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the official location on the phone called touch from the shops to. watch all cheese on the go. video on demand. gold coast's and omissions feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. russian lawmakers prepared to reopen debate on a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty with washington a long awaited deal is now on the verge of getting the green light. state duma deputies promised to rectify the news that he departed upton treaty before the end of the month join us for the details later in the program. poland says it will

launch its own probe into the plane crash that killed the country's president or so saps the majority of the blame for the tragedy which found pilot error among the causes but described the record as incomplete. washington and american n.g.o.s stand accused of supporting both governments and opposition movements worldwide and an attempt to hijack democracy. in business following major international energy holdings and russia stays bonce power trader in toronto is seeking to stop gas production more in twenty minutes. ten am the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie welcome. in the program russian lawmakers are getting together friday to reopen debate on a key arms control deal with the us the new strategic arms reduction treaty

a war start as already been ratified by the u.s. senate and all it needs now is the green light from moscow artesian to tell you navicular has more. that was the biggest piece of science behind it was going to give up until the world's biggest nuclear power it's significant they're making. at least if they're. there to do it maybe it was very nearly the school's a very important step for their relations between russia and the night but a significant warm up in their relations with this last year one of the c.g. was starting to believe this tendency was teaming with their education of the sea to coast life that supplying the new start treaty changes and the united states are giving an example to other nuclear powers powers in the world to clean them up and have the woods and nuclear. but that she was signed back in april of the statement

at. the ready to read by most immediately but the us state senate does not see now missing their decision they're up above the opposition. site to see the rest of the seats but strangely many amends it's made to do so they included eleven pages worth of marks and visions to the to the state duma deputies are meeting to mark. ballas them with their. seats he was accepted by the states it was a piece in the first meeting state they are proceeding with their second meeting the last one the third thinking will take place and it's going to take there's several things russian deputies concerned the one to make sure the should come out to the streets in case the united states violates any terms of the treaty oh so there will be. the sense of need

a way to see. things to be concerned but nato has plans to deploy its anti-missile defense shield and you also the deputies will to. sure. rectifying this receipt would not decreasing the country's defensive capabilities and president barack obama has promised while reducing the number of nuclear warheads would like upgrades the remaining lines. once he's president to make this thing promised you know the last cd of this it before will take place in the twenty fifth of january and hopefully shortly after that we will see the rest they should meet. the time we can report in their poland has acknowledged its responsibility for april swank crash in southeast russia which killed president lech kaczynski and most of the country's political elite however warsaw will carry out its own investigation into the causes of the accident after

a described the interstate committee report as incomplete the report published in moscow concluded pilot error bad weather or pressure to land from passengers were among the main causes of the tragedy problem claims russian air traffic controller . plane from landing moscow says under the existing regulations it's up to the captain to take an independent decision concerning takeoff and touchdown david armaan from flight global magazine. maybe looking for a scale go but it can find fault with the record. i think that the polish government is i think desperate to put at least some of the blame in somebody else's direction but incidentally i completely go along with the russian verdict on the on the air traffic controllers incidentally the air traffic controller did not clear this craft he had with with held clearance for the

craft to learn and he wouldn't have had permission to stop an international flight like this one anyway if it had been a russian air force aircraft. controller could have towed it to divert but an international flight especially of this status the controller would simply go along and do everything that he could to help the captain achieve a safe approach and still have the sour on our teeth case closed find out critics are slamming the u.s. for trying afghans an american core of being against the law. for that russia is among the world's twenty five least free nations while the us gets a perfect score the washington backed watchdog freedom house says the level of liberty around the world has declined for a fifth consecutive year with moscow listed as an authoritarian regime a lot of american author says as long as the us a seen as a standard bearer for freedom the findings will lack credibility well anybody gets

to say anything we don't have to take it seriously i think such a report can be of some value but it is only biased in appearance because most of the funding is from the government of one twenty which school is a perfect score as as do many others it's a very simplistic account you're free or you're partly free or you're not free it's hard with such a simplistic report to make sense of the scores that some countries get to including russia and it overlooks the policies of the countries that are getting perfect scores it clearly has a very low standard for perfection rule of law comes into play in the analysis of many countries in the united states we now have the president able to announce the policy of assassinating us citizens and anybody else by the way we have the absolute lack of the rule of law for those in power they can go on book tours writing about their crimes and we have one issue meant of organizations like

