mr. medvedev. mr.in went through his usual playbook of, pulling them all out of the sewer, you know, taking them out of the our house and that very tough talk. and we have seen that tough talk from medvedev as well. but we have also seen a reminder that the core problem is the terrible socioeconomic conditions in the north caucasus, which are the driver for the groups to attack, which is not something we hear from mr. putin. >> how could the u.s. administration and a sister restaurant -- assist russia at all in the anti-terrorism fight? the obama administration's that we stand ready to fight last week. how could he do that and would russia even be open to that? >> could i

mr. medvedev. mr.putin has resorted to his usual playbook of a pull them out of the sewer line taking them out of the outhouse and that kind of a very tough talk and referred to some of that tough talk from medvedev as allow but we've also seen from medvedev is this is a reminder that really the core problem is the terrible of socio-economic conditions in the north caucasus which are the driver for these groups to attack which is not something we hear from mr. putin appear in. >> so how could the u.s. administration mistrust russia and aho. obama said the san ready to help last week. how could he do that and would they even -- foot rushing and be open to that? >> can i jump in? that's a very good question because the way i see the conflict in russia is between not terrorism of which is some of the suicide bombers and save terrorism. another risk russian politics hasn't exactly been the same as our policy in afghanistan. in other words, for russia anti-terrorism means meeting with a wider swath of p

mr. medvedev said they're not against sanctions against iran. the russians have already supported sanctions against iran in the un. the administration would like to try to regain some leverage in the u.s.-russia-china relationship. i think it is worth -- i think is appropriate to have modest expectations about the reset with the russians. when a look at that, i would conclude moscow's position is probably closer to us than beijing. that is something to think about. thank you. >> i would like to introduce sharon squassoni. she is the director and senior fellow for our proliferation program. she just joined us from carnegie. this is her first briefing here at csis. >> thank you. i guess i am the functioning specialist here. i will talk about the nuclear security summit that will take place in washington next sunday. andrew mention the three-prong agenda at the president obama laid out last april in prague. nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and nuclear security. this april summit next week takes place a month before the review conference of t

mr. medvedev in prague, the principle issue that's going to be discussed are going to be sanctions on iran. and it will be important to work out something closer to an agreement with the russians about the language and the areas on sanctions.

mr. medvedev than he does with mr. putin. it's a tricky -- a tricky point. on foreign policy and security issues, my view has been and m

mr. medvedev, to be able to move on and to work together with the deep heritage that our people all have together and to use our power to make the world a better place, what a moment for all of us. to be living in an opportunity instead of opportunities that should not be lostment and i'd like to yield back to my friend from indiana. donald donald in listen -- mr. donnelly: in listening to your comments, what continues as a theme through all of this is the unbreakable spirit of freedom of the polish nation. that despite some of the most harsh treatment from other countries, some of the most difficult challenges ever faced their strength, their courage, their determination changed the face of the world. i'm sure my good friend from ohio remembers that day when the new pope was chosen. many years ago. and out onto the balcony came pope john paul ii. and i remember the announcer saying, this pope is from poland. and when that happened the whole world changed. and it wasn't too long after that that a strike at a ship yard again changed the face of the world. and that the courage of those wor

mr. obama and russian president medvedev posed for photos, then put pen to paper. it was a ceremony that lacked the drama of old cold war years which may explain the jovial expressions both had after they finished their official business. the treaty limits deployed nuclear war heads to 1,550 total for each country. attitudes they had. it's a cut of 30% from the last treaty in 2002. long-range nuclear weapons limited to 700 for each country. the two countries account for 90% of the world's nuclear weapons with seven other countries accounting for the other 10%. before a single nuclear weapon is destroyed, the treaty must be ratified by the u.s. senate, a prospect the white house appears to be somewhat nervous about. >> it will be a test for washington. >> reporter: senate republicans may use the ratification debate to raise larger concerns about the administration's overall nuclear policy. >> if you draw down the number of weapons and weapon delivery systems, nuclear war heads and systems that deliver them under this treaty, which will be done, it is even more imper

