at six thirty pm mosque out time these are the top stories from our team the new exodus christians in iraq sooner they are being driven out of their country as constant sectarian attacks targeting a minority group. with some u.s. politicians famous for the bloopers they made when a prize in the world on democracy it's the american people who are being turned into the object of ridicule. a new chapter in egypt's on ransom's labor unions and state media workers joined the public outrage over the current president whining leave us for the blind support of his regime. and baltic brain drain

lithuania one of europe's highest emigration brace with an increasing numbers of graduates seeking better employment opportunities away from home. relations between london and moscow have been rocky in recent years with many unresolved issues still hanging over the two argue spoke to the new russian ambassador to britain alexander about how he expects the relationship to progress. 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 thousand 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 they are 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 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 negotiation 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 more and more special is 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 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 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 it's widely celebrated but on a diplomatic and political level that not say why do you think that's a well i think it's a 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. value 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 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 directions of the corporations and we are planning to. in different areas like for example. the brits will help us to make the final 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 of you targeted that you will focus on in terms of cooperation frankly have to to to to to to point to know all the all the areas that are 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 the 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 at the ministry in moscow how do you assess the british press particularly the notes taken up by tabloid newspapers do you think that person speaker can get an accurate perspective on international affairs from that press 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 brit between the new space between the i mean in the internet in the 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 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. it's a mass that 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 at their selves. as advice recently mocked. the subjects of the largest claim 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 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 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 starts on 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'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 there is very important for the for the dialogue and are you suggesting that not herring you know. sometimes not sometimes yes ambassador you have got to thank you very much thank you. the british.

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party's top stories the new accidents christians in iraq fear they are being driven out of their prom dreams the constant sectarian attacks targeting the minority groups. with some u.s. politicians famous for the blueprint they make one finds in the world on democracy it's the american people were being turned into the object of ridicule. a new chapter in egypt's on rast labor unions and state media workers join the public outrage over the current president slamming the u.s. for its blind support of his regime. and baltic brain drain lithuania has one of europe's highest immigration rates with increasing numbers of graduates seeking better employment opportunities away home. let's check in with you now he joins us

live. fortson strikes again for maria sharapova what's going on yeah indeed the injury blighted russian she's going to miss yet another tournament before it was injury no it's illness with more now coming up and he said just so. thanks indeed for joining us this is sports they are i would like. to zero from one . in their first match of twenty eleven. for easy and for france a superb record against brazil continues out live blue dog in the samba boys and another of whedon's tonight's friendly. and sick note three time grand slam champion maria sharapova of the policy but. it's been a less than stellar start to the football year for russia dick advocates men losing

in their opening game of twenty eleven against iran but as richard brown portrayed reports the result wasn't the only news where they story of the night. 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 i would be has been very well received by dick of the cats 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 the moment. the only thing lacking was spectators have imagine played in the boy as was originally supposed to be the plan b. attendance figure would have been much higher nevertheless interest in the match has been high such as the large ex-pat russian population in the u.a.e. only are nowhere but enough that i don't know exactly what influenced the choice of the city but if the game was played in don't buy we would have had more russian spectators to support our national side. nevertheless

a couple of thousand russian fans still managed to make the game the majority travelling from all around the emirates surely. i don't know how many russian fans have come to the game to support all footballers maybe couple thousand but they're much more iranian fans here that's just as this is a form 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. iran will 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 then you chose to host the matches be you a huge warm climates of 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 failed to create many scoring opportunities while iran would still have undeserved victory in stop which. time you could see that some players didn't have the filters was new to play against you was to. because you will is coming out of the gulf. was a good preparation and my players applied only to tell you those three weeks but is no excuse i think this game didn't deserve a winner but those go in the last we have seen. still some plays these more. maybe this is football team may return to the gulf region sooner rather than later as it's rumored to catholic outside will play 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 by chance but unfortunately they

