the key nuclear arms cuts trees e. between a moscow and washington up call says one of its final hug as the russian parliament approves the second of three readings. russian lawmakers are saying the new strategic arms reduction treaty will be rectified before the end of the month join us for the details later in the program. controversy despise except in part of the blame poland says it'll launch its own probe into last april presidential plane crash claiming the official report leaves questions are answered . and legal gallops no extradition treaty between washington and could pull means that medicare have been shipped off to the us the sound trial on terrorism charges in breach of international law. so far so

good russia's market is up three percent since the beginning of the year making it the best performing emerging market so far more about than twenty but. a very warm welcome see this is r.t. live from moscow with me on his head but the pivotal one nuclear arms reduction path between moscow and washington has paul's another significant milestone on its way to becoming reality after russian lawmakers approved it in the second of three readings the trees falling between presidents but very been a bomb last year has already been ratified by the u.s. senate and no one needs a final say from the russian parliament from where. reports. this is the biggest treaty over it's going signed in the past twenty years went to the world's biggest

nuclear powers will be significantly reducing the number of warheads stick did you can nuclear arms by a third and delivery vehicles by almost half and of course it's also very important step and warming relations within russia and the united states an exam an example for other nuclear powers to fulfill this example now back in april when the treaty was signed washing lawmakers helps that they were ready to ratify it in the form that it was right away but the unites united states senate was not that unanimous in its decision barack obama's opposition in the senate so wanted to sink down the treaty to make amendments to it and even though they failed to do so when vets to fight the t.t. back into set late december two thousand and ten they attached a resolution to it that is worth eleven pages worth of remarks to the treaty and right now washington or makers are working to counteract those remarks the resolution by the u.s.

senate suggests that the treaty should not restrict nato or the united states from deploying its anti-missile defense shield to europe however this is something that russia opposed to from the start russia always wants it's with signing the streets you connect offensive and defensive nuclear weapons and to make sure that they too or the u.s. do not proceed with their plans of deploying a.m.d. to here without russia's participation so right now russian lawmakers are trying to make sure that in case after rectifying the treaty the u.s. proceeds with the plan that russia will be able to pull out of the treaty i believe . the american side of the they will proceed because the strategic not the regional but strategic. defense system small not the current president not the current government but probably. the next president the next government has a completely different strategy on this issue and in case it happens yes of the

treaty may be damaged and yes there may be conditions for russia to to pull out of the street today in the second reading the documents war approved by the lower house of the parliament the last three d. will take place on the twenty fifth of january and after that it will be given to the upper house of the parliament for the signing of. poland has acknowledged it's partly to blame for law staples plane crash in southeastern russia which killed president lech kaczynski and members of the country's political elite but walsall says the interstate aviation committee report is incomplete it now intends to carry out its own investigation and hopes to reach a joint conclusion with moscow where poland's prime minister said he wishes the fallout from the tragedy won't damage his country's relations with russia the official report concluded that pilot error bad weather and pressure for

a land from passengers with a may no cause is on the accident but potent russian air traffic controllers should have banned the plane from landing what david lerman from the flight global magazine says resourceful may be trying to shift the blame but you can find from 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 hours incidentally the air traffic controller did not clear this craft to learn he had with with hold clearance for the aircraft 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 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 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 one a polish and he believes politicians in his country could use the tragedy to score points in the upcoming parliamentary elections. the political temperature in poland is called 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 all this could firstly made. this debate ahead of the election more court. and could be the main or

one of the most important goals 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 best sense but such a danger can exist. here with good to have you with us still ahead this hour back from the star three answers we are just living with their feet firmly back on the ground we get a chance to ask them all about life in a bear's arms. behold the giant ball the mammoth from john thomas in your group and coming up on our journey from scientific discovery to artistic symbol of culture we'll talk all about. afghans this isn't seized

