russian diplomat of accusations of serious irish passport is being used in some. dublin is accusing the russian secret service of stealing the real irish identity speed order to cover up its secret operations in the united states for a while before we were in the broader. international news live from moscow this is our sea with me thanks for joining us and our top story now under arrest continues in egypt after embattled president hosni mubarak announces he won't seek reelection and polls due in september but many gyptian is on the streets for over a week want him out now and an end to thirty years of martial law on the his role around three hundred have died and over three thousand have been injured since that prize he began a week ago policy in cairo has been following the latest developments. hundreds of

thousands of people turned out into here we square in cairo in cairo demonstrators arriving in other cities alexandria sewers and numerous smaller villages and towns throughout the country organizers had hoped for one million difficult to say whether or not they reached their figure but no doubt the army kept to its word not to get involved only reports we're hearing from the army are that they did arrest the suggs and saboteurs the police though were busy on the streets they stopped many hundreds of thousands of protestors from reaching their destinations we know that people were blocked in capetown bridges people prevented from actually reaching their final destination the latest word from the opposition camp is that they have given will barak and told friday to meet his demands they are saying that they are prepared to meet with his vice president omar suleiman but then they will not meet with mubarak directly to discuss their concerns. u.s. president barack obama was one of the first international leaders to respond to mubarak's announcement calling for the beginning of

a peaceful transition in egypt but american foreign policy analyst well that anyone says without mubarak the u.s. would be left without a go to guy for in the middle east most americans they see the pictures on t.v. they empathize with the protesters in the demand for democracy and free and fair elections but you see a rear guard in washington saying you know oh my god mubarak is are are going to lose archives in future for u.s. interests in the region you know what are these u.s. interests that well they're very narrow for example trying to maintain the economic blockade on gaza this is a policy that to current egyptian government is pursued supported by the u.s. maintaining the split between fatah and hamas. among palestinians this is the policy of the egyptian government has his pursuit supported by the u.s. these are paws these are likely to fall if there is a democratically elected egyptian government in the words the most extreme policies

promoted by the united states found as u.s. policymakers anticipated all stick compost mubarak congressman dennis kucinich to what the uprising in egypt means america will be forced to rethink its entire strategy in the middle east. there's an election going on right now it's a voice vote and millions gyptian people are having their voice registered for profound and transformational change in their country and i think that we need to take note of that this is time for washington to make reappraisal of the relationship to the most news in the arab world not just with respect to be a branch that are happening in egypt but to look across the board and to see that we're at a transformational moment in history and it's not up to the united states to pick the leaders of any country and while i believe that in many respects we're still an indispensable nation for the purposes of helping people we have to be very careful

of when our reach would try to tilt the balance in favor of one candidate or one group as opposed to another we we really cannot a controlled event in egypt you know every year the united states gives the country of egypt about two billion dollars and about one point three billion. goes to the military but you know that doesn't necessarily buy us the ability to influence the outcome of this event. russia has been remembering the man who played a key role in the fall of the soviet union and a shooting and you democracy in the ninety's boris yeltsin would have turned him to stay became brushes fast democratically elected president and is remembered for his sweeping reforms and a full stride personality but even after his death he also has legacy is still elicits a mixed response from russia's renegotiate articles from the moscow symmetry whether they president is a bit. of course there is a variety of events all across the country being held to mark the eightieth

anniversary since birth here in the center of moscow is no a day which a cemetery people have been coming since the morning hours laying down flowers wreaths his family was here among a lot of visitors they flew in actually. from the from you can soon the hometown of the late former president where commemorative events were held as special marbled long human two was unveiled there and the then set the current events were attended by a russian president with me very different who said that the legacy of boris yeltsin is hard to underestimate. well the path of our first president was a very difficult one every single citizen of our country realizes this today the first president always has his work cut out for him he needs to change the entire political system and this was the fight that befell boris yeltsin we must admit

that he was up to the tosk and stood his ground honorably with a modern but not perfect country we live in today was created fangs to boris yeltsin and everyone who helped him build the foundations of a new nation also when you consider we're going to moral center on the ring the late former president will be open that will be dedicated to civil society and human rights something which a lot of people in russia connect to boris yeltsin with a lot of people say that he'll took over at the very hard time for russia the country the soviet union was dissolving at that point and a lot of things were falling apart literally and the verbal the end if it was really a hard task for a new leader and boris yeltsin tried to discuss a lot of people say that he took over and. put further implications and a further extensions to put his story that he essentially started democracy in russia at the same time

