and is likely to ratified after the new year holidays the agreement will face further review before the final vote stop will slash the deployed russian and american nuclear arsenals by one stratified by 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 he's got a teaching cans been following the process for us. the vote. on this matter on this sort of 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 us 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 continued will continue to be so this is an on parallel 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 has. sieved on many levels a number of republican senators nearly sabotaged it their actions provoked an

avalanche of criticism from the country's top security experts who feared that the treaty could become a victim of political games on capitol hill the arguments the treaty 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 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 if you managed to get this important treatments approved in the senate liquid now 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 the global he keeps his promise 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 few were 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. . that was left wing british m.p. jeremy corbett says the new start treaty clears the path for a new system of international nuclear control. 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 are 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 nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly

israel india pakistan north korea. votes there from a from british m.p. jeremy colbert in north korea soldiers who reportedly took part in the shelling of a south korean island last month has spoken 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 since then souls' been holding more military drills provoking stark warnings from the north pyongyang's military chief says the country will launch a retaliatory nuclear strike if the south keeps firing on the border it is the worst tension on the peninsula since the war sixty years ago an expert on korea glyn ford told us a new war is unlikely but it will remain a possibility as long as the south keeps testing the most patients 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 unilaterally established by the south

koreans along the northern limit line which is not recognized even by the united states and the the recent shelling of the of the island actually was consequent upon 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 u.s. south korean exercises which clearly are leading to the north koreans are upping their. upping their readiness for for future air 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 but we need to see is some gestures from either side to try and step

down and 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 they're an expert on korea all the way on r.t. her black ops denied the details of the patients against her could military officials in afghanistan would be preparing to take or over the border. the power's been restored moscow's domodedovo airport after twelve break over one hundred flights were canceled and others diverted to nearby airports after freezing rain ruptured electricity cables russian prime minister vladimir putin sort of authority to do everything in their power to ease the situation on the ice covered streets and their ports at the sarah first tells us that it all happened.

the. cables the run the electricity to. people who are wanting to drive. the double whammy of the weather is well really affecting the traffic coming in today. they were getting the information that they were going to be going anywhere then put it trying to rectify the situation as quickly as they had none of the. running of the. planes actually going save people wondering if they may be taking off. the still running and it's not to be affected by the. number of people in the. hundreds and thousands have been affected by the. story.

of the bad weather how did. this one the last couple of days. i find it incredibly dangerous to get around we've had a number of incidents people have been injured in another piece of the tree where you think nothing. would have been called a day everyone. spoke of militants have been killed in a counter turner operation in the capital of russia's southern republic of dagestan to say one of them was the leader of a local terrorist group weapons and six hundred made bombs ready to be planted found at the scene. of 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 will feel 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 told 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 my high school a terror only was among the militants and that he was in london a to this is yet to be confirmed by the officials the biggest 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 . coming up on r t breaking the silence millions of death people voiced their concerns because their own communication still not officially recognized here about find out why in just a couple of times. this week the brother of the late polish president claimed the

body buried in krakow does not belong to lech kaczynski jaroslav kaczynski also the former prime minister says he's not yet decided whether to have the remains exuding poland has rejected moscow's report into the april plane crash that killed lech kaczynski in ninety five others the investigation said that pilot error was to blame is still not clear whether wilson is contesting that the current polish prime minister donald tusk said the findings into the accident in southwest russia are on acceptable over one hundred fifty pages have reportedly been sent to moscow detailing where poland believes the investigation was floored aviation expert crissy aides told us the russian investigation seems thorough and no further international inquiry is needed. i think the key is to you for the polish side is probably quite a significant amount of criticism of the polish air force and in particular the captain of the aircraft and his copilot operating that aircraft on the day of

tragic accident and i think primarily a major cause for concern. what we'll see you soon with the draft report which we passed on to the polish guy 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 be 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 who copilot. to make an attempt to land at an airport where there were no conditions at all too low and too much for not enough

visibility and a lot of pressure being brought on the pilots conspired to cause the accident aviation expert chris yates talking to r.t. the son of a record breaking billion dollar defense contract was among the highlights of the me to advance 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 and his car and seeing as more of the leaders trip. financial crisis that shaken the group has let politicians and economists worldwide question to school many can do 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 struck the president medvedev during the annual summit between russia and india to support. 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 supple beans and surplus money. and now the countries have signed the biggest ever defense contract and gives 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 twenty two raptor that costs three dimes as much at present the u.s. is the would need such technology which it is used should even with its fuel cells and like the new aircraft developed by russia and india would have steps each year and noble for the rippling. forces energy is another sector the two countries

account when they sing together russia has agreed to do more stations for india but the atomic dance is already building 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 in time cooperation. and gas sector it reflects the complimentarity. the strength of the interaction relationship is is that it often does 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 god and saying r.t. . for the stories we've got a new website for you at r.t. dot com they could also find ways to escaping reality we take a look at afghanistan's efforts to rehabilitate the country's more than one million heroin addicts is the story both yesterday the country to be in the stuff it's about to go home tonight the same political story. in the press to pull out at least in europe as a stone here in latvia because over to this string of things find both sides of the argument of our web site called.

