key nuclear arms cuts treaty between moscow and washington moves another step closer as it passes the second of three readings in the russian parliament. 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. poland excepts part of the blame for last april presidential plane crash but says it will still launch its own investigation claiming the official report is lacking. and gaps in the legal system of afghans are shipped off to the u.s. to stand trial on terrorism charges despite no extradition treaty being in place. with news from russia and from around the world this is here in moscow the pivotal

nuclear arms reduction pact between moscow and washington has passed another significant milestone on its way to becoming reality after russian lawmakers approved it in a second to three readings the treaty signed between presidents medvedev in a bombing last year has already been ratified by the u.s. senate and then it's a final say from the russian parliament from where the turning over come reports. this is the biggest treaty over it's going signed in the past twenty years one to the world's biggest nuclear powers will be significantly reducing the number of warheads thirty nuclear arms by a third and delivery vehicles by almost half and of course it's also very important step and warming relations between russia and the united states an exam an example for other nuclear powers to fall this example now back in april when the treaty was signed washington lawmakers have stuff that they were ready to rectify 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 sand 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 now russia will make yours 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 wanted. with signing the streets to connect offensive and defensive nuclear weapons and to make sure that they too or the u.s. did not proceed with their plans of deploying a.m.d. to here without russia's participation so the resolution by the russian lawmakers

suggests that in case after rectifying the treaty the u.s. proceed with the plan that russia will be able to pull out of the treaty i believe . on the american side of the they will proceed with the strategic not regional but strategic missile defense system small not the current president not the current government but probably the next president the next. there's a completely different strategy on this. case that happens here so that may be damaged yes. conditions for us to pull out of this treaty but again we are not there yet and we still have time to make better agreements and to avoid any misunderstandings and there will be today in the second reading the document or approved by the or 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. has acknowledged it's partly to blame for last april's plane crash in southeastern russia which killed president lech kaczynski and members of the country's political elite but warsaw says the interstate aviation committee report is incomplete and now intends to carry out its own investigation and hopes to reach a joint conclusion with moscow but as prime minister he's eager the fallout from the tragedy won't damage his country's relations with russia present even if it's discussed further joint steps in the investigation in a telephone call with his polish counterpart the official report concluded. that and pressure to learn from passengers were the main causes of the accident opponent claims russian air traffic controllers should have banned the plane from landing. in aviation expert says the official investigation has done everything expected of it. there is nothing more to be sad quite frankly i think the.

committee the. investigation. job. they found what they found which is that the primary blame should be. true. but you know there is more important why the transcript of the. the conversations between pilot and ground during the. final approach of the aircraft into the airport and that is that there is no condition for landing at the same port and quite frankly with that sort of information being given to the pilot the pilot should then have made the judgment to follow traffic instruction and transfer to another airport nearby where better visibility better conditions for landing might well have persisted when a former polish air force pilot believes the polish people are coming to the wrong

conclusions about the tragic crash since members of the public have no knowledge of aviation many polish people are commenting long beyond the accident because generally. i believe polish people do not know much about the vision of vision is a very complicated matter to simple people don't know march fly and they don't interested in aviation so sometimes it's easy for them to draw overly. long conclusions in my opinion it is. the failure of polish pilots the world's very i would say. not the pleasure. made on military pilots but the pilot's mistakes were the main reason of the accident when you don't have enough experience because flying experience it's one

thing and the life experience like you are thirty five years old you don't have much life experience you are still of the shoes you want to call you on the task because the president is. expecting you to lend there and you want to show him that you are able to lead. you with r.t. still ahead this hour back from the stars of three astronauts adjust to living with their feet firmly back on the ground we get a chance was the one about life in the woods and. holding the giant woolly mammoth from john thomas and coming up our teeth from a scientific discovery to artistic symbol of culture we'll talk all about the matter. but first at least four people have been killed in a car bomb explosion outside a cafe in russia's republic of dagestan five other people were also injured a correspondent in the region has the latest details block to break ground eight pm