a lot of people say that they cannot make reforms which he conducted or allowed to be conducted or not done properly and a lot of people seem to just suffer from them so i give it the say is so again even four years after his death a lot of people cannot agree cannot come to one conclusion also what boris yeltsin remains for russia but michael the good sort of like a spoke to some people who were close to him and she shares their views in this report. he never doubted he would live to celebrate his country of birth date but instead he says we don't have to find a bacteria's while opening an exhibition time to what have been his eightieth jubilee in nearly four years since boris gelfand doubt the agony of loss has given way to quiet remembrance. but you have really large family gatherings by the day usually celebrations with doors and. most of these photos show yeltsin in his early years in power but he had the backing of almost the entire country when voicing

your political position was still an act of novelty and courage and went hopes of a different life in a better country are still untainted by the harsh reality of the war in chechnya which himself admitted it was a mistake the banking crisis that would cripple the already impoverished population all of these from the come later and some argue that in fairly obscure all the good that yeltsin had done. anything largest debt or perceived from a distance especially in history i think we still need more time for the emotions and troubles to give way to serious analysis of what to take tannic figures really was. but because service he's had of protocol for more than eight years and of all the else in the explosive character and unpredictable temperament often contravene the dry rules of diplomatic engagement but the mayor says he had never had a better boss. never thwarted a single event and he was never emotionally he could be absolutely unpredictable

and do what no one expected him to do like his famous conducting of an orchestra for example and again he was. he turned his head and saw the shift change that was the only one who was objecting dragging him away all the other people around him were applauding. he was there straight into power by the great hopes of his people he left office full of regrets for not fulfilling all of them and it was only after yeltsin passed away that country can start to examine his legacy in all its complexity yeltsin seven to perth there were celebrate the past two or accolades but one day later even those who criticized him very harshly. i'm trying to be gracious investment of character and policies because it when they have come to realize that with all his ups and downs yeltsin was the very epitome of the ninety nine to x. in a way the arts moscow and sergey struck in

a political analyst from russia's called their sun newspaper says the may have disappointed many russians he still brought winds of change to a troubled country several years after his death. president gives of course the first president off independent russia it remains a very controversial figure and he's legacy is really a hot potato issue which is dividing the russian probably some like communists and the nationalists would never forgive him of the demise of the soviet union or the great problem how how he how they call it ah this definitely would applaud him saying that he was the person who crushed communism and who brought the wind of change and we all democracy to russia he had some was a controversial figure he was on the one hand a democrat but. at the same time. rah rah no ronald the points from. that today even nine hundred ninety three he didn't hesitate to use them to shell

the problem and in the constitutional crisis they were also. this is also part of he had some legacy. and that's why of course that this is the he's there which is more of the blood more one can deny that but at the same time you does it equally drooled that we managed to undergo those tests and we're really made as a strong power. and of course there's always more news views and blogs on our website called but here's some of what's waiting for you right now. we do understand that you have opposed a raft of new sanctions on bellaire use of the decembers post election violence they say the violence will only be looked at when everyone detained or when it's called brothers is released plugs. into play down what happened and what a supermodel is going to help the northern to russia's prime minister to talk big cap and buys an. island is expanding

a russian diplomat after accusing its intelligence services of making false irish passports for use an espionage dublin claims the identities of six irish citizens were taken to great account of the documents for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year. ireland claims that this deportation of the russian diplomat as a result of an investigation we started right after last summer's spy scandal between moscow and washington when a group of people were found guilty in the united states of being secret russian agents some of them had irish last names including such popular surnames as murphy and farley irish authorities say that they started looking into how valid is possible and now they're accusing the russian intelligence service of stealing six real existing irish identities in order to forge irish passports which were allegedly used to cover up some of these secret operations in the united states and

just to remind you this was the biggest spy scandal between moscow and washington since the cold war in iran the whole group was deported from america in exchange for another group of people serving time here in russia after having been found guilty of being foreign spies it was largely covered by international media that's when the name of shopman first turned up with the russian young successful businesswoman who was also accused by the united states of being a secret russian agent and quickly was deemed by the international media as the real james bond girl so far concerning the deportation of the russian diplomat from ireland so there hasn't been any reaction from the foreign ministry here in moscow dublin also hasn't really been giving out much information we don't know this diplomats name we don't know whether he was directly connected to this alleged forgery and we don't know why and exactly he's going to be deported but i wish i

