konstantin kosachev is the chairman of the international affairs committee of russia's lower house, or the state duma. he says it will become more difficult after january for the u.s. senate with its new members to ratify the treaty. >>> the united nations has made an urgent appeal for $86 million to help disaster victims in two african countries. djibouti is suffering from a prolonged drought, while benin has been hit by extensive flooding. heavy rain has pelted benin in west africa on a regular basis since september. major floods have affected 2/3 of the country, forcing 180,000 people to evacuate their homes. the u.n. has called on the international community to donate $47 million to provide food, drinking water, and anti-epidemic measures. the red cross has been distributing tents and providing other relief. in djibouti the problem is a lack of water. the east african nation has been suffering from a severe drought for the past five years. the u.n. says it will need nearly $39 million to provide food and drinking water for 120,000 people. >>> the european commission is calling on i

and that's why both sides want them so badly by the head of state as foreign affairs committee konstantin kasich says talks over the grill islands won't start unless japan recognizes them as russian territory the russian behavior depends completely on our interpretation of the situation and this interpretation is that the. belong to. the result of the second world war it is not discussable and in case japan has a certain opinion on their well we are ready to discuss that certain opinion on the basis that the belong to russia and that any change of this situation may be just a result of for good will and nothing else and they believe that the behavior of japanese authorities now try to present. to overthrow try to pressure on russia is a big mistake because it does not create any further motivation for russia to demonstrate. and does not create any further. for these discussions. here with our t.v. live from moscow ahead for you in the program a mother's love will bring you the story of an afghan woman forced to decide between her children and her safety also coming up. of a much more trai

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, he said to his assembled troops, "last night, after i retired to rest, the shade of the great konstantin rose before my eyes, and his well- known voice and forbade me to despair of the republic." we too have a voice is of shades -- have voices of shades who emerged from our past. we too have what lincoln in his first inaugural address called, "mystic chords of memory stretching from everywhere." -- every patriot grave." they bind us to the great and to the humble, the known and the unknown. and if i hear them clearly, what they say is that although we may have strayed, we have not strayed too far to return, for we are, everyone of us, their descendants. the sinews are still there, quite lively, waiting to flex. we can still astound the world with justice, reason and strength. i know this is true. but even if it were not, we could not, indecency, stand down, if only for our debt to history. the debt we owe to those who came before, who did great things, who suffered more than we suffer, who gave more than we give, who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor for us, who

, he said to his assembled troops, "last night, after i retired to rest, the shade of the great konstantinfore my eyes, and his well- known voice and forbade me to despair of the republic." we too have a voice is of shades -- have voices of shades who emerged from our past. we too have what lincoln in his first inaugural address called, "mystic chords of memory stretching from everywhere." -- every patriot grave." they bind us to the great and to the humble, the known and the unknown. and if i hear them clearly, what they say is that although we may have strayed, we have not strayed too far to return, for we are, everyone of us, their descendants. the sinews are still there, quite lively, waiting to flex. we can still astound the world with justice, reason and strength. i know this is true. but even if it were not, we could not, indecency, stand down, if only for our debt to history. the debt we owe to those who came before, who did great things, who suffered more than we suffer, who gave more than we give, who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor for us, who they di

, he said to his assembled troops, "last night, after i retired to rest, the shade of the great konstantin rose before my eyes, and his well-known voice and forbade me to despair of the republic." we too have a voice is of shades who emerged from our past. we too have what lincoln in his first inaugural address called, "mystic chords of memory stretching from everywhere." they bind us to the great and to the humble, the known and the unknown. and if i hear them clearly, what they say is that although we may have strayed, we have not stray too far to return, for we are, everyone of us, their descendants. the sinews are still there, quite lively, waiting to flex. we can still astound the world with justice, reason and strength. i know this is true. but even if it were not, we could not, indecency, stand down, if only for our debt to history. the debt we owe to those who came before, who did great things, who suffered more than we suffer, who gave more than we pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor for us, who they did not know. for we drink from wells that we did not dig