from their home country shipped to america and locked up on charges of terrorism are now finding themselves standing trial in the u.s. courts but with no official extradition treaty in place it could be america that's breaking international law pulis clear reports he's the hero of the streets of kabul and also the symbol of american injustice mohammed jawad was only twelve when he was captured and locked inside guantanamo seven years later he was found innocent and freed but the damage had been done he has a terror attack in society. he cannot talk with. anybody he want to sleep in at all all the time. you want to be a long career 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 will send you back but afghan authorities say they've had enough of american intimidation or more that

by fear our new government and the doctrine of the constitution six years ago it was acceptable that american troops would send afghans to want tournaments but to date no way 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 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 perfect exists between afghanistan and the united states we love 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 someone who has committed a crime or committed a crime that the united states wants to prosecute them for that 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. you know i said states has made its mission to promote democracy and culture is billions of dollars flocked to the informal motions inside the fence but it's not only the support fund it is kayleen forward reports. 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't 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 abandoned 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 anthropologists adrian fein 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. it's two story cairo office the group then recruited formerly militant activists like boss in fact the two. democracies before so we're going to i totally believe the rumors and democracy it's an international issue. domestic issue. 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 fact the understand the american approach to very clear american support everybody supporting to be there or some or things of the ministry. for 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 one of the 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 and 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 honduras and 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 in port arthur c. washington d.c. . ok let's check on some other international stories this hour now and brazil. being the victims of severe flooding that has left more than five hundred people dead in the southeast of the country rescue workers say that the death toll is likely to rise as they're still struggling to reach remote areas. thousands

have been left homeless in what has become the country's worst natural disaster in decades. internews you security forces have fired tear gas on. protesters gathered outside tyria ministry demanding the country's leader step down president ben ali has already announced he'll not run for reelection in twenty fourteen after a quarter of a century of power plant choose between protesters and police over food and fuel inflation and high unemployment have left at least twenty three people dead white screen say sixty have been killed thousands of tourists are being evacuated due to the unrest. now having had time to a climatized life on earth the most recent space been to return from the international space station have been speaking about their out of this world experience and how to tell us to quiz the crew of three about life in orbit. hundreds of people have turned up here today to welcome back the crew of t m a

nineteen and it's the hundred mission that's been to the international space station and i have all three of them here with me go to your chicken shannon shannon walker and douglas wheelock have all spent six months in space conducting experiments and doing maintenance to the space station and when they arrived here today they laid some flowers at the statue of eureka daryn as it is fifty years since he was the first man in space so all three of them first of all been up there six months what would you say you've achieved in the time and not six more just a little less than six one of the just really do it you know it's an easier for america the fall of a base in swades unfortunately for him. and maybe a much greater if you're going to go. on spring in the us versus me since i was six months in space posts like just one day but there were lots of challenging and

interesting tasks during that time but one of the first was a problem with docking with the new russian module and we had to work to repair it for one and a half hours before we could actually dock with the eye and say this the crew showed firmness uncomfortable and acted like real professionals also during one of the space walks some equipment broke the work to repair it was really tough and one should praise the courage and professionalism of all the six crew members that were in space at the time when we carried out lots of experiments and we're satisfied with the work being done with an issue with you but. when you returned here today you were showered with gifts and flowers how do you rate the response you've received as it were back here on a i think ellis quite overwhelming i mean it was a wonderful response. people star city are always so. yes ticking kind of way i think the best part about today was the schoolchildren that are here because what

we do is for the future and they're. you know they're part of our future and so in their enthusiasm it's everything. just roughly a bit more of. the u.s. congresswoman recently shot in early saying that gabrielle giffords was married to one of your fellow cosmonauts mark kelly and his brothers on the international space station as we speak how would you have a comment about that it's a sure thing well look of course we feel especially close to giffords because she is part of our nasa family as well and it is a tragedy although we've heard something encouraging words about her recovery coming out of arizona but for the lives that were lost really in senseless violence i believe it's you know the what happened in a small shopping center in southeastern arizona it really affects us all of course having spent some time with scott onboard the space station his twin brother mark is married to cover real world we feel especially close to that family in that

