today he and russi president itry medvedev announce a preliminary agement to cut nuclear stockpis by asmuch as a third. russia agreed to allow the uned states mitary t transport apons and troops across i territory into afghanistan. the two countries will set up a joint commsion to focus on a range of economic, energy, and terrorism issues. thsummit is part the president's pledge toreset the lationship withussia. and here's part of what the present and also the leader of russia said at thekremlin today. >> ( translated ):n the whole, by characterizing ourirst day of woras a result of negotiations that weave had, i would li to say that view them as a fist but very important step in the process of improvin full scale cooperation between our two countries which should go to the benef of both states. d if bothtates benit by it, that means everybody will befit by it. i would like to emphasize in conclusion that our country would like to reach such a lel of coopetion with the uted ates which uld be realistically worthy of the 2t century. >> the presint and i agreed that the relatiohip betwe

only hours after presidt obama arrived moscoearlier in morning for a summit meetin with russi president medvedev announced prelinary agreement a dealto rece their number of nuclear weapon the deal reprents a step forward, a big one in relaons betwee the twocountries,hich ha been set back by the russian invion of georgia last summer. amican/russian relaons and the new arm's al. that's our "le focus." tonitppears with russian predent dmitri ped medvedev at the kremlin, announced cooration betweenhe two governments beeen nuc arm reductions >> he two leading nuclear pows, the united states and russi must lead by example and that's what we're doing here today. >> theurrent start treaty is set to expire in december. theew proposed agreemenwould result in slashing the supply of nucle warheads by up to a third as well as w verification asures. this is a very sigficant restart of the u.s./russian arm's reduction process. >> tom lina is theirector of research if the arm's conol assoation in washington, an advocacy group that suppor nuclear arm's control. >>iven at they had to va, greement by the

so you have touestion just how much russi wants that to happ. yes, russia lives in a dangerous neighborhood. yes we assume india, pakista, china, the last thing they want is a nuclear iran but at the same timthey mightot want to investheir capital in getting there. i think they'd be looking for something big and i think that... i do think missile defense some sortf a tacit agement about nato and mething about georgia i think ey're going to be pushing all of those things whic i know will seem less than palatab probably tthis administration. but i think missile defense could be on the tae, sure. >> don't forget tensionith iran does tend to push up the price of oil which is not something counteto russia's interest. >> re: exactly and they've made that point. the ambassador is laughing. well, go ahead, i'll co to steve in a minute it's true se people speculate in the a conspiratial way that russia i pleased to see the development of tension between iran and theest of the wor anmaybe a bit of destabilizing because itushes up the price of oil and ther

they're trying to common ground and the first tween president obama and t russis. i imagine it wasn'ton the top of the agenda it might have be mentioned but i didn't hea it. >> charlie: at is the emerging obama foreignolicy with a speech aboutuclear noroferation and speech in iro about the western world and spee in moscow about former adversaries finding common ground. dowe see emerng and if w so, what are the elements of an obama foreign policy as expressed in these thoughtful speech h it acknowledge american isss and american spect and cmon needs. chael. >> i think you hav stated at have seen and heard far. a series of themes and tones and thnot so subtle message is you didn't li my edecessor and m not like h. i'llilling to list and hav muilateral instincts andhat pls well in som places an nowell in oers. >>harlie: factor thatn with the addition and pakistan and the region younow well >>al the pointsou both hit on but when i look at a place like pakistan and afghanistan and there's aegional approh, i'm not sure i've seen what that mes yet. in afghastan we have tr

let me start wh the ns of the day specifically, regarding the president being in russi you wrote in yesterday'sn in "e wa impose,"the obama's note- the obama magic is so eident in other trips is not likely to be seen in russia. it will require inten discussion and serious ve-and- take, something that neither side is ready t offer. think inderstand that. but why don't you uncked that? >> i was in moow and i had a cnce tospeak withussian officials who are ose with prime minister putin and president dmitri megeath. i came aay th the sense that the russians a really angry there isa chip on the country's shoulder, sense of resentment left over from thend of communism. they feel they were beaten up in the 1990's a the united states didnot help tm. thy keep that we think -- they ke thinking that 're pushing no and the protest and 're not listing to them. they're upset with ur efforts to encourage what ty think of as anti-russian feelings in neighbing countries, the ukraine and georgia. thy are angry. as result, they are not prepared talk abouthe things that we care about. the top of our list is iran.

