some elements of foreign policy of the united states create some problems for the russian federation and one of these issues is missile defense and by the way. one example which is very interesting maybe for you as well as for. our seeking he. asked mr mcnamara what's a first who was in favor of restrictions on missile defense. the soviet union generals especially said that time work begins not to any restrictions and the situation has changed and now you see that the russian federation is in favor to have some. limitations. or united states playing on this issue. for me it's so you say that it's really interesting because of the same situation i was doing our duty stations with the united states when we deliver a clean you'll start treaty also with russia and russia for four or four decades has been living without an immediate threat to security but there are of course some potential threats well what about putin doesn't mention any specific potential threats to russian security doesn't mention enemy well he says something about nato and the united states where it's more of like wel

senator, by the russian state and federal council and get it into force. but then ended kind of drop out of sight to everybody inside the u.s. government, so this is a very welcome opportunity today and a bit of a celebration as far as i am concerned about the first birthday of the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty. i am also delighted to be here with mike elliott and ted warner and again as already mentioned by steve, they were my very close partners, leadership team of the delegation on the u.s. side of the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty negotiations in geneva in 2009 and 2010. so we are really i would say close-knit triumphant and we have many other people from the interagency involved as well and it was a super team on our side as the russian side, the russian side had an informal team of top flight diplomats and experts involved in the negotiation and the treaty also the interagency group on their side. i wanted to start by talking a little bit about the implementation of the treaty, what has happened in very general terms. mike elliott is calling to dig down deep and giv

in this city, the third largest in the russian federation, they are preparing to punish him in the election. >> you are watching "bbc world news america," still to come -- swimming towards a solution, the sea lions are touting some high- tech equipment for a unique experiment. thousands of passengers have been stranded after the budget airline carrier air australia went bust on friday. the airline could not afford to refuel one of their planes and immediately grounded the rest of their fleet. >> just three months after the budget airline took off, the honeymoon was over. more than 4000 passengers were left stranded when the company canceled all of their flights. >> no one is here to help us or anything. we tried calling and no one is answering the phones. >> we are certainly disappointed. what can you do? >> the alarm bells rang when the airline cannot afford to refuel one of their planes. the company went straight into voluntary administration. >> my immediate concern today is not only for the working people caught up in this circumstance but also the passengers who were caught up. the dem

federation mr schaffel if we're talking about the high tech high tech collections the he webcams that are going to be installed as a matter of fact this was the initiative of prime is to putin and we always one of the candidates on the actually the main candidate for presidency on the upcoming election so but it wasn't his idea actually from the very beginning yes well what it originally inside your ministry was that the internet community who came up with this idea first putting on cameras it was his own idea of trying to get all of the absolutely because a year and a half ago when there were in the summer of two thousand and ten there were huge for forest fires and you know to rebuilt the villages and i don't want to say yeah it was the idea time so that the members of the construction site or something to control the start i'm sorry absolutely and he was he was very pleased with the new york when they were defecting or did you deal with that. absolutely i did work yeah yeah and the cameras are still there you remove them remove them the construction of the work was done but they we

the same obligations are on the shoulders of the united states, as are the russian federation. the bear that in mind as we talk to the treaty that these obligations are totally in. the inspection process i will say idea that pat and going for me to play. i would say in general the implementation has been conducted in a very businesslike and pragmatic manner. this was the attitude we had the negotiating table in geneva and has definitely carried forward into the implementation process both on the russian side and the u.s. side we have been keeping focus on problem-solving, being pragmatic we go about it and it really again is quite suited to the post-cold war era we are now in, we we had really some serious security issues you must address some of sides in continue to address regarding forces but we go about it in a pragmatic and problem-solving kind of way. so, throughout this first year of the treaty are in a post from five to february's text and attribute is entered into force on february 5 of 2011 when minister lovecraft and secretary clinton exchanged the paper to bring the

