and it's going to be about obama that is going to town records is being hailed as a major diplomatic victory. in the vote. on this matter on this resolution are seventy one days twenty six nays two thirds of the senate president having voted in the affirmative the resolution of ratification is agreed to. and with this approval russian the u.s. will start the new year with a treaty that has become a symbol of trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers i am glad that 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 our nuclear arsenals along with russia. both states have some very significant reductions underway over the next ten years the countries will cut their nuclear arsenals by a third down to some fifteen hundred fifty deployed warheads on each side the deal

also limits the number of delivery vehicles and launchers but even with those cuts both russia and the u.s. will still hold more than ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons so many agree that the value of the new arms reduction treaty is not just in reductions but i think it's also important to say that the significance of the treaty is much larger than the implications for arms control it really does give a lot of momentum and boost to the broader u.s. russia reset and i think puts obama and medvedev on course to cooperate more closely on a whole host of issues and it may well be that this is seen as a turning point in which the russia u.s. rivalry of the past is finally laid to rest for weeks and months the president of the united states all members of his administration the military all living former secretary of state and of defense were calling for senators not to ruin this reset opportunity for us who are sure relations and the message did resonate with many senators every senator knows when you're trying to get things done relationships

matter and the relationship between the united states and russia has been critical since we fought together in world war two and will be contin and will continue to be so this is an on parallelled opportunity to enhance that relationship and to say by signature and by ratification of this treaty that yes the united states of america wants to work with russia despite the huge support the treaty had received on many levels a number of republican senators nearly sabotaged it their actions provoked an avalanche of criticism from the country's top six. already experts who feared that the treaty could become a victim of political games on capitol hill the arguments the trade adversaries brought up on the hearings ranged from there is no earthly way to do all of this

within the time that we have to even more on substantial ones like we don't have to have this treaty if we don't have a nuclear treaty with the u.k. and one we don't have one with france in the final days of debates on start some republican senators trying to rewrite the deal which would have actually killed it they wanted to take out the line in the preamble which makes the connection between offensive and defensive weapons start straitjackets the united states' missile defense capabilities unilateral suggestions the parliament's resolution will follow the line of the preamble of the document and they will stipulate to the facts of the linkage between the offensive and defensive weapons but with nuclear weapons a missile defense system basically but all of those from the military who testified before the senate said the connection between offensive and defensive weapons is obvious they also maintained it's not start that would make the us weaker the treaty itself explicitly says either side can pull out of it if at some point they

deem it threatens their national security for russians this new start is about balance and equality and they will be in it as long as the u.s. respects that balance in russia the outcome of the vote in the u.s. senate has been well come from many in moscow it's a signal that the u.s. and russia can now open a new page of cooperation. president obama did a really good job under rather difficult conditions he managed to get this important treaty approved in the senate and security for the next few years will be based on this treaty and in general i can say that it's easy for me to work with president obama because he can really listen to you and he he's not impeded by stereotypes and what is probably the most important thing for a politician. he keeps his promises the russian lawmakers made it clear they had no objections to the treaty advocates of the treaty see the outcome of the vote not so much as obama's victory but a victory for the whole world which on the one hand is going to have considerably

fewer weapons of mass destruction and on the other hand two nuclear superpowers former adversaries actually trusting each other and looking to work hand in hand to provide their security get a check on our team washington d.c. and british m.p. and new anti-nuclear campaigner jeremy corbyn praised the progress on the start treaty calling it an important stage in the road to a nuclear free world. 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 spur 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 coming clude all nations in the world including those that are not signatories to

a nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly israel india pakistan north korea. north korean soldiers who reportedly took part of the shelling of a south korean island last month sept young gang was provoked by souls war games it's the first time northern troops have spoken publicly about the violence they appear in a talk show on state television marking him the audio of nineteen years as the country's top military commander i have the anniversary of john young warned it would launch what i call the sacred nuclear war against the south the president promised retaliation if attacked last month north korea shelled the south island. killing four people in response to the drills in the area analysts warn more military exercises would risk disturbing the already precarious balance on the peninsula. the danger is if we have new military exercises at sea because the problem is the land borders very clear the sea border is been arbitrarily and you know actually established by the south koreans along the northern limit line which

is not recognized even by the united states. the recent shelling of the island. called. the south koreans intruding into what the north koreans consider through their waters the dangerous escalation what you heart is south korean maneuvers which in disputed waters which led to the north korean response. of the artillery shelling of the island. we've now seen massive joint us south korean exercises which clearly are leading to the north koreans upping their. upping their readiness for for future for a future attack or military adventurism i don't think anyone's intending to start if you want a full scale war at this point but the danger with escalation is it gets out of control so we see something we need that we need to be concerned about for the future what we need to see is some gestures from either side to try and step down