and russi want secuty in the region. but if and when that'achieved that competiti wil heat up more tn ever. > the pentagon told us today therwas one emergency fu dumping incident over kyrgyzstan in 08. but that "evarated before it hit the groundnd caused no ha to the environment." >>> there are new signs today thateace talks between israel and syria might resume soon. the turkish pme ministe who left for metings in syria today, said that he's gotten requests to media new netiations. syriacut off earlier in protest talks to protest the invasn of gaza. >>> and now to udi arabia, which tonight'seing accused by amnesty internatiol of gross violations of hun rights by secretly detaining thousan of people under the cover oa cpaign against terrorism. the report said the prisoners are held witht access to lawyers and th many are tortured. a saudi offial told t associated press that e amnesty charges "have to b proven." >>> australia began a rst huan trials of a n swine flu vaccine this week. with winter under way in the southern

. >> before his speech, prident obama met the russi prme minister, vladimir put in the day's most closelyatched. >>> before departing for russia the president sai qute, one foot in the old ways of doing business. the reference to russia's communist past. after today' meeting both the president and putin put aside their diffences. putin complimenting obama. >> translator: with you, we -- our hope >> meanwhe the mood on the russianstreets towards president oba's visit was subdued. public opnion polls show most russians remai skeptical of the united states and skeptical of oba. tevision of the visit was sporadic wi the most popula channel decling to televe his speec >> younow it's one interesting thing to see here nothing excitent about oma th you get when he travelless the coun prooeps parts of europe, people are thriving the motorcade toughout but that partiallsort of reects the kind of rusan, kind of, you know, i don't know. just sort of, n disinterst but sort of wriness ofobama. >> tomorrow, psident obama heads titaly, where he will attend the g-8summit and meet with pope benedict xvi. > now f

are going to depa from our ual format and talk about a singl topic of this untry's relationship with russi that relationshi evolved this week as thewo countries agreed to deeper cuts in their nuclear arsenals. and as president obama met with his russian counterpart dmitry medvedev and wit prime minister vladimir putin we're joined tonight. th james. and nin khrusheva. associa professor at international aairs at the news school her in new york and granddaughter of e late soviet premier niki a khrushchev. welcome tthe two ofyou. assessing with how thi summit nt this week beeen th prident and the russian leadersh there. nina, how do youthink it went? >> think it went very wel. there w a whole range of policy issues thatwo leaders agreed on. nd even the meetingith the prime minister, now prime minist vladimiputin and barack obama went well. i mean tere was no contest. >> lot of people were looking at that, right? that was the crucial meeting. >> i thought it was crucial meeting andt was very civi it was very cordial. barack obama made a lot of effort to backtrack his earlr comment thatladimir

theecent rert by t organition where economic cooperation and developmt named russi as the wot in trafficatalities among 30 countries surveyed. as our partn abc australia reports,ussian officials are hoping that a graphic new ad campaign will mak a ifference. >> repter: evgeni uck is retning to the road in moscow where his close friend nilai wa killed in 2007 the 22-year-old was racing another r,pparently reachi speedsf up to 160 kileters an hour when it all went horriblwrong. >> he didn't see the pked car. he crashed into i it'sxactly he. >> reporter: the car he'deen racing so crashed and its two occupants died as wellp. those thre killed in just one accident were among more than 33,000eported deathsn russia' roads in 2007. a recent study for e orgazation for economic cooperation an development has found that among its 30-mber cotries, russias the worst for road aths. driving exrts say there are many reaso for the apalling atistics. one i the of the road. they may be the butt of jokes websites butormer parliamentarian and te head of the group, called the movent of russian motorists, vict

