you're watching our team now here's a recap of the top stories we're covering for you today iraq's christian community shrinks as thousands are displaced in the face of growing violence against the minority christians say they fall victim not only to extremists but also to the unwillingness of security forces to protect. us sex presidential candidate john mccain calling russia the soviet union at the security conference in munich drawing attention to the three could of course of american politicians experts say it exposes a lack of expertise in global affairs and highlights ignorance that american voters should not accept. and

a fresh wave of anti-government rages sweeping across egypt as labor unions and state media join the popular unrest the country's embattled regime responds with threats and ultimatum warning to protesters of dire consequences. the relations between london and moscow have been rocky of late with many on resolved issues still hanging over the two parties spoke to the new russian ambassador to britain alex on the go about how we expects the relationship to progress stay with us for that. today i'm at the russian embassy in london talking to mr alexander yack of the m.k. who's just taken up the post as the new russian ambassador to the u.k. he was formerly of the press department at the ministry in moscow thank you very much for talking to us he congratulations on your new pasting and a very warm welcome to london now who took up your first post as a diplomat in one nine hundred seventy six how do you think that working for the

diplomatic service and diplomatic relations between countries in general have changed since then i think since that time you know there were quite a serious changes. first of all if you look at the gender of the leaders of the countries and the agenda of the negotiations between the ministers or foreign affairs you can find you know thirty thirty five years ago. more than fifty percent were the by little issues now when the ministers are meeting they are talking about the climate change the talk about the international security so basically the big issues you know the global issues takes almost sixty or seventy percent of the agenda and that is very important this is first second there are no diplomats in the purest sense remember my experience when i headed the do russian delegation on the international space station negotiations you know for us

that was a challenge and since there was a political decisions that the diplomats should have this negotiations process. well i had my view you know in the u.s. state department you know who are basically started learning the subject together with us but after five years of negotiations when we had a good treaty and the space station you know is on the or good and that means that we're bringing more and more specialists which has nothing to do with the diplomacy . but this special is a very important you know for the international issues this is second public diplomacy and it's very important and in old democratic countries you know you hear you hear the voice of the parliament you hear the words of the people you know and the diplomats of course taking this all of these things into account that is very important for the foreign policy of every country and the media media is very interesting you know you can wake up in the morning and sometimes you receive the

news much faster than you can get this from the embassy and everybody is watching you know russia today or b.b.c. or c.n.n. and then of course everybody's aware was going on. but the role of the embassies is still very important because it is they're talking to the to the heads of states you know to the minister for foreign affairs we have every day contacts between the different departments that means that we have the precise information what's going on in the country and this is information sokol certified so on the one hand we have. some old stories but on the other hand we have a new new let's see them mention of the diplomacy which is which is quite normal on a human level relationships between the u.k. and russia are very good lots of precedents work in russia russian culture it's whitely celebrates attacks that are diplomatic and political level that not say why

do you think that's a well i think it's the task of you know for the diplomats and for the political leaders you know to get the of course. to do their best to have good to political relations and as far as the russian britain liberation who i would like to say that the last year was very fruitful from that point of view there were two meetings of the. value of the president of russia and the prime. briton that was in canada and in seoul we expect the visit of mr rove this will be next week which is very important in the event mr hague was. in brush or you know the negotiations were very productive and we expect the visit of mr cameron this year i mean the embassy we're studying preparing this visit so the the texture of the political contacts a very important but i would like to say what is even more important that you know

of course the. as you said the. the connections between the people and the russian culture is the probably this is the test for that and we know that a lot of events are going on in london a lot of people are coming russians feel comfortable in london we have thousands of them who doing business who just simply leave here and what is very important that the economic relations are going very well and the recent deal between the b.p. and the rusty after was just one of the examples but if you look at the in a broader sense what's going on the to the business this the good indicate is the level of the trade i mean we had the maximum twenty three billion dollars before the crisis now we're around fourteen billion dollars but we're moving very fast to restore this level and of course britain is the fifth largest investor in the

russian economy. that means that sometimes you're reading the newspapers that the climate is not so good you know but if you look at the deeds you'll find that the big business is really interested you know in the big deals and the last meeting of the international committee of trade and investment just showed that we had six day mentions their actions of the corporations and we are planning to. in different areas like for example. the brits will help us to make the international financial center we expect to cooperate on the energy efficiency so basically i'm very optimistic about the economic areas of cooperation between our two countries and as far as your job case what areas have you targeted that you will focus on in terms of cooperation frankly i have to to to to the point to know

all the all the areas there so this is politics definitely this is economy this is technology because you know we're building skolkovo with the brits building you know the same center not far from london so basically we're talking about the modernization and they're talking about the corporation based on the knowledge and of course this is culture you know contact between the people these are regime we're in favor of the better conditions you know we want the same conditions as we have with the routine union and we're really you know to move in this direction and definitely we'll try you know to seek the good reaction you know from the u.k. on the. i mean the whole area because you know there are no small questions in the by the relations you head of the press department at the ministry in moscow how do you assess the british press particularly the notes taken up by tabloid newspapers to think that percy's people can get an accurate perspective on international