didn't get the result they wanted as russia slipped to a one no defeat after violate iran go richard pombo played be united arab emirates elsewhere on a busy night of footballing action from their great record against brazil beating the summer boys one nil and par s dreadful challenge by her nominees on karim benzema resulted in the visitors being just ten men five minutes before the break the referee left with other options but just the race card benzema had his revenge on the four minutes great work from germany many is on the right setting the real madrid man off for the easiest of finishes one nil the final score fronts about the brazil with an i says many times to eating. problems for last year's world cup finalists and until when the netherlands seeing off austria courtesy of some stunning football the run you're getting the ball rolling right before the half or more with the schneider with probably the pool tonight more brilliant build up action on the way to number two every him a foul

a the grid full recipient at the end of it all couple of shared second half penalties leaving the final score. elsewhere the team that beat the dutch in the world cup final last july spain overcame colombia thanks to a silver gold lionel messi nobs the bragging rights christiane rinaldo us argentina soft portugal too long and came from behind to record the first with copenhagen denmark to want germany and england should say be separated dortmund scotland should northern ireland who's boss in the nations cup while russia's next twenty twelve qualifying and armenia didn't have a great evening losing out home. after heading teams in the united states on his native netherlands ruud hole it's begun on his russian quest the former european football or of the year touching down in the country chechen republic to take off premier league side f.c.

tareq. carrick are a very strong team they work diligently and so far i don't see any weak points they have a strong soul and great potential there is no reason to go to a team lacking ambition though one should move forward very cautiously only a few people in the netherlands knew about the terror last month now and the whole country knows about us. it's a new start as well for a month by your the togo international join the real madrid last week after a disappointing to your spell at manchester city although his new side lie a full seven points off premier league leaders barcelona the rangy striker says they've got the right man at the helm to catch the champions up. you know how to talk to people if you go east only to talk to people to make you know some was want from you and you don't just always important to have the money was to you what you what your specific you know what's he going to do so for me it's very easy to tell

you straight from beginning i want to do does i want to do does does. maria sharapova said to miss the parse open with a flu bug the world number thirteen who was seated second in the tournament picking up the virus during last weekend's fed cup win over france in moscow the twenty three year old played just one month during the quarter final victory recording a loss though to vergina. the former world number one says she wanted to play in front on apologized to her fans the russian house of a stole career through injury missing nine months in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine with a shoulder tear she also withdrew from miami and charleston events in two thousand and ten wishing her right elbow on saddam onto all tournaments with injury. all right that brings us stateside and to the n.b.a. where the pick of the day's action saw a toronto give a valiant effort but still come up short yet again the visiting some antonio spurs sounding the raptors their fifteenth loss in sixteen games the opening quarter

belong to toronto's on the barn yami he scored thirteen points and not twelve minute period and finished the night with twenty nine tim duncan and george hello playing the given goal to perfection hill putting the spurs up forty three thirty nine in the second of the raptors kept the tempo up though with the margin rules on getting two of his twenty five points in style but this is proving to be a more compiz of units duncan involved than another passing sequence as the one blur slams at home one hundred eleven to one hundred the final score in canada. just over a week now before cricket world cup champions astraea begin their title defense skipper ricky ponting still recovering from a broken finger so his side lose the ashes for a second straight time last month a must of disappointment ahead of the year's biggest tournament. fair to sound pretty fresh. a month from the saw and so on i was looking forward to getting back into it again into back into proper trying and then more importantly back into international cricket as i said it's been

a wall between between games for me and sitting back watching the gods play the last few weeks have been pretty difficult to decide and fly as well as they have been very satisfying. and that's where we leave the sports where weather is coming up in just a text. the love just became hard to history. he was trying to stall and dated. but sprung the traps they laid for him. on the radio we have the the surge blocks around the. always from the always missing. one shot turned the tide. of the global drug industry's godfather became the most want to trophy of the world down to hunters'. escobar to grace hunt an odd take.

well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that have done not just human damage but damage 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 our sonic boom say factory marine mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or or it's destroyed. in the pacific for landing purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that care shall be taken in 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

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