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a. quote. from. starting off a u.s. senate panel approves the nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia clearing the way for a full opera house vote on ratification. all with more on how the senate foreign

relations committee approved that treaty join me in a checkdown in just a few moments here in washington d.c. . and one of russia's most wanted man in the suspected chechen terrorists dr meds a client is said to have arrived in poland despite threats from authorities to arrest him. russia has its sights on reaching an arctic agreement with canada hot on the heels of signing a demarcation pact with norway. more welcome to you live from our studios in central moscow this is our to you with me nice and now away it's midnight here in the russian capital four pm in washington where u.s. senate panel has given the go ahead to the start treaty with russia the nuclear

arms reduction deal will now face the full upper house before it can be ratified russia says it's ready to sign off the document but wants to do it at the same time as the u.s. can has more from washington senators who have concerns they expressed them in a resolution that they passed today but as john kerry the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee said they managed to address most of the issues in the course of these five months and today's decision is sort of a boy partisan success let's listen what to what he says. we hope. to get to the full senate as rapidly as possible for our work is not done the full united states senate has to now debate this and ratify it. it's our hope that they're going to happen quickly before the end of the year and we will work to try to make that happen we had a very constructive process today as i think you saw. in

my judgment. the. long work of the committee of the administration to bring together representatives from almost every administration president nixon all the way through president george bush who testified to that hope to build a consensus on this treaty this treaty will make america more secure it will assist us in moving towards the goal of less nuclear threats and for that reason we're proud of the action he took today while one of the points that senators clarified in this resolution is that the treaty in no way is in obstacle for the u.s. plans to deploy to deploy defense systems when they want them where they want but the trade acknowledges this time between offensive and defensive weapons is a fact but russia's to take that time i quite seriously they see the new start as an agreement based on equality and balance and if that balance has shifted or

disturbed they say they can pull out so now once the treaty got the approval of the senate foreign relations committee it will go to the senate floor for radically cation but the chairman of the foreign relations committee john kerry said it is very unlikely as we just heard that the senate will read if i had before november elections in congress as oppressions they are going to ratify it at the same time as americans here's what the head of russia's foreign affairs committee said the start of the year certification process in the states coincide centering on the election campaign one sort of the seventy's. to be reelected which means the minute servitors consider the situation looked into with the agreement is good or bad for the united states but in terms of what you may contribute to the euro. could be a little bit because the document itself is too much important for the national team to do that to states for the national interest of russia for the globalization

of interest to be mixed or. elections can be actually russians are very eager to pass this treaty as soon as possible and this was expressed by russia's defense minister yesterday when he met with robert gates here in washington d.c. they was again reaffirmed the areas of for cooperation and said they will they would expanded if you look at the support that the treaty that the starting treaty has been getting here in the u.s. there is really a bipartisan support although among senators on capitol hill there is. some sort some kind of a competition going on on the issue of the support for the treaty among the u.s. military officials is unanimous over the last five months former top you know officials from the past seven administrations democrat and republican alike they testified before the senate committee is in favor of the treaty in fact republicans testifying for the treaty outnumbered democrats so key u.s. policymakers do see it as

a very important trade and one that can open doors for future full cooperation on other issues as well. as washington correspondent can't there now one of russia's most wanted terrorist suspects is said to have entered poland despite the country's threat to arrest him upon arrival or commits a crime is thought to be attending an international chechen congress near warsaw he currently lives in britain where he house political asylum because you know zoraida is following the latest developments. at the moment it's all very confusing and very unclear because even his whereabouts are at this moment unconfirmed and the very fact that polish authorities would say an advance that they would arrest the man should here arrive in its territory is somewhat confusing as well because it is not known for law enforcement agencies to give their suspect a warning of an imminent to arrest so this could just be yet another plot gating