i'm working in the in the foreign ministry of the russian federation and definitely as our minister sergey lavrov excellent people did so yesterday during his press conference on the. year two thousand and one where our foreign policy is not an ideological for enforcing and it is. very much preventing one and. that's why when we criticize we do not criticize our way the logical. for a logical reason we have we do. observe and one of the how the situation stands in the united states and some of the countries we do. i would lie on certain issues we have and we do have certain certain problems. we are and it's very important we be using ourselves not just on some conjectures will be using else fails on the assessments given by pretty much authority if international is a list of but russia as we remember it the foreign ministry for one has reacted pretty angrily every time we were sharply criticized in their reports of this crime especially in the united states report for the situation human rights in russia we did give them and they're angry reaction so what kind of reaction do you expect. it

it is obvious that the missile defense system will be targeted at the russian federation rather than some mythical middle eastern countries possessing a virtual missiles. at least fifteen countries around the world have been involved with the nato missile defense shield. their radar stations in denmark and britain which is also host to interceptor missiles in. canada too is going to join the project anti missile functions will be given to norad the agency responsible for north america's air and outer space defense. japan has decided to assist the nato missile defense shield it's taking part in the manufacture of a just into septa missiles. japan is going to build a forward based radar station on its territory. a similar radar station has already been built in turkey. the czech republic roumania hungary and poland are ready to allow nato as missile defense complexes to be placed on their territory. that it that would make a forward based american military presence which means the deployment of bases in post is so. republics notably in central asia is an element of u.s. global dominati

federation have persuaded leadership that what we are proposing, particularly what we're proposing down the line, because this is called a phase adaptive approach, this is a decade long program with some new systems coming on board by 2020. you'll probably see a lot of this with my colleague. the so-called sm-32, which is quite advance freddie what we have now. we don't have that now. the russians extrapolating the capabilities they think we're doing to have believe it will pose a threat to their deterrent. we have been engaged with them in missile defense cooperation talks led by under-secretary of state who use to represent international labs here in contra costa county. she's been negotiating for quite some time since the spring of 2009 until now. they haven't reached agreement. in fact, unfortunately president medvedev made a statement not too long ago saying they have not bought fruit, the russians are very concerned. they feel if there's not an agreement to share more data, operational activity, they want to be involved in operations, which is a bit of a problem for us, the russia

the data exchanges are providing as i would say much more detailed picture of the russian federation strategic nuclear arsenal than we have had in the past again vice versa is true as well. the russians are getting a closer look at our strategic nuclear forces than in the past, and of course both of us back of our exchanges of information and inspections with our own national technical modification with life and other kind of monetary platforms that we use to relieve back our goods on the ground as senator lugar likes to say and also the other kinds of information exchanges that take place under the treaty. ted is going to want dhaka bit more about this because he just spent the last couple of weeks in geneva for the bilateral consultant commission of the so-called implementation commission of the treaty which has now met for its third time but we have some good news out of the meeting. remember to elementary was one of the tough issues during the course of the negotiation and there were some issues that were left hanging at the end of the negotiation that needed to be wrapped up and

it was after the soviet union had fallen, the new russian federation came into being. they welcomed our work with them as in kazakhstan and ukraine and other countries. at this time there is no permissive environment. but we're going to stay very focused on the potential dangers posed by any store house or depot of such weapons. >> thank you very much, madam secretary for your time. mr. smith from new jersey, the chairman of the subcommittee on africa, global health and human rights is recognized. >> thank you very much. welcome, madam secretary. let me associate myself with the remarks of our distinguished chairwoman on cuba. we had a hearing a couple weeks ago with dr. oscar bichet who had a 25 year sentence. he is out of prison but he's not out of prison. he spoke via telephone right here. and the man is unbelievably brave. he is calling for freedom, human rights and we've got to be very hard lined, i believe, but also very prudent. i would hope that the gentle lady made a very important point about not attending and i hope that will be the case. let me ask with you

