ukraine's former prime minister faces and new charges only two days after being sentenced to seven years in jail for abuse of power inciting gas deals with russia the verdict sparked clashes between her supporters and police and alleged criticism from russia the e.u. and the u.s. . syria's president promising a new constitution which is a key demand of the lethal protests that have been raging for seven months this after the u.n. warns the country is plunging into a full scale civil. and has brought up earlier prime minister vladimir putin's visit to beijing saw some massive deals being signed off for social water doris nesbitt it's no surprise that she tells r.t. about the long standing relationship between russia and china.

doris nesbitt thank you very much for being with us today thank you very much for having me so in your opinion why has china and still remains to greatest mystery for thinkers and scholars because there's too little interest to get to get behind the mystery in all something stays a mystery if you don't have enough interest to to open the curtain. there's also you know somebody said that a philosopher churman for loss of a said that most people do not want to learn something new but what took at confirmation of something they already believe in and i think that's very much the case in china we have a certain picture of china and i wouldn't think exclude myself ten years ago levon years ago before i went to china for the first time i had a certain picture of china which was not really matching reality but then it depends on you willing to change the picture or do you stick with what you think

how is it changed ten years on for you well. i was thinking the chinese are mr mysterious people you know you can't really trust them and you never know what they think i thought that the country was much more backwards than it turned out to be. the fact is that the chinese have have still have and still today have kind of an innocence and openness once they trust you they embrace you and they really become friends with you and you can criticize a lot you know you can also was chinese politicians we talk a lot of. things in china that are not as they should be. you can be very open but it has to come out of a positive spirit. and not of just looking for the negative spots well you talk about innocence where does that come from north korea and does it have anything to

do with the fact that china has been communist for so long. and no no i think it has to do with with the structure of having the community first and then the individual that meant you will always part of something you were part of a family a part of a community part of the city part of a province and the country and helping each other being together was part of survival and that's that's when they when you get to know the chinese and when they embrace who they are not ashamed of having you all we love you and we admire you and and it's so sweet that openness i'm not saying that every chinese is sweet there is a lot of competition that can be very very. fierce fighting but in general they are willing to embrace you and talk about their feelings so is china socialist or capitalist. fighting

or. making their dreams come true and the fight is something sometimes a little fierce because for a long time they couldn't make their dreams come true they couldn't lift the life they wanted and now specially for the generation that's one and the nine hundred ninety s. who has not lived through all the hard shift and the changes you know they really demand that they can do whatever they want to do and that's going to be a new situation in china with a china ration that has grown up with communication systems with western. with information about everything that you can achieve in life and they're going to fight for achieving that they have goals they want to they want to be the best your husband john and i state argues that china is

a country without ideology do you agree with that it doesn't have any it's in search for an i be all that she and i would replace the word there's a lot of search for meaning because. when you are starving making an income that's enough you know you don't need any other goals but once you have your basic income once you make a economic dreams come true to a certain degree. then you realize that's not everything in life and i have a column in china you stated the second largest newspaper and i get a lot of emails in reaction to the column and many of the questions are. you know what is really the sense what's really the meaning of life what can i do with my life and how can i serve my country that's something that you wouldn't hear from the rest so much you know how could i serve my country it's much more how can i so

how can the country serve me and that search for meaning for spirit. that that we can increasingly feel could be that they're searching for self identification in the twenty first century. as there are quite communists but now there are so strong economically they are searching for acknowledged land for a position in the world they do not have enough self-confidence including the china as a as a country they have achieved so much but but they don't really. to look at themselves and say well what we did why is there a i don't know maybe because they are attacked. much more than then. and it's not that everything is great in china lots of things that we don't agree with that we need to be important but the west is very much focusing on the radios

and on the flaws. and i think we should have a fallon's that. there is a lot of good things and of course they have to work on the not so things do you think china is striving to be number one country in the world to be this huge superpower or is it just happening. i i hesitate because deep inside i think china wants to be the middle kingdom and wants to have to pull station had it once head that's in the in the in the you know the history of china has really an empire is not out of the chinese head but they are not fighting to dominate the world but they they they want to play the role in the world that they slowly growing into simply. kaname the growing size of the economy and by the number of people so i asked your husband

whether china was trying to read become an empire and be emergent to an imperialist state because if they're not fighting for it but they're fighting for it economically because they're building ties with weaker countries. could it be that they will be become an empire that dominates the world by growing economic ties with other countries i don't know whether we're live in the world where you really live well really one nation can become a. dominant empire like the roman empire and all the other empires and fall of. i don't think it's in this way and also i think that there's quite a ways to go and you know america is a fourteen trillion economy and. it's still only one third of one fourth of it so there's a ways to go and also you know think of the role that the u.s. plays culture of i mean the influence that the louis has in the culture of the

