and cops know being a democrat obama is different he has done a good job he has pushed this important document a new start through the senate eight why did you have a conversation with him so late yesterday was he still great in their education and all that if you cut. no he's away on holiday it was quite late when we talked after eleven pm our time like any other person he's entitled to rest he's on his christmas holiday but i think he can rest with the realisation that his rest is well deserved he did a really good job i agree with you under rather difficult conditions he managed to get this important treaty approved in the senate. like i said our security for the next few years will be based on this treaty and in general i can say that it's easy for me to work with president obama because he can really listen to you and hear you he's not impeded by stereotypes and what's probably the most important thing for a politician he keeps his promises he's kept his promises as regards to the new start as regards the w t o and as regards the ratification of

a very important treaty on nuclear cooperation and as regards various international issues so i hope he gets a good rest he did a good job and i told him so yesterday i said barack have some rest now. with. people rarely remember what it past event plagued smelled sounded like the year two thousand and ten so one even did i will remember i think it was even more vivid for year how did you find out about the crash of the polish air force one near smolensk and how did you react you'll see a border worth arguing for sure your store with my. hand. to roll in it was a difficult day i was in some petersburg at the time it was a saturday and i was planning to have a break then my aide told me about what happened when i was shot it always comes as a shock taking in news of this kind you feel shocked and sorry for the people who were killed and this time to add that it was the entire polish politike. lalit if

it happened at that spot to say it seemed mystical and hard to believe it turned out to be true nonetheless our relations with poland have gone a long way since then i mean when things were very complicated i think that our relationship is less complex now i paid an official visit to poland we talked with the investigation still has to be concluded of course it can't be politicized or serve as a reason to stop blaming each other we have to listen to all parties involved and accept the conclusions made by international agencies then there is the internal investigation of course of them we kind of looking at a little bit. of how do you feel about polish prime minister adult call in the interest aviation committee report an acceptable neighborhood till it's all luggage therefore i would rather think that his evaluation was emotional and the result of occurrences in poland's internal politics poland is shattered their communal mentality is shattered which is understandable because it was a real tragedy but it can't affect our relations and it can't lead to the results

of the intergovernmental committee and the investigation into the incident being politicized but i did you were pretty useless if you did why did the government in spite of a tradition that has been going since soviet times admit that spies court were working for russia the incident made it clear to me that russia has an illegal spying networking very few. do. anyone working for our special services is first and foremost a russian citizen they're not cannon fodder or heroes that the state is willing to sacrifice if the soviet union or perhaps even russia has not talked about them before then it was a mistake on the government's policy our main goal in that situation was to get our people here out we did that because as i said they were russian citizens i recently met with intelligence officers and i told them that we will continue doing the same thing in the future if anyone from the intelligence service be at the legal service or not or in

a difficult position for these people defend our interests as for the service it can be different legal or illegal if a country claims that it doesn't have an illegal intelligence service it's usually a lie either that or the country in question is very small and doesn't have any serious geopolitical interest or. about whether cough ski i see him as the portrait of during grief or oh business community every businessman does what her cuffs key is accused of but her tough skin alone takes the blame he and his associates negative do you think our judicial system may have been too hard in these people would you think about that as a lawyer and as a person would we include. them but here let me tell you what i think is the president no government official and this includes the president has the right to state their position on this or any other case until the verdict be it an acquittal or a guilty verdict has been voiced this is perfectly obvious that would deal with some

on the much can push him of the most tragic events this year was the massacre of civilians in a village near the investigation into which highlighted the deep corruption between the police the authorities and criminals there were similar a cure and says elsewhere how can this be tackled mr medvedev on their ocean floor of the prominent but it's an important subject and i'm glad you brought it up there is crime yes and there is. option but i believe we've cut off the people who were obviously criminals the situation is different at the level of regional and municipal authorities there are people who still live by their own code that's why we need purges not the same purges as those which took place in the one nine hundred thirty s. but we need to cut off those people from power some of them are members of the ruling party but that does not mean the ruling party or any other party should turn a blind eye to it on the contrary we need to bring them out into the light expel them from the party to strengthen the party of already here. well what he once

