three readings the start pact with was signed last year has already been given the go ahead by the us senate. and rough justice despite no extradition treaty between washington and kabul terrorist suspects are being sent to stand trial in the us courts critics say the process could mean america is in breach of international law. as a new start treaty now awaits final approval from russian deputies next discusses its progress with the head of the state duma foreign affairs committee constant in the child interview show spotlight here on r.t. . for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. download the official anti up location. i pod touch from the. life on the go. video on demand tease my old costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question. dot com. hello again or welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. . and today my guest is. the united states ratify the new start treaty like in december last year they added a resolution which allows the u.s. to develop its nuclear mil to muscle if necessary russian m.p.'s are

russia's parliament in the second of three readings the party has been given the go ahead by the us senate just before the new year. well up next we report about the antiwar movement within the ranks of the u.s. military during the vietnam war this is ati. my whole tour of vietnam when you meant a black soldier you know he had it debbie had a special handshake you could even you got to the point where you could even till what part of the country he was from because everybody had their distinctive death or handshake you definitely could tell if you within your company because everybody knew everybody had to do what you do. but i'm glad i don't know or they just check back. with you know we got to come. by. snap is ready to swear that first just that high and the down this way like a sony always do as well if you like a break from don you're around right. there you go that's it better to me or the bloods oh it's just going to bases big big big big think they've been going to jail for the power would be just what we did to other things as well we believe that even going to jail the dog just d

more stable and constructive fundament in our relationship with the us it took a while before the us senate threat to fly the resolute from our parliamentarians. use the period to separately study the american red resolution they drew their conclusions three zero four especially important things are. outlined in these documents by the state duma. these. are firm belief in the separate inseparability between the strategic offensive weapons . strategic defensive weapons secondly we definitely thing that the so-called non-nuclear. strategic offensive weapons of growing importance they have a growing impact on the overall strategic stability thirdly we think that. in this very situation we would be only possible for russia to stay within the parameters of the treaty if nothing happens on the part of the u.s. that infringes national security interests of russia to an extent that. you know continues implementation of the treaty becomes questionable. offer more on the start treaty and the latest on the issues over iran's nuclear program and watch the full interview with russia's deputy foreign min

the deal between russian and american nuclear arsenals by a third was given the green light by the us senate just before christmas after months of wrangling. well up next our special report of the start of the vietnam war movement in the u.s. in the one nine hundred sixty s. that altered the course of history. when you meant a black soldier you know he had it debbie had a special handshake you could even he got to the point where you could even till what part of the country he was from because everybody had their distinctive death or handshake and he definitely could tell if you within your company because everybody knew everybody had to do what he did. you know the problem but i'm glad to see him i don't i don't know or they just check back. with you know we got to come. by. snap is ready to swear that first just that high and low down this way like a sony always do as well if you like a break from don you're around right. there you go yes it happened and i can recall the blood's oh it's best known to bases big a big big big hit they've been going to jail for the power would be just what we

three readings the start packed with was signed last year has already been given the go ahead by the us senate. and gaps in the legal system afghans are shipped off to the west to stand trial on terrorism charges despite there being no extradition treaty in place all next report about the antiwar movement within the ranks of the u.s. military during the vietnam war stay with us. oh two or vietnam men a black soldier you know he had it debbie had a special handshake you could even you got to the point where you could even till what part of the country he was from because everybody had their distinctive death or handshake he definitely could tell if he was the company because everybody knew everybody had to do what he did. you know the problem but i'm glad to see him i don't i don't know or they just check back. with you know we got to come. back. to slap this already this where the first list that high and then the down this way like a sony always do as well if you like a break from dodge around right. there you go that's it and i couldn't recall the blood's oh it's just going to bases big a bi

