the treaty between moscow and washington moves another step closer as it passes the second of three readings in the russian parliament. and gaps in the legal system afghans are shipped off to the u.s. to stand trial on terrorism charges despite no extradition treaty being in place. and back from the start three astronauts readjust to living with their feet firmly on the ground again we get a chance to watch them all about life in orbits. with news from russia and around the world this is our t. here in moscow good to have you with us this hour 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 of three readings the treaty between president medvedev and obama last year has already been ratified by the u.s. senate and now need to final say from the russian parliament from where the tone in office 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 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 wanted to sink down the

treaty to make amendments to it and even though they failed to do so when vets a 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 more makers 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 washer opposed to from the start russia always wants it's. with signing the streets to 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 the resolution by the russian lawmakers suggests that in case after rectifying the treaty the us proceed with the plan that

russia will be able to pull out of the treaty i believe. the american side of the day will proceed with the strategic north regional board strategic missile defense system small not the current president not the current government but probably the next president the next. we were meant to reach has a completely different strategy on this issue and in case it happens here so the treaty may be damaged and yes there may be conditions for us to to pull out of this treaty but again we are not there yet and we still have time to make victory grievances and to avoid any misunderstandings and that will be our organization in the second reading the document or 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 can citizens seize from their home country ship to america or not top on charges of terrorism and now finding

themselves standing trial in u.s. courts with no official extradition treaty in place it could be america that's breaking international law artie's paula so there has this report. 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 seven years later he was found innocent and freed but the damage had been done he has a fair at path 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 been threatened don't talk to journalists or we'll send you back but afghan authorities say they have had enough of american intimidation. for our new government in the doctrine of the constitution six years ago it was acceptable

that american troops would soon afghans to want turmoil 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 with 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 pect exists between afghanistan and the united states. the 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 some. one who has committed a crime or committed a crime that the united states wants to prosecute them for. to be without fear of being brought back to the united states for that issue but afghans argue justice is still being served. during the last nine years we've had many cases with the united states where they ask for people and we agree we've sent back many afghans accused of drug smuggling to face charges in the states. since two thousand and one there were new crimes in afghanistan drugs and terrorism to counter these kinds of problems the afghan government needed and wanted to cooperate with the international community but will that need and want to translate into action every time because for as long as no extradition treaty exists they really can be no

guarantee of justice between both countries r.t. karpal. you're with r.t. we're here live in moscow still ahead this hour. from. poland except part of the blame for the last presidential plane tragedy but says it will still launch its own investigation claiming the official report comes up short. first moscow's demanding london either charges or freeze or woman currently in detention and accused of spying for the kremlin russian national you. worked as a research for liberal democrat m.p. mike hancock before her arrest last month they were released on bail without charge she has to obey strict conditions one awaiting deportation hearing in october she's had a passport taken away it's forbidden to meet with anyone except relatives lawyers and doctors and is not allowed to visit public places the russian foreign ministry expressed serious anxiety over her restrictions saying it dooms to almost house

arrest for a year more details on our website on the story dot com slash points. 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 our correspondent in the region which of the latest details. block playground a pier marker kind of a kind of like to think of it before they call back i would. report they're just this big or had been for a couple of hours before it exploded and reckon it could have been looking at right there or it was injured after being conditioned and they were given treatment in hospital only have begun to fish for their own people but watch their way to intervene evil violence in the troubled region here five terror attacks were carried out by what we thought i'd already taken a leave of and local police are going to always point our way on more than twenty

