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four pm here in the russian capital you with a very warm welcome to you well it's been a long time coming but finally a key nuclear reduction treaty between russia and the u.s. has finally been approved by moscow president dmitry medvedev signed start ratification document on friday. the process the agreement to force next month after an exchange between russia's foreign minister and the u.s. secretary of state let's get some more details on this now. that you've got a. done deal. well it really seems everything. really quickly this week first. by the. by the federation council. president. only. a form of formal

exchange off documents between the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is left before the treaty can officially stepped into power that's already planned as we're hearing for the fourth or fifth of february in munich this is historical deal disturbed as such treaty between moscow and washington the first two or sorry back in one thousand nine hundred one and in one thousand nine hundred three with this latest one is set to reduce the number of strategic bombs on both sides by over one third so it's a significant step both in the relations between the two countries and in terms of global security sure the negotiations lasted initially for over a year then it took around nine months for the treaty to be ratified after he was signed by the two presidents last april there were disagreements but nevertheless nuclear superpowers were able to work overcome them and sign this deal make it

possible. to missile which is this is a very significant design for our countries due to agreements we have with the united states americans have gone their way we also have finished these procedures both chambers of our parliament ratified the start treaty certain remarks were taken into consideration and to satisfy the partisans on both sides the most significant thing is not after the exchange of ratification papers between our foreign ministers it will define the size of cutting nuclear arsenals for the next ten years. speaking on a separate issue president meeting with you've also said that russia is keen to continue the negotiations on the euro defensive project just waiting for nato action on this proposal where you go to the process of the treaty is suddenly was a bit of a long and complicated one we had a bit of shuffling between moscow and washington a bit of hemming and. calling from the republicans take us back remind us how that

all goes. well since the treaty was signed last april by only two presidents the us republicans managed to gain control of the upper house of representatives of the house of representatives i'm sorry and demanded that several amendments are made to the t.v. before it could be ratified by the congress since the republicans were initially against this treaty that's why this deal the achievement of this deal has already been deemed as the biggest achievement in the us international foreign policy by barack obama the the us congress did make some special statements as they're called are non-binding there will not affect the implementation of the treaty basically the congress outlined washington's right to modernize their remaining strategic forces and also. said. that u.s.

missile defense plans after it was ratified by the state congress this week. first ratified it and then the federation council deputies have also made a special statement is it first of all security moscow's right to step out of this agreement if writings by u.s. missile defense plans in europe and secondly they've outlined that the these recommendations and statements made by the u.s. congress are non-binding and they do not washington from its obligations in the street so these are once again non-binding recommendations and statements they will not affect the actual implementation of the treaty we're just waiting for the formal exchange of documents now which will officially put into force and that could happen as soon as early february all right. and central moscow. thanks.

russia's parliament is considering a new anti terror warning system following the deadly suicide bombing at moscow's don't know yet of the airport that was on monday president dmitri medvedev has already fired several officials over security lapses which allowed the tragedy to happen. now has more from inside the state duma. as it stands right now russia does not have a unified system which will allow the country and the security services in the country to act together in unison in case of a terror threat now that the system will be somewhat similar to the american system of warning basically there will be three levels of terror threat which will be imposed in the country first level color coded blue will mean an increased level of a terror attack a second level yellow or mean a high level and this thirty five will be color coded red and it will be critical level also federal security service has proposed that a certain unified governmental body be created in order to act where that when and

if any of these terror levels will be imposed on the country just look how much we needed this system in light of the demanded of attack you know they are trying to find the culprits and they will find them and the culprits will be punished some have already been punished but what everyone is seeing is that there was no relevant information and now according to the will we will have to inform the society both the threats facing the russian government has allocated more than one hundred twenty million rubles to help the families of the victims and the wounded some of that money will go towards the funerals which are being held today in moscow and in the moscow region and of course a lot of that money will also go towards treatment of the wounded horse who are still in hospitals more than one hundred people remain hospitalized and are being treated for their wounds which they received in the terror attack and my call the good son a boy has met with some of them devout muslims these to france usually pray five times a day but the jumma did have a blast. ever since multiple shrapnel wounds bound them to hospital beds they've