a maybe an offer from the north koreans for example to give up their their fuel rods from the young nuclear reactor and try and ship them to the scientists will be something that might be allowed us to start scaling down the current levels of tension. and this week the brother of the way polish president killed in a plane crash in russia has claimed the body buried in cracow does not belong to lech kaczynski chance he has not yet announced whether he will ask for the remains to be doomed moscow was startled by the comments as a polish side had been involved in all stages of the identification last week or so rejected the findings of russia's investigation into april's plane crash the report concluded that pilot error was among the main causes of the accident the killed all ninety six people on board the jet the polish prime minister has called the findings delivered by russia unacceptable the report hasn't yet been made public and aviation expert chris yates says the russian investigation was thorough and that no further international inquiries needed. i've looked to to

since the accident and examined the cockpit voice recording transcript and so on and i can't fault any of the conclusions that have been leaked by the russian authorities i don't believe personally that if we bring an international investigating team into the equation that the findings will be any different to what they are which seems to be the pressure was brought to bear in some way shape or form on the pilots and copilots of the aircraft to make an attempt to learn and at some airports where there were no conditions at all to land too much for not enough this ability and a lot of pressure being brought on the pilots conspire to cause that accident. and

so they're down here in our team now are being heard. hearing impaired people in russia are calling for the or sign language to be officially recognized find out more in a few minutes here in our team. and spy bombshell anna chapman becomes a government backed role model for russian youngsters. iran will decide gnash week whether to sever diplomatic relations with the u.k. the islamic republic's lawmakers voted for to iran to cut all ties after the british ambassador to the country criticized its human rights record this week iran saw the commons as interference in its internal affairs relations between the two countries after teary rated since terrans claim that british intelligence was involved in these has a nation of a top or a nuclear scientist last month the london based journalist yvonne ridley says when

it comes to basic freedoms the u.k.'s own record is far from perfect the politicians in iran. and outraged at this very undiplomatic. blog which is being produced from the british embassy in tehran and you know you wonder what's coming next when you take the high moral ground criticize one country's human rights you should be able to see yourself and unfortunately britain's own human rights record leaves a lot to be desired if you go on to throw stones at someone else's house you should make sure that your own is in order of iran has its many supporters and its has its money to trucked is. everybody lines up to that particular. and record breaking billion dollar military deals and high tackling cops are just

some of the results of which we're going to get us visiting india this week at the russian president also sealed agreements on nuclear power to meet the growing needs of the world's second most populous nation are his current saying this following leaders trip in financial crisis that shaken the politicians and all of this world way question who really can do all of that dominated by the u.s. and europe is being left behind by the new rising giants russia india and china and the deal struck the president medvedev during the annual summit between russia and india. or ching recently we've done a lot to promote cooperation between russia and india yesterday i spent the whole day in new delhi and we held talks we've prepared and signed quite a number of documents on cooperation between our countries. yet in india russia is seen as a friend it is india's number one supply offering it cutting edge weaponry such as

who to support means and supersonic. and now the countries of signed the biggest ever defense contract and he gives his street billions of dollars in total it's a deal to jointly develop a fifth generation fighter aircraft costing nearly one million dollars apiece the jets will be able to compete with the american f. twenty two raptor that costs three times as much at present the u.s. is the only country possessing such technology which it is used even with. the new aircraft developed by russia and india will have stepped features and noble for the ripley for forces energy is another sector the two countries account when they sing together russia has agreed to do more nuclear power stations for india the two atomic plants already built in the south of the country will come online next year and will provide much needed energy for india's growing economy i am particularly

glad that we are. coming to elect women from corporation. and gas sector it reflects the complementarity. the strength of the in the russian relationship is is that it often has an alternative to their nation ships that countries have with the west you know we can offer alternative ways of thinking on various things whether it's on climate change whether it's on science and technology it's unsparing with the financial up people we've been witnessing devising economies are being seen as the corner store of the new world order and as we enter the next decade of the twenty first century both russia and india are embarking on the. next raise in the strategic thought the ship got in saying r d. and you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com here's just a quick look at what's on the line right now

a way to escape we take a look at adverts to rehabilitate afghanistan's more than one million heroin addicts. russian prime minister while they were aboard and took time off from wrestling with diplomatic missions to just watch the judo give a master class at the same school. he is eve you. try. to.

