at two thirty pm on scout time these are the headlines from our to iraq's christian community shrinks as thousands are displaced in the face of growing violence person say they fall victim not only to extremists but also to security forces unwillingness to attack. john mccain calling russia the soviet union at the security conference in munich draws attention to the frequent bloopers of u.s. politicians experts say it exposes a lack of expertise in global affairs. and a fresh wave of anti-government rages sweeping across egypt as labor unions and state media join the popular there on the u.s. . relations between london and moscow have been rocky of late with many on resolve

issues still hanging over the two parties spoke to the new russian ambassador to britain alexander you go about how he expects the relationship to progress. today i am at the russian embassy in london talking to mr alexander yet again k. has 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 of foreign affairs you can find that 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 talking 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 pure 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. 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 were made a good treaty and the space station you know is on the orbit and that means that we're bringing in 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 and public diplomacy is very important and in all 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 the b.b.c. or c.n.n. and of course everybody is aware was going on. but there are all 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 so-called 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 is whitely celebrates attacks that are diplomatic and political level that not say it why do you think that well i think it's the task 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. president of russia and the prime. mr britain 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. texture of the political contacts a very important but i would like to see 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 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 directions 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 corporation between our two countries and as far as your job case what areas of you target set that you will focus on in terms of cooperation i'll tell you frankly i have to to to to to to point to you know all the all the areas they'll say this is politics definitely this is economy this is technology because you know we're building skulk over there 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 visa 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 ready you know to move in this direction and definitely we'll try you know to see 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 to the ministry in moscow how do you assess the british press particularly the notes taken up by tabloid newspapers to think that british 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 reason 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 last idea of the murder you know to issue the the new let's say the hebrew 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 look at the press of the u.k. i would like to say that the 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 it's 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 live with. the u.k. still harbors people sought under the russian legal system people that they sell ski. and most recently mucked up. the subject of the largest plane ever made me u.k. commercial courts and what do you think it would take for the u.k. to change its position on that kind of cooperation with russia 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 notice 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 change. cooperation with russia on matters like. 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 are 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

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well they're welcome to the sports too it's very good company again our top story this hour. not to forget russia's suffers defeat and just trying to level to grant in abu dhabi. welcome to the chechen republic pledging to adopt football a good deal of touches down in bosnia to take charge of the russian premier league side see terry. and a range team with lots of new faces which the british men prepare for the stage of the euro this swedish games. that russia last start to run in their latest friendly match as they continue their preparations for next month's euro twenty told qualifier against. there was plenty happening off the pitch as russia played their first ever match in the united arab emirates and as richard 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 russia for. the first time a national team has played a friendly match of neutral venue abu dhabi has been very well received by dekalb accounts and the rest of the russian national football team opportunities 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 a moment. the only thing lacking with spectators is have a margin played in the buy as was originally supposed to be the plan the attendance figure would have been much higher nevertheless interest in the match has been high such as the large export russian population in the u.a.e. . i don't know exactly what influenced the choice of the city but if the game was played in we would have had more russian spectators to support our national side. nevertheless. a couple of thousand russian fans still manage to make the game the majority travelling from all around the emirates charlotte. i don't know how many

russian fans have come to the game to support all footballers maybe couple of thousand and they're much more iranian fans here just a justice of a car bomb of i feel at home now there are so many russians here russian flags everywhere we were in high spirits and hope that our players will not let us down that iran will russia's opponents and the waning of the federation had actually paid their russian counterparts a sum reaching into hundreds of thousands of dollars to play this game then you should to host the matches be you a huge warm climates from 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 the chances of being at a premium show the second half sort of wiry looking russian side the majority of which are still in pre-season ahead of the new russian campaign feels great many scoring opportunities while iran would steal the undeserved victory in stoppage

time you could see that some blows didn't have the fit is was new to play against he was thrilled with it. because you are his coming out of the goal for there's a good preparation. players that played only played those three weeks but it's no excuse i think this game didn't deserve a winner but those who are in the laws we have seen that. still some players before . bush's football team may return to the gulf region sooner rather than later just as is rumored dick advocaat side will play a friendly in qatar in late march as 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 by chance but unfortunately they didn't get a result they wanted as russia slipped to one nil defeat after. the late iran goal richard pombo played on the united arab emirates. france paid brazil in their

friendly in paris one nail. down to ten men at the end of the first half following this so when nonis karim benzema in the chest with his extended leg the referee had no other option but to show the brazilian and red cards. that have a blow and took his revenge fifty four minutes into the game as he scored the only goal of the match up some final play of the way by a german man assuming the final result. back to domestic matters now where in russia 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 to turn into smiles so the legends are adults from an exit the plane across the airport the nine hundred eighty seven european player be accepted the post some weeks back but it wasn't wednesday get a ride for the pre-season eyebrows were raised when they form a similar plane took up the job in the church or public bridge in which terrorist

attacks on a frequent basis. arranged team which with lots of new faces that's what the russian national i suck at him will look like at the swedish games the third stage of the year which gets underway tonight robert hodierne on has the latest update on the red machines preparations. different if he's got what it takes to lead this team we will only be glad 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 good luck to him . did he get it because he saw the eighteen year old who is already a world used. and he showed me that twenty eleven all-star game last weekend another giant step was 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 on home ice. arena. because

it's all there is a number of players return to the squad after a break one of them to host clubs looking forward to their filter of can expect to be roared on but a passionate home crowd support needed to go to further of has been in great form recently so we just couldn't live in mt as a school wants to play for the national team before indeed treats you 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 forward to the team although even more is expected of him version more besides having unique natural abilities along with his size eve guinea out to him is a very skilful and history man so player he plays spontaneously he can scald those types of course which encourage between. the new world record holder for the hardest and first to slap shot. is the old hand of the russian team the defender is

sure the new players will get used to significant boost. and i think it will be an exciting game we have a great deal of new guys in the rose 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 finland six two in the cho one cup and it boehner desperately. what could be a better test for russia's young hopefuls forward button here on r t. remains in stable condition following his crash at the weekend to formula one up and was visited by lotus relatives on tuesday the russian turning up at the hospital. to see how twenty four year old admits i was holding up on the. it's been told him might never race again but it could go so this is a recent days the season which begins in the brain remains adult for the.

adults who have some drinks and. at least a smile something it's good to give the full one yielded we know each other. still is quite similar and this is important to all goods and we choose to see for example break material something good for us 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 the team recently completed a three one ashes triumph over australia but also suffered a one day international loss to them in perth on sunday capped and restore service so his team spent one hundred days on to 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 you're old and gray we'll sit down and you know look over the footage of the ashes 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 about three but. now is not the time to look back on it now sometimes in the folds of world cup. bit is circling now where there's a new leader over in the desert with hundred hostler taking the advantage at the katter the german born australian when his second straight stage becoming the man to beat for that pelton overnight lead it turned born in struggling against the strong wind suffered at puncture to drop him to fourteenth over all those who successfully braved this stage of three cents domes had it all to do near the finish line and it was hostler once again was the fastest going to settle out sprinting competition in a fierce finish red shirt was right on his heels why not to ned to second straight. because it's all from me for no more sports news from around the. time here not good buy.

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