up until the stroke or missed the tropicana her to. big nuclear arms cuts a treaty between moscow and washington faces a one of its final sounds it's debated in the russian part of the. state duma deputies promised to ratify the news that egypt arms reduction treaty before the end of the month just for the details later in the program. grass controversy despite exacting part of the blame poland says it all wanted to probe into last april presidential plane crash claiming the mitchell report meets questions on i. am promoting democracy all stifling debate the u.s. comes on the fire for using n.g.o.s to fund both government soundly on position on spreading the country's influence so full. and so far so good even though the

russian stocks are slightly falling today over the week big a one of three percent better than any other emerging market more than twenty minutes. now a very warm welcome to you this is our c live from moscow i'm alice have it the pivotal a nuclear arms reduction package between moscow and washington looks set to pass another significant milestone on its way to becoming reality as russian lawmakers debate its ratification the treaty signed between presidents made very evident boma last year has already been approved by the u.s. senate it nominates a final say from the russian parliament from where the timing reports. i think it is going to lead to the world's biggest nuclear power in significant.

at least if they're. there to do it maybe it was by nearly the soles of their important step for their relations between russia and the night played a significant up in their relations but this last year one of the c.g. was starting to believe this tendency would be new but there is expectation of the c.g. post but that's applying to the new start treaty last night and the united states are giving an example to other nuclear powers powers in the world to join them and have good words and new players. but if she was signed back in april of the statement every step down the road ready to read by immediately boxes the u.s. state senate wasn't up to now to missing their decision they're up above the opposition. site to see their exploitation of the streets by trying to mend amends it's basically to do so but they included eleven pages worth of the marks and

visions detained by the state duma deputies are easy to mark. ballas them but they're no good seats he was accepted by the states it was a piece in the first meeting they are proceeding with their second meeting the last one the third meeting will take place on the twenty fifth there's several things russian deputies 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 doesn't mean there has. been to be concerned with nato supply and stoop deploy its own time missile defense shield in europe also the deputies want to be sure of that so that's according to c.c. would not mean decreasing the country's defensive capabilities and president barack obama has promised. while we do you see the number of nuclear warheads to my state

grades three meeting one to. the country's president to make the same promise to the last tediously before will take place in the twenty fifth of january and hopefully shortly after that we will see the rest patient part. of the head of the state duma's foreign affairs committee told all to russian lawmakers and said to approve the crucial treaty api and the lengthy process but confronting calls itself also expressed concern washington could top a day the deal in the near future. the city is has been supported by the vast majority of the state but this story may believe the risk is quite obvious on the american side that they will proceed with the strategic not original but strategic missile 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 of the treaty may be damaged and yes. the conditions for us are to 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 there will be organised. now poland has acknowledged it's partly to blame for last april plane crash in southeastern russia which killed president lech kaczynski and members of the country's political elite but was also interstate aviation committee report is incomplete it now intends to carry out its own investigation and hopes to reach a joint conclusion with poland's prime minister done more to ask said he wishes the fallout from the tragedy won't damage his country's relations with russia the official report concluded pilot error of bad weather and pressure to learn from

passengers were the main causes of the end for the poland claims russian air traffic controllers should have banned the plane from landing david lamont from the flight global magazine says walsall may be trying to shift the blame but it can't find fault with the reports. 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 powers incident the air traffic controller did not clear this craft to land he had with withheld. clearance for the aircraft to land 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 the controller could have told it to divert 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 but it's a very very emotive happening for for the polish people however i can tell you this if they try to carry out their own reports in order to allocate a little more of the blame in the russian direction i think apart from some minor technicalities they will totally fail to do that or one polish and the police politicians and his country could use the tragedy to school points in the upcoming parliamentary elections the political temperature in poland is hot for many reasons because of the social economic situation and first of all we are approaching the parliamentary elections i am afraid that frankly speaking very of this could be made. this debate ahead 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 on polish russian relations i'd like not to be a prophet in the us but such a danger can exist. here with good to have you with us still ahead this hour in justice in justice takes a lot of us for trying out down in american courts to spice it being against the law also. hold the giant wall the memo from sean thomas and your crew to your own coming up party from scientific discovery to artistic symbol of culture we'll talk all about. well the united states has made its mission to promote democracy in third world countries millions of dollars to those who fall on washington's side

of the fence but it's not only the supporters who get funded kadian for. 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. really following the cuban revolution the kennedy administration funneled money into a 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 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 interpol just adrian finighan say south com 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 of. 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 like. the motor city is before sobering to i totally believe the us and democracy and international issues as. a must to. 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 an impressive one point three billion dollars in military aid fathi understands the american approach to very clever american everybody. there are some more things that. 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. lawyer elect earlier there's no oppose the two thousand and nine military coup that ousted hundreds as 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 in protest pine says that while working as a professor at the american university in cairo. freedom house trying to co-opt your 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 egypt the money is hardly without strings attached many of these u.s. government funded n.g.o.s 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 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 heal and ford washington d.c. . well the washington. freedom homeless has accused china venezuela and russia of failing democracy these along with twenty other countries are classified as all for terry and while the u.s. says that these stand of the freedom but experts believe as long as washington is see that as a democratic model the findings 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 three 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 that of organizations like community groups like acorn and potentially of people like bradley manning and eventually of wiki leaks for no crime at all. not from all the stories on our website on ttyl column of course the way it's just a taste of what's lined up right now. that owns that gerold coalition government

