senator gary hart artie's granted to you can caught up with him. it's time for the senate to vote on a new start that's the title of the letter signed by some top former u.s. officials as well as some former senators including gary hart thank you so much for joining pleasure a few days ago i heard ambassador richard bird say that if it had to be enough republican president submitting this treaty the strategic arms reduction treaty for ratification would have already been ratified i mean no doubt it's been a bumpy ride for the for the trade in the senate but in your opinion how much of it was about the actual treaty and how much about republicans trying to make a point to the democrats well over the course of my active life involved. control issues the pattern has been republican presidents get much. quicker revocation easier ratification of arms control treaties for example president reagan then democratic presidents and one would have hoped after the end of the cold war fifteen or more years ago that that partisan approach to arms control would no

senator gary hart in the next hour here on r.t. . nuclear nonproliferation treaties will be among the problems discussed by global leaders in new york at the sixty fifth un general assembly artie's new york resident talks to people on the streets of manhattan and ask what they think the outcome of the gathering will be. the u.n. general assembly is opening at sixty fifth session here in new york city on the agenda that meant to be attended by the world's most prominent leaders is it the world's most important meeting or just another annoyance for new york city this week let's talk about that too with the same thing year after year i was excited back in the seventy's when when carter was making his big you know push for everything and. then went back the same sort of thing and now everyone who comes in thinks that they can fix it i know from my experience from the computer say communiqué. and it's never the same face to face. different situation. if you give a. i probably won't accomplish anything at all and it probably is just anoth