the russian federation then gets to go to a selection of three of those navy bombers and, in fact, confirm there are no weapons on those particular bombers through that process. the same procedures in terms of ambiguities is carried through, and the same process taking you back to the point of entry and returning to their home country. in reverse, the u.s. military which populates inspection teams with the defense threat reduction agency goes through a reciprocal process with the russian federation in which we go to each one of their facilities and go through basically the same process. and with that, steve, i will turn it back to you. >> ted, do you want to operate couple comments on the bilateral commission, but also as rose mentioned, the president described new s.t.a.r.t. as a stepping talk about another step coming. would you like to tell us about what the u.s. government is doing with regards to what policy is starting? >> thanks, steve. i welcome the opportunity to see my colleagues again. i see mike in the pentagon perhaps all too often. so that's not so unusual, but rose and i, ou

federation or america lou and a sort of a universal peace federation thanks for your insight thank you very much. investigative journalist and middle east expert a so winston or you spoke with our tito told r.t. the syrian opposition is fragmented and says there is no unity between groups or means of fighting the regime here's a preview. although both sides deny differences in. in military intervention essentially in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition mainly between people who support outside intervention and the protesters who don't save the syrian national council which are now openly in favor of the no fly zone which to me seems ridiculous because there isn't any even claimed that i know of. the syrian regime fall as many crimes there's no claim that it's problems people so a no fly zone just seems a political pretext to invade to me. buildings on fire shops looted dozens injured this is how the greek people met a new round of drastic cuts approved by their parliament tens of thousands protested the deeply unpopular package needed to get a secon

presented a rather bizarre interpretation of actual proposals made by the russian federation of the rice made the point that we were right drawing to the right of the arab league texts which were adopted months ago indeed they were adopted months ago and since that time the situation has evolved and one of the problems which we clearly saw was that the syrian government forces were pulling out armed groups were moving in so that was there was a need still is to address. that situation and of course there is no rule that the security council should repeat the resolutions adopted but even organizations rebut him they are not the qur'an or bible i mean we can we can express our views on the texts which were adopted months ago even if we are trying to facilitate promote and help the work of those original organizations know the second point about timetable and again an incorrect interpretation was given by one of my call i don't remember who exactly but that somehow russia was proposing to get rid of the timetable and that is not the. time. it's. all right we're going to check back in with o

we must bring pressure on china and the russian federation and and we must put an end to the arms trafficking toward syria and we need >> the european parliament passed a resolution that imposes new sanctions on the syrian government. it urged all eu member nations to recall their ambassadors and cut off diplomatic contact with the country. the u.n. general assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution condemning the syrian government's actions and calling for president bashar al-assad to step down. >> good morning, everyone. it is a pleasure to welcome my friend, the representative of the european union. we always have a lot to discuss and we are always relying on each other because as i said in munich a few weeks ago europe remains america's partner on all of the global challenges we are confronting together. i know that caskey understands -- cathy understand the significance of our operation because we have had the everton antti to meet -- we have had the opportunity to meet. today, we had a very comprehensive discussion. let me just quickly run over a few of the issues. i will tu

we must bring pressure on china and the russian federation and and we must put an end to the arms trafficking toward syria and we need >> the european parliament passed a resolution the who poses new sanctions on the syrian government. it also urges cutting off of my third contact with the country. the general assembly voted to condemn the actions and calling for president bush here all of saab -- president assad to step down. on friday secretary of state hillary clinton said the u.s. is evaluating a letter from iran and staging a desire to resume talks on the nuclear program. speaking to reporters secretary clinton called the letter an important step. she also commented on the death of "the new york times" reporter in syria. the pulitzer prize winner died thursday from an apparent asthma attack. >> it is always a pleasure to welcome my friends and colleagues from the european union here to washington. we always have a lot to discuss common and -- a lot to discuss and we are always relying on each other because i said europe remains america's partner of first resort on all global challenges w