missile defense plans in europe the us senate back the treaty earlier in december two thousand and ten following heated public debate the congressman amended the treaty prior to ratification several changes were also introduced by the russian parliament in response to the american interpretation of the text the amendments drawn up by both sides are non-binding meaning that both countries will have to keep to their obligations agreement was signed by president medvedev and obama last april and it will slash the country's nuclear arsenals by a third. time now for the business news with the idea. that's right time to have a look at what's happening in the world of business moscow has moved closer to fulfilling its dream of becoming an international financial center top officials and the business elites have have given advice such a working breakfast hosted by his burbank and doris. ok let's now cross live to our correspondent daniel bushell to get the latest update from the result of davos where the annual gathering world business leaders is well underway so hello to you daniel the forum

and that we're seeking 51 senators that will join with us. because if 51 senators join at the beginning of a congress and say, we want rules reform, we want this place to function better, we want to do the people's work better. we want to take up some of those house bills, the 400 bills that died. we want to do appropriation bills in a timely way. all of these things are very important to a better functioning senate and, really, a better functioning senate is all about the people's work. so i thought that for the last couple of minutes here, i know you want to say some initial comments, senator merkley, but we -- we could talk about this idea that -- that we -- we've moved a long way, we've pushed the constitutional option. i don't think there's any count that you and i are giving up on our constitutional rights. other senators can say what they want to do. but we are going to stand and -- and utilize our rights as -- as we move down the road and we're hoping that we will -- we will be at a place where we have 51 senators, democrats and republ

senator udall's constantly reminding us of what that constitution says and doesn't say and that we have the right of every -- and because the constitution also says, as the senator has pointed out many times, the constitution says that each body shall adopt its rules. so the senate can adopt its rules. and since it does not say in the constitution that each body can adopt its rules but it requires a two-thirds vote to change those rules, it doesn't say th that. it just says each body can adopt the rules. and it does not specify that we have to have a supermajority to do so. it only specifies a supermajority i think, if i'm not mistaken, in five cases. five cases. so obviously the framers of the constitution was quite clear, that each congress could adopt its rules and they could adopt them by a majority vote. now we have a situation in the senate whereby we are throttled by rules that do not permit us to change those rules except by a two-thirds vote. as i've said many times, what if -- what if, what if the voters of this country decided to elect 90 senators from the same party, say the

also would member of the democratic party i was for two years i was the scheduling secretary for us senator alan cranston who was a very progressive about as progressive as any member of the you know us u.s. senate during his tenure but most of the time that i spent with him he was on the phone asking rich guys for money and there's a there's a certain. forfeiting of one's soul that has to occur in order to achieve higher office and the compromises that have to be made you know there are no dr kings or. malcolm x. or gandhi's that are going to make or you know rage against the machines or don't make it that far because of the compromise that has to occur so it's basically what i expected i mean it's you know maybe to a less egregious state to the you know during the bush administration the economy has been in the hands of hands of wall street but it's certainly in the hands of wall street tom what do you make of international organizations like the u.s. you can be absolutely live up to their deckhands of helping developing nations and ending world conflicts or do you think that the absolute

senate. you don't have to go back very far. when we used to bring all 12 of those bills to the floor and we'd have two or three days of lively debate. every senator can put in amendments. senator harkin knows because he's one of the cardinals. he's the chairman of one of these committees. and it's a very helpful process, one for the agency to know that all senators are overlooking that agency, and for a person in senator harkin's position as the chair of the committee to know what the concern of the entire body is. but we've given that up. we don't do that any more. and it's because of the constant filibuster and the threat of filibuster. so you have that situation. i would think my friend from mississippi, the senator from mississippi, would be very concerned about this one. we didn't do a budget last year. the one way we can really impact -- if you talk about fiscal responsibility and you talk about keeping the government under control and guiding it in the right direction, the one thing you want to do is a budget. you want to pass a budg

signed by the two presidents and the same can be also said by all the statements adopted by the us senate we make political declarations we are politician is likely to not go for there and here this is our with job and making our political declarations we will to draw. some kind of guidelines for our wood governments saying that these are what concerns these are our ideas and if you want to be successful as to governments you should listen to us you should hear our concerns and i think we are just trying to push ahead with two governments in that process of building bridges which make us closer to each other but what effect do you think these recommendations i think or special statements may have well of course our executive powers both american and russian should continue the work. of all the mechanisms which were created by the presidents obama and vieja in the framework of the reset i mean all the joint commissions all the joint to working groups. they have to work hard we should not repeat the mistake which was made by the previous administrations when president bush and president put