download the official location on the phone called touch from the. life on the go. video on demand all keys money old goals. and omissions feeds now in the palm of your. question on the. china says it's taken concrete action to help struggling european economies combat the financial crisis at an economic forum in beijing the country's vice premier praised the e.u.'s afeard to reduce debt and i told her china south wouldn't reduce its holdings of european bonds but economist mark up to travel this has beijing support is not a permanent remedy this extends china's political influence in

europe by making a lot of european states dependent on china to buy to buy their debt but it doesn't get away from the fundamental problem in europe europe has a big big sovereign debt crisis and the seas if you like a patch to try and help the situation until the europeans managed to put together some some proper reforms some proper fundamental structures to help the euro stay together moving forward and to date they've been very much dragging their heels in and patching up greece and ireland rather than coming to the table to put together fundamental reform of how the euro actually operates. u.s. investigators have slammed the patagonia department of state for knowingly allowing shady jap fuel deals for an american air base in the central asian republic of kyrgyzstan their report released on tuesday showed fuel worth nearly two billion

dollars was purchased from russia for civilian use allegedly to avoid higher tariffs it was then shipped to the manasseh air base which is a key supply for the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan patters army of the eurasia democracy initiative says the deals were a factor in sparking the unrest that ousted former care d.s. president cave in april. what the congressional subcommittee on national security and foreign affairs. dealt with in the report was allegations of corrupt dealings between the subsidiaries of the pentagon which were supplying fuel for you stand to prosecute the war effort in afghanistan and members of the family of the deposed former president of. key of the same report stated that these subsidiaries namely the mena corps and red star back in two thousand and

nine tempted to reach out to the former presidents. who has subsequently followed his father in exile and is now in hiding in the u.k. to try to engage in bed or negotiations with the pentagon regarding the future of the base following your stance announcement that it would shut down the base so what we saw in that case was another proof of the fact that president's family and so on who are calling all the shots in the country were pretty much running the place what would eventually happened was the direct result of this relationship we saw two thousand and ten when president bush was ousted was the direct result of the popular anger that was stirred by the complete lack of accountability lack of transparency in the deals that pentagon was cutting with. care because government. and listen to some other stories from around the world of violence followed by

rico's presidential action has forced some fourteen thousand people to flee to neighboring liberia at least one hundred seventy people have been killed in clashes so far and most of those fleeing are supporters of opposition leader alla samatar whom the u.n. has recognized as the winner and coming leader is refusing to quit. the former venezuelan president carlos wondrous peris has died of a heart attack at the age of eighty eight he was in hospital in miami paris nationalize the oil industry and survived two coup attempts but was finally forced from office he was the first latin american leader to be convicted of corruption and illicit enrichment. indian a rocket carrying a communications satellite has exploded just minutes after its launch officials say an error caused it to a dog as. that intended and break up it's india's second space launch failure this year a similar rocket developed

a fault in april. deaf people in russia want their means of communication to be accorded official status sign language is not recognized in the country although it has more than ten million hearing impaired people are. reports on their struggle. alex he called here the song. from the family. yet he sings it with his hands touching. that i thought it. was he tells me he speaks the most beautiful language in the world. and so despite living in the world of silence aleksey and his fellow performers put

on a show full of life and music our. audience appreciates this theatre of the deaf actors is an exception in the world mostly hostile to those speaking with their hands. even though language doesn't officially exist all previous attempts to possible giving official recognition to the russian side language have failed the problem dates back more than seventy years when sign language was banned from soviet schools in one nine hundred fifty stalin made the situation even worse by calling it not even a sorry day language unlike what some might think it's not a primitive way of conveying basic information it's a fully fledged language capable of expressing just about anything. that is. going to show. you.

the head of the old russian federation of the deaf believes there are more than ten million hard of hearing people in the country but no interpreters no t.v. channels almost nothing to ease their interaction with the world that. he's one of four children the only deaf one in the family. this is the first beauty shop for the heart of hearing and has started to protest. they may not hear but they're not cute and they love told king.

i. guess. all true those who call you all the same people it may be just that the music of the hearts and so is louder but still not loud enough to be officially recognized. parties. russia's flame haired former agent

chapman is making a new four into political life this time as a leader of the ruling united russia party's use movement at a recent meeting chapman made a speech calling on party members to transform the future for the next generation chapman shot to fame during a spy scandal between russia and the us and summer when the f.b.i. on covering a russian espionage ring she was one of a number of agents deported from the u.s. in a cold war style swap. just watching r.t. live from moscow be back in just a few moments with a recap of our weekly top stories.

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affected by abuse every year. either kill him or me in jail or he's going to kill the. back here with our t. here's a look at the top stories of the week the historic arms reduction deal between russia and the u.s. goes ahead of both countries lower house of russia's parliament voted to give initial approval to their remit on friday after he was approved for ratification by the u.s. senate a few days earlier. tensions fly high in the korean peninsula as a. nuclear war and so carries out war war games speaking on state t.v.

north troops have accused the south of provoking them into attacking the. island last month. or so questions at russia's findings on a plane crash which killed the former polish president and i five other people the late leader's brother claims the body buried in cracow doesn't belong to you but experts say. as conducted a thorough investigation. those with up stories of the week up next we bring you a report on a u.s. soldier who follows a journeys of five veterans of american wars to talk about water really means to fight for your country. to be a soldier was a.