mentioned that our political system is showing signs of signees how should we deal with this. but it wasn't just with us parties must feel responsibility for the authorities they've received are major political party united russia should not just rain but also show intelligence tact and power it should appoint the right people pushing back the corrupt ones and those not willing to work at all or punish them the other party should also participate in the discussion of all the issues the fact that they represent opposition does not mean that they're isolated from society's life or they should be speaking openly about all the issues we have to identify what are the reason i see the meaning of we russia's political life is dominated by you and mr putin what do you think we have any other promise in politicians if yes then probably you would like to see one is your ally and maybe you see serious rival in somebody else who don't want to be your city or who. or in

the whole there are such politicians in our country you even know some of those names i cannot but mention such distinguished people as heads of the factions of our state duma and indeed they are well known politicians and there's no irony in my words these are people who have worked in russian politics for more than a decade they're also renowned politicians outside the state duma some may say they're prominent and others may not well they are famous too but such famous politicians as mystic as young of mr and some of mr lamont of mystic as part of their well known politicians usually people have different attitudes towards them they have so to say their own electorate but they're also public figures but the greatest resource is the resource we don't talk about that these are talented people from our country that's where future presidents prime ministers and deputies are now our country has a lot of talented political. by key you still say things in an official political system is one thing but at the same time. street politics is being promoted having

most disastrous consequences as we have recently seen you said that we must no allow such a mass happening on the streets and on the whole it worked could you tell me if a police response is enough in a situation like this. after the cerium. the answer is obvious of course not the police must work precisely quickly and effectively in some cases acting harshly and according to the law i think that today are going to tear soon to be known as the police have demonstrated those qualities in a number of cases despite heavy criticism regarding the work of our interior ministry it's obvious that we cannot use only the police force we should come up with a comprehensive response politics should not move on to the streets but that politics should have its own channels of expression and that may also be street politics only if it complies with the existing laws we have rallies demonstrations picketing for that but there should be certain permissions there is direct democracy which is

normal that i said it many times that we're moving towards direct democracy in some cases the procedures we forgotten about will be brought back into existence but this kind of politic should also be of a different character or else. i wanted to ask you how you felt about japan's reaction to your visit to the curial islands. well what about me nothing has changed for me the japanese seem tense or. both of take hold back then bassett are. you going. well i'm sincerely sorry that i was the reason for a break in his political career that was not what we aim for i'm not sure now what he will do but let me remind you that all of the south could allow that is the territory of the russian federation the president is allowed to visit them you know why has no president gone there before well it's a remote place that's true but it's our land nonetheless we have to develop the collider is to ensure that the people there live well i promise that to the locals

i told them that and then sent deputy prime minister chevelle off to work there he's still working and we will send other officials to the corals but this doesn't mean we're not ready to cooperate with japan we welcome any initiatives on joint economic projects taking into account. the historical events that took place there we're ready to work with them but this doesn't mean that we will give up the corals as our territory our partners have to understand that. our way to meet new press. in the global media have made we can leaks the main brand of the year there's no doubt about that how do you feel about it. but that's sort of what's been revealed is interesting some things were quite surprising you know you're afraid if we can leaks why would i be afraid to the department of state might be afraid not me they might try to but you know if i was scared of what people might write about me i would never go onto the internet or watch television the person who issues this kind of responsibility has to understand that people don't praise the authorities

too often and probably for good reason the authorities have to work efficiently but now i'm not afraid of what people might write about me as for the consequences of the publication might have an effect on other countries relations but not on our relations with the u.s. we all understand the general attitude of the media and the public we get that information from television and newspapers you open sources so we saw nothing new this reminds me of the story that happened to a soviet diplomat he served as ambassador in a european country and had been granted an audience with the queen but after the audience he sent a cable back home saying the queen asked me about dissidents i had to bring her down a peg that's what happens with diplomats they show each other how tough they are putting labels on everybody every profession has its own rules our diplomats write to each other to everyone's entitle to their minute of fame including ambassadors and diplomats. who were very involved. thank you for this in-depth conversation we sure have been you here on behalf of our audience it would be naive to see we

hope the next year will be better we just wish you a happy new year you think number of the usual. thank you very much i would like to say that i wish you happy new year to a promise that i will do it again. you know when that will happen short of. it came here dr swan. policeman's wives minister's wife i just. if you didn't find me if i could just live through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual abuse at least four million