next senior u.s. military commanders reportedly want to expand their afghan campaign into neighboring pakistan but officials deny allegations that secret cross border operations are already happening washington does however use unmanned drones to strike at suspected militants across the border kathy kelly who campaigned against the u.s. led war says america's military establishment trying to make some more money. it seems to me that the united states would have an effect similar to what has happened in the past here in afghanistan along with the drone attacks the invasion of a sovereign country. a united states joint special operations whose means of attack include death squads and assassinations and night raids would exacerbate the tremendous almost tidal wave of anti-american sentiment amongst the public

united states establishment the military industrial complex companies have learned that you can make an enormous profit you can stuff your financial portfolios and run to the bank and that you can do this in another limited way and they've learned that lesson and they would like to continue it but as far as what the united states might have learned from listening to people on the ground who are in touch with those who bear the brunt of the united states warfare i'm talking about the families first loved ones who have been slaughtered i'm talking about families where people are now widowed and orphan the united states doesn't learn from listening to the cries of the police of people who beg us to stop the killing. and he will campaign kathy kelly who would use a brief no this sunday violence following ivory coast putin presidential elections for some fourteen thousand people to flee to neighboring liberia at least one hundred seventy have been killed in clashes so far most of those who were fleeing

are supporters of the opposition leader a lesson that would target the u.n. has recognized as the winner of last month's vote but incumbent leader laurent gbagbo is refusing to quit. aids to have died more than twenty others were injured when a bus collided with a truck in southern egypt bus was traveling from the southern city of us one to the ancient temple site of abu simbel it hit a truck carrying sandwiches broken down in this part to the side of the road. a series of aftershocks has rocked the new zealand city of christchurch months after a powerful earthquake struck the region at least twenty buildings were damaged and power lines cut off the tremor blue glass and brick work but there are no reports of injuries police have cordoned off the central business area and special units inspecting the buildings scientists warn the tremors could continue for some time. ship at the center of a deadly raid by israeli forces earlier this year has received a hero's welcome on return to its home port and stumbled in may the morrow was

boarded by troops as attempted to break the blockade of gaza to get aid to palestinians nine people were killed on the ship which was part of a larger convoy diplomatic relations between turkey and israel would damage the of the incident and both turn you to call on the other side to apologize. for death people in russia communication gets no further than their own community and although there are an estimated ten million hearing impaired people in russia sign language is still not officially recognized to push covert reports next on the silent struggle. that. wouldn't. stop feeling alex econ hear the song. from the family. yet he sings it with his hands touching. that was that i am a and 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 the foremost 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 costello to those speaking with their hands. even the language doesn't officially exist all previous attempts to possible giving official recognition to the russian sign 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 solid eight 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 more you don't. wish. 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 hard of hearing and has a self interpreter. they

may not hear but they're not mute and they love talking. was true those who call other people it may be just that the music of their hearts and so is louder but still not loud enough to be officially recognized . as. the.

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first. this is our team from moscow this is a recap of the week's top stories for you washington give star the green light throwing the ball to russia already giving its initial approval to a treaty which will see nuclear arsenal slashed by the deal was signed earlier this year by president obama and has been hailed as a major diplomatic breakthrough. threats nike's ations between north and south

korea souls ongoing war games close to the border provokes the threats of a sacred nuclear war soldiers who reportedly took part in the shelling the south korean island last month said their actions were a response to provocation. back moscow's report into the april plane crash that killed the polish president and ninety five others poland refuses to accept the findings over one hundred fifty pages have reportedly been sent to moscow detailing where walsall believes the investigation is flawed. and developing story tonight. soft freezing rain at. the border to a halt over one hundred flights were canceled at dunder they were all while others were diverted to other nearby strips thousands of people were stranded during the break my stick flights have since stopped taking off again. twenty three thirty one moscow time time now to conquer the i.c. by.