local time interval and like to think of. a car parked out. there jeff there's big or has been for a couple of hours before that where we could imagine it could have been working at the right ever will it was indeed a factor being a condition and they were given treatment and it will only have begun on people that walk their way to intervene evil violence in the troubled region here we find paris actually carried out by that we find all right you can always open and local are going to take a wooden toys away on more than twenty were prevented by russian special forces. afghan citizens seized from their home country shipped to america and locked up on charges of terrorism enough on in themselves standing trial in u.s. courts but with no official extradition treaty in place it could be american that's breaking international law or to use paula sneer reports. he's the hero of the

streets of kabul and also the symbol of american injustice mohamed jawad was only twelve when he was captured and locked inside going tandem are seven years later he was found innocent and freed but the damage had been done he has a fair at half in society. he cannot talk with. anybody he want to sleep in at all all the time. you want to be along kareem 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've had enough of american intimidation imo the boy for our new government in the doctrine of the constitution six years ago it was acceptable that american troops would send afghans to a one time all 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 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. 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 must be a miracle in afghan courts are different you know also afghans are most ones who won't 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. all. since two thousand and one there were new crimes in afghanistan drugs and terrorism to counter these kinds of problems you have gun 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. moscow's demanding london either charges or freeze a woman current in detention and accused of spying for the kremlin russian national

you have to live at or worked as a research of liberal democrat m.p. mike hancock before her arrest last month were released on bail without charge she has to obey strict conditions one awaiting deportation hearing in october she's had her possible taken away as if a bit and to meet with anyone except relatives lawyers and doctors and is not allowed to visit public places the russian foreign ministry expressed quote serious anxiety over restrictions saying it dooms to live it or to almost house arrest for a year more details on this story on our website at r.t. dot com slash policy. russian nuclear experts will not be taking part in an invited tour of iran's nuclear facilities that's according to sources in the country's nuclear agency well earlier russian foreign minister sergey lavrov said that while terrans initiative deserved attention such a visit should not be considered a substitute for official inspections all six party talks iran is invited experts from the e.u. china and other members of the un's nuclear watchdog but not the u.s.

to inspect the facilities in representatives declined the invitation earlier this month western powers suspect to romance to use its uranium enrichment activities to build a nuclear bomb while tehran insists he wants to produce nuclear energy iran is facing criticism for trying to create a rift in the six party talks members by inviting some and clearly snubbing the others but experts believe any such attempts are doomed to failure to do so from ever there has been a start in negotiations or talks or whatever and it never worked out certainly there may be some people who thought that it could create the fish are already there but from now never managed to really break out. p five plus one formula. the behavior of russia and china it just shows once again that it doesn't. i think it's half expected such and such a reaction however the iranians wanted to show two things to their own domestic

public that this we are ready to negotiate you have to see it but a second step the iranians did it again to which their own public namely to boast to the blast about their own new newly achieved technological progress which is not true but again it sends a message to do also across inside iran who are highly critical of any engagement with the international community that both things iran can to solve comfort them it wants to negotiate are important now to some other international stories this hour the tunisian president has left the country amid violent riots over food and fuel inflation and high unemployment the state's prime minister has announced he is now the interim leader president ben ali dissolve the government and call for fresh elections in the next six months a state of emergency has been declared across the capital clashes have left more than twenty dead in the last few weeks with human rights groups saying sixty have been killed. victims of severe flooding which has left more than five hundred

people dead in brazil are being buried in the southeast of the country rescue workers say the death toll is likely to rise as they're still struggling to reach for most areas cut off by mudslides thousands have been left homeless from what has become the country's worst natural disaster in decades. silvio berlusconi 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 rock and dancer freed from the police station she denied suggestions that she had sexual relations with the premier but a scone he has not yet commented but his supporters say the claims are unfounded. well having had time to climatized to life back on earth the most recent crew to return from the international space station have been speaking about their out of this world experience ati's tom boland had a chance to quiz the team 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