been praying nonstop. don't you think or is that i never have to witness such carnage and. they came to the airport to pick up their rallies you flying in from to john you missed the explosion by several minutes and still can't make sense of what happened. people who did it come up possibly call themselves muslims a true muslim should be striving to help others not killing innocent people those who did it will answer for it before. yet for many of those whose life was damaged by the blast the promise of the almighty is rare earth is not enough the domodedovo airport had already been implicated in terrorist attacks in two thousand and four when two passenger jets were blown up me there. everyone who is in charge makes decisions in the company the airport management must face justice. a some russians vented their anger with law enforcement for not being able to prevent

their attack others through the initiative into their own hands hundreds of volunteers turned out bad blood than anything stations pawel is a first comer and explosion really seemed to prick his conscience. when something like this happened before i was concerned like everybody else but i never did anything to help but based on the thoughts i had to get involved instead of just bashing our security services and blogs. while the tragedy at the airport prompted many russians to ask what they can do for their country improving security is still the main thing their country can do for them. r.t. moscow. police in pakistan say the number two figure in a militant islamic movement in southern russia has been killed during a special operation officials say. joined the ranks of militants in two thousand and three later training in account for suicide bombers in two thousand and four he

was put on the federal wanted list russian police exchanged fire with suspected militants softer cornering them outside the city of a gun battle started after the suspects who were surrounded in the house refused to surrender. well this is r t you know we're coming here live from moscow where it's now just ten minutes past the hour and still to come your way in just a few minutes. only eighty eight in this siller an idealogue you can see the deal of wall street has hijacked was u.s. governmental report names those responsible for the financial crisis but few americans believe it's likely to make any difference. well thousands of angry protesters have continued to clash with police in cairo on the third day of violence that it comes as internet access all across egypt is completely shut down and a mobile phone service is reportedly shut off in some regions. at

least seven people have been killed during the turmoil it was inspired by the month long chaos in tunisia where uprisings sword's leader deposed eighteen killed and a cabinet reshuffle of authorities. now reports the images of angry protests in north africa where some striking parallels. georgia to free. ukraine two thousand sure. and egypt twenty eleven i think these are all completely different rules well think again and not only because they're raised fist was one of their symbols if you look more closely you look at the people who are leading this are being coached in the

they're being coached by u.s. intelligence services the same way the orange revolution was in the roles revolution with saakashvili and in georgia a string of revolutions some bloodless some nor too broke to post soviet space at the beginning of the twenty first century there were a number of common factors an uprising against the regime rooted in a popular dissatisfaction with standards of living hence the collective name colored revolutions amazingly the outcomes have been quite similar to six years ago key of independence square was the birthplace of the orange revolution it promised a new dawn and major changes for the country but ultimately all aspirations came to nothing. lawyer goody goody sudan is one of those disenchanted with the outcome of the orange make over he says the bright promises of the revolutions leaders have in reality pushed the country into an abyss. and corruption in greece the country

became divided on the. issue was nothing changed for the better it changed only to the world's. on the next elections revolutionary hero received only five percent of the world the lowest percentage for acting president of the world it was a similar story in georgia where they had the optimism of the rose revolution soon gave way to disappointment and eventually to mass protests their anger with president saakashvili was met with a response that was all too familiar as gas grenades and water cannons were used to quell the unrest and in kyrgyzstan the revolution of two thousand and five also quickly turned sour last year so yes. another popular revolt but those false dawns and bitter lessons are far from the minds of those clamoring for change in north africa. one of danger emerges one the power overturning the government which they thought illegal and autocratic like in the case of tunisia and egypt does not have

a political platform and a government to put things in order in the country and the danger lies in the personality of those who desire to use the revolutions which happened in the arab world we have to take care that the far right or any other forces with an increasingly stick mood will not take advantage of this situation if those are really people's movements they should not have let anyone in to deal with their theirs and that's popularity as experts agree that it may take some time before the world will see whether the revolts in tunisia and egypt will change things for the better in these countries just as they have a common opinion that if these uprising flow europe will be the first to suffer from waves of immigrants let's see russia asking all see yes. i do remember you can always have your say on the topics we're covering on our website that is ask you to come is what else is waiting for you online right now