globe is a much higher one and i think that's one of the things that china is really really has to establish what is its cultural identity in the twenty first century and when we have a chinese armani when they do not call peak. or are you know the. when they have their own people who stand for and then what they own. which let's say and i'm not very good on the pop bands but you know what i mean they they have to create the chinese plan the cultural leadership that still is in the hand of the u.s. in many ways but right now in china is about one third of the u.s. for in depth and the dollar is at a very vulnerable situation i mean people are even talking they could devalue their

future. what is the smartest way out of this impasse for china i think you know economists are correlating or are having different opinions so i really would not claim that i have the answer to that so when the u.s. will hit rock bottom it will also have found a solid ground and then rise because it's not that the capacity of the u.s. is gone the capacity is still there and the chinese are very smart to get to the situation and invest with the let's say we can in dollar or not so i think they they're going to work it out in the smart enough to do so also one more question china is more and more a search. south china sea do you think china is a country that actually could envisage a conflict now. but it wouldn't i mean it's too smart to you can't win wars anymore so why would china really start

a war which would be destructive for china itself so while there is a lot of posturing on the political side economically you know it's it's much too much integrated to release start a war on on either side so no there's posturing there's a lot of. posturing because of internal reasons to show strength to its people but but you know we don't we don't think this what do you think china strategies for russia they've been very good friends and they've been not so good friends i think they are seeking an alliance they are seeking trade but they are very close neighbor us so i think china in general wants to optimize relationships whether it's russia or america or europe doris nice thank you very much for this interview .

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rapidly growing anti-corporate protests in new york meet a police response as manhattan standoff leads to more than seventy arrests wall street movement against the role the banks and corporations play in america's economic plight is now in its fourth week. but they're just getting started elsewhere with calls for economic equality resonating in similar protests in hundreds of cities around the world in some european capitals violent scuffles broke out as people lashed out over their government stifling austerity meant. ukraine's former prime minister faces new charges only two days after being sentenced to seven years behind bars for abuse of power when signing gas deals with russia the verdict sparked clashes between her supporters and police and led to hours of criticism from the u.n. the u.s. . syria's president promising a new constitution which is

a key demand of the lethal protests that have been arranging for seven months this after the u.n. warned the country is headed into a full scale civil. i mean she's up next with sports stay with us here on r.t. . hello there welcome to the sports our top stories this hour. striking gold sixteen year old russian rhetorical. gymnastics world championships. on top of the league trucks which means no more school to take place in the can chelsea current standings. fail to go level on points with current premier league leaders in a drawing with terex. full first. chance to joins an

eight on top of the russian premier league that soft draw against terror they opened thirty nine minutes in when i. found wagner live in the area that has double their late straight after the break. found the back of the net in the forty seventh minute. of the visitors didn't sit back and scored twice in the space of only two minutes midway through the second half. and more research barrett says hopes of getting all three points to all the final score there in the moscow region. in the meantime there are big. goals in this russia has took the lead in the dying minutes of the first half of gain a ship and brazil failed. the final result thirteen minutes from time. instead of the games the fans failed to.

finally settle for a goalless draw with. the english premier league manchester city have gone top of the current standings following a big win of aston villa robots and china's man thrashed ponens bot. goes to one. draw at liverpool chance in not stop by three one victory against everton. have gone top of the kontinental hockey league. in the russian capital. in a row. draka have become one of the season surprise packages so for the same mirroring club travel to moscow on the back of six straight wins well deny my head for topping the western conference they energized the opening period suggested this

teams are about equal as a tight game kept the fans on the edge of their seats not many scoring chances for either team and the visitors didn't let their power play go to waste when they got a chance to use live just off busted from the corner and young lewis rifled home between the pants for his first goal of the season on the fifteenth minute the muscovites were struggling to come back into the game despite some strong pressure in their bone in zone but the right there is michael gordon who spent last year dinner was really busy thanks to his well organized fans and when the defense was helpless the twenty eight year old goaltender that was really in between the pipes the canary and as a result claiming his second shot out of the season with twenty saves in the final score was sealed by why do ninety two broke through to score in intimating in the dying seconds to leave to mark two to two nothing when their origin or first of all motivated not to consider a goal and we did it and then we scored twice to rip up a deserved victory for your hard play against

