maybe we will be back covering the president's speech just to see as it happens all right artie's lorimer there reporting from davos switzerland at the world economic forum thank you. and we've got more from the economic forum in davos in our business bulletin that's coming up in just a few minutes but you can also watch to be treatment of a speech. in about an hour's time that will be live on r.t. dot com. nuclear cuts treaty between russia and the us known as start has been ratified by russia's federation council the deal would slash both country's nuclear arsenals by around a third now approved by both houses of russia's parliament the treaty must be signed by president yet after our correspondent you got a piece going off as details. everything happened really quickly just on tuesday the state duma ratified the treaty now the federation council has unanimously voted for the ratification of the treaty which means that both chambers also have now supported it it's also backed by both president who's the now. he can now signed a treaty and president barack obama's lead in both sunni moni

decade the number of elderly with growing debts and reduced income has risen six fold as artie's lorimer has been finding that leaves them struggling to afford even the basics retirement depicted as a golden age where older people get more time to enjoy their families and hobbies but a new survey shows a different side of old age in britain a worrying picture of a country where more and more elderly people can't afford to retire pensioner lydia portsmouth won't say how much money she gets from the state but she's forced to dip into her limited savings to pay her monthly bills like many others she wasn't able to push away a lot of money for her retirement and what she does have is now earning so little interest in the bank that she regularly has to spend the capital that money. if you know that. to try and make out the money that come in that because nothing done back in again. would have to fell that. lydia is one of the lucky ones she owns her own home and has a small amount of savings but data from the office for national statistics shows more than half of single pensioners in the u.k.

artie's lorimer the reporting from davos and we'll bring you more coverage of the ongoing summit in our business bulletin that's just a few minutes away well so in about fifteen minutes financial analyst max keiser is focusing on the economic aspects of what's being decided in switzerland. they're talking about instituting one hundred trillion dollars of new debt that's one hundred trillion dollars of worthless cocktail napkins with smeared lipstick that serves one hundred trillion dollars a lot of exchange the most corrupt bankers for the pay for these govern second overprice others. are now let's check out some other world news headlines in brief this hour and a twenty one days of being killed in a deadly coal mine explosion rescue teams had no initial access to the victims caving in officials suspect the explosion is likely to have been caused by a buildup of methane gas a similar blast occurred in the same a mine four years ago that killed thirty two people. in tokyo have raised the alert level as a volcano in southern japan continues to spew smoke and residents are barren from gett

who's lived there since she was a child and was even awarded for being a model citizen as are his lorimer reports next from oslo maria case the country facing up to issues it's been reluctant to touch before. the clock is ticking for maddie and any as her supporters gather in central oslo for what may be the last time to protest her deportation from the country she's learnt to call home as things stand i merely could be sent to russia within days leaving behind her friends and the land she grew up in but this is no longer just about maria with her book illegal norwegian and her activism she's managed to draw attention to the plight of all people struggling to stay in norway those without papers have no access to work education or health care and can't even get married before money i mean leave very few talks about it but they are now every so there are going. to have the same rights now i think. this movement in support of a specific case. movement supports all the people in her situation it's a cause that unites different groups from organizations that campaign specifically for illegal i

blair is due to testify before the iraq war inquiry later today now ahead of that hearing artie's lorimeraught up with a british m.p. and antiwar campaigner jeremy corbyn who was with the labor party when it was in power under blair. we are here as tony blair appears before the chilcote inquiry for the second time jeremy hope the tax very much for talking to r.t. now this as i've said is not the first time that blair is appearing before the iraq inquiry can you just remind us what happened last time will he was very nervous to begin with came into the room and was asked some questions of a moderately robust way about the evidence leading up to his decision to recommend to parliament that we know very few do rock and then the latter part of the year it turned into a sort of tony blair lecture in defense of his policies on what he calls humanitarian intervention and then went on to warn the whole world about what he perceived to be the danger from iran and i thought the whole thing was a travesty because this is meant to be an inquiry looking into the absolute finite details of the decision

guantanamo bay cuba will turn the spotlight on washington's controversial practice is the next artie's lorimer talks to courtney bush human rights lawyer who reviews cases at camp delta and international secret prisons. thanks very much for talking to us now you've recently come back from guantanamo bay tell me a bit about what you saw there what the conditions were like unfortunately we no longer meet the prisoners in the camps so we don't see the conditions in the camps any longer what we do is meet them in a separate holding camp whereby were brought in the detainees are brought in separately and we meet in trailers so what we know is what we hear from them and what the conditions are like unfortunately there is a lot of building more going on in guantanamo right now which leads us to believe that it's nowhere near closing as obama promised back in two thousand and nine when he took office a most of the details that we've heard about the treatment that terror suspects have been subjected to in guantanamo bay has been truly shocking i'm told that waterboarding and other forms of taught have

cases and thousands of norwegians demanding that the current why gratian policy is changed artie's lorimer reports tonight from. are you relieved that you can stay no for one more day maria yes this was very good one day's good one more day might be all she gets for russian born maria is due to be deported from norway where she's lived since she was sixteen she speaks fluent norwegian has a degree from a norwegian university and even a norwegian boyfriend the only thing i've wanted in she as well is for her to be with me and all of you it's a case that touch the hearts of ordinary norwegians enough to make them turn out repeatedly to protest for an immigrant girl who's made an effort to become one of them and it's created a grotesque comparison with another failed asylum seeker one mullah krekar former leader of a kurdish terror group cracka has been declared a threat to national security and is on the u.s. and un terrorist list although he's now volunteered to go back to iraq norway won't deport him to a country that carries the death penalty it's a terrible paradox for ordinary people to

sessions of today is that session entitles russia's next steps to modernization and will people he's lorimer reporting there and we'll be bringing you more coverage from davos in our business bulletin that's about five six minutes away and while politicians and bankers are holding discussions at the forum artie's tireless financial critic max kaiser is keeping a close eye on what's being talked about in switzerland full program is coming our way in about two hours. you people are concerned out there and rightfully so because the global economy is being held hostage by the global kleptocracy that's meeting this week in devils to talk about all of the ways are going to totally screw the global economy so more and steal more money because that's what their best doing they're talking about instituting one hundred trillion dollars of new debt that's one hundred trillion dollars of worthless cocktail napkins with smeared lipstick that serves one hundred trillion dollars a lot of exchange or most corrupt bankers for a fee to pay for these god for saken overpriced talkers. the american economy is gr