women are affected by abuse every year those are two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him i'm in jail or he's going to kill me. this week's news on r t the historic arms reduction deal between russia and the u.s. goes ahead of both countries a lower house of russia's parliament voted to give initial approval to the commitments on friday after it was approved for ratification by the u.s. senate a few days earlier. tensions while high on the korean peninsula s.p.l. and yang threatens a sacred nuclear war if seoul carries out more war games speaking on state t.v. even though its troops have accused the south of provoking a balance of attacking an island last month. warsaw questions russia's

findings on april's plane crash which killed the former polish president and ninety five other people the labor leaders brother claims the body buried. doesn't belong to but experts say moscow has conducted a thorough investigation. up next we'll bring you the latest sports highlights with ender. hello there thanks for watching the sport and this is what is coming up. the latest from the kontinental hockey league where atlanta defeated nama had a full straight win. last in england the busy festive period begins is chelsea prepared to face arsenal in the big guy. also low enough unveiled their latest signing international with fuel that you put him after they. start

their with the kontinental hockey league. good form continues beating western conference latest anonymous three nil for their fourth way in a row official to the world over the break for the hosts elsewhere service tell the top leader to one for their fourth win in five and there were no problems for local . letting twice in their sixteen thrashing go. through their worst record in the twenty two defeats in thirty five games this season. but still into the football now where i did have the chance to increase their lead in the english premier league on sunday they host sunderland in the boxing day fixture at old trafford and expect to welcome back plays hit by flu you know mandeville and anderson have recovered from the illness is a united top at christmas for the first time in four years and could go five points clear of arsenal who play chelsea on monday sunderland who is six face a number of selection problems they'll be without danny welbeck who's on loan from united and is not allowed to face his parent club while the cattermole be suspended

and join mensa is it. meanwhile to see if he could go top themselves if united slip up roberto mancini's men are two points off the top and play away newcastle but the city boss says he feels he's kept in colors tevis should say sorry to the club's fans the arjun time had. said he wanted to leave eastlands and then in a dramatic u. turn decided to stay and cheney says on the club's website the fans still love him but he should apologize but in other games on sunday spurs travel to fellow wolves take on we're going to both love biting to get out of the relegation zone often inside west face following her only for everton who beat city last time i entertained table teams blackburn and study head to head the prize packages say far this season bolton and west brom face each other at the bolton boss owen call saying that seventh place in the table is well deserved. to see where

we are where there are a mirror because we're going to. suggest that we should probably have more points more with after this point. because his mind is what we can affect is what's in front of us and to do that we need more of the same stance against west brom books and. so on monday it is chelsea against arsenal at the emirates with both teams aiming to win their respective bad runs the blues have drawn their last three games while winning just one in two months something that desperate to change is important because. in their fight for the. kind of. game my thinks in this period. but i am happy to play this game because getting the. we move on after the bad moment and we are able to come back to play our football and to try to do everything to him as for the gun as they have

struggled against chelsea in the past couple of years having not beaten since two thousand and eight so they'll be looking to break that record on monday with several key players back from injury clearing the rb flabbergasts and van persie. we have mixed feelings because we came out of both games against. man united but it was possible. there was not a difference between the teams and so we have a good opportunity to show that in the coming months and to show as well i believe our room for improvement is bigger than any of the team because we are very young side and so it's a whole room where we respond to what happened to us in the end in man united. in other football unusually in our day with the new manager it into milan after rafael benitez was sacked leonardo has had two stints within his arch rivals ac milan

during his playing days and managed the side last season but now the brazilian is back at the san siro to help his former foes he signed an eighteen month contract into won the treble last season under getting the radio today thirty seventh in the table. also back on familiar form a locomotive manager u.-t. szymon he's returned to manage the nomic kiev after leaving them two years ago during his last time in charge he led kearney into the title of cup semi before joining russian premier league side walk a mighty sherman was sacked by the railway men at the end of last season and is signed a three year deal with replacement by eddie. transfer now in spain barcelona have officially unveiled their latest signing twenty four year old dutch midfielder. the former pearce joins the catalans in a four and a half the deal for an estimated three million euros twenty four year old underwent medicals on thursday and put pen to paper on the deal on friday has won thirty one

