviation authority and i think when polish politicians are reasonable enough to accept these conclusions without making political comments about them who are human pretty. well the ones that are inspired over of was being practiced in russia for decades did we recognize didn't we recognize days for hours on spies are you

talking about you know what's far as you would agree with the event of need what it would mean it does. what conclusions did we make from the incidents and i have to say it became clear to me that. modern russia has an illegal spying service. you know old people who work with you know our secret services our russian citizens first and foremost they're not cannon the border they're not the i'm just like heroes who are a separate fires to fight esteemed in the past when i saw it and sometimes even russia preferred not to talk about this this was a mistake. well of our priority in this situation was to get our people out of there and we did it isn't he wasn't going to get them perhaps first and foremost because i immediately admitted that they were russian citizens apparently and this

is normal would it kill them furthermore recently i had a meeting with our foreign intelligence service celebrated the anniversary and i told them come up and we'll do the same thing again he for our illegal agents or official cover agents are in trouble because those people are taking care of our interests now as liberal as for getting the intelligence there are all kinds of intelligence there is of which. you official cover an agency you have official cover inches and none official coverage and so if you say you don't have a legal agents that you this probably is a small country without serious geopolitical interests. of you not a question for for the foreign intelligence perhaps. be careful what you see everything is recorded. see. russia's political life is

dominated by you and mr cohen. you can't tell me if you or any other person have politicians in russia and if there are any perhaps you would like to hear you name someone who you would like to see as an ally in the future issues or maybe some adversaries politically hard like to make an official statement we do you have politicians like this in our country and actually you know some of the names like you would and i can remember some outstanding people like the political faction leaders in our state duma these are well known politicians and i'm not certain casting about that you but one of these people have been for decades on our political landscape and some poll decisions are not in the state duma but they are still well known some call them outstanding politicians some people criticize them but they're also well known and there are some well known politicians public politicians like saying. soft. you mourn the cusp are

off. but they're also public figures of course people may have different opinions about them because each one of them has his own base but they're also public politicians but the bulk of the main basis for something we don't mention the base self talented people in our country and bad swear i think. but he we have future presidents ph or prime ministers or future state duma deputies most of them in this group our country has always been a reach in telling to people. really. you know we're going to deal with you you know we're out of time no uniform capital no not at all. the i phone that steve jobs gave you does it still work it works i give it to my son. talking about your son how is he doing.

like the. u.s. and has he chosen a profession maybe has plans for the future is he going to celebrate the new years well. as a jew to his family or his friends and well since we started talking about my son if he got the attention of the federal channel bosses he's fifteen years old and so he celebrates the new year together with us and i'm very happy because i don't have that much time that i can devote to him this will be very nice and sweet to me which he has for his hobby is there the same like with everybody else seem his age and he supports books i hope education but i don't know what he will do you view in the future we have some ideas but i don't want to talk about them and this would be improper because people will with hear me on seeing this on television and then he me to do something with them opposite to you so let him make his decision himself

and of course new year is a wonderful holiday i plan to spend this day at home leg every other area russian family does where people can gather together of course some have to work on this day and we will they just remember this person would be better and drink to his health. thank you very much for this conversation just invented from ourselves our audience and i wish you happy new year we do and it would be naive to say that we hope it will be better than we can move in on this year although this year was difficult for us just. have a happy year. thank you very much colleagues i'd like to say to all of you and our viewers and i to congratulate everybody on the new year and i promised another thing i will do this one more time you know when i see my theory thank you.

president medvedev wrapping up his annual q. and a session here on our t.v. he was touching on five main topics that he discussed the first was the economy here in russia and the russian response to the international financial crisis talking about social wellbeing children services and what he calls the demographic development of the country hitting on the heat wave that happened over the summer and the subsequent wildfires and how it affected the country's food supply touching on security talking about the international and national security here in russia especially the start treaty and also talking about the sixtieth sixty fifth anniversary of the victory over fascism in the second world war the five main points of president medvedev now going back to one of those points security and the start treaty presidents medvedev and obama have hailed the u.s. senate's approval of the new nuclear arms reduction treaty as historic russian lawmakers are considering the deal on friday but they have already been some critical remarks from foreign minister sergey lavrov concerning the u.s.

resolution let's get more details now from our teaser catherine mcgrath. hello a catarina so what exactly triggered these kinds. but it was the over its if occasion resolution adopted by the u.s. senate last minute which triggered this concert control the seat it was of course key it from the very beginning that the timing and the procedure of russia's if you cation all the new strategic arms reduction treaty will logically depend on the one . document which was pushed through by the republicans on capitol hill well john mccain who is largely known as a regular created and they oppose. with russia at long beach for these documents have a particular the resolution that says that new start should not contain the u.s. and south programs development goals russian lawmakers will sit and calculate study of this script out this document before they go to the. a final vote but is the

russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says there's a big question mark over whether the search of us were to pick a shot resolution has legal force and all. that has to live as a. final draft resolution adopted by the u.s. senate is more hardline than the initial version put up a vote there are a few problems there one of the mind ones being that according to this document the link between strategic offensive and defensive weapons is not legally binding for the u.s. and russia because it is placed in the preamble but this cannot be upheld by lawyers there is another problem with resolution claims that the treaty does not apply to new kinds of non-nuclear strategic weapons that could be developed in the future but this is not correct. unlike in washington the russian parliament both chambers of the russian parliament the federation council and the state duma must approve these must be ready by the new start treaty and all the

state duma has already started its deliberations and today we expect the voting in the first reading on the actual script of the new nuclear security treaty and they'll be two more sessions but most likely they will take place after new year. now in the us it was quite a rocky ride before the senate voted to approve the treaty tell us more about that . will of course the way but then you start has been a long time coming and it was very rocky this way to there was such in the u.s. russia relations to say the least long before president obama sealed this major deal with the signatures that had been long debates between the delegations of the both countries on the text of these treaty and of course the presidents knew that they'll be a lengthy very delicate process operative occasion in both countries and especially in the united states of america we've been. we've witnessed those along debates.

heated arguments on capitol hill between the republicans and democrats on the pros and cons of this new. new start republicans main concerns have been that they wanted to make sure that new start does not. does not a fact the u.s. defense capabilities that president obama did practically everything to ensure a full nuclear modernization and. the u.s. defense capabilities and he committed to twenty five billion dollar ten year plan to make sure that the remaining nuclear weapons work and this of course played a key role at the document was finally ready fired by the u.s. senate. now if the treaty goes ratified by both nations when do you think we'll start to see the first effects of. well the u.s. assistant secretary of state yesterday said the united states would start. nuclear stockpiles says early as in spring this year at this forty five days after the two

sides ready fight the treaty it goes into force while the u.s. new start will meet washington and mosco to cut their. will limit their arsenals to twenty two hundred from twenty two hundred current nuclear warheads apiece to one thousand five hundred fifty cots into libra's systems and of course a new study to reinstate inspections and that actually and it went the previous ninety ninety nine u.k. a treaty. and most importantly new starts. a fancy for nuclear weapons on the defensive capabilities of the parties to the treaty and its preamble in its preamble it says that want can unilaterally leave the pipes in case that there appears to me so much in these capabilities all right artie's over reporting for us live in moscow thanks for that report. stay with us throughout the

day here on r t will be bringing you more analysis and commentary on the start treaty and on president medvedev zine you will q. and a russian lawmakers are considering a new arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington which has been approved by the u.s. congress foreign minister sergey lavrov has already voiced concerns about the u.s. resolution. the start treaty could become the cornerstone of security in the world for decades to come according to president medvedev russian leader was something up the key events of the year two thousand and ten at his annual meeting with the heads of the country's main t.v. channels preventive also said wiki leaks didn't come up with anything new when touched on the importance of the opposition's participation in political life. and north korea has warned of a. nuclear strike on the south scale of souls latest live fire drills some of the largest war games in south korea's history the exercises included tons of heavy military hardware and happened just thirty kilometers from the border. tell you so

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get back to sports a little later though but first as russian lawmakers are considering the nuclear induction treaty with the united states russia's foreign minister is taking to the floor in the state duma let's listen in to see him but what i said is that we are grateful to all you do russian lawmakers for your attention and your career that you demonstrated in discussing this treaty in the various committees you for your questions during the discussion and or your useful considerations asli is that on this issue enough women on our side with the russian foreign ministry were provided all the necessary information was one of the advantages of this treaty that we think we fully meets russian interests we hope that the new treaty will be supported by the state duma they have a proposal new four days ago we think there are all necessary breckon additions group is up to the implementation of this treaty it will strengthen our security

and international stability of the four will help strengthen the nonproliferation regime will fall through and look it will become another factor to strengthen and solidify you must have tendencies in our relations with the united states and in general on the international arena you are hearing this is really are our negotiators resolved and met with the people several of them and with that when you're going to be a problem exhibits nobody we are rejected with and unilateral restrictions that would affect our nuclear exultant show if you can see it when the we use this new of the recorded within the link between strategic call fence it and defensive weapon that will is legally binding the formula which is you know if we expanded on your you to come to and solve this treaty to nonmusical or across the weapons of the old this provides foundation for developing our further dialogue with the united states in one of the serious priority areas with this treaty easier with the results which will kill them all that our going through you in this new

relationship with the united. it is listed based on equality parry and you look at the begin to visible security this makes this truly a kind of as the gold standard for all other treaties humanity with your area of security and will wear it with the duty to everything we can to retain this high standard and implied with all your other include we're going to get issues on our disarmament and she ended up with a of that and elsewhere with the roofs of course not everybody in the united states blighter is ready because he disappeared to be easy to refute some criticize to swear harshly if it gets their solicitor the process of ratification in the us senate was not easy and we do but at the end it's the fact that it happened before the was largely because of personal intervention by president obama vice president biden hillary clinton and mr steele mike mullen the chairman of the joint chiefs of

