Barack Obama devoted his first State of the Union address of his second term to trying to appease lawmakers and taxpayers, with fresh promises to boost the economy and slash debt and deficit. A further reduction of the occupation force in Afghanistan was also announced, with 34 thousand troops due to leave by next February. But certain sticky issues were notably left out of the speech, as RT's Gayane Chichakyan reports.<br /><br />RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air<br /><br />Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday<br /><br />Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews<br />Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com<br />Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT<br /><br />RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
