the state duma the lower house of russia's parliament voted in favor of the treaty and it's likely to ratify down to the new year holidays the agreement will face further review before the final vote start will slash the deployed russian and american nuclear arsenals by thirty one stratified but both sides it was actually signed by the two presidents back in april but the u.s. senate only approved the deal on wednesday after months of heated debate about he's got a future cannes been following the process. the vote. on this matter on this resolution are seventy one days twenty six nays two thirds of the senate president having voted 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 us 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 continued 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 in the early sabotage that 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. angle and 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 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 u.s. 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 because of the president obama did a really good job under rather difficult conditions and he managed to get this important treatments approved in the senate as 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 this because you can really listen to him and he used them he's not impeded by stereotypes of wood and what is probably the most important thing for a politician that will he keeps his promises that he should 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. you were weapons of mass destruction and on the other hand tools nuclear superpowers former adversaries actually trusting each other and looking toward enhanced to provide their security than a check on our team washington d.c. . repeatedly said it could pull out of the start treaty if it feels threatened by u.s. missile defense systems in europe connecting the two remains key for russia political analysts to me to survive says the country's lawmakers will reinforce the. 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 and missile defense system basically and second i think the russian parliament will repeat perhaps more strictly. the context of the russian unilateral statements that was published by the russian foreign ministry on

the date of signing the treaty in prague. might pull out or might consider pulling out from the new start treaty if it considers the development of u.s. missile defense system reaches the level that russia will interpret as the threats those political analysts to be too slow off in north korea soldiers who reportedly took part in the shelling of a south korean island last month have spoken out publicly about the attack they say the act was in retaliation to seoul holding live fire military exercises in disputed waters for south koreans were killed in the shelling of a border island over a month ago and since then soles been holding more military drills provoking stark warning from a north korean military chief says the country will launch a retaliatory nuclear strike if the south keeps up its provocations it is the worst tensional mentioned since the sixty years ago an expert on caribbean forward says a new war is unlikely but will remain

a possibility as long as the south keeps provoking the know. the danger is if we have new military exercises at sea because the problem is the land border is very clear the sea border is been arbitrarily and unilaterally established by the south koreans along the northern limit line which is not recognized even by the united states. the recent shelling of the of the island. was consequent upon the south koreans intruding into what the north koreans consider through their waters the dangerous escalation what you hardy's south korean maneuvers which are 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 are 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 and that's obviously something we need to we need to be concerned about for the future what we need to see is and gestures from either side to try and step this down a maybe an offer from the north koreans for example to give up their their fuel rods from the yongbyon nuclear reactor and try and ship them to the scientists will be something that might be might allow us to start scaling down the current levels of tension. before an expert on korea speaking to us coming over the program fueling anger or find out about the u.s. congress criticize the key american air base in kurdistan and what it has to do with the revolution in the country. before a suspected militants have been killed in a counter turner operation in the capital of russia's southern republican dagestan say one of them was the leader of

a local terrorist group weapons and six handmade bombs ready to be planted were found at the scene examiner is outside the building where the violence broke out this morning. we're just a couple of meters away from the building where a group of militants has been a block today in the center of. the counterterrorist operation has started early in the morning when the militants wolfie used to surrender and opened fire on the residents of the houses nearby and were evacuated and the full area has been blocked by the police there and the special task force talking to the fled where the militants were hiding as far as we know by now several militants have been killed and they get to be identified and as the russian enter terrorists kmita says this group could be behind the killings of the police officers in the region and launching a series of terror attacks there is also information that the head of the high school a terror only was among the militants and that he was eliminated this is yet to be confirmed by the officials there just on has been a very troublesome region this year with many terror attacks launched by the

militants trains derailed and the whole situation in the reason is very troublesome . reporting there from the scene of the shoot for us. this week the brother of the late polish president claimed the body buried in krakow does not belong to lech kaczynski kaczynski also the former prime minister says he's not yet decided whether to have the remains exude poland's rejected moscow's reported to be a poor plane crash that killed a kitchen skewed ninety five others the investigation said the pilot error was to blame it's still not clear whether warsaw is contesting that current polish prime minister donald tusk says the findings into the accident in southwest russia unacceptable about one hundred fifty pages of reported being sent to moscow detailing poland believed the investigation floor aviation expert christianity's told us the russian investigation seemed thorough and no further international inquiry is needed. i think the key is for the polish it is probably