affairs from that practice well i think i think that the first of all the british press is global that is very important so when i was in moscow you know always reading you know the british newspapers because they're not concentrated just in the local issues the taking the issues globally and in this sense they're very competitive second you know the reserve growing internet. and the third what is very interesting to me is that. the in britain you're trying to find the new ways how you know to present the news and the less they deal with murder you know to issue the the new let's say the brit between the new space between the i mean in the internet in the in the printed version it's a very interesting it's very challenging question and of course definitely it's very interesting you know for the russian press because you know if you look at the russian internet you know it's it's basically the same as in the u.k.

i mean they're just coping a lot of things but if you have a global press of the u.k. i would like to say that they get. adequate picture was going on in the world and on the national level too and what impact do you think british press coverage has on you carrying out your g.t. its ambassador well for me is very important because. definitely in bus the should read very carefully the newspapers because the first official information second you have commence the third this is you know you just can't leave with. the u.k. still harbors people sought under the russian legal system people that they selves . as and most recently. the subject of the largest claim ever made me u.k. commercial court and what do you think it would take for the u.k. to change its position on that kind of cooperation with russia that well this is a long story but this seems to me that. there are some legal procedures and

definitely we have to follow this legal procedures and you know just you just cannot say you know in general. this is there are some specific case and of course we have to deal with the every specific case you know case by case basis so i would say that you know you just change something globally. there are some i mean we have positions you know. on this medicine and i think that we have to continue the dialogue between two countries and of course this dialogue is going on the level of the. legal authorities and of course on the political level i'm going to be pushing for the u.k. to. start some cooperation with russia and. i'm not going just this is a long story i would like to say that for example if there are some rules in every country and for example when you're talking about the. people who.

who were asking you know you know to bring to russia you know definitely we would like to have the situation when the british hear us that is very important for the for the dialogue and are you suggesting that not herring you now. sometimes not sometimes yes ambassador you have got to thank you very much thank you. wealthy british style. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with my next concert no holds barred look at the global financial headlines in two cars a report on. the official. from the. video. feed now with the. apology. leg length. leg.

leg. street still keeps it secret. from the field led. me. to. the. discovery. the lead a communicate with the. three. legged. nature can give you. the.

christian community. displacing the face of growing against the. security forces to protect. the presidential candidate john mccain calling. it. conference in munich draws attention to the frequent bloopers of american politicians say it exposes a lack of expertise in global affairs and highlights an ignorance that american voters should not accept. a fresh wave of anti-government rages sweeping across egypt as labor unions and state media joined the popular unrest the country's embattled regime responds with threats and an ultimatum and warning to protesters of dire consequences. i'll be back with more news in fifteen minutes but first it's

the sports news with dmitri. welcome to the sports update here not it's very good to have a company again our top stories this hour. not to forget russia suffers defeat and thirst nature of twenty seven go down to run in abu dhabi. welcome to the chechen republic legendary dutch footballer ruud gullit touches down in caused me to take charge of russian premier league side f.c. terek. and a range team with lots of new faces of it because men prepare for the third stage of the year ahead to the swedish games. russia last start to run in their latest friendly match as they continue their preparations for next month's euro twenty

twelve qualifier against and near their worst plenty happening off the pitch as russia played their first ever match in the united arab emirates and as richard put it reports the staging of the match proved to be a success and could be repeated in the not too distant future. this could be seen as the start of a new era for russian football it's the first time a national team has played a friendly match of a neutral venue abu dhabi has been very well received by dekalb accounts and the rest of the russian national football team obscenities here are absolutely second to none while the temperature has been very mild in the low to mid twenty's which makes a very refreshing change for most of russia which is covered by a blanket of snow at the moment. the only thing lacking with spectators have a margin played in dubai as was originally supposed to be the plan b. attendance figure would have been much higher nevertheless interest in the matches been high such as the large export russian population in the u.a.e. . i don't know exactly what influence the choice of the city but if the game was

played in dubai we would have had more russian spectators to support our national side. nevertheless a couple of fires and russian fans still managed to make the game of the majority travelling from all around the emirates. i don't know how many russian fans have come to the game to support all footballers maybe a couple of thousand but they're much more iranian fans here. i feel at home now there are so many russians here russian flags everywhere we're all in high spirits and hope that our players will not let us down. iran were russia's opponents and the reigning football federation had actually paid their russian counterparts a sum reaching into hundreds of thousands of dollars to play this game venue chosen to host the matches be u.a.e. due to its warm climates and both countries having large export populations here however for the majority of fans who are watching russia play for the first time there was little to cheer about such a chance as being at