staff and the administering the use of ministration had to pay certain price for the ratification of this treaty i'm referring to the resolution that the us adopted you will as its obedient concerning. which is vising for the us president this resolution includes a number of conditions and statements of this little in your bill for that contain unilateral interpretation of some sensitive issues in the new treaty that of course would be as well if you are without including when you think of them. those provisions in the treaty these three would never never have happened in your player including were you a certain statement concerning the preamble of the treaty which refers to the link between a missile defense and the treaty missiles though you do that this does not create any legal legally binding conditions for the russian federation in the united states we dog agree with this categorically that you do move the ball on the

eighteenth tree. me that is the whole complex of understanding us lists which were very difficult to come to so this treaty should be legally binding which in its entirety without taking anything out of this treaty and this should be clear to anybody who looks at the difficulty of the resolution also includes a number of provisions that the speaker of the murder necessity of implementing the us program to create the global missile defense system which i'd like to emphasize forget of any of the group that the contents of the treaty would clearly indicates that there is this link between missile defense and excuse the will to go strategic offensive weapons and in within the treaty itself there is a provision that says that the she decides if these are the there is an emergency can withdraw from the treaty. and we are convinced that if the u.s. builds a global and against

a missile defense system this will constitute such an emergency and then we informed the american side about it of course you know about the initiative proposed by russian president me terminate if we want to have equal partnership incorporation with united states on missile defense we want to build a. missile defense system based on our capabilities the capability of the russian federation and plato capabilities you're with but if you're if we fail to build such a system and if it will be done what the republicans on that is that route. in their ratification resolution is implemented in if they ignore our it concerns then the situation will be very different and our president spoke about this politically more than once with him so most of them were able to carefully through it and monitor the situation give me a bottle with a missile defense system now there were two other and it is the sections of this

ratification resolution that we are concerned about the bad luck to point out that this resolution presents russia treated as a potential violator of the treaty of union emphasizes the need of verification to look through i'd like to emphasize that assured. like russia has been very faithful in observing it's in international obligations we go order in every now as to verification procedures they are present in the treaty in their simplified of course because both of the times changed and you were told we the cold war is over but we will definitely observe everything for all our obligations under this treaty but we also want to darry fight our american partners on a follow this treaty because we know that the united states are glad you're going with to create a non-nuclear strategic aren't so we know about their intentions to use your but you're always there for you you were. the first each of the i.c.b.m.'s in.

their missile defense we think it is unacceptable for the united states to adopt a unilateral interpretation of the treaty which says that there's a future at a few non-nuclear strategic weapons through the russians of the world that do not meet their definitions present in the truth or will not be considered as new types of the officer to fence to weapons which are which would have come under this treaty or the i'd like to emphasize that there is a clear procedure in the treaty concerning new types of strategic offensive weapons and the definition provided by the treaty and the decision whether this treaty applies to them and not hosty be developed but i wouldn't buy it by lateral commission through consultations according to a treaty so we believe the american side will fall over this legally binding formula you're looking at to finally use their resolutions says as we've reviewed

them the us president is encouraged that we have to pursue are the root junctions of tactical nuclear weapons and start negotiations with us i'd like to emphasize that our absolute priority over is to through. we said we would implement these treaties first you know for after that we did our priority is we'll include religious about citigroup. assessing the situation with a missile defense system of what was in your view would work with conventional weapons in europe with us today and whether we'll be able to resolve the problem of preventing. weapons from going to argue space and we have some proposals on this issue that are currently considered and at the disarmament conference in geneva with a final i'd like to say that i hope the first of the state duma will have his work with take into consideration our position it is clear that ready fineness treating

us but in security is. a priority for our country but of course we need to do it in a way so that nobody can question our determination to pursue the interests is a good legal interests of the russian federation our agreements based on equality mutual respect for each other's interests and of course respect for our international obligations to think of the union people that kilometer. with huge with the rule that it. was new and new than the new to him all right we've been listening to this speech by sergey lavrov to the russian state duma but you put them all right well stay with us here on r t well what's more headed your way. culture is that so much of the moment and there's a huge music to share the powers and finally arrives on the mark when the new exit

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women are affected by abuse every year those are my only two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him or me in jail or he's going it killing me . russian lawmakers are sets of considered the new arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington but they're finally getting chip on the controversial russification resolution approved by the us senate. dummy barack obama. just on the date so i wish him happy christmas and the image of a good rest but i could do you think the start treaty could become the cornerstone of security in the world for decades to come says president made better have something up the key events of the year two thousand and ten the russian leader also stressed the importance of the opposition's participation in political wife.

threats of war north korea has warned of a nuclear strike on the south angered by the scale of souls latest life fire drills . and firms face billions of dollars the new type says as the government seeks money to malta noise the economy the business news is in twenty minutes. two pm in moscow i match reza good to be with you on a very busy news day here on r t our top story presidents medvedev and obama have hailed the u.s. senate's approval of the new nuclear arms reduction treaty as historic russian lawmakers are considering the deal on friday but there are already been some critical remarks from foreign minister sergey lavrov concerning the u.s. resolution let's get some more details on this from our he's.