community groups like acorn and potentially of people like bradley manning and potentially of wiki leaks for no crime at all. u.s. funded n.g.o.s seeking to promote democracy around the world have come up with a unique policy give money to organizations on both sides of the political divide but as artie's kalen ford has been finding out it rarely works as planned. when it comes to us foreign policy in the developing world backing one side apparently isn't enough from the middle east to latin america to eastern europe the u.s. government has made it a policy to fund the regime and the opposition and when it publicly can it turns to a network of government funded n.g.o.s for help i think the strategies of funding the right wing but also funding the resistance movements in order to co-opt them go hand in hand and they have for quite a long time. following the cuban revolution the kennedy administration funneled

money into a project camelot a controversial research project to write counterinsurgency manuals people's revolutionary movements in latin america in order to co-opt them. the endeavor was a band then after students in chile found out about it shortly before the nine hundred seventy three chilean coup. recently florida international university teamed up with the u.s. military's southern command to write similar reports on what it calls strategic culture but critics like adrian finighan say self is returning to camelot they're trying to figure out how to manipulate the different populations based on different cultural elements to prevent rebellions for prevent any sort of you know what we really can see is in many cases democratic manifestations. democratic opposition to the u.s. backed mubarak regime in egypt is actively courted by u.s. funded n.g.o.s like freedom house the international republican institute and the

national endowment for democracy any d. also founded in finance the electoral monitoring group the egyptian democratic academy and its two storey cairo office the group then recruited formerly militant activists. to. the motor city is before sobering to. the worst of the. international issues. domestic issues. but the obama administration spends twenty million dollars annually on what it calls democracy promotion and good governance programs in egypt and sixty five times that amount in impressive one point three billion dollars in military aid fact the understand the american approach to very clear. everybody. or some or things of. the us continues to send millions of dollars in aid and military assistance to the government in

honduras while a network of u.s. government funded n.g.o.s actively pushes to finance the opposition with. lawyers there's no oppose the two thousand and nine military coup that ousted hundreds is democratically elected president he sees the current government as an extension of the coup and what he calls master organizations as trying to portray hundred today as democratic. it's not a democracy when a president is elected by only twenty five percent of the voters in the country seventy five percent of the population is part of the popular resistance there are more than five hundred thousand people in the streets in protest pine says that while working as a professor at the american university in cairo freedom house tried to co-opt her students in a bid to silence them on certain issues like egyptian complicity in human rights violations in gaza once people accept this money they accept the conditions that go along with them and those conditions force them to stop talking about the political

the underlying political causes of the violence. but while grant's of a thousand dollars can go a long way in poor countries like egypt the money is hardly without strings attached to many of these u.s. government funded n.g.o.s and focus on financing human rights work around the world without ever recognizing the underlying political military and economic causes for human rights violations many of the result of america pursuing. own interests abroad but when these organizations pay big popular movements lose out at the cost of real human rights change around the world in port arthur washington d.c. . also take a look at some of the stories from around the world and rescuers are being joined by victims' relatives in the mass search for survivors in remote areas of southeastern brazil ravaged by floods and landslides mountain villages have been badly hit by heavy rains which have already claimed over five hundred lives thousands have been left homeless in the disaster which is the worst ever experienced by the country officials say the number of dad is expected to rise. the

land says a number of its vehicles have been attacked in the ivory coast main city of abidjan by supporters of the country's and company president laurent gbagbo is refusing to see power to his rival following of amber is disputed elections despite international condemnation last month he instructed all foreign peacekeepers to leave the country you want to ignore the order saying he doesn't have the authority to make such decisions. antony's he is opposition has welcomed president ben ali's decision to step down when these terror mans in two thousand and fourteen after a quarter of a century in office the president's pledge came in response to weeks of unrest over high unemployment in food and fuel prices human rights groups estimate at least sixty people have died in the widespread violence and his televised address the president also said he was ordering police to stop using live ammunition against