statement towards russia that they will arrest the man should he arrived because of course there is an outstanding interpol arrest warrant for an issue for us as a cry of he's wanted by russia on a number of different charges but even of the process even if they do detain him the process is a very complicated one the prosecution can't exactly lean on the police and make him detain the man and even if they do after an initial period of detention a polish court will then have to decide whether there are grounds for further detaining mr zentai of and of course then the entire matter of his extradition to russia has to be decided by yet another country the united kingdom which has granted him political asylum in two thousand and three it is very unlikely that assad by a four will be facing trial in russia any time soon of course he has been granted political asylum in the united kingdom seven years ago and since then russia has repeatedly asked its. british colleagues to hand the man over to extradite him so

that he could stand trial here in russia of course he faces charges of homicide kidnapping extortion and various such terrorists and extremists activities so a large number of crimes that he's accused of and yet the united kingdom insists that this was a client is a political refugee that he has remained a law abiding citizen on its territory and therefore the agreement that russia and the united kingdom have between them to share and extradite all those accused of various crimes on each other's territories that agreement. not stand because of course he has been granted political asylum so the question of his standing trial in russia is a very ugly likely one even if he is detained in poland and then later sent back to the united kingdom. well john mclaughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris says that if poland arrests a cry of this will be a considerable step forward in prosecuting terrorist suspects. i think there's no

doubt that if poland were to disown him it would be an enormous breakthrough for russia certainly in the fight against terrorism but more generally in its new. political friendship with its naples we've seen over the last year and a half big turnaround in western foreign policy towards russia it's very important to understand that there is a link between the caucasus and between russia's enemies in central and eastern europe there are links between the people from the north caucasus and the baltic states and we can see that the world chechen congress itself is being held in poland so the caucasus has always been a geopolitical lever which russia's enemies have used to to basically undermine russia and if as i say poland were to abandon that policy by a resting. something which would presumably finish off the world chechen congress or at least this meeting of it that would be an extraordinarily important and

symbolic step. with our team live from moscow coming up later in the hour to an hour closer to him as we explore russians far east and the wonders of the second increase. in between the russian mainland japan and the sun coming island is the island of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look at what's in store for us here. and the sting operation for the former front man the police find out why russian communists want the rock are behind stone walls and iron bars. russia and canada are neck and neck in a race for the arctic's rich resources otherwise challenging moscow's claims to a portion of the polar sea bed but russia says it won't give up he got the skin off has more on the northern dispute. both russia and canada remained firm at their

status claiming that part of the arctic sea bed known as the a woman also fridge belongs to bear to authorities moscow says that its claims are based on scientific facts and according to the russian foreign minister said russia will continue sending expeditions to this area because of the limo and also the loam and also bridge was discovered by russian explorers but today we want to prove scientifically that it's a continuation of the marine life in providing our data to the un as us canada and now denmark is also thinking about lng clee to the woman also of ridge but any such claim must be based upon scientific data provided to the un commission endy have the last word in any case in two thousand and seven a group of russian scientists or do you send a dawn to be a woman also fridge study and found concrete conclusions that it is a continuation of the russian landmass the beginning of planted a russian flag there meanwhile canada has also filed claims on this territory

saying back to the a woman also of rage is part of the canadian state or you know we will submit our data on the. edge and we're confident that our case will prevail by scientific evidence the arctic is a huge area and currently doesn't belong to any country but at the same time it's thought to hold up to twenty percent of the world's untapped resources of gas and oil which makes it quite an attractive area for many countries apart from russia and canada other states are also keen to stylish themselves in the octaves and they include the united states denmark and norway according to some analysts this mean lead to some type of conflict just now during the meeting in moscow the foreign ministers offer russia and canada have pledged to resolve the dispute. strictly diplomatically and scientifically and there is already an example of how

such a dispute could be resolved peacefully just recently russia and norway resolved a decades a warming a tutorial dispute on their borders in the bar and see it now be agreed first of all to stand least the border and also to share the natural resources which are held in that area so hopefully that will be done in the in the case of russia and canada as well. r.t.c. reporting there now russia's prosecutor's office says a suspected criminal kingpin reported to have been killed in moscow has actually survived a song. but they have died on way to hospital after being shot well he's better known as papa hassan he's considered the godfather of the russian mafia controlling most criminal gangs in the country law enforcement have already linked the shooting to the murder of another infamous russian mobster known as your point check it's thought that song was proclaimed to point to air after he was killed last year.