other prevented by russian special forces. poland 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 it also says the interstate aviation committee report is incomplete it no intends to carry out its own investigation and hopes to reach a joint conclusion with moscow bones prime minister donald tusk says he's eager for the fallout from the tragedy not to damage his country's relations with russia prison mutated has discussed further joint steps in the investigation in a telephone call with his counterpart the official report concluded part of her bad weather and pressure to man from passengers were the main causes of the accident opponent claims russian traffic controllers should have banned the plane from landing. david limone from the flight global magazine says warsaw may be trying to shift the blame but he can't find fault with the new pings. 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 incidentally the air traffic controller did not clear this aircraft 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 report 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. now it is the mother international stories the museum the president left the country amid riots over food and fuel inflation and high unemployment in the state prime minister has announced he is now the interim leader earlier president ben ali dissolved the government call for fresh elections in the next six months a state of emergency has been declared across the capital the 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 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 remote areas cut off by mudslides thousands have been left homeless in what has become the country's worst natural disaster in decades. silvio berlusconi is under investigation in the case of alleged prostitution

involving a seventeen year old girl prosecutors are looking into whether the italian prime minister abused his power to have been freed from a police station she denied suggestions that she had sexual relations with the premier but a skinny has not yet commented but his supporters say the claim is unfounded. let me have to time i should say to a 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. 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 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 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 your time in csma not six miles just a little less than six one of three just really there with you know it's an easy of . the four was a base in swades unfortunately for us you know maybe a much greater if you're going to go. on somewhere in the us. and so six months in space pass 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 where 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 and come 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 we carried out lots of experiments and we're satisfied with the work being done with the ship with. when he returned here to tell us showered with gifts and flowers how do you rate the response you've received as it were back here on earth i think. quite overwhelming i mean it was a wonderful response. people star said so. there's yes ticking 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 and so in their enthusiasm makes everything we deal with and just lastly. the u.s. congresswoman recently shelterless are in that cabral 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 and well 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 some encouraging words about her recovery coming out of arizona but for the lives that were lost and 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 get real world we feel especially close to that family and that connection so we're praying for her and. hoping for the best outcome and so my all our only message would be let's maybe we think about peaceful discourse rather than the solution of things through violence because that's never a way to solve many thanks to all of you feel time and from everyone hey we're at

this place and welcome back to earth thank you. well there are lots of stories on our website dot com for you here's a taste of what's lined up there at the. year old coalition government has collapsed this week has been ministers have walked out in protest what they are happy about what you can find out about them online and also on the web site. russia is considering abolishing daylight saving time to save more for all the details. dot com. next we explore the world of soviet nostalgia in the russian capital is back to the u.s.s.r. with moscow our team on a retro trip of food and fashion. your

. daughter was hello and welcome to the program on this week so i will be going back to the u.s. assault even with its tumultuous history it wasn't all about politics and suppression several times brought about amazing technological advances it's music

allen's octets said so we must under his as we take a look at culture and life as it was inside it. on top of the museum is the famous statue the look and collectors fumbling older now my sickle almost twenty five meters high school she was made by fear most enough for the nine hundred thirty seven welsh in paris the sculpture is an example of the socialist realistic an object of style division to deem and pass was almost twice as long as the feature length which runs into the shit buster along with the vacation the sculpture was returned to his place here at the alderson exhibition center in the summer two thousand and all that is that it of this culture was restored in absolute shambles go from finesse original some fragments however were made. from scratch and they were destroyed over time. to the soviet exhibition area used to be a display of achievements of socialism. architecture and there are several exhibition halls in the museum. to its current location is also impressive

collection of. throughout the soviet union. and even though most aspects of culture was under government control. the highest amounts of various. around the world. i'm moving on let's take a look at this week's entertainment news. to become the place to shop. with. fast fashion industry.