we recognize the effort of the russian federation to sponsor and all circassian dialogue in moscow -- syrian dialogue in moscow to find a resolution to this crisis. thank you. >> i give the floor to the honorable hillary rodham clinton, the secretary of state of the united states of america. >> thank you, mr. president. let me begin by thanking secretary-general el-araby. the arab league has demonstrated important leadership in this crisis. the people of the world have watched in horror as the assad regime undertook a campaign of violence against its own citizens. women and children tortured and killed. no one is safe, not even officials of the syrian red crescent. according to u.n. estimates, more than 5400 civilians have already died. that number is rising fast. the regime also continues to arbitrarily detain citizens, such as the act in this -- activists who demand dignity and universal rights. today, the evidence is clear. they are initiating nearly all of the attacks that killed civilians. as more citizens take up arms, violence is increasingly spiraling out of control. the chall

by all accounts the senior analyst of the russian federation have persuaded their leadership of what we are proposing and particularly downed lines -- down the line, this is a decade-long program with new systems coming on board by 2020, and this is a quite advanced interceptor from what we have. the russians extrapolate the capabilities we think we are going to have, and we have been engaged in missile defense cooperation of tyre and -- cooperation talks, led by lawrence livermore. she has been negotiating for quite some time, since the spring of 2009 until now, and they have not reached an agreement. the russians are very concerned, and if they feel there is not an agreement to share more data and operational capabilities, the russians themselves would consider withdrawing from the new treaty they just signed with obama last year. we have a lot of work to do with the russians. i should finally add there is another dimension to the motivation. we should not lead us to withdraw the original bush plan, but there is a russian improvements aspect to this strategy. you may know that as e

we welcome in this regard the recent initiative of the russian federation to sponsor and all syrian dialogue in moscow to find a solution to this crisis. thank you, mr. president. >> i thank you for your statement. i give the floor to members of f the counsel, sec -- secretary of state of the united states of america. >> thank you very much. thank you, prime minister and secretary general for the thorough briefing of the the arab league has demonstrated important leadership in this crisis, and for many months, the people of the region and the world watched in horror as the assad regime executed its own citizens, civilians gunned down in the streets, women and children tortured and killed, and no one is safe, not even officials of the syrian-arab red crescent. according to u.n. estimates, more than 5,400 -- [no audio] resist the regimes brutality, violence is increasingly likely to spiral out of control. already, the challenges ahead for the serian people are -- syrian people are daunting. a crumbling economy, rising sectarian tensions, a caldron of instability in the heart of the middle east

give it up for a presidential candidate of the russian federation vladimir putin. [applause] [applause] [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: dear friends, i greet you all. everybody who has come here today to the stadium here in moscow and those who are outside this stadium despite inclement weather a great number of people have gathered here it dozens of thousands. it is symbolic. i would like -- i would like to call your attention to the fact that different people have gathered here, different as far as age, as far as their ethnic background, as far as their religion. as far as their gender, men and women, it is symbolic that we have gathered here today on february the 23rd, which is the day of the defender of the fatherland. because we are today indeed defenders of our fatherland. that's who we are. we have come here today -- we have come here today in order to say that we love russia. in order to say it in a way that this whole country will hear us. and i will ask you -- and i ask you to speak with just one word, to just answer for the simple word yes. my

federation have persuaded the leadership that what we are proposing and particularly down the line because this is the phased approach, this is a decade long program with some new systems coming on board by 2020 and the so-called s m three pitches quite advanced from what we have now, we don't have that now. but the russians extrapolate to keep the what they think we're going to have, believe it will pose a threat, and we have been engaged with them in the missile defense cooperation talks led by the secretary of state dillinger sure that used to represent the national labs here in the county she's been negotiating for quite some time since the spring of 2009, until now and the haven't reached agreement and in fact unfortunately the president medvedev made a statement not long ago saying the haven't borne fruit, but they're very concerned and feel if there is an agreement to share the that can't share operational capabilities which is a bit of a problem for us. that it could lead them to -- the russians themselves could consider withdrawing from the treaty of the just fine with obama last

