it killed. russian or made his debate a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty with washington an attempt to balance loopholes. all through the u.s. senate. state duma deputies promised to ratify the news that you carnes adoption treaty before the end of the month to ask for the details later in the program. that will launch its own probe into the plane crash that killed the country's president also except the majority of the blame for the trying to be found close hair among the pools is balanced scrawling the report as incomplete. washington and american n.g.o.s sound the keys of supposing both governments and opposition movements worldwide in an attempt to hijack democracy.

a very warm welcome t. this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm less have but russian lawmakers have approved a series of counterbalancing changes to a key nuclear arms reduction deal with washington they were spending to the military minded covey out added to the start treaty while it was debated that iraq survives in the u.s. senate where all the treaty needs now is the green light from moscow which lawmakers say they will give intel going over reports. was he trying to get it going see here is going to the world's biggest nuclear power is significant to me. at least if there. were to do it maybe it was playing merely because this holds a very important step for the relations between russia and the night that is

significant in their relations but this last year was the sequel started to believe this tendency was teeming with their education of the teacher but that supplying the new start treaty changes in the united states are giving an example to other nuclear power of powers in the world to clean them up and have goods and new players playing. footsie she was saying that in april the statement to. be ready to read by immediately thought that the u.s. state senate wasn't up to now them isn't their decision they're up above the opposition. to seek their education seats but strangely many amends it's made to do so they include eleven pages worth of marks and visions to get to the state duma deputies are meeting to mark. ballas them there.

to see if she was accepted by the states to be in the first meeting state they are proceeding with their second meeting the last one the third meeting will take place on the twenty fifth there's several things to be concerned the one to make sure the should get out to the streets in case the united states violates any terms of the treaty most of their beliefs. and dozens of people. continue to be concerned that nato is planned stupid deploy its m.c.i. missile defense shield and you also step these boats and. sure that wretched car industry seat would not be decreasing the country's defensive capabilities and president barack obama has promised while reducing the number of nuclear warheads tonight still up grades the remaining ones to stick with the country's president to make the same promise to the last cd you visit before will take place in the twenty

fifth of january and hopefully shortly after that we will see the rest patient. while the head of the state duma's foreign affairs committee told all t. the u.s. is to blame for the length of the ratification process in moscow and also single such of expressed concern that washington could to peter the deal in the future. they have been really great if we can result in a further amendments or conditions on fortunately our american colleagues made their own choice they amended the senate resolution just the very dramatically and they left us no other option but. our decisions on that maintain fiefs of january we are going to rectify the treaty as a piece and. to add two more statements by the state duma which

are to be included in the british occasion document at this time i believe the risk is quite obvious on the american side that they will proceed with the strategic not regional but strategic and defense system small not the current president not the current government but probably the next president the next government which has a completely different strategy on this issue and in case it happens yes the treaty may be damaged and yes there may rise the conditions for us to to pull out of this treaty but again we are not there yet and we still have time to to make better agreements and to avoid any misunderstandings and that will be our want to be. well that was the. head of the stadium as the foreign affairs committee now poland has acknowledged its responsibility for april's plane crash in southeast russia which killed president lech kaczynski and most of the country's political elite however

was for will carry out its own investigation into the causes of the accident after it described the interstate aviation committee report as incomplete with a report published in one concluded pilot error of bad weather and pressure to land for passengers who are among the. claims of russian air traffic controllers should have banned the plane from landing in moscow says under the existing regulations it's up to the captain to take an independent decision take off and touch down. security experts chris says destination was carried out what higher standards. there is nothing more to be said quite frankly i think the. committee that did this investigation has to make some period job. which is that the primary blame should be for the truth.