russia's parliament in the second of three readings the package has been given the go ahead by the us senate that was just before the new year. all right my colleague bill dog will be here in half an hour's time but for now we report on the impact of violence in movies and video games to stay with us. ever since hollywood had child abuse in a late night and twenty's debate has raged about the impact of violent media on our minds and our behavior from alarm about violence in movies in the one nine hundred thirty s. to concerns about the acceleration of violent content across virtually the entire media landscape today hundreds of studies and countless congressional hearings have looked at the issue of media violence and always seem to end up at the same place as anyone disagree with that conclusion that violence in films dupes violent conduct on behalf of the children. a debate about whether those exposed to media violence are prone to imitate and whether media is to blame for society's skills but for all the endless debate a basic question remains. is the issue really about whether we imitate

senate itself. so why wasn't it used? because senators then reached a compromise. they reached a compromise and, therefore, we never had the constitutional option. but that doesn't mean -- that doesn't mean that we can't use that. the constitution is very clear, and i think three votes of the senate and three former vice presidents have made clear in their rulings that at the beginning of a congress we can set the rules. well, mr. president, chief justice john marshall once said this any enduring constitution must be able to repond to the various crises of human affair affairs." i have said many times that i don't believe we can be a 21st century superpower bound -- bound -- bound by archaic rules of the 19th century. we have to have a responsive government, responding to the challenges of our time. i'm not afraid. i say to my friends on the republican side, i am not afraid. what the minority leader said, he said that sometime the republicans might be in charge and they might want to undo what the democrats did and the democrats better be careful. well, that was in

to use senator mikulski's own words, she showed it's not about gender. it's about agenda. she is one the senate's strongest advocates for science and technology and the importance of investing in innovation to spur our economy. in fact, earlier this year, i was watching a 3, -- 3d movie about the hubble with my daughter, a scientist, there was senator mikulski featured for preserving the telescope's budget. a feat she called one of her proudest accomplishments. she also wrote the anti- impoverishment act which protects seniors from going bankrupt while paying home came. she shepherded through the lily ledbetter act, no matter your origin, page, or disability, you will receive equal pay for equal work. she thought for her important amendment to health care reform legislation ensuring that a comprehensive list of women's preventive services such as screening for breast and cervical cancer would be covered with no out-of-pocket expenses. i thank her for her mentorship and leadership for her fierce empowerment in the communities and public office. i congratulate her on the trem

senate there had been strong opposition to the groom and from republicans who were convinced the treaty hampers us security it took months of wrangling between the white house and republicans the democratic defeats in the vendors mid-term elections didn't make the tuscany easier for president obama's administration the u.s. senate finally ready find the new start nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia last month in a seventy one to twenty six vote it is now up to russia to really fight the treaty russian lawmakers list said this would not be a problem but things appear not to be so easy as the u.s. senate added eleven pages of resolutions to the treaty it's now been conceded by russian lawmakers who in their turn have been working on resolutions of their own. the treaty has been criticised by cool new these dempsey's who claim it is russia's national interest however they represent the minority leader parliament and then you start is expected to be finally ready five hundred twenty feet with geno. this because the chair of mystic of the charles e.u. you said that we and americans both need this

which would cost russian and american nuclear arsenals by a third was given the green light by the us senate just before christmas after months of wrangling. and up next we take you back to the stalin era telling the story of a soviet girl whose diary meant she was bad to an infamous gulag. these children have a different kind of history. is visibly nervous what he's about to tell them is very important to him on a personal level who count the story of a girl who went to a mosque much like this one there was eighteen years ago. she started a diary at seventeen she was banished to the infamous gulag locked up behind bars. for an attempt on stalin's life who instructed i got no explicit instructions from anybody. just another page in the history books. it's a vision of. his grandmother lived through it. to understand how he feels about the difficult subject. just one example of what she wrote in the. diary for somebody else rather than myself. i shudder at the thought. on. the. touch. yeah ten yes. i. was. and did they give me ten yes. the agreement is without appeal. i've done nothing wrong n