quite a significant amount of criticism of the polish air force in particular. the captain of the aircraft and his copilot operating that aircraft on the day of that tragic accident and i think that's primarily the major cause for concern is what we see you see with the draft report that's been passed on to the polish government i've looked at this issue since the accident and examined the cockpit voice recording transcripts 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 when the

pressure was brought to bear in some way shape or form on the pilots who copilot of the aircraft to make an attempt to land at an airport where there were no conditions at all to land too much for not enough visibility and a lot of pressure being brought on the pilots conspired to cause the accident. talking to. the site of the record breaking a billion dollar defense contract was among the highlights of to me to invent his visit to india this week the russian president also promised to build nuclear power stations to meet the growing needs of the world's second most populous nation at his cabin saying has more on the leaders trip. financial crisis that shaken the group has let politicians and economists worldwide question to school many conclude that the previous order dominated by the u.s.

and europe is being left behind by the new rising giants russia india and china and the deal that struck with president medvedev during the annual summit between russia and india to support this. fortune recently we've done a lot to promote partnership between russia and india but yesterday i spent a whole day in new delhi and we held talks we prepared and signed a number of documents on cooperation between our countries. yet in india russia is seen as a more friendly it is india's number one supplier offering it cutting edge weaponry such as beings and so it was something else and now the countries have signed the biggest ever defense contract and he gets history thank you what billions of dollars in total it's a deal to join to develop a fifth generation fighter aircraft costing nearly one million dollars apiece the jets will be able to compete with the american if we need to wrap costs three times as much at present the u.s.

is the meat on people's as in such technology which it is used to should even with . the new aircraft developed by russia and india would have steps each of us and noble for the ripley for forces energy is another sector two countries ago when they sing together russia has agreed to do more stations for india but the atomic dance is already building sult 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 legume and time cooperation. and gas sector it reflects the complementarity. the strength of the indoor russian relationship is is that it offers an alternative

to the relationships that countries have with the west you know we can offer alternative ways of thinking on various things whether it's a climate change whether it's on science and technology it's on space with the financial up he will be been witnessing the rising 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 phase in the strategic partnership card and saying r.t. you barely hear the aftermath of freezing rains causing major delays in disruption of airports across russia one of the worst affected is moscow's domodedovo airport where there's been a power cut today some flights were cancelled and others were diverted to nearby airports though a small number of domestic flights are taking off these sort of brings us the full picture. substations the power. cables that run the.

double whammy of the weather is well really. coming in today. cause. they were getting the information that they were going to be going anywhere now they're going to trying to rectify the situation is. one of the. running we had the planes. taking off. and it's not to be affected by the. number of people in the most. affected by the. story. but the bad weather how did each of. these one.

credit be dangerous to get around we've had a number of incidents people have been injured in another. three three thing and nothing. really everyone. coming up shortly on carving up the government's. other warning. for the u.s. congress to slam the pentagon over shady jet fuel deals for american military air base in the central asian republic of. fuel worth around two billion dollars was purchased for civilian use and to avoid higher tariffs it was actually from a. key supplier for the u.s. campaign in afghanistan. democracy initiative says the deal helped spark unrest

that ousted the president in april. what the congressional subcommittee on national security and foreign affairs. dealt with in the report was allegations of corrupt dealings between subsidiaries of the pentagon which were supplying fuel for kyrgyzstan to prosecute the war effort in afghanistan and members of the family of the deposed former president of kyrgyzstan key of the same report stated that these subsidiaries namely the mena corps and red star back in two thousand and nine to reach out to the former president's son maksim but has subsequently followed his father in exile and is now in hiding in the u.k. to try to engage in baghdad or negotiations with the pentagon regarding the future of the base following kyrgyzstan's 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 were calling all the shots in the country pretty much running the place what would eventually happened was the direct result of this relationship we saw in april two thousand and ten when president was ousted was the direct result of the popular anger that was stirred by the complete lack of accountability a lack of transparency in the deals that pentagon was cutting with. their government. so we'll do the brief violence following ivory coast disputed presidential election fourteen thousand to neighboring liberia at least one hundred seventy have been killed in clashes most of those who were fleeing are supporters of opposition leader of the. un has recognized as the winner of last month's vote but incumbent leader refusing to quit. more than twenty others were injured

