highs and lows of the passing year sitting down with the country's leading t.v. channels here are some of the highlights for you. mr president but a question on the new start i like one phrase in our henry short story that goes and one other accidents of that year was a democratic president cops know being a democrat a bum is different he has done a good job he has pushed this important document and you start through the same eight why did you have a conversation with him so late yesterday was he celebrated their education and all that if he cuts. know 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 some of the with of course but many. people really remember what it past event looked 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 support or worth arguing

for share your story with my. hand that the general again 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 i was shocked 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 political elite 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 them we can use looking at us there. how do you feel about

polish prime minister adult calling the interested every nation can be to report an acceptable neighborhood. well i guess that's what i would rather think that his evaluation was emotional and the result of occurrences in poland's internal politics of poland is shattered the 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 get it. pretty useless and she should use 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. 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 who are 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 if 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 even about all the country in question is a very small and doesn't have any serious geopolitical interest to us or. teach us by opening a bit about whether cough skiing i see him as the portrait of during grief or road business community every businessman does what he is accused of but how tough skin alone takes to 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 we concluded. with 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 someone that much can push us the realm of among the most tragic events this year was the massacre of civilians in a village the investigation into which highlighted the deep corruption between the police the authorities and criminals there were similar a curan says elsewhere how can this be tackled mr medvedev on there. the problem there 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 to 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 of course of course he once mentioned it our political system is showing signs of stick nation how should we deal with this while eating. 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 societies life they should be speaking openly about all the issues we have to identify what are the reason i see the meaning of. 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. 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 to such famous politicians as mystic as young of mr nunn sort 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 but at the 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 to end. a lot of what they called 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 but i'm not sure now what he will do but let me remind you that all of the south could allow them is a territory of the russian federation the president is allowed to visit them why has no president gone there before well it's a remote place that's true but it's our land nonetheless and we have to develop the kaleido 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 on that 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 and we're ready to work. with them but this doesn't mean that we will give up the colonel's altera training partners have to understand that. there are ways to meet new press. in the global media have made we kill leaks the main brand of the

year there's no doubt about that how do you feel about it. but as a sort of what's been revealed is interesting some things were quite surprising you know you're afraid of wiki leaks why would i be afraid of 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 is 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 no 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 that 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 thing including ambassadors and diplomats. who are 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 tears roll. 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 never feel he's short of time is an eighth grader.

a recap of the week's top stories from our t.v. washington give starts the green light throwing the bull rush already given its initial improvements of treaty which will see nuclear arsenal slashed by. threats and accusations between north and south korea souls ongoing war games close to the border provokes pyongyang into threats of a sacred nuclear war. open fire a aviation experts moscow's reports in the april plane crash that killed the polish president and ninety five

others poland refuses to accept the findings. on a story happening right now the power of back all in one of moscow's. freezing. cold to behold. twenty two forty five moscow thomas talksport with andre rather on drew. yeah that's right i meant that i might need of course grew the. united states in the english premier league or the results. hello there thanks for watching the sport and this is what is coming up. high flying monkey because they're incredible december run going in the. water he told the national side has learned his lessons from a disappointing twenty ten. munched united people the top spot in england after

victories. start though with the kontinental hockey league were informed that they make me to go out when number six this month to make three likely because anyone see seven games in the whole of december. because nets beat a more or defending champions. goal for to sell about your life came back from behind and scored for an ounce of gold to be released. into your skull got a second win in a row with victory over. god got a good win on the road with the nominees denominator got the better of you in overtime. to stay with the ice hockey because twenty time was a year to forget for russia's national hockey team there was the shock seven three defeat to canada at the olympics while a star studded lineup failed to bring home gold at the world championships poor feet caught up with the head coach for just because he says the next few years will

be a rebuilding process for russian hockey. it's been a very difficult year for the russian national team the loss in the quarter finals of elin breaks to the canadians and the feat in the final of the world championships how difficult has it been for you personally this by the way it is difficult not to lose not just in sport but as a rule in life in general good of the most important thing is to make the right moves and to pick your head up and start moving forward again it's a necessary fact of life in order to improve one must also experience what it's like to lose of course the defeat to canada in the olympics was difficult to swallow not just for us but also the team's fans and the country as a whole at the world championships we tried to play more attacking hockey and finishing second isn't the worst result in the world and you always want to finish first but that isn't always possible as at the moment there are five or six teams who also want to win gold and count do so as again sometimes it's important to lose

in order to move forward barger pretend that you a little surprised that of course i was surprised that what happened i would never have expected us to lose seven three in a quarter final against canada when you're in a situation like this when you go behind quickly it's very important to make quick decisions to try and turn the game back in your favor when things are going against you one must never start to show their emotions it's imperative to stay calm to try and give yourself a chance but unfortunately this didn't happen and psychologically we weren't able to compete with the canadians more and more russian veterans returning to play in a cage from the n.h.l. does this mean it's much harder for russian youngsters to break into the national team is one of them on the list trying to build a national team around the best russian players whether they're old or young or that there are two or three youngsters going volved at the moment at the world junior championships and buffalo are a few i will be interested in having a look at once they get back and call them out to the national school. on the other