medvedev told mr. obama he was on board and publicly he outr outlined russia's limitation. >> translator: we seldom obtain specific result and it's difficult to do without them in certain situations but in any case, the sanctions should be smart and aim not only at the non-proliferation. >> reporter: that means deter but not oust the iranian leadership. russia opposed move to create havoc for average iranians, terms mr. obama accepted. >> the united states and russia are part of a coalition of nations insisting that the islamic republic of iran face consequences because they have continued, continually failed to meet their obligation. >> reporter: notably absent from the opening remarks was a bail boilerplate reference for iran to change its way. the sanctions in concert with russia appear iinexorablinexora. >> we move beyond sanctions are inevitable. we are talking about a concrete process. concrete categories. >> reporter: despite the celebratory atmosphere and medvedev's sunny declaration, the treat

mr. obama and russian president medvedev are meeting in prague. both leaders agreed each country will cut the number of strategic nuclear warheads by one-third. it's a major step ahead for the obama administration trying to improve relations with russia. >>> back here at home, nike is out with a new commercial featuring tiger woods, just as he's about to tee off at the masters. woods is scheduled to start his first round this afternoon at about 1:45 eastern time. the voice on the new ad is that of woods' late father. take a listen. >> i want to find out what your thinking was. i want to find out what your feelings are. and did you learn anything? >> and the chairman of augusta national golf club had some very harsh criticism of woods. billy paine said woods disappointed everyone involved with the masters and their kids and their grandkids. he said the future will not be measure bit tiger's performance but by the sincerity of his efforts to change. >>> well, now to bristol palin, daughter of sarah palin and maybe the nation's most well known teen m

mr. starr cozy is under pressure for political reasons. -- presidents are coznicolas sas under pressure for political reasons. >> president obama and president medvedev have signed a historic new treaty committing the u.s. and russia to cut their nuclear warheads by a third over the next seven years. it is the biggest nuclear arms pact for 20 years since the cold war ended and it was signed in prague today by president obama and president at advest. how is this really seen in washington? >> we have seen this ceremony and the celebrations but how significant is the deal that was signed today? we are joined by the chair of global 0. you are the chief u.s. negotiator on the start 1 treaty. what is the most significant thing to you? >> what is most significant is not the treaty. it represents some modest progress in reducing the arsenals. they are modest reductions. most significant is the beginning of a new phase of on control. president obama made clear this morning that he would like to follow up this negotiation with a new negotiation focused on much deeper cuts, a broader category of weapons, so-called tactical nuclear weapons deployed near the chin

[russian translator for president medvedev] >> the talks about iran with mr. obama and my other colleagues are a part of our agenda. we do that regularly and on a full basis. this means that iran is a problem. and what is important that we find evidence of what their nuclear program is, as any society. they do have the right to develop the civilian nuclear program. but the problem is how they convince us of the community that it is and lately we did not bring any improvement to the situation. it has aggravated. and iran ignores the questions addressed to it. they keep saying small phrases and make small suggestions. so we deal this together, talking about the future. i would not favor sanctions because sanctions is impeasing of some actions. but if nothing happens, we will have to deal with sanctions. the question is what kind of sanction are these. many times i have answered this question, what kind of sanctions we need. i do not favor penalizing crippling sanctions. make people suffer in a humanitarian sense. this is immoral and it creates negative results,

has not begin up on missile defense, that he and russian president dmitry medvedev are going to agree to it, and mr. obama vowed to keep the u.s. nuclear deterrent effective even as he argued it is becomingless relevant. >> more and more countries will come to recognize that the most important be factors in providing security and peace to their citizens will depend on their economic growth, will depend on the international community's capacity to resolve conflicts, it will depend on having a strong conventional military that can protect a nation's borders and that nuclear weapons increasingly in an interdependent world will make less and less sense as the cornerstone of security policy. >> reporter: of course, the other big announcement this week was a shift in america's nuclear posture wherein we pledge not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states except in the case of rogue states like iran and north korea, jane. jane: the argument that with the recent moves the u.s. will now actually be buying some leverage or bargaining power with countries like russia and china in our bid to rein in ir

medvedev. where do you see the politics going? >> well, i do not think there is any question that president obama finds it easier or more pleasant to interact with him that he does with mr. blogger proven -- mr. vladimir putin. point. on foreign policy and security issues, my view has been that there really isn't any space between them on foreign policy and security issues that they see that is significant. what is significant, and i have observed this myself from simply being with the two of them separately, they really do have different outlooks on the development of russia. they talk about it very differently. the fact that the russian premier is a lot younger and he has experience in the private sector, he does what we have -- what we would call a more liberal outlook on things than does mr. putin. it is impossible to miss that. what happens in russia is impossible to predict. i would be very wary about making any bets against vladimir proveutin and i would be wary at being viewed overtly as supporting the russian prime minister publicly at the expense of mr. putin. we could have more potential to endanger him than we have to actually help. we did not have a particu