when the bus collided with a truck. the bus was traveling from the southern you see. swung to the ancient temple site of abu simbel it hit a truck laden with sand which had broken and was parked at the side of the road. and she says what the city of christchurch months after a powerful earthquake struck the region at least twenty buildings were damaged and power lines cut off the travel blew out gloucestershire brickwork but there were no injuries police have cordoned off the central business area tonight and special units were inspecting the buildings there scientists were all the troubles could continue for some time. and the protocol is to new activists have welcomed back to istanbul the ship boarded by israeli forces in may as it approached blockaded gaza nine people were killed during the raid on the mother to discourage supplies as part of a convoy trying to get aid to palestinians at the time israel's actions really damage relations with former ally turkey and triggered an international

condemnation. still ahead for you in this weekly news wrap a spy in the u.s. and a role model at home anna chapman views on his political stage i think some of the youth will be ruling united russia party more about that later. israeli governments uprooting arab tribes from the desert that they've lived in for over a century the jewish state says the bedouins built their homes without permission but local activists say the aim of the crackdown on arab villages is to replace them with jewish settlements. reports from the desert. in the middle of nowhere the remains of all our kids village. for the third time in two weeks israeli police came with the folders of and in little more than an hour demolished sixty houses. from a flood 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 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 seven times they've come so far backed up by a government whose official policy states this is their land. but i think the unofficial policy underneath it is that the land should go to the jews not. the big ones are nomadic arabs who've lived in the negev desert for more than one hundred years they claim they used to pay taxes during the autumn and period in british mandate but after israel took over in one nine hundred forty eight they've been hard pressed to prove their ownership of the land they don't have any legal documents proving that this land is theirs they have agreements of buying and selling between themselves but according to the law of the state of israel ownership of land can only be proven by registering the land in a public office israel says it's built alternative cities for them with all the

facilities they could hope for but they keep coming back to the desert officially. 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 it to count troops were they could become simple workers so they would like to give the land to the army and the jewish settlements who. who will change the demographic status of the negative 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 and 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 juma will build again and in a few weeks the israelis will return policy r.t. in the negev desert israel. flame haired chapman's embarked on a political career in russia after a brief debut as an undercover agent in the us she'll now add the ruling united russia party movement at a recent meeting chapman made a speech calling on party members to transform the future for the next generation

and when you may recall the shot to fame during a spy scandal between russia and the u.s. in the summer when the f.b.i. uncovered a russian espionage ring she was one of the number of agents deported from the u.s. in a cold war style. to twenty seven minutes now past eight sport feet in fifteen minutes with andrea on r t is turning into a bumper month for russia's. news of yet another win for them. before battle bring it up there are headlines from our review of the week after this quick break thanks for being with are.

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eight thirty pm sunday night here in moscow you watching are a recap of the week's top stories washington give start the green light throwing the ball to russia already given its initial approval to a treaty which will see nuclear arsenal slashed by the deal signed earlier this year by president's. been hailed as a major diplomatic breakthrough. thread between north and south korea

souls' ongoing war games close to the border provokes pyongyang into threats of a sacred nuclear war and soldiers who reportedly took part in the shelling of a south korean island last month said their actions were a response to provocation. moscow's reported to be a plane crash that killed the polish president and ninety five others for poland refuses to accept the findings over one hundred fifty pages of reportedly being sent to moscow detailing believes the investigation is flawed. and a story happening right now freezing rain causing major delays and flight cancellations of moscow's main airport as the whole russian capital. the first few domestic flights have taken off the spot of major. airport. next to the russian president shares his views on the events that shaped twenty ten from wildfires to wiki leaks to the.