distributed funds in the federal budget which we can redeploy as anti crisis measures should the russian economy declines we also have the guarantee fund we've made allowances in the budget to use it for supporting strategic industries therefore we've got the right tools just in case but hopefully we won't have to use them what they do us being more active in balancing its budgets doesn't that pose a threat to the stability of the world's financial system in your opinion almost of course america's debt now exceeds one hundred percent of its g.d.p. so now all countries whose debt exceeds mastery criteria should start thinking about cutting deficit and debt levels sure deficit cutting may lead to a situation where states cut spending this will depress demand and the slowdown in the economic growth it is vital those states carry out structural reforms so the consolidation does not negatively affect growth otherwise there's a risk of an uncontrolled downward spiral when spending cuts lead to a slump in growth which leads to reduced income which in turn means less spending the challenge now i

by all accounts, but everything we seem to know, the senior analyst of the russian federation have persuaded their leadership that what we are proposing, and particularly what we're proposing down to like them because this is a phase approach, this is a decade-long program with some new systems coming on board by 2020, probably see a lot of this from my colleagues. in the so-called sm3 module to which is quite an advanced interceptor from what we have now but we don't have that now. that the russians extracting to the capabilities they think we're going to have believe it will pose a threat to their deterrence. and we've been engaged with them in missile defense cooperation talks led by undersecretary of state who used to represent national labs, lawrence livermore. she's been negotiating for quite some time since the spring of 2009 until now. and they haven't reached agreement. and effect and for showing president medvedev said they have not brought for. the russians are very concerned and they feel that if it is not an agreement to share data and more operations, a bit of a problem for us.

we wrote a paper, published it under the federation of american scientists. we looked extensively at the potential that united states could draw these ships back off the coast and defend the country. at least in principle. i want to be clear that in practice, i don't think the system is going to work at all. it's just another way to pump money out of your pockets through a defense ministry. but the four kilometer, 4 1/2 kilometer could easily defend the united states in theory. to argue that an adversary has the capability but won't use it because they just won't choose to, the phase that they approach is supposed to be adaptive by putting it on ships so they can move it all over the place. i think that's in the ballistic missile defense review. so why we would not in a crisis choose to do that would defend on the crisis because it's certainly a possibility, at least in principle, and to argue that i'm only going to look at this particular military threat but not the other. both of which are within the reach of the technical capacity of the system is simply t

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front of the federation feels that the draft is not balanced it points all fault and responsibility on the syrian government and does not take into account that the opposition in syria has also been participating taking part in inflaming the violence this according to to moscow and so russia did propose some amendments to this draft circulating within the general assembly that i should mention was written up by saudi arabia and circulated by egypt russia did propose some amendments similar amendments that were proposed to the security council draft reportedly those amendments have been rejected by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov sticking to the same position indicating that the draft that is was voted on then and is being voted on now within the u.n. is not balanced let's take a listen to what he has said which. we've been asked to vote on a resolution that only government forces to withdraw from. groups but it's very unclear who these groups there are muslim brotherhood members. but there's also a. little kind of leader who's called on everyone to unite you know find it

side of the federation feels that the draft is not balanced it all points all fault and responsibility on the syrian government and does not take into account that the opposition in syria has also been participating taking part in inflaming the violence which you wish. to vote on a resolution that only government forces to withdraw from cities and basically armed groups but it's very unclear who these groups there are muslim brotherhood members. leader has called on everyone to unite unifying against syrian president assad's regime to whom we would hand syria over if such an approach one russia did propose some amendments similar amendments that were proposed to the security council draft reportedly those amendments have been rejected foreign minister lavrov has also said that the syrian opposition is refusing to participate in dialogue with the syrian government saying that they are being dissuaded by quote external players that do not want to see possibly some kind of a peaceful result in syria there and said inflaming this divide this draft resolution it's nonbinding it means it doe

it provides two-thirds of its exports, half of the federal government's revenues. the russian state has used these revenues to dole out patronage across the country. it is widely believed in the west that putin stays in power through repression. actually, he does so in larger measure through bribery. in the short run, putin will be able to win the march election and consolidate power through a mixture of repression and patronage. his problems are more long term. his government has ramped up revenues that it needs to get to $125 a barrel. it has a population which is aging and shrinking which means pension and health care costs will rise as people retire. labor productivity is abysmal. the region is almost turning into a separate couldn'ty, and the rethnic diversity is straining. like iran, like venezuela, all somewhat dysfunctional regimes, the russian regime will survive these challenges unless and until oil prices come down. for more, read my column in this week's "time" magazine. let's get started. >>> the violence in syria escalated this week. hundreds and hund