let's take a look now at some world news in greece for you this hour pope benedict has left ground zero after celebrating mass in front of thousands of people the leader of the roman catholic church is on a four day trip to britain for the first papel visit there in almost thirty years earlier he was welcomed by queen elizabeth in edinburgh but protests are also planned over the pontiff policies on gay rights and abortion and over child abuse scandals in the catholic church. are out over france's crackdown on roma migrants has overshadowed the summit of e.u. leaders in brussels the european justice commissioner had compared the deportations with mass expulsions during world war two statement angered french president nicolas sarkozy who called it outrageous and insisted the country will continue to dismantle camps the issue will be discussed again at the next e.u. summit. the us secretary of state hillary clinton has met with palestinian

president mahmoud abbas following a new round of middle east peace talks about says he sees no alternative to continuing the negotiations although they broke no breakthrough brought rather no breakthrough the israeli and palestinian leaders held two days of talks in egypt and drusilla president abbas had threatened to walk out if an israeli ban on settlement building in the west bank is not renewed during the talks israeli warplanes conducted two raids in gaza following palestinian rocket and mortar attacks. now or close the team has once again hit the road to bring you the best of russia. and today we take you to russia's far east the country's biggest island of soccer knew for many years it was at the center of

a route between moscow and tokyo because of its rich oil and gas resources today's are hardly and is one of russia's most developed regions and its breathtaking landscapes and rich flora and fauna are still largely unspoiled by tourists as alexie or show ski discovered. ati's russia closeout team is back and this time we're seven thousand kilometers from the russian capital moscow in the russian far east in the island of bali and this is the sudden region indeed one of the most prosperous in in russia located around four hundred kilometers from the russian mainland and separated from the russian mainland by the talks are straight it is quite a big island one thousand kilometers from north to south and about three hundred fifty kilometers from west to east it represents a new region a very rich in terms of biological resources now the island of cycling that's home to more than a thousand species of birds and animals as well as flowers and plants and more than

a third of them are considered to be endangered and are placed in the so-called red book of endangered species but of course all this beauty has to be protected somehow and we did a report explaining what this protection is like in the far east of russia. risking life or limb special troops to send those speeding boat in the middle of the pacific. coast guard in the russian far east this is an almost daily routine they fight. and illegal fishing amounts to millions of dollars. along with a team of officers we come on board a fishing boat they check documents to see whether the versal had any right to fish here. this particular boat was legit but officer got a boost said this was an exception rather than the rule and xander told us of the biggest highlight of his three years of service here. we identified

a vessel belonging to poaches we asked them to stop and fight flares they didn't reply so after an hour we had to open fire after about twenty minutes they stopped probably being too scared of us shooting at them that was one wild chase alexander came here from the other side of russia and despite nonstop action and hard work he enjoys his time here that is because he projects natural beauty from human harm the beauty which is visible from the very first glance. tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the sun coming island is the island of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look at what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the boarders own and was completely

restricted to visit is now the speech rest place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction. when you as a creature of the island is unique because it is located far from the mainland and is practically untouched by humans that's why many endangered species or both flora and fauna can be found here the underwater world who is also unique because a warm currents in the sea when you're on is by land of the far east while some go to the sakhalin region to enjoy the sights others convert the island's nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight shock hundreds of thousands of of tons. fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious salamon caviar almost a necessary attribute of anything in russia the owner of the enterprise says

a good fishing season can bring in more than one hundred million dollars net profit . and to a large extent this is old to do what cycling offers environmentally the tonight show operates in only and natural habitat farms selman they feed you have to give them a lot of. all sorts of man a thin line to buy audix and things like to make sure that it actually survived and this is their natural environment and again while filming they're certainly much better than many farm spaces it's a natural product it is if you can see the fish is alive we deliver it live to the factory and you get the best product you can get and mild climate unique natural sites and delicious seafood. for a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become a major tourist destination alexi russia ski azzi reporting from the cycling region