protesters. watching r.t. live from moscow in a little later we report on the buried remains of prehistoric animals and how they're being put to use in russia's far east. behold the giant bully many of them from thomas in the group you probably know far to you from a scientific discovery to artistic symbol of culture we'll talk all about. meantime afghan citizens snatched from their home country shipped to america and locked up on charges of terrorism are now finding themselves standing trial in u.s. courts only with no official extradition treaty in place it could be america that's breaking international law reports. he's the hero of the streets of kabul and also the symbol of american injustice mohammad jawad was only twelve when he was captured and locked inside guantanamo or seven years later he was found innocent and freed but the damage had been done he has

a fair at half. he cannot talk with. anybody he want to sleep in at all all the time. you want to be along karim was one of the few journalists to speak with jawad but now jawad lawyers say he's being threatened don't talk to journalists or we'll send you back but afghan authorities say they have had enough of american intimidation. or new government in the doctrine of the constitution six years ago it was acceptable that american troops would soon afghans to want tournaments but to do no wait but according to the law it should have always been no way because there's never been an extradition treaty between afghanistan and the states not then and not now the basic thing when we speak about extradition is that there is a face between two countries about the legal system it's very difficult for me to

see that there is a meeting between the american legal system with afghan legal system and why should they be argues the recon when the afghan justice system is so corrupt the new constitution was adopted in general two thousand and four and while it allows kabul to enter into extradition treaties with other countries until today no such pect exists between afghanistan and the united states. the miracle in afghan courts are different in also afghans are most ones who were in support afghans being tried and prosecuted by the united states. the implications are far reaching i guess afghanistan would be an easier country for us. one who has committed a crime or committed a crime that the united states wants to prosecute them for. to be without fear of being brought back to the united states for that issue but afghans argue justice is still being served. during the last nine years we've had many cases with the united

states where they ask for people and we agree we've sent back many afghans accused of drug smuggling to face charges in the states. since two thousand and one there were new crimes in afghanistan drugs and terrorism to counter these kinds of problems along the afghan government needed and wanted to cooperate with the international community but will that need and want to translate into action every time because for as long as no extradition treaty exists they really can be no guarantee of justice between both countries. kabul. and check out more on the stories we're covering as well as blogs and videos from our contributors a quick look at what's on the line right now. shah by quarry a man in belarus claims he was wanted by fox he was funding local police say they are somewhat skeptical. and of the feel like you need to get away from the big city

that my fancy have moved to the make believe town of cardboard everything's made off the gas card board. now over ninety percent of the world's mammoth remains are found in russia's far eastern republic of giant tusks are being on earth carved into exclusive pieces of are there are fish on thomas explains how the pretty story bees are contributing to society thousands of years after the last walked the earth. these artists are hard at work creating masterpieces from one of the earth's most rare and unique substances mammoth tusks. it has been a long tradition in ukraine to make things out of mammoth tell us we know that from

history in ancient times these things were taken by ships to russia and other countries so since we have these rich resources it is only natural that we should make things from this material. the use of ivory is a controversial issue as it has been linked to savage hunting techniques and dwindling elephant populations these practices have led to an international ban on the ivory trade but the people of you have found a loophole of sorts leading them to say mammoth ivory is perfectly acceptable. it is fossil which cannot be restored have been dead for ten thousand years most of the fossils are in northern reaching us that's where the material is delivered from as far as we know a lot of these fossils are dug out but we are the only ones doing it legally because it is so scarce each year large expeditions are sent up north when there is a break in the weather to search for newly exposed tusks. during the. beaches surface and that's where we dig and this is you have to work with a shovel and

a cactus you can't always tell a task from a tree you think it's a tree but then you know that it was a special stick and realized that it's a the biggest sixty kilos but they can be as big as one hundred and twenty or even one hundred and thirty kilos. did indeed roam the entire planet but ninety percent of the artifacts have been found right here and that's because of the extreme weather conditions found here. to find their bodies largely intact. i took part in almost all the recent excavation projects i was the project leader my first big expedition was to the trans polar reaches of the river very long we excavated and almost tears in. man with the leg and a body of a wolverine when you're digging and suddenly see some flash or hair you get very excited if you found a huge big mammoth in some instances the giant animals are preserved so well the