hand these veterans can give these russian youngsters a wealth of experience a great deal of them's to play alongside experienced and talented players is an invaluable source of support as they're able to teach youngsters so much about the game both on and off the ice after returning to play in russia i think these veterans understand that it's part of their job to try and teach the new generation of just like how they were taught by more experienced players when they were starting out their careers process has been a long time since russia's produced a player of the caliber of alexander ovechkin or and guinea mao can already have a players out there but moments who could perhaps become as good as one of these three players which i mentioned last years. we do have some talented young players the most important thing is that they want to become stars and if they are prepared to put in the necessary work in order to achieve this they've got everything at

their feet in order to reach the same sort of level of the three players you've mentioned everything is in their hands a star is only born when a player is ready to become a star on us and i gotta look at them ok shell is now in his first season is this the toughest year of competition in your opinion at the it's a very interesting season as i'd say the gap between the clubs is closing i think this shows that the league is growing in stature and the teams in the cage are developing and it's getting tougher and tougher to win the going cup figure ever so much for your time. now let's turn to the football when manchin ited states top of the english premier league after two know when i was sunderland berbatov scoring twice at old trafford to ensure they stay two points clear of i was manchester city . scored twice for them as they beat you castile three one changes part of spurs a fit after a two one win over villa despite having to face off in the first half with both goals for tottenham boss meanwhile top of the table after they lost to wigan and west ham they've fallen away i still got

a two year when their burn involved and got the better of west brom a couple of games worth responding because of the weather evidence game against us called off as black hole versus liverpool now that win by united puts the pressure on arsenal to get a result against chelsea on monday at the emirates the gunners five points off the top and have had poor results against their rivals recently but are itching to beat the blues to the first time since two thousand the night we have mixed feelings because we came out of both games against. man united but it was possible and. it was not the difference between the teams and so we have a good opportunity to show that in the coming months and to show as well and i believe our room for improvement is bigger than any of the team because we are very young side and so it's whole room will respond to what happened to us.

and that man united. chelsea meanwhile are trying to get back to winning ways they've drawn the last three games in a slip to fourth spot but i'm happy to have the chance to put things right it's important game because. both team are involved in the fight for the title really one i think the team can remember this game will be excited game my things in this period. but i happy to play this game because between the. we move on after the moment we are able to come back to play a world food bowl and to provide to do everything to him in russia welcome back to moscow have started their pre-season early this year with new coach who are recursion ajahn saying reinforcements are needed for their next campaign he replaces your the shaman who was sent to the end of the season after guiding the railway men to fifth spot and the europa league place close in asia and took spot

it now takes the sixth place in the same season and has been casting is i over his new squad most of the foreign stars including first choice striking to me saw a child was absent cousin john has made it clear he wants to bring in some new faces. but without question the team meet somewhere in force moves you can come from the outside as well as from the inside and the internal structure is the main thing we're focused on right now as well as getting players physically ready for the training camp now the news for my stars of synchronised swimming or putting on a christmas show in moscow the before moments was produced by three time olympic champion maria castello over who now hopes it could reach a global audience let me spin back took his seat at the pool side. they will be a few seats mouse over the next two weeks and they're in piskies swimming pools in the sky maybe the steam has created

a unique show huge and reassuringly serious reamers but diverse and. he said over his troika several two creations of the show are time and six years ago but says she is no happy with this show but it was easy and if the kids love their own performance then we're happy if we manage to keep their attention throughout the show and they love this place delightful then we've achieved some success. the main star of the spectacle is another limbic champion or group is real and she plays the leader mir meet your fairy tale by a famous writer hence to eastern anderson. and the rest of the your former school the show will take off in the capital and plan to spread the show all over russia and we'd be around the world. like the rest of our party. and well christmas stand under is a bit warmer than in moscow and there's been plenty of color there too with the

sixty six sydney to hobart yacht race getting underway eighty seven yachts headed out to sydney harbor with the price favorite wild oats leading the fleet which makes its way along the new south wales coastal low choppy seas are expected over the coming days in the bass strait as they try to complete the six hundred twenty eight nautical miles to the fastest yacht will finish in around two days' time the slowest could take up to a week and that is always support for the mine will have more feel like.

the top stories for marty's review of the week washington starts the greenlight throwing the ball to russia given its initial approach to a treaty which will see nuclear arsenals slashed by. threats and accusations between north and south korea souls ongoing war games close to the border provoke threats of a sacred nuclear war. open aviation experts back moscow's reportedly a plane crash that killed the polish monkey five poland refuses to accept the

findings. of a story developing right now. but after major delays and cancellations many passengers are still stranded. with nothing lights up and running and a power cut mean that the number of people still being affected. welcome this is r t it's eleven pm here in moscow my name is kevin zero in with our top stories in our review of the week and first after months of delay a landmark nuclear cut steel between russia and the u.s. is on the verge of being brought into force this week the new strategic arms reduction treaty or start was approved by both russian and american lawmakers the state duma the lower house of russia's parliament voted in favor of the treaty.