and i think senator harkin will be joining us at some point here. and -- and -- and i also want to -- to thank the chair. one of the very early leaders on the constitutional option, on senate reform of the rules was senator jeanne shaheen from new hampshire and she -- she's in the chair today and i -- i know she cares about this a lot and i know that -- that she wants to see this moved forward. and what we're trying to do today -- what we're trying to do today is follow what has been history in the senate. if ever -- and -- and at various points in the senate there's been respect for each other, the ability to get things on the floor, to get debate. and with the rules it's pretty extraordinary when you look at the history. when you look at the history of the senate rules, one of the things that's very clear in the movements in the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's to change rules reform, both leaders would allow proposals on to the floor, allow these proposals on to the floor to be voted upon. and we have the extraordinary situation today -- extraordinary where

you should make use of real debate on the lam nuclear arms reduction treaty with washington the us senate house already approved the deal a mosque a promise is to wraps up by the trees even at the end of the mall it will slash the two countries nuclear arsenals while its. burden says it will want its own probe into the plane crash that killed the country's president who also accept the conclusions of an official report which found pilot error among but causes but called it incomplete like you could get much of it is political news died of the spill let's get dissolved last april. washington and american n.g.o.s stand accused of supporting both governments and opposition movements worldwide in the out attempt to hijack freedom us it gives itself a perfect score in terms of the past and society while claiming democracy is on the decline across the globe. although soviet times along. joining modern goes back in time to explore the culture of the u.s.s.r. in today's russia moscow. sure. your. turn on her. hello and welcome to the program on this week so i will be going back to the u.s.s.r. an

senators have six-year terms. one-third of us are elected every two years. the senate operates largely by unanimous consent. there is an opportunity unparalleled in any other legislative body in the world to debate and amend until a consensus finally is reached. this procedure takes longer, but it usually produces a better result. and a result that the country is more likely to accept. for example, after the civil rights act of 1964 was enacted by a bipartisan majority over a filibuster led by senator richard russell of georgia, senator russell then went home to georgia and said that although he had fought the legislation with everything he had, quote, as long as it is there, it must be obeyed, unquote. compare that to the instant repeal movement that has been the result of jamming the health care law through in a partisan vote. third, such a brazen power grab by democrats this year will surely guarantee a similar action by republicans in two years if we gain control of the senate, as many observers think is likely. we have seen this happen with senate consid

of the cities or did not hold a press conference about this project everybody was commenting on us senators were commenting on it you know even if the city folds to for that ship to stay we're still going without thinking just like oh that's a big ever the ship says well i know there's a lot of people on the ship who don't want to go but military is full of malcontents visit listen. now doc. while denying that the g.i. movement even existed the house internal security committee of the united states congress held a series of hearings in one thousand nine hundred seventy one that produced thousands of pages of testimony illustrating how broadly and deeply that movement had spread that same year the f.c.a. show tour de janeiro despite being banned from military bases worldwide the show performed in japan okinawa and the philippines for over sixty thousand soldiers and every stop g.i.'s took the stage with them we can no longer make silent about the atrocities that are just. being perpetrated by the united states military and peoples of other nations and other petty harassment of servicemen and

senator byrd. here's what went on then and could go on today. it gave us a chance to see what they really did to improve them, that hear from voices from all over the country, and then that legislation came to the floor during senator baker's day when he was the majority leader, he would not bring to the floor to support a ten didn't want to waste the senate's time, and he knew that with a 60 vote it brought consensus. people talk about the filibuster, but what we have is a requirement that most important bills get important votes, and if you're sitting with 53 democrats and 47 republicans, you don't have to have an advanced degree in mathematics to figure out that if you don't have some democrats and some republican, you don't get to 60. senator baker was saying back in the 80s, bring the bill to the floor if it has the republican chairman and the democratic ranking member. then, the calm would go out -- the call would go out for amendment, and sometimes, madam president, there would be 300 amendments. the senator from north carolina or tennessee might of

