hey hey. the russian state energy company rosneft and british petroleum have announced a major deal to jointly develop boiling gas fields worth tens of billions of dollars. the 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. 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. with news from russia and from around the world this is r.t. in moscow good to have you with us this hour well giant b.p. has sealed

a multi-billion dollar deal with russia's state run energy company to jointly develop oil and gas fields in the arctic the plan would also give the russian from around five percent of b.p.'s ordinary shares with the british company getting ten percent of rosneft in return the deal is also the first major agreement b.p. has signed since the u.s. oil spill crisis last year and opens the way to what is believed to be huge oil and gas reserves in the russian arctic relations between b.p. and russia have been fraught in the past the firm's new chief bob dudley used to be the c.e.o. of the russian joint venture team. but had to quit and leave the country following disagreements with russian shareholders russian prime minister putin met with the representatives of the british oil giant and congratulated them on the deal. i would like to let you know that the government of the russian federation supports this joint operation this is a project that could become global and have a significant influence on the world's oil and gas industry russia's arctic

reserves are estimated to be five billion tons of oil and ten trillion cubic meters of gas such a project may require tens of billions of dollars of investment and state of the art technology and we are fully aware of the risks involved. 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 signed between president medvedev and obama last year has already been ratified by the u.s. senate in early it's a final say from the russian parliament from where the telling of of the 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 them 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 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 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 russia 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 needs

to 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 u.s. proceed with the plan that russia will be able to pull out of the treaty i believe the risk is over the american side of the they will proceed with the strategic north regional board strategic. defense system small not the current president not the current government but probably the next president the next guy. reach has a completely different strategy on this issue and in case it happens here so that may be damaged yes. conditions for russia to to pull out of this treaty but begin with we are not there yet and we still have time to make better agreements and to avoid any misunderstandings and there will be in the second reading the

documents war approved by the laura 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. afghan citizens seized from their home country shipped to america and locked up on charges of terrorism and now finding themselves standing trial in u.s. courts but with no official extradition treaty in place could be american that's breaking international law. has more in this. 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 half in society. he cannot talk with. anybody who want to sleep in a room all the time. he want to be

a long karim 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 have had enough of american intimidation more than 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 faith 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 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 pact exists between afghanistan and the united states. the american 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 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. kabul. i'll just remind you as well as what you see on screen there are lots of other stories on our website r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's an. eleven year old coalition government has collapsed this week after has been a ministers protest for their unhappy about you can find out online and also. russia is considering abolishing daylight saving time to save more daylight details on those two stories and plenty of other stories for you to r.t. dot com. it may be a warming in russian american relations of the moment but

a chill blew through a white house briefing following a question by a russian journalist suggesting the arizona shootings could have been due to the freedoms enjoyed by americans when they see it of a reporter for russia's official news agency past asked if the arizona shooting rampage was in their byproduct of americans having too much freedom jared lee loughner was arrested after six people were killed in the shooting ramp. during a political rally at the tucson grocery store saturday gibbs countered the question in a firm intimate way by saying the actions of the government totally american. no i would i would disagree vehemently with that there are there is nothing in the values of our country. there's nothing on the many laws on our books that would provide. for somebody to him in impede on the very freedoms that you began with by exercising the actions that that

individual took on that day that is that is not america. well we spoke to on the d.c. told the very reporter who asked the controversial question after the briefing i was approached by a number of people and they talked to me very professional very calmly i would say in some instances even sympathetically they definitely knew where i was coming from and i was coming from the simple desire for the americans to have a discussion of this that this complete sense of and help prevent such incidents in the future what i was surprised later was to find in the blogs could respond to this from the white house press corps that many of them treated this resurgence of the cold war i think this is that it was definitely misplaced it looks like there is a double standard here where an american journalist in moscow was asking about internal

politics of russia is a hero and the defender of human rights and democracy and if russian journalist in washington d.c. shows up on a sensitive subject over internal politics here then he's somehow and then you have the american people. when out of some other international stories this hour here in our teacher mr president is next to me on a what sort of food and fuel inflation and high unemployment the state 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. the victims of severe flooding which has left more than five hundred people dead in brazil have been buried in the southeast of the country rescue workers say the death toll is likely to rise as they are 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. 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 that 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 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 the just going to do it here you know it's an easier for. the for was a base in spades unfortunately for the two of us yeah maybe you might be going to go. for it in the us system isn't so 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 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 calm 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 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 risk but i think 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 makes everything we do with just lastly. the u.s. congresswoman recently in shelton alley saying that kaberle 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 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 you know always feel especially close to that family and that connection so we're praying for her and we. 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 here at this space and welcome back to earth thank you for your. well i'll be back with a look at our main news stories in a few minutes from now but in the meantime we're going to explore the world of soviet the stove in the russian capital it's back to the u.s.