connection so we're praying for her and we're going to be hoping for the best of outcome and so my all our only message would be let's maybe we think about peaceful discourse rather than a solution of things through violence because that's never a way to solve many thanks to all of you feel time and from everyone here at this space and welcome back to earth thank you for your. because there are lots of all the stories on our website called these prove your leisure use is the taste of what's lined up for you right now eleven in the year old coalition government collapsed this week after close allies ministers walked out in protest what were they are happy about well falling down on line. and russia is considering a baller sheen daylight saving time save more daylight for all those details do you head to dot com. scientists have long been

fascinated with mammoths carrying out numerous studies to learn more these experiments have only been possible thanks to the siberian region of you could see where ninety percent of remains are found as are you sure thomas discovered mammoth is a big trade they're making it in the jewelry business and even known for its meat. 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 to us we know that from history in ancient times these things were taken by ships to russia and other countries 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 iraq 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 but if you do it during the. beaches surface and that's where we dig and this is hold labor you have to work with a shovel and a cactus you can't always tell a toast from a tree you think it's a tree but then he had it with a special stick and realized that it's 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. 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 a man with 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 meet a quite foul and it's not advisable to eat it but there are some people who claim the eighty's 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. sean thomas r.t. . don't go away because it appears this survey on the way that what we train. thanks very much alice the global oil demand is increasing at almost twice the pace of supply according to the us energy department this is led to predictions that well may reach peaks not seen since two thousand and eight west texas land is currently trading at just over ninety one dollars a barrel harry chilling derian from b.m.p. perry but says there are fundamental obstacles to a prolonged oil rally. we're looking for a new trading range for w.t.r. at least a level shift up from last year in the loose eighty to ninety area and i know this

is being tested right now but we see a number of fundamental obstacles before oil prices could rally the way they did in two thousand and eight all right now what kind of oil prices you expecting at the end of the year. but we're looking to average closer to ninety five dollars again we have to get over some obstacles as i was saying earlier we're looking at relatively elevated inventories in the o.e.c.d. countries we're looking at opec that has fair production capacity of six million barrels per day and of course we're looking at supply that's relatively decent heading into two thousand and eleven we'll see a lot of production coming out of russia colombia china and more importantly brazil so these are factors that we need to contend with before we could rise the way we did in two thousand and eight when spare production capacity was virtually nil inventories were extremely low and the refining system didn't have the ability to refine what opec could produce then. the best performing class last year was precious metals and the best among those was palladium but analysts 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 as car sales in china gain momentum the measure was also being sought as an investor a safe haven of many european debt concerns in the us printing money palladium is currently trading at around eight hundred dollars an ounce just off a ten year high which a bank predicts that the price could almost double by the twenty twelve. of the markets now wall street is trading flat to negative this hour the biggest jump in u.s. industrial production and rising retail sales is being offset by higher inflation and news that china is raising bank reserve requirements to try to cool down its economy. in europe stocks are half a percent lower miners were largely low on weaker commodity prices so. i am holding sorry is gaining six percent this hour after upbeat results from intel

on thursday. here in russia the markets are just about to close the negative because of all the same performance seen in europe and in asia let's take a look at some of the stocks now pollies gold is down two point three six percent and this is because of bad results basically produced by this company and sollars is up two point eight six percent bucking the trend gazprom however is down one point four percent it's. first move on on to a further stories the russian stock markets came out strong in their first week of trade after the prolonged new year holidays especially with one of its traditional drivers oil at a two year high a sales trader john heinz all from citibank explains. two of the stocks that were the main drivers i would say this week were luke oil and rosneft stocks and a lot of the large energy names in two thousand and ten lagged the market in

general this week both of those stocks traded above key resistance levels and were able to hold those levels we set quite a bit of demand and then one of the reasons why the russian market did so well this first week commodities were generally very strong crude oil held above the ninety dollars level. we've seen brant closing in on one hundred dollars level once again so that's obviously very supportive for the russian market also metals were quite strong. and that's all we have time for now we'll be back in one hour's time with more headlines are next on our.

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