hundredth mission that's been to the international space station and i have all three of them here with me your chicken charlotte 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 current as it is fifty years since he was the first man in space so all three of you first of all been up there for six months what would you say you've achieved in the time and not six miles just a little less than two weeks one of the facilities just going to do it you know it's easier for. the for was a base and unfortunately for us you know maybe you might be going to go. and swim in the us. six months in space posts like just one day

but they were lots of challenging and interesting tasks during that time one of the first was a problem with docking with the new russian module or thought we had to work to repair it for one and a half hours before we could actually dock with the i assess the crew showed firmness uncomfortable and acted like a 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 that we carried out lots of experiments and we're satisfied with the work being done with the ship with. when he returned here today you were showered with gifts and flowers how would you rate the response you've received as it were back here on earth i think. quite overwhelming and it was a wonderful response. people a star said so. it is yes taken kind of what 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 so in their enthusiasm it's everything. just roughly a bit more of. the u.s. congresswoman recently in shelton alice there in that gabrielle giffords was married to one of your fellow calls in the office mark kelly and his brothers on the international space station as we speak how would you have a comment about that 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 rio we feel especially close to that family and 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. there are lots of other stories on our web site t v dot com for you is a taste of what's lined up right now eleven year old coalition government has collapsed this week after it has been allied ministers walked out in protest but what they are happy about is what you can find out online and russia is considering abolishing daylight saving time to save more day night all the details had to. dot com. scientists have long been fascinated with mammoths carrying out numerous

studies to learn more when these experiments have any been possible thanks to the siberian region where ninety percent of remains are found and it's all to sean thomas discovered the creature is extremely popular known for its tusks which are used in the jewelry business and even its meat. 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 task 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 by mammoths 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. during its. beaches surface and that's where we dig and this is hold labor you have to work with a shovel and a case you can't always tell a task from a tree you think it's a tree but then you know can it with a special stick and realize that it's. the biggest sixty killers but they can be as big as one hundred and twenty or even one hundred and thirty kilos the wall 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 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 the 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 a 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

cuttin society today from artistic creation to scientific research on the legend of the mammoth lives on in your coots sean thomas our team. well that brings you up to date for the moment up next we got all the latest business news with dimitri so stay with us here on r.t. . thanks very much bill global oil demand is increasing at almost twice the pace of supply that's according to the u.s. energy department this is led to predictions that well may reach peaks not seen since two thousand and eight west texas blend was trading ninety one dollars a barrel pretty much all session on friday harry chilling derian from b.m.p. perry barr says there are fundamental obstacles to a prolonged oil rally but we're looking for a new trading range for w.t.r. at least a level shift up from last year in

a loose eighty to ninety year ian i know this is being tested right now but we see a number of fundamental obstacles before prices could really do we did in two thousand and eight right now what kind of oil prices are you expecting at the end of the year. well 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 stand. out so i can look at the markets u.s. markets on the final half hour of trading more street is trading up half

a percent biggest jump in u.s. industrial production and rising retail sales that's all being offset by high inflation the news that china is raising bank reserve requirements to try to cool down its economy so limited in europe stocks ended the session mixed and flat miners were largely low on weaker commodity prices however a.r.m. holdings was gaining five point three percent at the close after results from intel on thursday. here's the closing picture for the russian markets for friday we saw a slight correction in that session but over the week there my six gain three point four percent the r.t.s. around five percent making russia the best performing emerging markets of the year to date. and more detail now in friday's session porteous gold was among the top losers on the my sex as precious metal futures fell for the first time in the week seoul is outperformed the market as you can see them up almost two percent that's

on reports that the car making increased retail sales by thirty seven percent last year how does the majors were trading in the red gazprom for example down three quarters of a percent. so indeed the russian stock markets came out strong in the first week of trade that's after the long new year holidays and especially with one of those traditional drivers well it was that two year high street much all week long sales trade adjoin highs all from citibank explains. two the stocks that were the main drivers i would say this week were luke oil and ross left the 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 which are 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 well that concludes this wrap up of friday's business news the headlines are next on the season to stay with us. culture is that so much a given to each musician a person find time to mark west plunging into the abyss increased violence and

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