has collapsed this week off the husband allied ministers want to balance and protest what without hope alt find out online. man roster is considering a bonus in daylight saving time to save more daylight for all of the details ahead so often dot com. afghanistan isn't the same as from their home country shipped to america and locked up on challenges of terrorism are now finding themselves funding trauma in u.s. courts but with no official extradition treaty in place it could be america that's breaking international law seems point to clear 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 have in society. he cannot talk with. anybody

who want to sleep in a room all the time. they want to be a long career more as 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've had enough of american intimidation and more than a boy for our new government in the doctrine of the constitution six years ago it was acceptable that american troops would send afghans to want tournaments but to date 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 faced 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 and the afghan legal system and why should they be argues a 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 pact exists between afghanistan and the united states luckily miracle in afghan courts are different you know 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 someone 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 you have got 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. r.t. kabul. international stories this hour now under brazil. worrying the victims of severe flooding that is that more than five hundred people dead in the southeast of the country rescue workers say the death toll is likely to rise as they're still struggling to reach remote areas cut off by mudslides thousands have been left homeless in what has become the country's worst natural disaster in

decades. thousands of demonstrators have gathered outside its newseum interior ministry demanding that the country's leaders step down president ben ali has already announced he will not run for reelection in twenty fourteen after quote of the century in power and a televised address on thursday he also said prices for food staples would be cut. and clashes between protesters and police over food and fuel inflation and high unemployment have left at least twenty three people dead right. scrips a fix to kill. me is under investigation in a case of alleged prostitution involving a seventeen year old girl prosecutors are looking into whether the italian prime minister abused his power to have the moroccan the freed from a police station where she's denying suggestions that she's had sexual relations

with the premier but a scary has not had commented but his supporters say the claims on the phone. in fact. carrying out there were a study. these experiments have only been possible siberian original quotes here and ninety percent of. thomas discovered mammoth as a big trade that make sure we haven't named prints. these artists are hard 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 to 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 your couture have found a loophole of sorts leading them to say mammoth ivory is perfectly acceptable. mammoth task 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 that 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. beaches surface and that's where we dig and this is how you have to work with a shovel and pick axe you can't always tell a tossed from a tree you think it's a tree but then you know it with a special stick and realize that it's a toss the biggest sixty kilos but they can be as big as one hundred twenty or

even one hundred thirty kilos the wall did indeed roam the entire planet but ninety percent of. artifacts have been found right here in your kuta and that's because of the extreme weather conditions found here along scientists 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 an almost intact man with a 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 of course. 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 mammoth meat 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 accordion society today from artistic creation to scientific research on the legend of the mammoth lives on in your coots sean thomas our team. we gave back to the u.s.s.r. to run this about soviet music and culture. from propaganda to surgery are there many rules inside the scene here a large part of the exhibition is on industrialization and many aspects of the cultural worlds were under government control but the art world still flourished in the u.s.s.r. and today soviet art is fetching the highest prices at various ass options around the world.

table moscow out is here in around ten minutes time first though let's count how the nation's business with. this had its first week of trading has now how did it go that's because of course of the new year holidays traders are back the first week went well russia's market is up three percent best emerging market though a bit lower than european markets will look at that in a second first of all the best performing asset class last year were precious metals and best among those was palladium but others believe the rally is not yet exhausted despite doubling in price in twenty ten forecasts from japan's standard bank and credit suisse highlights continuing demand from the auto industry has cast sales in china gaining momentum though the metal is also being sold as an investor safe haven amid european debt concerns and u.s.

printing money lady was currently trading at eight hundred dollars an ounce just over a ten year high which a bank predicts that price could that price could almost double by the end went into. russia's state backed power trade into raul is slated to buy forty nine percent stake in local gas producing north gas for one and a half billion dollars following in the footsteps of other major international energy holdings in toronto is seeking to start gas production on its own the deal is yet to be approved by russia's gas gazprom giant. home which controls fifty one percent of north gas into raul is currently consolidating nine billion dollars worth of russia's power as assets with the government aiming to merge them into one state holding to support the enterprises. sick of the markets now in europe stocks have increased losses with banks and mine is leading the way following losses in asia overnight and as wall street and the low in the previous session of miners

were largely low and weak a commodity prices london's footsie is down as you see there was almost a percent losing point six percent a.r.m. holdings is gaining six percent this after results from intel on thursday. here in russia the markets are seeing a slight correction that's despite the euro strengthening to the dollar bills we suffered placement bonds by spain and italy but we're seeing negative performance in europe so therefore russia's following suit overseas are down around twelve point six percent although the stronger ruble is getting some support to the story . gold is among the top losers on my success precious metal futures for for the first time this week solis is outperforming the market on impulse but the carmaker increased retail sales by thirty seven percent last year energy majors like gazprom are in the red as you can see their gas from is down one percent. more detail on the i.p.o. from two levin's pipe maker its to place twenty five percent of its shares and its

upcoming i.p.o. in moscow and in london the company is aiming to raise up to one billion dollars a source close to the deal says the listing will take place as soon as february. looking ahead to the next couple of weeks in trading in. the dialogue says rising oil prices and news from abroad will be the key drivers for the russian market. oil price will be very important and global markets saying to national markets and american markets right now he's expecting in the fourth quarter results even this is also good i think a bit longer view so we probably will see some real location from fixed income instruments as an asset class into equities and i think we will see global growth in equities first of all and with strong commodities global equity growth with strong commodities still be very very good environment for growth in russia often i'll be back in one hour's time headlines are next with alice just after this short

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