views. on the complex. exhibitions of contemporary. kipling's jungle book inspired an exhibition which is currently on display at the state and. it features hundreds of illustrations to famous books by the british writer providing a glimpse into the amazing animal world where editions of kipling stories provided by the state library showcase were the collections highlights of pictures drawn by the author himself. with a menu comprising a wide range of traditional russian dishes the city a cafe on two. square is. the center of liskeard intends to give businesses an experience of life in the soviet union during the one nine hundred sixty s. much of the seventy's. there were so the places barriers murals and statues to her at the cafe which because i don't think it's all undertook it feels more like

a museum meets themed restaurants. but with its traditional service sounds playing this group back injury is the place to cheap fulcrum various serviettes six. back to the us a song well i think we stand out with envy. of many of the out soviet times that come here that bunch of bricks and remember the past in turn we try to keep the soviet atmosphere the reality here. and there we have it is going to help me a few hundred and fifty rubles that's around five dollars good price but i am slightly worried about the quality and how it face a fine out cyrano. this place is amazing this and that is a just peaceful i mean music well i can't say the least possible i say get me up here you try this say it's all stand intrusively tradition and i've got bored of

the largest dollop of smoke. in of my life it's like a cranberry juice drink and that's about half the stuff just said it pastry is trying. this is a decent size. actually it's not out of her reminds me of a cornish pasty which we have the. best . of the soviet style experiences can you find in moscow today located next red square go sooner. found it in the. teacher and style. the same.

time as the. races. and finally the place full of the spirit is the hotel. suite. and margaret thatcher. this is his most traditional restaurant

located in the same building. from. this week's gives. me. thank you very much. it wasn't. came to study a foreign language to moscow in one thirty five. one hundred fifty five how did the city look back then there's honestly no skyscrapers no no no no no no mark there were no skyscrapers in those days moscow was very beautiful and still is

a very beautiful city and i like the older part of the city my own my own taste and that there were no only on signs that no billboards known no signs of anything no advertisement in the streets or anything i can tell you for one example but there was a big billboard in the city where first lived in the eastern ukraine a huge billboard saying eat ice cream it's nutritious and tasty but no brand marks. the state owned every say street there is only one brand of ice cream you could buy just as there is only one brand of beer you could buy it was a most of it was draft beer there wasn't any bottled beer at that time but as far as i can remember. is that anything that you miss about the seventies you i'll be honest with you martin i can never forget the taste of the ice cream that was sold in the. department store on red square. which means the department

store and i understand that people from all over the country who would come in to visit moscow. by all means go to this department store and taste the wonderful ice cream i can still taste. it as well joyce it was lovely to meet you thanks. to hear you more i'll say. final location it was mostly how to do. friends begin scouring the country to rescue these next machines. so. located dozens of them doing their best to bring them back to life in the cold war graves. will bring out all of the museum of soviet paid games and there are dozens of. space

invaders to sing galleys they range from nine hundred sixty five all the way to ninety ninety one and best of all is that they're all in working order you just need. to pack in the same as the museum provides. movie theaters train stations and recreation centers across the u.s. the south packs with these games. to go after the first movie arcade machines appeared in the mid eighty's quickly becoming popular with kids soon growing up the noise people queued up in game we lose and those who run out of cool would stay and watch other people play like they see popular lives and also the people had new it's a good time at least attractive millions of soviet people. based largely on the japanese or american designs factories produced some seventy different video game. productions of the game ceased but the collapse of the u.s.s.r. . and from the arcade games to museums cafes and shops there are many soviet themed

experiences still to be found. and today many aspects of russian culture still influenced by the shadows of soviet life fusing such a vibrant past with the capitalist present delivers a unique historic culture social diversity and present a deep rooted russian soul full of fortunately that's all the time we have in this race moscow out back to the u.s. so i'll see you again at the same time next week for more cultural adventures around the russian capital until then for me the crew inside the crazy world of yes arcade games are now. going to have to have.

i got out of the military in nineteen sixty six i got out because the things i saw the things i was doing and this reason said we were given for doing it was a personal protest. during the vietnam war an antiwar movement emerged that altered the course of history this movement didn't take place on college campuses but in berets and on ships penetrated elite military colleges like west point and it spread throughout the battlefields of vietnam. today few people know about the g.i. movement against the war in vietnam. after the army we always said free the army or fun travel and adventure but it really meant to be harmed.