with moscow team on a return trip of food and fashion. hello

and welcome to the program on this week so be going back to the u.s. assault and even with its tumultuous history it wasn't all about politics and suppression several times brought about amazing technological advances music and octets so joe you 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 found them an old and now metal sickle old least 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 seen in past years almost twice as long as the feature length each month and any shit from long innovation the sculpture was

returned to its place here at the alderson exhibition center in the summer two thousand and knowing it. this culture was restored announce to. the region out some fragments however 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 an impressive collection of. throughout the soviet union. there are many. parts. and even though most aspects of culture was under government control. and today well all pieces are reaching the highest amounts at various. around the world. and moving on let's take a look at this week's entertainment news.

to become the place to shop for many of the capitals. with. the fast fashion industry. there's also a fast food restaurant on top with views of. the complex. exhibitions of contemporary art. kipling's jungle book inspired an exhibition which is currently on display at the state darwin museum it features hundreds of illustrations to famous books by the british writer providing a glimpse into the amazing animal world rare editions of kipling stories provided by the state line break the rules for showcase for the collections highlights of pictures drawn by the author himself.

with a menu comprising otherwise. dreams of traditional russian dishes the city a cafe on to since to push it square is the center of luster intensity disease and experience of life in the soviet union during the one nine hundred sixty s. not in the seventy's. various places banished new rules and statues to her at the cafe which because help think it's all in the truck it feels more like a museum meets a themed restaurant. with its traditional service sounds playing this group like a tree is the place to cheap fulcrum various serviettes sticks. back to the us a song well i think we found out with a. many. times that come here that bunch of bricks and remember the past we try to keep the soviet atmosphere the reality here. and there we have it is going to tell

me a few hundred and fifty rubles that's around five dollars gold price of why i'm slightly worried about the quality and how it face a fine out cyrano. this place is amazing the sound is just east of the music well i can't say the least bad but my soviet meal did you try this say it's all sound intrusive attrition and i've got bored of the largest dollop of smiths alice. alive it's like a cranberry juice drink i'm not sure but i just i just said it's history is try. this is a decent size. actually it's not bad at her reminds me of a cornish pasty it was the house. of tea about.

us. can you find a. version. founded in the one nine hundred fifty s. . teacher and style. the same place the same. time. around the clock. traces. of the great.

and finally the place full of the communist era spirit is the hotel. suite. and margaret thatcher visit this is his most traditional restaurant located in the same building. and from. this week's gets. to me. thank you very much. like. it was.

all that good had to work in the factory and went to even classes to study russian and came to study the foreign language to moscow in one thousand nine hundred five . one hundred fifty five how did the city look back then there's also you know skyscrapers no no no no no no mark there were no skyscrapers in those days moscow a was a very beautiful and still is a very beautiful city and i like the older part of the city. my own taste and that there were no neon signs there nor billboards no no 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 everything 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 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 thank you. thank you and we look forward to hearing you more i'll say.

final location it was mostly outside the. friends began scouring the country to rescue the next machines. dozens of them doing their best to bring them back to life in the cold war graves. will bring out. the museum. paid games and the. space invaders. they range from nine hundred sixty five all the way to ninety ninety one and best of all is in working order yes the. this museum provides. movie theaters train stations and recreation centers across the u.s. packed with. first movie arcade machines appeared in the mid eighty's quickly becoming popular with kids soon grownups annoying people queued up in game we lose and those who run out of cool would stay and watch other people play like they say

popular game people have new it's a good time like this attractive millions of soviet people. can design factories produce 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 capital present delivers a unique historic culture. and present a deep rooted russian so full of fortunately that's all the time we have in this race out to the us so i'll see you again at the same time next week for more cultural events is around the capital until then for me the crew inside the crazy world. trade games are now. going to have to have another.

children now see a thousand murders by the end of elementary school five two hundred thousand violent acts by the age of eighteen from movies television shows to video games to children. twenty four hour news channels is no team every

day formulate a stable. in. those while those who say if asleep that was. the trigger of artistic and journalistic future but most of the violence you have to see is what i call. god came down from heaven and stopped. at the. moment in a pretty what. makes the pill easier to swallow. everybody let's come. to british style. margetts why not.