international caps with the never been scoring goals for the orange squad. with a lot of blues a plea. for the. blues to blue. told me to. the club in the world and. no one. was from your dream. was staying in spain because it was a case of rearm past meeting the clubs present and all for a noble cause top former and current galactica stars in action in the spanish capital raising money for charity well cup winners. and the things that down were in action along with portugal's most. go down them feet have been enjoying retirement at the t. thirty eight year. teamed up to show that competitive spirit is still intact by reality current cassius unable to hold down the fourth against the veterans as his

team lost by four real winners they are the place chants of. what came out here today to help the efforts of luis and the kim this match was for the children and i believe we have to host these types of events as often as we can because some. first of a k one tournament has been held in the mosque explaining all his rabbit the don. years often dissipated and was rewarded when one of the world's major mixed martial arts brands he won one and made it to russia most a region close to the first ever international k. one event the king of kings tournament no wrestling no grappling is the ultimate or if kicking and punching ok one is where different standup pointing to meeks like kick boxing karate and white tie collide in one ring.

me of the scale one style. doing very good but still not modified style at a tournament style that i like i want a mouse. in m m a living legend for tuncay one world champ and that's the hoost was called a man with dutch boy or a youngster smile but a legend in your corner was no no to a joke to turn korean champ in mood who won by decision. pressure of. i told him for the orbiter from the start that it would reza. but it was stepping back over time and had the. ball but he got back. with remove quota for on sunday night it was raining will keep books and chant then. it was a real clean breast there was mr who's the most the ukrainian was quick to set the

record straight against prince a leap to no downs forced the referee to stop the full length of the bout between japan's hero and russian giant convenient aloft recalled the epic battle between david and goliath in this case says merit in their loss mess one out of to bill russian alexi who didn't have easily made his way to the samis last visit but john still pay wait. it came down to the final four where who spader it bubbles around health place a big heap of trouble in a lot the green and juice probably the only tactics that could have given him the edge loci x. and he's been worked forcing a lot of to give of the fight in the first round so long as he would have been very silly of me to trade punches with all of a plus it was important to finish him a soon as possible three fights a night that's exhausting i should have saved some energy for the final. meanwhile

the two thousand and six world type books and jen pan alexei couldn't prove he's cleansed by knocking out to the in moment later and putting war back in the ring with a final rumble concentrated in coach's best describe the first round. that are left in a slight edge in the second although the most powerful looks feet and aggressive in the third of the two x. or around judges and crowd belted the american bells count but it was bundles of real funnily try the kings crown on. it's great that russia finally hosted a k. one event as i always feel at home here i had to win here and i did as just a first step on my way to the top of the world in k one possibly gore's robots were in on r.t.e. . in my tough sport now it is the season to be jolly and a bit silly saying hey raise some brain india actually in

a way they take it quite seriously hosting the annual norwegian radia racing championship make a move to a reindeer pound in reaching speeds of sixty kilometers an hour and seeing was crowned champion for twenty ten and says he'll definitely be back next year defend his title. congratulations to him that is all the sport. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global

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official tee up location. called touch from the. lights on the. video on demand. and omissions feeds now with the palm of your. machine on the dot com. glad the democrats and republicans came together to approve my top national security priority for this session of congress the new start treaty the historic arms reduction deal between russia and the u.s. goes ahead in both countries after washington's political games threaten to stall the agreement. and in other news this week tensions fly high on the korean peninsula as pyongyang threatens a sacred nuclear war if so continues to provoke it with war war games near the disputed sea border. war suppressions russia's findings on april's plane crash

which killed the former polish president by experts say moscow has conducted a thorough investigation. watching r.t. coming to life from moscow on marina joshie welcome to the program this week the new nuclear cuts a deal between moscow and washington was given the nod in both countries the lower house of russia's parliament voted on friday to give initial approval to the agreement which will slash the side's nuclear arsenals by a third it was approved for ratification by the u.s. senate a few days earlier following months political wrangling but mushin lawmakers will continue their debate in the new year over the ratification documents produced by the senators these committee washington ten missile defense system and modernizing its nuclear arsenal.