you know there is more important why the transcript of the conversations between pilot. during the. final approach of the aircraft into the airport and that is that there is no condition for landing at this airport and quite frankly with that sort of information being given to the pilot the pilot should then made the judgment to follow traffic instruction and transferred to another airport nearby where better visibility better conditions for landing might well have persisted. now one of polish and people ease the tensions over the report might influence relations with russia as politicians could use the tragedy to score points coming elections. the political temperature in poland is called for many

reasons because of the social economic situation first of all. we are approaching the parliamentary elections i am afraid that frankly speaking. all this could firstly. this debate of the election more court. and could be the main or one of the most important bones of. contention between the major political forces and secondly. this could. negatively. impact polish russian relations i'd like not to be a prophet. but such a. well as lazy we report on the remains of prehistoric animals and how they're being used in russia. behold the

giant ball the mammoth from john thomas beatie and coming up partly from scientific discovery to artistic symbol of culture all about america. now russia is among the world's twenty five least free nations while the u.s. gets a perfect score the washington pad watchdog freedom house says the level of liberty around the world has declined for a fifth consecutive year with more scale listed as an all for tarion regime but one american author says as long as the u.s. is 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 heavily biased in appearance because most of the funding is from the government of one country which scores a perfect score has 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 clinician and of organizations like community groups like acorn and potentially of people like bradley manning and potentially of wiki leaks for no crime at all. well u.s. funded and 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 pushes forward has been finding out it rarely works as planned. when

it comes to u.s. foreign policy in the developing world backing one side apparently isn't enough from the middle east to latin america to eastern europe the us 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 the project camelot a controversial research project to write counterinsurgency manuals and 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 one nine hundred seventy three chilean coup. recently florida international university

teamed up with the u.s. military 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 her 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 and he d also founded in finance the electoral monitoring group the egyptian demagogue. cademy and its two storey cairo office the group then recruited formerly militant activists like. to. the motor city is before sobering to i totally believe the worst and democracy and international issues.

domestic issues. that 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 five the understand the american approach to very clear american everybody. there are some more things that are going to strangers. who are crashing the wall streeters and the u.s. 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 a lawyer next earlier 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 hunt duras 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 and 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 violation. but while grant's of a thousand dollars can go a long way in poor countries like i'm curious in egypt the money is hardly. without strings attached many of these u.s. government funded and you know that focus on financing human rights work around the world without ever recognizing the underlying political military and economic causes birth human rights violations many of the result of america pursuing its own

interests abroad but when these organizations pay big popular movements lose out at the cost a real human rights change around the world in port arthur washington d.c. . ok let's go see your now and spade has put forward a proposal to change the use these the regime which could make it easier for russians to travel in and around europe it would mean a single of these that he would stop mccain should it to be a multiple entry visa on the second and the five year visa on the all this would come under the shingle and visa regime which covers much of continental europe in return moscow says it's ready to widen the list of specialist you could enter the country without a visa the russian foreign minister expressed hope that progress will be made to ease the visa regime during a television interview. some members are keen on making it easier for russian tourists to visit. us and world news in brief this hour and thousands of government

wrote down that in this encounter the reason is demanding the president step down immediately it comes a day after president ben ali announced he would give up power when his term ends in twenty three quarter of the century in office the move follows civil unrest over . prices human rights groups estimate at least sixty people have died in the widespread violence. rescue result being joined by victims' relatives in the mass search for survivors in remote areas of self east of brazil ravaged by floods and learn slaves mountain villages have been hit by heavy rains which of all. he claims of a falling two hundred lives than they've been left homeless in the disaster which is the worst ever experienced behind the country officials say the number of dead is expected to rise. the u.n.

says the number of its vehicles have been a time to me i've read case main city of abidjan by supporters of the country's incumbent president. he's in refusing to cede power actually his rivals following the venders disputed elections despite international condemnation last month he instructed all foreign peacekeepers to leave the country the un ignored the order saying he doesn't have the authority to make such decisions. italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is facing up prostitution investigation involving a teenager who were tended to posses at his private residence according to the country's leading newspaper said investigators were examining whether better skinny abused his power to have the like it's a release from a police station the investigation also involves a probe into underage prostitution allegations ballasts gainey has denied any

wrongdoing in the case. the check called. for more noble stories that we're covering as well as blogs and videos from all countries it's a great look at what's on one team at the minute now a proposed balance back from the back pages the spanish newspaper insists it's a red hot debate but how will it affect the world's oldest profession. and she isn't spotting you cheap saw an attractive nearly one hundred meg towels and facebook fans the unlikeliest of stars heidi the cross slide open. now i have a ninety percent of the world's remains all found in russia's far east republic of