that could that could result in tremendous increase in the capitalization of of russian companies. so i would i would call for you know if if i'm thinking about reforms coming out of these this election absolutely the reforms that tom and simon has spoken about need to be need to be executed but at the same time i would advocate a. public relations campaign for russia inc that could close some of that perception gap and end result in much higher capitalizations for companies which of course benefits the state directly as they are the largest shareholder and they're going to run out of time in. we'll have another discussion after the election thanks to our viewers for watching us here on on the money state of art to. me is the abuse. wealthy british style. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. download the official anti up location on the phone on pod touch from the top story. life on the go. video on demand tease mine gold costs and says feeds now

federal government websites within the past week to express their anger at an anti-piracy law. law is holding a national referendum on saturday on whether russian should become a second official language but is unlikely to succeed even though the russian minority which makes up a third of the population are feeling ever more discriminated against in the place they call home are reports from mafia. valley from la to the russian minority says his country's government has gone too far having lived in law to be all his life it was only recently that he managed to exchange a temporary residence permit to a passport but now this father of three faces another hurdle for his family this time and that his children and their education was a pass through legislation that in the school schools sixty percent of the lessons must be taught in latin language but excuse me chemistry biology and physics it's difficult to get it even in your own language and it does create a lot of problems for the students at the moment and of course it lowers their results it was the threat that these schools w

budget which we can relocate as the anti-crisis measures in the instance of decline in the russian economy and we also have the garden t. fund we've provided a possibility in the budget to use it for supporting the strategic industry therefore we do have the right tools stored just in case hopefully we won't have to use them. what should the us say start thinking about being economical does it stepped pose a threat to the stability of the world's financial system. one of course america's debt now exceeds one hundred percent of its g.d.p. so now all countries whose debt exceed the limits set by the maastricht treaty should start thinking of a budget consolidation and cutting deficit and debt levels sure deficit cutting measures may lead to a situation when states seeking to cut their spending will affect the demand and the slowdown in the economic growth in their countries it is vital that structural reforms are carried out in those states so that such consolidation does not affect the growth rate otherwise there may be an uncontrolled downward spiral where spending cuts lead to a slump in

meanwhile roger federer is taking part in the first round of the competition for the first time in eight years as switzerland host the usa the davis cup is the only major owner to evade the thirty year old in his prestigious career a second up later on friday against american john isner before the takes on lot of fish. over to ice hockey where russia have moved top of the overall standings in the euro hockey till off a total when i have a local favorites finland in helsinki the women coming here think game of the swedish leg of the tool the reigning champions of followed closely by the czech republic who had a much tougher way in over twenty eleven runs out sweden president but the heroes he scored a regulation gold and was the only play on either taken to convert in a post not shootouts in the czechs one two one russia are in action again on saturday and they battle sweden in stockholm. meanwhile lympics skating gold medalist by de mello has been evaluating the slopes which will host the world's best during the twenty fourteen sochi winter olympics the thirty four year old was preparing

into a nickel or dividend the world tournament in rotterdam has come to an end the thirty year old russian who has returned to winning ways this week following a disappointing start to twenty twelve to world number three and top seed roger federer in the semifinals and the psaltery break of serve was enough to take the first set against that sixteen time grand slam winner divident actually broke again in the second but was immediately broken back before phèdre were told to claim it six three the third set was a close affair and dividend was unable to take three break points but one stage before the storm back to take the match four six six three eight six four the final score there. will take on. in sunday's final after that arjun time secured a comfortable straight sets victory over thomas bet it. was broken in the opening game of the match and again in the opening set stormed the first set six three. and nine years open champ and then refused to take us for gas and took the first five games of the second set eventually winning the match six three six one. world number one victoria azare