meat itself is still edible. so the mammoth meat preserves its taste back in one thousand nine hundred seventy when we dug out of memphis leg we gave some pieces to dogs and they ate them of course both the taste and smell of the mammoths meet a quite foul and it's not advisable to eat it but there are some people who claim they ate it and they were even pitches in some newspapers. so you shouldn't expect to find mammoth meat on a menu any time soon the wildly popular giant animal is still contributing to the society today from artistic creation to scientific research on the legend of the mammoth lives on. sean thomas our team down the way here in our back to find our word to enjoy the best of times in modern day moscow. this next location will bring up a child in all of this is the museum of soviet arcade games and there are dozens of retro machine c.f. and box ships the space invaders to choosing galleys they range from nine hundred

sixty five all the way to ninety nine to one and best of all is that the rule in what you want to use the existing opec piece in the soviet era is the museum provides. and john martin enters here in our teen around ten minutes time. well that brings us up to date here on our team member of that there's our web site r t dot com where you can find more on any of the story that we cover for you here and right now we will take a look what's happening in the world of business in just a few moments.

hello and a very warm welcome to the business bulletin russia has become world's third largest country in terms of international reserves after china and japan russia's results grew nine percent to twenty ten to almost four hundred eighty two billion dollars daily reports international reserves in the world's top ten countries rose around thirteen percent last year the share of the dollar has continued to decline the central banks diversify assets to meet uncertainty over the greenback dollar knowledge comes from only six to the central reserves come to seventy percent at the beginning of the century. following in the footsteps of other major

international energy holdings russia's state backed power trade into rai seeking to stop gas production company has agreed to buy a fortune nine percent stake in local gas producer nor gas for one and a half billion dollars the deal is yet to be approved by russia's gas giant gazprom which controls fifty one percent of north gas into raw it's currently consolidating nine billion dollars of russia's power estimates with the government aiming to merge them into one stakeholder to support their enterprises. that's now have a quick look at how the markets are performing so far asian stocks are mixed this hour japan's nikkei is trading in the right for the losses on wall street is worse than expected to as jobless claims report yesterday provided the excuse for a slight profit take in equities and in most commodities but some tech stocks are on the rise after intel reports another record type quarter results take something has bounced back from electronics to start of the trading as banking stocks

supported the market and offset weakness and brutal chance. here in russia the r.t.s. has started the day flat apart from the introduction of field floats a story the markets the dynamics on the russian market. is expected to remain relatively positive. was hydrous fell on the minus six on thursday by more than two and a half percent news the company was acquiring more assets in russia as of course question hurriedly not encouraging investors the process of truth the two companies mouse was down around two percent after the company reported an eight million dollar loss from the recent ice storm in the moscow region when gas companies world the rise but look for the month the losers gaming the two percent. and looking ahead to the next couple of weeks of trading he could profit from troika dialog says there are a number of factors that could drive the russian markets higher oil price will be

very important and global markets international markets and american markets right now use expecting a fourth quarter results even those are also good i think. longer view so we probably will see some real location from fixed income instruments as an asset glossing to act which is and i think we will see global growth in equities first of all with strong. global equity growth was strong come order to still be very very good environment for growth in russia emerging markets promise to be the main driver of global economic growth in twenty eleven according to the latest report from the world bank how well the bank warns that investors looking to cash in on the growth story could create an asset bubble deutsche bank's chief economist in russia. believes the risks are real. so bubbles are always a threat they're always possible. especially after the very pronounced we've

seen in ca at woody's in washington where he's in two thousand and nine two thousand turned. significant gains and of course this is something that is likely to be at the back of the mind of russia's policy makers this is a possibility especially after the effects of q e two coming from the u.s. . on a despite being one of the topics among international investors that this year russia remains one of the most riskiest locations to have business and that's the finding of a survey of foremost two hundred nations by the basic research of maple croft russia is the tenth most risky country down from fifteen last year coming in between pakistan and central african republic into hell so a so-called country holds twenty six place while china six to second russia's poor performances at.