[russian translator for president medvedev] >> the talks about iran with mr. obama and my other colleagues are a part of our agenda. we do that regularly and on a full basis. this means that iran is a problem. and what is important that we find evidence of what their nuclear program is, as any society. they do have the right to develop the civilian nuclear program. but the problem is how they convince us of the community that it is and lately we did not bring any improvement to the situation. it has aggravated. and iran ignores the questions addressed they keep saying small praise it and make small suggestions. we are talking about the future. we will not favor sanctions, because sanctions is a repression and imposing of actions. if nothing happens, we will have to deal with sanctions. the question is, what kind of sanctions are these? many times i have asked these questions. i do not favor a paralyzing sanctions and who make people suffer in a humanitarian sense. this is immoral. it creates negative results. it is negative feedback. i have grounds to believe

[russian translator for president medvedev] >> the talks about iran with mr.a and my other colleagues are a part of our agenda. we do that regularly and on a full basis. this means that iran is a problem. and what is important that we find evidence of what their nuclear program is, as any society. they do have the right to develop the civilian nuclear program. but the problem is how they convince us of the community that it is and lately we did not bring any improvement to the situation. it has aggravated. and iran ignores the questions addressed to it. they keep saying small phrases and make small suggestions. so we deal this together, talking about the future. i would not favor sanctions because sanctions is impeasing of some actions. but if nothing happens, we will have to deal with sanctions. the question is what kind of sanction are these. many times i have answered this question, what kind of sanctions we need. i do not favor penalizing crippling sanctions. make people suffer in a humanitarian sense. this is immoral and it creates negative results, negat

mr. president. i am going to invite the audience to ask questions as succinctly as possible to president medvedev, andbe sure that they are questions and that you identify yourself when you stand up to ask. we have microphones around the room. i'll start with ambassador robert -- rick burke. >> i am with the global zero initiative. i listen very carefully to the answer you gave about what next, and you outlined a number of areas that united states and the russian federation have worked on, european security, conventional forces, proliferation. does that suggest -- does your answer suggests that a new round of further reductions in nuclear forces is not a russian priority? a new round of negotiations following the start treaty and hopefully its ratification, it is not a russian priority? or would you support of all of negotiation to achieve deeper cuts? >> [speaking russian] >> i like to see that this is an important priority for russia as well as the united states. negotiation is a process that should be addressed by all of us together, by each country, and we agreed with mr. obama that ratification w

mr. president. i'm going to invite the president to put some questions succinctly as possible to president medvedev.d i would ask to please be sure they are questions. and that you identify yourself when you stand up to ask. we have -- we have microphones around the room. i'll start with ambassador rick burke. >> richard burt the global zero initiative. mr. president, i listened very carefully to the answer you gave strobe talbot about what's next. and you outlined a number of areas that the united states and the russian federation could work on, european security, conventional forces, proliferation. does that suggest -- does your answer suggest that a new round of further reductions in nuclear forces is not a russian priority? a new round of negotiations following the s.t.a.r.t. treaty and hopefully its ratification? is not a russian priority? or would you support a follow-up negotiation to achieve deeper cuts? [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: mr. burkely, i would like to say that this is an important priority for russia as well as for the united states. ratification is a process that sho

president obama and russian pred medvedev signed the preety that commits their nations to cut warheads by a third and to cut the number of missiles by more than half. mrr nuclear security and for u.s.-russia relations. they also talked about new sanctions against iran over its nuclear program. the two leaders also talked about violence in kyrgyzstan where protesters claim to have overthrown the government on wednesday. the unrest left at least 68 people dead. >>> u.s. military confirms that a video released by the taliban does show american soldier private 1st class bowe bergdahl captured last year in afghanistan. f vehicles with gas pedal problems. the executive later retired. >>> federal officials say no criminal charges will be filed against a persian gulf diplomat blamed for the >>> good thursday morning. i'm chuck bell. temperatures on the way out of the 60s and into the low and mid 70s. still no rain around the immediate vicinity, but in western west virginia, they will be on track to get here late this afternoon and into the evening hours. most of the daytime plans will be dry. if you are going to do anything after 8:00, that's when it will be.