sixty seven to pass and ratify it would seems at least according to this very early stage to the a.p. news agency that that has got through let's bring our correspondents into this story now on both the atlantic we've got a catarina groucho over in moscow but is to washington first we go and garniture can go on a very good evening to you good day to you of course where you are could you confirm what i was telling our viewers there on this just coming through from the a.p. news agency that in fact those senators seventy one of them at the end of the day one hundred voted yes. yes karan seventy one votes for and twenty six against in the treaty heated up glisic to seven to be approved it's a big day for everyone for a lot of people here in the uighurs who've been pushing so hard for the treaties ratification but the president certainly for senators who've been tirelessly be fanning the treaty on the senate floor over the last seven days of excruciating debate say was a marathon i'll tell you so what do we get with the treaty we have some very significant reductions on the way over the next t

this is our team from moscow breaking news to start this hour as reported by the a.p. news agency to start with the u.s. senate has just voted. voted through the nuclear arms reduction treaty called start the details still coming in this minute the latest we know is that seventy one of voted in favor of that treaty. of course. a majority of fruits of. the vote that was needed more sixty seven. votes and we're hearing that seventy one senators have voted for top story tonight. with russia's. we'll bring you all the details in just a few minutes. also in the. media reports suggesting the u.s. is planning a military push from afghanistan into pakistan despite intense opposition from islamabad. hello i'm kevin thanks for being with us is now eleven pm here in moscow and as i just mention within the last minute indeed at the top of the hour that news coming through that in fact the senate has finally approved the new star.

the fact that the "new york times" backed david effectively made it possible for the a.p. and other news organizations to do the same. they set the tone. the tone was, tell it like it is. 30 years later, the new yorker magazine is sort of celebrating the pulitzer prize winning vietnam journalists and five of these, peter arnett, david, there were five people who had won pulitzer prizes for their vietnam coverage, went at the end of this day to a restaurant on the upper east side in new york which is kind of a media hangout. to tell war stories and tri-and congratulate each other for living 30 years after vietnam and how great they were, i'm sure there was some of that. and they look and there in the restaurant was punch with a group of people. and david told me this story himself he said i looked over and we talked about it and we realized that what we did could not have been done without punch. and so we wanted to tell him that we appreciated it. and so the group of them, five pulitzer prize winning vietnam war correspondents sent punch and his table a bottle of dom perign

a.p. article all over the place where we have fewer and fewer competitors in the market if we don't include these new media here so we do. a lot of people use find it bewildering the the amount of information that we can have thrown at us all the time how do you digest it who do you trust and what is the future of this because i want to talk about citizens journalism a little bit later because a slightly different animal but what do you think about all this. well i think steve brings up some some really good points and you know i'm a tech guy at heart so i love the internet i love google i love wiki pedia and when i you know when i watch the news when i read an article i fact check it i just you know i don't rely on a single source like like people might have done a long time ago i regularly read you know twenty thirty blogs and i think what's come up. is is these blogs that specialize and they sort of take over where mainstream media might might not do a great job ok if i go to you dan i mean this there's a big debate about this alternative media that out there are these blogs and all that in and i