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-russi relationship which soured so muchch in thehe pa ye two and resetting it at a w more cooooperativeirection. >> thank y you so much for joing usus this evevening. >> my plasure, allison.. >>> coming upp on "couountdown keith talksto shaharon more, t t alasn blogger sarah pin is threatening to s and next, the arrival of satator franken in washshington, d.c. could someone tosme an eleven sixteenths en over here? here youou go. eleven sixteeeenths. (ancer) fromom designi some of ththe rld'cleanest d most fuel-efficient jet engines... to building more wi turbines than anyone in the country... people of ge are rking together... creating innotion today for americs morrow. thanks! no problem! >>> we trn now to our representational hilarity correspondent kent jones. >> al frank metitharry id on capitol hill day and tomorrow will be swornn as a u.s. senator fro the state of minnesota. this is a rarkable event for many reass, butor me, it's person. whenl franken goes to washington, withthimim goes the hopepes and dreaea o of e peopl. my p peoe.e. comedians. >> come the dawn's early life, i'm still th

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he is clear about the interests of the russi people, but he's also interested in finding out what theerests of the united states re, and we hav found, i in an ability to work togeth extremely effectively. so, yes, i trus president medvedev to not only listen and to negotiate nstructively, but also to followhrough on the agreements that are contaed here today. >> the personalelationship betweemr. obamand mr. dvedev was just part of the intrigue today in moscow. the leaders announced a framework for arms control agreements >>> now tohe bigger picture, that framework foar control. it came with the current u.s./russian treaty s to expire indecember. but now they hav signed a preliminary deal to reduce their countries' stopile of nuclear weapons by as mucas a third. e russians have also agree to allow e u.s. to fly tops and weapons througrussia to afghanistan. joininus from washgton is ambassador steven piper acting director othe center of the united states and europe at the bookings instute. his foreign service career includes 25 years at state dertment and servg as ambassador in e ukrae.

. >> senator,r, leteask you, wha shouldarack obama t tryto get from t russis while over in russia?have good mting with bothedvede and with prime minister putin. but i think the expectationss have bn blt-up very susutantiay, and i am ver hopeful that at least t thereill bebe somennouncement comiming fm the memeing tat intrusive inspections. an there arevarious nds of launchers ththat mit come into play. it has b bome more a ambitious the rounds of n negotiaons have ntinued, and i thinknk with some success atat t this pot. >> whatat would it take forany pe of agreement t that is signed here, substantivive,and effective? just sething beyond symbolic.. >> i think ctinuation of the start system by december the 5th,, something thatat can pass the senate a and legislativee b ofof russiais the critical elemt. afterr that,hereould be several rounds. a ve important discussision is getting down tohe numbersrs and the e knitty griritty. e whole proem of nuclr weapons of a soorts of neeeed t be sortededout. i say i hope we will not g get o ambitious.s. and of the meetg of the two esiden i hope

also russi and chinare oking at ca. it becomes part of e old strategic game.hing is bruce weer at "the times" wrote a great b about umpires. as wepproach theotomayor hearings, he'll look at this idea of judges umpires. the fact is umpires are total biased. they change the rules all t time. it was john roberts who introduced this id that, you ow, that justice calls balls and strikes. the other daythe strike zon changes all th time. he's going to do a little riff on that. it willbe fun. >> did you see the article, t sotomayor hearings, guess who's testifyi for her? david cohn. david cohn. >> the list isery long and very strange. >> that's right,ecause she was the judge during the- >> tt's right. >> a he was the big presentative. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's fun. we hava great story in the paper today by michael powell. wh this is the story you're lking about. she is, like, pure new york, this lady. >> shes. >> you know, tells the clerks, take the subway, not the taxi, you know. you've goto learn how to do the salsa. it's great. >> does it seem as though it was poli