. well it seems singer's staying could run into some trouble with the police in russia during his tour in moscow and st petersburg communist group call for his a roust their demand was provoked by the rockers recent suggestion to legalize marijuana communist scribe the singer as a leading proponent of drug use through should be an example for the younger generation but regardless of these troubles at least sting now knows for sure the russians love their children to. see him. and that's what the news looks this hour from our today in a little while we talk to a harvard professor and russian expert timothy called him about dilemmas facing the country that rose from the past and percept perspectives rather of resetting

relations with the us. a little bit with. timothy colton professor and chairman of the department of government at harvard university and an expert on russia questions today thank you very much for joining us mr cole you're a regular participant of the volga discussions club this year is topic is russia's history and future development why do you think russia is so interested in history today twenty more than it was say ten years ago i think it reflects

a trend which is not just russian but think this whole part of the world. history has come back so to say after the collapse of the old system of the soviet system there was of course much ferment about history at that time understandably but then as the post transition period developed it seemed that more practical concerns about economic hard times and social issues and russia had to cheer on all sorts of burning questions and history was kind of moved to the back burner there were other things that seemed more pressing. but it didn't stay that way to history kind of came back and partly it's the effect of. your neighbors in the neighborhood the tremendous full of countries that also have historical dilemma dilemma's many of which are about their relationship with russia and so even if russians wanted to leave history alone. you're ukrainian and polish in the stone in another neighbors

don't want that and so they press you in a sense on the historical questions you mention three countries russia polenta and ukraine which of the three do you think have problems with cell phones in difficult i'm not sure it's of the problem of the suffolk beneficent if you think of that within it the ukrainians for sure because it's not not as homogeneous as porn or stony as so in ukraine. maybe a little bit like russia history is very divisive whereas in poland this would be perhaps less the case but just to go back to what i said a moment ago it's not just about these external pressures on you i think russians themselves and not everybody by any means but more than ten years ago let's say find themselves drifting back to history your bookstores now have more history books than ever before and specifically twentieth century history this was where communism started. and communism had its good points but it also obviously had its

many very bad points and it ended in analyzing them you're looking at your. selves and you see your your leaders talking about putin with his prime minister putin with his interventions on cotton. and relations the risk with poland of course majed of maybe has been less active but he's made one very dramatic statements in october two thousand and eight and it seems as if he takes this very seriously how would you assess the effectiveness of russia's current ruling tandem with the president dmitry medvedev and prime minister vladimir putin sharing power well power sharing is not unique phenomena to russia it's found in many other countries . and presidential constitutions that also have a prime minister as a separate senior leader are found now in many parts of the world fifty or sixty countries. but what's unusual here i think is that it's the former president the

dominant. leader for eight years who became the junior partner so the say under the constitution that's very unusual maybe almost unique so imagine a president former president of france becoming prime minister later this is almost unheard of so that's what makes this all of bit of a mystery and they don't really tell us much about how it really works mr putin. in fact i think is tired of answering questions about this but i think they've said what they're going to say they say it works well that they have a trust for a relationship but they're in regular contact one has his job the other one has another job and up to a point i believe that i mean i think you know they it's lasted. almost three years and. clearly they have managed to cooperate on many many issues and how do you think russia did in handling the financial crisis you know i think i would give

them a pretty good grade of foreign russian terms. you see here the effects of some rather smart things that the putin people did saving this money putting it away in a. fund that could be used to get over hard times so i think you have to give them pretty good marks for managing the crisis and what about security threats like islamic radicalism but that's a serious matter of course and. the north caucasus problem generally has clearly become. more inflamed in the last several years it's no longer just church now but rather a whole region where governments used to write of approaches and sometimes they're great people one another. there is a security response of course for some of which is absolutely necessary and i would support if i were russian there's an economic development program. but it seems to lack energy and coordination we've seen a real you know rather.