did say however that they hope this incident would not affect the relations with moscow. a quick look at some other news making headlines this hour north and south korea have said every eighth military talks the first talks in six months during which relations obliged to that west in decades the breakthrough came after you down agreed to this kind of the sinking of the frigate troian blamed on by blade nonstate so another bizarre chiller at times on the south which claimed for two lives in all both incidents and massive war games by seoul upheld fuel tensions between the church the previous attempt at the summit before the times lots to to differences over food aid for the young. the king of jordan has dismissed his entire government and appointed a new prime minister amid growing unrest in the arab world they were shuffle comes as jordanians have taken to the streets are the highest food prices and poor living conditions so what journal and from yet my roots crackheads has been appointed to

head the new government by king abdullah and in order to take new prime minister to launch and lead to political reforms i say that this company is. back to one of our top stories now russia's remembering its first president boris yeltsin who would have turned eighty on tuesday up next also he said fish of another's it talks to the late leaders the head of protocol the measure of china that it tells us about their real boris yeltsin. the real.

but the mesh live in mr sze chen clinic thank you very much for joining us today so the new rochelle what else you know is to first president of russia what were the main new protocol procedures that came with him. i think will be more relevant to describe how i got the job with the new russia and yeltsin as the presidents of you know there was no protocol we had some innovations with mikhail gorbachev when i was head of his protocol and i was the first assume the position soon after he was elected president of the soviet union we had not succeeded in many respects though so i was invited to a nikolayevich when i had been hired and we began to build up this protocol it was indeed rather interesting each of us thought he was in charge so an entourage developed around the president the first thing to be done was to implement the president's instructions and create a precedent for protocols. apparently we would not come up with anything new

because protocol everywhere is always unbending most importantly we do everybody's attention to us with this protocol with this precedence you know i'm pleased to see the protocols are nearly everywhere there's no such thing that someone says one thing and someone else says something completely different i was very lucky that we . were very particular about his work he was fond of the protocol of order and would never be late anywhere he would find it unacceptable if someone was late which was why i had the tough task of explaining to him someone's lateness. yeltsin was a very spontaneous person surely infringements of protocol were inevitable will. he was indeed spontaneous but you know he never french protocol he may have deviated from some or it's a good norms but many people confuse these things for protocol however he never disrupted any event it was never late but being emotional he might do something totally unexpected or more like the time when he famously conducted an orchestra

again it depended on with his mood and you have to understand eleven. as he turned his head back it was only the stunned shift he tried to signal that it should be stopped all of the rest were just standing around in applauding it. was there are no occasion when you felt awkward and when they're ready to say that's it i'm giving up and quitting when much of. when i approached him there was never an instance when he would give up and say go away if that had happened i probably would have quit but he would always listen to me it was impossible to guide him but it was possible to come to an agreement of so much and he would keep his word while i had the right to keep him on the no yeah. i suggested by rumor has it that yeltsin personally inspected the gifts handed to foreign delegations our heads of states. a little is said about europe seen as a person he was a unique person who went through all kinds of things in life born into a common family right through his life to his death he was always his own man it's

worth saying first and foremost that he was really into sports including fishing and hunting hard to believe that even age seventy if you go swimming in water that was only seven or nine degrees. he was very particular about gifts he was supposed to give to heads of state or whoever this work was very hard it was my job to prepare those gifts and he would select them we had a special group that looked into along with the foreign ministry the interests of the person in question to make the gift to his or her liking normally would get bunches of letters of gratitude to the head of state will to me what a gift might seem to be insignificant to the first for instance when you president chirac during his student years was fond of pushkin the bull was so we bought him a full edition of pushkin in thirty volume believe me then for instance what we supposed to present to president clinton what it took us a long time before we decided on donating to him a statute of clinton himself playing the saxophone with him it would be granted and said hold it don't give away of otherwise they'll break it. must have made

a fantastic thing indeed was he himself fond of rich. was he practical or about what was donated to him. and i had great friendly relations with people who worked with many state leaders they would ask me about yeltsin's hobbies and due to this i found myself in a real nice as they begin to present records in tennis balls and civil devices but we got so many that we didn't know where to put them all but he's nikolaevitch gave instructions that everything should be mainly food it's just force academy was once we revealed the secret bodies nikolaevitch was very fond of history books and rare editions but there are two options when a person can be handed through a protocol or impersonal that he did the latter usually to get stones in the gift and was in turn we handed nose of the presenters and openness of talk about and take away almost evolved to memory where a prominent common history of stuttering a trip through say a period with a delegation from japan kill agile