a very good defense oh my god forgives the walk off tonight so i can fire all of you i knew that it was going to have a game it was a fancy with a swim practice extended their winning run to seven matches in top eastern corn france with a more sleeping to second well dinner top sports in the west because they might have a r.t. . they continental hockaday continues its expansion across europe seleka are the latest to janica chel and the next mission as close to completion with it's a looking forward to having their present tense and the contents strongest league next season. has more. these games are twenty years old the goal scored with no windows skills yes they gave us hokey played in a high level surprising course it's not canada. or russia

it's italy. it's the players claiming one of their numerous domestic titles in style from the early ninety's. when almost famous of the big i mean we have a very long history about hockey and in milan all in milan or at the very very long because we started when the nineteen twenty three the first. was built in milan all right and when we were one of the the first you know out here on the hockey fans here in milan love the game we're excited by this game and probably there's some people being fired a bit sick of football for other reasons saw there some kind of research for new motions and i believe i saw case it's perfect for that nevertheless i still keep still some distance from talking phil both in terms of popularity here

a sentiment echoed by a person from the moment of the game canada now calls me on the phone it's play would love but because it's it's still very underappreciated you don't get the same emotion you know and so you can be mad for a minute but it passes very quickly as opposed to a canadian hockey match it's talked about for you know for months if not for the whole season and so it's that is a huge difference in watching a canadian game versus an italian game this is the stand in turin one of the main venues for the two thousand and six. program of yours own and there is barely a reminder. the epic hockey battles the two place here the ice rink was removed soon after the games finished alone the stadium to become the new home for the year ventouse and three clubs one hundred miles east however things brighter.

milan the first blue are set to join the continental how to league in twenty twelve i believe that we have that we have an opportunity in terms of the organization to draw in the league of course it is not going to be a very odd thing but. we have time to develop. the two thousand and six winter olympics didn't affect the popularity of hockey the country and all of course the games were a great event for the telling people and stadiums are renovated and a lot of infrastructure developed so some local clubs did get a lot there but not the italian game as a whole in this respect the kitchen is another chance for us not only for milan but for the entire country to take a significant step forward you know that olympian of problem of the additional versus blue may seem like a small step for the kid but for the club itself it is quite simply and message really. robert jordan actually. italy.

rhetorical more has won gold in the women's. gymnastics world championships and talk they sixteen year old russian outclassed all her rivals including. a. disappointing fourth to. deprive. competition this time the russian gymnast made no mistakes and had top marks competitor tatiana finished have a point behind the winner and took silver chinese hong shunk completed the quarter . now spanish has advanced into the final of the shanghai. compared to phyllis on a lot of posts thoughts it is fair i had to fight back from i said down after losing at tiebreaker the opener but then found his game of the next two claiming them both by the same six great scoreline it will be his sixth final of the way meet second seat and then mark. this court meanwhile had absolutely no problems

against corey the world number forty seven japanese resisted in the open where i managed to win three games the second one all belonged to mario took it six love and the match i. in formula one as hamilton has ended red bulls outstanding run of sixteen pounds by setting the fastest lap for the korean grand prix the mclaren driver qualified for sunday's race with the best time of one minute thirty five point eight zero seconds read both the best and fastest became the sport's youngest double world champion in japan last weekend at the twenty four qualified second while another car and driver jenson button finished with the best result of the day when i was mittal a patrol force eight fastest as he lost more than two seconds to comics are. very proud of what the team. been able to achieve over the course of the last few

races and food jenson to have won the last race and for us to be on the front two rows again the only ones competing with their boy i think it's very very happy about it just tomorrow's the day that really counts and find the moto g.p. now where currently the case is stoner has confirmed his intention to claim the championship on sunday as he took pole position for his home australian grand prix that repsol honda rider clocked the best lap time at phillip island one minute try to night point nine seven five seconds his nearest rival defending champ jorge lorenzo was almost half a second stolen stoner remember the two thousand and seven world champ could still . on his twenty sixth birthday if you scholes ten points more than this. we managed to get that by pretty comfortable force you know we're going to turn the way we wanted it to still need a little bit more but i think everybody's in the same position and you know step by

step we just continue to get faster you know softer name we you know. this is basically. everything feels good and. i would go you know quite a chunk. we'll see what the weather holds for tomorrow and how everything is ok that's all this weather is next to so.

protests in new york based on a fierce response from the police is the manhattan standoff leads to more than seventy arrests. america's rallies inspire worldwide action scuffles break out in several european cities as people there lash out over bearing the brunt of the cuts while the banks continue to profit. other news ukraine's former prime minister facing new charges soon after being sentenced to seven years behind bars for abuse of power when citing gas fields of russia. plus signs of change in the face of civil war syria's president promising a new constitution is the number killed in the drawn out conflict exceeds three thousand.