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u.s. government panel has issued a report which says the financial crisis was avoidable citing numerous mistakes behind it comes several months after new regulatory rules were imposed to prevent another meltdown but it's also use that lauren lyster has been finding out many say washington will never learn from its own mistakes. it wasn't so long ago the world was reeling from a command crisis and in the financial capital of the world hard hit americans were calling for heads to roll on wall street and then he blamed irresponsible and illegal actions of big wig bankers for the economy's near collapse because i did that if he did got if he did that we'd been in jail it was born from this mess the us president formed a bipartisan commission to get to the bottom of the crisis. it is our hope that together we can rebuild the american people's belief in a financial system the puts americans to work over a year they heard from stewards of the economy the most important lesson of this

crisis is we have to end too big to fail they heard from c.e.o.'s of investment banks anyone who says i wouldn't change a thing i think is crazy. now the meltdown panel believes the answers to this outrage can be found here and five hundred plus pages of their findings it gives them enough room to point the finger everywhere for a crisis they say was avoidable we do play special responsibility with the public leaders who are charged with protecting our financial system those entrusted to run our regulatory agencies and the chief executives of companies whose failures drove us to crisis but we believe that we must also as a nation except responsibility. for what we permitted to occur dad as far as wall street specifically the dramatic failures of corporate governance and risk management at many systemically significant financial firms were

critical causes of the crisis while blame is directed it wall street that's where we are right now the irony is though the new york stock exchange is here that's what you see behind me most of the big banks and investment firms people associated with the financial crisis aren't even here anymore they're spread out all over new york city so just as wall street has become merely a symbol of the american financial industry so too is washington condemnation of it like we're seeing in this report the reality is we've seen this all before we've already seen congressional hearings where u.s. lawmakers interrogated bankers we've heard lawmakers threaten those in charge of the economy yet no one on wall street or that was watching over finance has faced criminal charges no one has really been held accountable and by many accounts nothing has changed about financial practices and most of the people who are in power before the crisis are still in power most of the business practices that you

know other than a few things are still going on and now nearly three years after the crisis the opportunity for this commission to sway public opinion and make any difference to those practices has seemingly passed it by the chip to sell the moments those political moments when everything comes together and you can pass this kind of comprehensive reform legislation are these little bubbles and they don't last very long and we missed ours. so for the american people who wanted wall street held responsible these guys have looted the american economy the global economy they may not get the justice they're looking for five hundred pages and a year later a world once sent reeling by a financial system on the verge of collapse. maybe no more protecting us from happening again i'm not sure that we can prevent it from there in mr r.t. new york. meantime a general director of the trans research institute says that the latest report is

nothing more than a big whitewash the culprits. i mean come on only in eighty eight in brazil or an idealogue can see the deal of the wall street has hijacked was it's a whitewash like all the rest of them you know what's going to happen is they say no heads roll you see goldman sachs gets they get a slap on the wrist compared to their earnings bank of america gets fined they had dirty dealings no heads roll the only heads that are rigged roll are we the people and that's the way the deal works the police have become nothing more that enforces the crime bosses the big guys are off limits don't touch them they're the white shoe boys and they can't bust the gangs on the streets it suits then wiley so who do they go after they go after us look this has been going on a long time these commissions is nothing more than white wash is who's running the

commissions the republicans are the democrats the people who take the money from these stock brokerage firms from these investment firms but they have nice language for it they call them campaign contributions could any adult say bribes and payoffs . are you with r.t. life from moscow is good if you join us today let's get to some other headlines from around the world now this hour and an explosion killed at least eight people as it ripped through a supermarket in central kabul not far from which embassy among the dead are three foreigners and a child while six others were injured the taliban has claimed responsibility saying that it was targeting security contractors it comes as the violence in afghanistan reaches its worst levels which as the u.s. led invasion began in two thousand and one. local residents in a suburb of sydney were evacuated from their homes after a nearby paint factory purse into flames