a promise to give the carols to japan is this some sort of a historical. thing of the kind happens it's a historic joke here with the can't guarantee was done when he was chairman of the supreme council and he indeed had his first job was to play in it when he was already presidents there was no question about the horrible because i attended all the meetings including with her she moved to you during your absence trips to japan the bottles on the contrary we had to work long and home and given away the career was never in question. but the boat search was a man who never has attained it to talk to his people and never fear to look straight into the eyes of those people what stories can you recall empathy with him . he would spontaneously go out to the people into the crowd you can imagine that in such cases the people were only happy when that happened all over the cat friends in russia and abroad. yes especially in southern russia actually wherever we went by something different when

he had retired and we went to latvia during his presidency he had never visited lot . i was surprised that you know we didn't go to a predominantly russian speaking area but to call and in the very heart of latvia we many don't even speak russian what with one of a crowd of fifteen hundred or two thousand gathered when you mirth were people understood the role that he took own horrible thought it was easy to destroy build but on the other hand it was necessary to build up a new life so as the people could feel some real changes taking place he would be really present they also were subjected to severe criticism during his presidency obviously people in such positions right here worked out some kind of any unity which enabled them to distance their minds from it and keep on doing their job well humans at the end of the day were his feelings hurt one or two of what really goes without saying that he wants her more than once it was suggested that we should sue them but he would never results of that let them speak they must have this. new to

those we were. with ms eighty eight anniversaries be accelerated lower than his seventy years when he was still alive because he's that liberated of war of literally as he passed away. when he turned seventy he was very ill for the celebrations past nearly unnoticed as a matter of fact what we had in store for the celebrations we used only a year later. he was out of his eightieth birthday of time goes on people are comparing what we had before and what we had after russia was moving on and i believe our citizens do not want to rock the past back to the one nine hundred ninety s. to stand in queues and empty shelves in the shops. on the first and the one thousand square extremely difficult times with events that sure can shape the country not every ruler faces so many groundbreaking events during his presidency sometimes it seemed he was holding not the country in his hands but a bomb that could explode at any moment how did he himself assess his time as

president what did he compare this period to speak to well before the boredom of gaza. great in that respect he was a bit reticent and would never try to compare his work with anyone else's like charles de gaulle he was apparently upset when someone went wrong and that he had actually not lived the renascence we would raise the question especially during his last months he regretted that new grievance reached with the newly formed countries of the c.i.s. when the soviet union collapsed did not turn out as planned he regretted that so much. i would wish just a good example but this is a often mention his extraordinary intuition how is the shona can you give examples when it really helped him. deal with. president clinton once said that when you can climb the tank looking into the history of the world will fade give a tough time in which to govern but history will be kind to him he said well you know he was acting on intuition or that exact moment and he feared not relating one of your i would also had a wonderful sense of humor i guess to my memory he was the only leader to always

deliver speeches without a script he would never has a tate's to poke fun at himself but it helped him and in a crucial moments. already know this but he used to read a lot and he had a brilliant memory when on board the plane i would give him some documents and after the flight he would break the local governor of a figure he had not even bothered to learn about his own region this is one of yeltsin's unique traits. because every leader wants to live in dignity yeltsin resigned under his own volition however the way was what made the movie unique he had analysed the roads had he been preparing for that for a long time i believe since the surgery all throughout nine hundred ninety eight survey of the will of the us would was adequate reaction did he expect or. he did not expect any reaction when the election took place he had selected a candidate for the not expected any appeals for him to come directly he never even thought about it so he said i'll take care of russia i made it free your mission is

to protect russia when he was aware of not being physically strong enough besides his a. age was an issue so he chose to give way to the younger generation that's for sure he did help put in and turn the power circle didn't he what relations did they have what a progressive they had a great relationship and this remains are we are a happy nation during this period founded by bodies nikolaevitch know what they're just consider the effort to buddy cynical overgenerous family his widow of viet of a near wipes with this one american told me the president is always the president either good or bad nixon had his watergate but he was considered the president was a what was yeltsin's life like after the presidency and i don't mean on the every day rotating cast he peace of mind or perhaps his feelings were hurt or on the contrary he thought later he had done everything he could upon. he was not hurt he may have had tensions at meetings some items were discussed with the leadership

then he would agree to something that we never published in the press no need for them you bro it would be inappropriate to manifest a kind of pressure on his behalf. the anthem was that he just could not accept that to some extent he did not like a system of appointing regional governors rather electable hospital later he began to analyze it and the thought of it being perhaps a problem moved on although it would be proper to return to elections some days he was not overly confident and he would never ask for too much of it would make millions for trips older than he would travel five six eight times to various regions a year because as a matter of fact of we have not seen the on ordinary approaches can you and i thank you very much. we.

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