a premium the second half sort of weary looking russian side the majority of which are still in pre-season ahead of the new russian campaign failed to create many scoring opportunities while iran would still have undeserved victory in stoppage time you could see that some blows didn't have the fifty's words need to play against it was through with it. because you will is coming out of the goal. was a good preparation. players that played only those three weeks but it's no excuse i think this game did observe. those who are in the last we have seen the. still some plays the more. british football team may return to the gulf region sooner rather than later as it's rumored to catholic outside will play a friendly in qatar in late march it's been a successful experiment by the russian football union to play a friendly mansion a neutral venue for the first time was also given thousands of fans the opportunity

to watch russia play live had never previously had backed chance but unfortunately they didn't get the result they wanted as russia slipped a one nil defeat after violate iran goal played r.t. i would be united arab emirates. to domestic matters here in russia where ruud gullit has arrived in the chechen republic to take charge of premier league side f.c. terek the anxious faces of the local fans soon turning to smile when they saw the legendary dutchman exit the plane a cross the airport call it the nine hundred seventy european play of the year accepted the post some weeks back but it wasn't wednesday that here drives. for the pre-season shadel eyebrows were raised when the former a similar player took up the job in the chechen republic a region which in tears terrorist attacks on a frequent basis. arrange team with a lot of new faces that's what the russian national ice hockey team will look like at the swedish games the third stage of the euro which gets underway tonight robert jordan and is the latest update on the red machine's preparations. if he's got what

it takes to lead this team we will only be glad for him any one of the current squad should be striving to become the leader that's the best way to show what you can do on the ice so good luck to him. that he's even guinea crews newts off the eighteen year old winger is already a world youth champ and he shone in the twenty eleven all-star game last weekend another giant step is just about to be taken a dead beat in the country senior team team russia will play their first encounter in the l.g. swedish games against finland and home ice at a glance most pool region the arena. besides because it's all there is a number of players who return to the squad after a break one of them the host clubs looking forward to their field of can expect to be roared on but a passionate home crowd support. fielder further of has been in great form recently

so we just couldn't live in miles as a school and he played for the national team before and it pretty well although he hasn't fulfilled his potential yet we're given him another chance now scar striker you've given your to him is expected to bring some drive and board to the team although even more is expected of him. besides having unique natural abilities along with his size of gagne out to him is a very skilful and history man so player he play spontaneously higgins called those types of goals which encourage the team. the new world record holder for the hardest and first to slap shot. is the old hand of the russian team the other guard defender is sure the new players will give his team significant boost. and i think it will be an exciting game we have a great deal of new guys in the rows there who would like to take this chance and show what they've got it's great motivation for them. the team's latest faceoff took place in mid december when russia thrashed been one six two in the cho one cup

and it bone and desperate looking for revenge what could be a better test for russia's young hopefuls progress more than here on r t. no robert kubica remains in a stable condition following his crash at the weekend the formula one up and comer was visited by lotus for entertainment which are liberal on tuesday the russian turning up at the sun took a one horse but on a to late to see how twenty four year old computer was holding up after undergoing surgery a few days earlier had been told him might never race again but the prognosis has improved in recent days tainted evan season which begins in march in bahrain still remains adult for the pearl. who have some drinks or. at least a smile some good will to give the full one yielded we know each other i would get over those quotes and this is important to all those quote old guys. for example

break motile something gruesome photos it was easy to order. no rest for england's cricketers as they prepare to depart for the twenty eleven world cup at the weekend that team recently completed a three one triumph over australia but also suffered their one day international loss to them in perth on sunday captain andrew strauss who oversaw his team spent one hundred days on tour is now focused on the big one. the nature of international cricket is you always move on to the next thing so you know when we're old and gray we'll sit down and you know look over the footage of actually series and still be very proud of what we've achieved and you know it will go down as one of the highlights if not the about. now's not the time to look back on the time to look forward to the world cup. as it is circling now where there's a new leader over in the desert with hindsight hostler taking the advantage at the german born australian winning his second straight stage becoming the man to beat

for the peloton over leader tom boonen struggling against a strong wind suffer the puncture to drop him to fourteenth over all those who successfully braved the stage three cents don't get it all to do near the finish line and it was a person who once again was the fastest in the saddle sprinting the competition in a theists finish compare to show was right on has the sails wild and open up to his second straight put him. you have to do it no more sports news from around the world for you in two hours time here not see whether it's next by foot. hungry for the full story and we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. the sea of nature and discover its beauty.

communicate with the wild and learn. test yourself and become free. to. see what nature can give you see. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy chemicals that whether it's a sonic boom six factoring in mammals or it's the burning oil field syria or iraq or straw. in the pacific for ramming purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that care shall be

taken in a war to protect the involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that.

hi pete. pete shotton typee hotel hotel well shall his the groom photo the show with hotel. full of hotel. the hotel type the. town springs resort and spa tied to a hotel while she plans the town. paid evergreen close in time to eat lunch time to type the full point and. tell me touch him.