giant tusks the being on the earth and carved into exclusive pieces of all that. explains how the prehistoric beast the contributing to this i see how it is all of a long. these artists are hard at work creating masterpieces from one of the earth's most rare and unique substances mammoth task. it has been a long tradition in ukraine to make things out of mammoth 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. mammoth task is fossil which cannot be restored 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 up 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. beaches surface and that's where we dig and this is you have to work with a shovel and pick axe. from a tree you think it's a treat and it was a special stick and realized. the biggest sixty kilos but they can be as big as one hundred 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 project so i was

the project leader my first big expedition was to the trans polar reaches of the river. we excavated and almost tears in. man with legs and a body of a wolverine when you 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 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 meat a quite foul and it's not advisable to eat it but there are some people who claim they ate it and they're 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 society today from artistic creation to scientific research on the legend of the

mammoth who lives on. sean thomas r.t. . well they should be developed as gas exchange blows over the u.s. is ron pollack a star and whether the state is simply a pawn in the afghan war. if you just do not understand the region. as you said rightly pakistan has. done has done more than enough this is about the view in pakistan that we've done more than enough we've lost more soldiers than the u.s. and nato combined we've lost more civilians than than many other countries combined and we've done more than enough now what pakistan has decided to do now and if it isn't doing it should be doing is to look out for its own interests in the region i agree that pakistan should look after its own security interests but i think pakistani leaders need to ask themselves whether providing a permissive environment for militant groups that are increasingly turning their

guns on the pakistani state is really the best way to move forward ensure their own regional security and position but look the us also has to look after its security interests and it also needs a friendly government in afghanistan that will not provide al qaeda safe haven so that it can conduct another terrorist attack like it did on nine eleven. i. in full here all see in around ten minutes time the take away now going to solve day with you know. hello time to bring you the latest from the world of business the best performing asset class lots to hear was precious metals sound best among those was palladium

journalists believe the rally is not yet exhausted despite a doubling in price in twenty ten forecasts for the fun standard finding for that switch highlight continuing to month from that water industry as car sales in china gave him the meshal is also being sort of the best a safe haven european debt concerns and for us printing money later on this part of the trading at eight hundred dollars an ounce just off a ten year high by predicts that price could always double by the end of twenty twelve. and following in the footsteps of other major international energy holdings russia stayed back power trader into rai seeking to start gas production the company is slated to buy a fortune mine percent stake in local gas producing north gas for one and a half billion dollars the deal is yet to be approved by russia's gas giant gazprom controls fifty one percent of more gas into raw it's currently consolidating nine billion dollars of russia's promises with the government aiming to merge them into

one state holding to support their enterprises. russia has become world's third largest country in terms of international reserves off to china and japan russia's results are nine percent and twenty term to almost four hundred eighty eight billion dollars of sun daily reports international reserves and the world's top ten countries growth will thirty two percent last year the share of the dollar has continued to decline as central banks diversify essence the region search until the greenback. and a quick look at the markets in the europe stocks it's mostly low over banks minus leading the way all the losses in asia overnight and the squad. and why we're in the private session might as well launch really low on weaker commodity prices going to school c. is down zero point nine percent and the dax is losing two point three percent our holdings are speeding six percent this hour after consulting intel thursday.

and here in russia the markets are seeing a slight correction despite the fear of strengthening the dollar and relishing the successful placement of bonds by spain italy into says part down half a percent of all the stronger ruble is giving some support just talk. dollars gold is among the top losers on the my success precious metal futures for for the first time this week saw this is forming the market or purports to call it increased with tail sales by just seven percent last year and energy majors are trading in the radical coil dollar more than one percent. pipe maker is to place twenty five percent of its shares in its upcoming i.p.o. in moscow and london company is aiming to raise up to one billion dollars a source close to the deal says the listing will take place so soon us february and looking ahead to the next couple of weeks of trading is going to hire from troika dialog

rising oil prices and news from abroad will be the key drivers for the russian market oil price will be very important global markets to international markets and american markets right now use expecting fourth quarter results of these or is also good i think. longer view so we probably will see some real location from fixed income instruments as it supplies into equities and i think we will see global growth which is first of all with strong. global growth with strong come order to still be very very good environment for growth in russia. that's all we have time for now but you can always find news stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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