russian duma is quite correct point to that link the us senate has said that there is nothing legal preventing the americans from developing missile defense both for both the right the russians certainly have a right to withdraw from the treaty should should they deem their security to be threatened and and these are points of fact of the treaty so it's it's not that they are ratifying two separate treaties the same treaty is there and in the end i think it's quite right to say that this is the first step in a very long process of confidence building and we say yes what about the impact this will have on other countries many see this is a commendable gesture from both parties but will we see other countries follow suit and reduce their nuclear arsenals. everyone has an interest in americans and russians building down nuclear warhead so it has an impact on the rest of the world will it have an impact on other countries specifically with reducing their numbers of warheads at this point no it can't be said that that's the case because as was said there's still a huge majority of nuclear weapons s

senators meaning mr. president that they can no longer call us sweet 16. as the dean of women senators, senator mikulski has always been ready to help women who are thinking about running for the senate and thenut t help newly arrived women senators when they get here. her wise counsele is absolutely invaluable. senator mikulski has always reach across the aisle to bring women senatorsom together as she puts it, women in the senate art to understand issues not just on the macro level but on the macaroni and cheese level. two years ago around this time i went to the senate floor with several of my women colleagues to speak about the importance of passing the lilly ledbetter fair pay act. senator mikulski had championed the bill for years. i remember senator mikulskir, bringing us all together and i will always remember her words. she would say to the women of america, suit up, square your shoulders, put your lipstick on and get ready for a revolution. senator mikulski has always been a master of words and quips and she did it again and we pass that bill. on

the to the us senate resolution passed simultaneously with the treaty ratification yes and no the option of withdrawal he is in the treaty itself there is a certain article number fourteen and of course this is equally legal for the for the united states and for russia each part may withdraw from the treaty anytime secondly we have already warrant our american partners while signing the treaty there was a unilateral statement by the russian federation published the same day the treaty was signed in prague that russia may have is draw from the treaty in case of the. state of affairs for four and the missile defense systems in the world will change inequality if we so these option exists since the very first day of the treaty existence now in our amendment to the law not to the treaty to what to the writ of occasional or about the treaty in our amendment we. count are the. serious tical or maybe ahead the hypothetical situations where russia may consider it's possible and necessary to withdraw from the treaty believe that our american partners and friends have done the same type of analysi

joining us now, democratic senator from new york, kirsten gillibrand, welcome. it's good to have you here. what can you tell us about how she's doing? >> she's doing great. i talked to her husband, mark, last night. she is making progress. and if there's anyone in the world that will recover fully from this kind of crime and unbelievable injury, it's her. she has courage. she has drive. she has spirit. and i really think her courage is inspiring all of us right now. >> you talk about her condition. you two, of course, good friends dating back to when she and you came into the congress. has she actually been able to speak? >> no, no. it's far too early for that. she's making progress every day. she's using both sides of her body. she's able to breathe on her own. she's able to open her eyes and show people she understands what she's hearing and seeing. it's an extraordinary amount of progress for a woman who sustained such a horrific injury that she did. >> incredible moment during the memorial service this week when the president, who had visited with the congres

three readings the start pact which was signed last year has already been given the go ahead by the us senate. and rough justice despite no extradition treaty between washington and kabul terror suspects are being set to stand trial in the u.s. courts critics say the process could mean america is in breach of international law . while in less than a minute peter lavelle and his guests exchanged verbal blows over the u.s. role in pakistan and whether the state is just a pawn in the afghan war cross-talk is up next. it is. a low in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle plunging into the abyss increased violence and radicalism is tearing pakistan apart can a country that is so polarized remain a staunch ally in washington so-called war on terror. and. to discuss the political situation in pakistan i'm joined by dan he own in dubai he's the editor of the news service pakistan. dot com in beirut we have robert fisk he's the middle east correspondent for the independent and in washington we go to lisa curtis she is a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation and another member of our cros