a series of explosions at the scene caused by some twenty thousand liters of chemicals sixteen or firefighting crews work to put out the blaze which produced huge plumes of smoke pretty dramatic pictures that there are no reports of casualties and residents have now been allowed to return to their homes. right now time for the business news to me trees here. and welcome to business on the heels of his economic speech or doubles russia's president is calling for new legislation mr medvedev is promoting a draft bill to create an integrated financial services regulator it will supervise both the financial markets and insurance companies to industries which were previously monitored by different state bodies so that. the regulator will exercise control and monitor all investment to do surance companies it will also determine the rules of their operation eventually the

financial regulator will be responsible for creating transparent and comfortable conditions for the business restrictive draft bill has already been disparaged. moscow has moved closer to fulfilling its dream of becoming an international financial center top officials and the business elite have given advice at a working breakfast hosted by burbank. brings us the latest from the economic forum in switzerland. pancakes and caviar was served at the annual bank break first it's an annual gathering here in davos of the world's top bankers where of foreign investors and business leaders what's more sco still needs to do to transform itself into an international financial center the head of do it your bank joseph ackermann said that that was pretty much that a country. so openly foreigners what they need to still do he told the story of how the some petersburg economic forum president medvedev gathered some of these top

bankers from abroad and said that he fully backs them at the height of the financial crisis despite all the buying compassion going on in the west they here understand their importance to the world economy and to russia's development and also that he would continue to support them through the crisis now just a fact with the news many thought that the u.s. government was actually against them and still are to some extent and it was pretty surprising to see that president medvedev was so forthright in his backing of bankers there was then a public vote what is the single thing holding back moscow from becoming center for international finance worldwide things like transport infrastructure but by far the winner was corruption and began in the new mayor of moscow then came out and said that he was selling dozens of stakes in banks energy companies that the moscow government owns so that business can really get on with it without the interference

of government when it was pretty much a who's who of russian and western business with the sillies they were saying the russian side there was sent central bank representatives the head of the bank of the movie t.v. troika dialog leading investment bank. and then for the first time in years to get american european businessmen. coming up to you and really interested and really excited wanting to know more about about russia and the vestment opportunities of course russia is outgrowing many economies across the world and also it's about to sell off around thirty billion dollars of state assets which obviously foreign investors want to get their hands on and when you get a top western banker like joseph ackermann of deutsche bank saying that the russian government gets business and banks in a way that maybe the u.s. government does not you really feel there's a bit of a revolution going on. in the head of russia's largest lenders burbank has been a great success for russian business. these kinds of events crucially important for

a better understanding of russia by international investors because i think the key point to business audience took from yesterday's discussion of russia's investment climate is the personal commitment deputy prime minister has shown this is a very good example of how we can demonstrate our belief in our country and explain what steps we're taking. in the president's second largest bank meeting the says he expects a net profit to grow by sixty percent this year and then of course in adds that current market conditions can generate further growth we gave our team more details we focus particularly. efficiency and we are planning to me. main business corporate business more efficient are definitely will develop with first months of business for that and will who will have a substantial growth off retail business which is all that also a high margin business. resellers optimistic about the minium demand this year

pinning its hopes on china that's according to the company's first ebony c.e.o. . who spoke exclusively at the. ok future for you know demand for them in pricing different positive i think it should be up to thirteen percent of growth in china picks year based on their five year forecast what they already have a five year plan with her except. aluminum consumption in two thousand and fifteen should be something to around twenty four even twenty five million chance at the same time you do not think what i let me know production in china will go off twenty million tons that's why that sector gap who would be generated persuaded differently think that china will go up to there in perth and differently all demands will be consumed within the china. market european stocks have opened lower and still trading in the red for the footsie of course the tax is up

just slightly flat this is tracking losses in asia being dragged down by mining shares as you can see there all eyes right now on the u.s. g.d.p. data tonight minus dr klein is ahead of news from the us i didn't expect to write in hints about future demand for materials and automakers are also losing because ford reported record losses here in russia in the cities are also losing ground tracking asian losses investors here are also of course ahead of us g.d.p. data so you look at some of the stocks now energy shares are leading before the my six investors are cautious as conoco phillips plans to sell the last two percent of its shares in the stock is down one point three percent better once a monopoly service inquiry into the justification for world product pricing is also adding tension. and that's the business update will be back in one eye was time also that.

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