here without a recap of our top stories now egypt is working to shape its post-revolutionary future restart machine relations abroad as the country's foreign minister heads to moscow. thousands of syrians demand international protection on the streets of the country's most turbulent city of the arab league observers visit home is to assess the scale of the government's bloody crackdown and doubts of impartiality. britain considers measures to protect itself from the potential demise of the euro reportedly include restricting cash flows and even closing borders. a controversial

trial starts in russia as prosecutors seek to blame book any christian movement for being extremist that's cause an outcry among indians political elite. russia's political life in december dominated world headlines the parliamentary election and its aftermath firmly in the limelight r.t. caught up with the newly appointed head of the foreign relations committee in the lower house of parliament and asked him what changes might be expected in russia's foreign affairs. i'm joined today by alexei pushkov the newly appointed chairman of foreign affairs in the russian parliament like say thank you for being with us you come from a background in television what do you think that you're going to bring to this position that other people lack. well my big ground is larger than life but to be i have started my career as

a diplomats in the united nations in geneva i was part of the russian delegation. soviet legation of. the committee on does armaments basically i never left the field of foreign policy studies so i would not say that i'm new to the area. it's a person like me can bring i think during my work on t.v. i got a pretty accurate. feeling of. what the russian population and the russian citizens. think of russian foreign policy what kind of foreign policy they would like to. and. what images they have of their own country of themselves and how they place russia and themselves on the global scene i think it's very important that

a nation. foreign policy matches the. image that the population would like to have of the foreign policy the russian parliament and you as well you begin your work in the wake of much foreign criticism with regards to the parliamentary elections claiming that they weren't fair what kind of a challenge does that criticism present to the parliament and do you foresee a response when i think the response has been already given the president made a bit of. in brussels he basically stayed to the opinion of the repeat in parliament. is not important for russia russia is not a member of the european union and so whatever the european in m.p.'s think of the russian elections is not relevant for the russian leadership. and i sing

basically. take into account the statements which were made on this score by the leaders even of opposition parties. this is a consulate date its position of the russian parliament whatever. requirements and requests the opposition parties may have. they would like it to be domestic procedure the opposition parties in the parliament even those who insist that they were well ations on russian elections the north support the. declaration of the european parliament and the statement which was made by hillary clinton they regarded also as a domestic affair. therefore i think that the pollens will probably stick to this position although as we have already seen there was some public protests against the result of this elections and some opposition party members of those opposition

parties took part in this process i. know that the russian services which had dealing with those issues have opened twenty or twenty one criminal case so these things are being started i think they may be considered in the parliament but once again not because hillary clinton said it all the european parliament declared those. elections illegitimate i think that all the political parties which are presented in the state duma they consider those elections legitimate although maybe with some elections they have accepted the their mandates they have been the first opening session of the russian duma which they. it is a declaration that they have accepted the results so you mention hillary clinton and the united states specifically critical of these elections do you think that there's still a future for the reset and not reload policy promoted by barack president barack obama well i think that there may be

a future for it but i think that it's time to reset the reset. the reason is not just these elections and the american reaction to this election as i think that the reasons. crisis policy as stated in the beginning to mine or up a moment into power and when russia responded positively to the. button but hillary clinton offered just sort of a lover of during that meeting in february. my feeling is that a number of contradictions have accumulated since that time and the. biggest contradiction is the issue of the a.b.m. american a.b.m. system in europe. very tough statement which was made by dmitry medvedev on the score. in which he mentioned a number of kontum measures that russia may take if the a.b.m.

system is placed by the united states and europe without taking into account russian worries on this score i think that it was a world sold over and so it was not just a kneejerk reaction or some kind of impulsive statement i think it is the result of the fact that the negotiations on the pm basically have gone into an impasse. going summits where interim inventive. nato leaders in the vendor last year was declared. a success but it was maybe a success in the our relations i mean. the spirit of the summit was positive but the results of the summit with neil basically we. russia offered a certain plan which could have mean a compromise between russia and nato on the a.b.m.

issue but this plan this suggestion was not accepted by nato and recently we have heard from the u.s. state department that the united states will not allow russia to have a veto power. u.s. plans. a.b.m. deployment in europe. that russia will not be able to change the plan itself and the schedule basically this was a no which was the answer to all for to resume negotiations addressing the federal council of the russian federation midriff once again stressed that we are ready for negotiations basically he once again hand. although as i said the united states have already given us a negative answer so now i think it's up to washington to decide whether they want to share quite a bit of or they want to let it hang in the air do you think that both with russia

and the u.s. having presidential elections and twenty twelve do you think that there's going to be some sort of impact on bilateral relations with that outcome. by that relations especially such complicated relations as relations between russia and the united states and my feeling is that these elections will not be an exception and the effect will be negative. where is in calmer times i sink. the reset of the reset could have been possible i mean two presidents could have met once again and decide what has gone wrong with their wrists why we are in an impasse on a why this new tension which appeared between russia and the united states and maybe maybe with their personal. input they would have been able to overcome this once again to push the button but during the elections is much harder to do the

republicans are taking a bomb of from the right sometimes from far right positions and basically all those positions are quite into russian they are accusing obama of being too soft on russia the story the appointment of the new u.s. ambassador to moscow michael mcfaul is quite an illustration. i mean. paul has been accused of trying to best sensitive information to russia just because he made a reasonable offer on the some exchange of information on the future a.b.m. system which. does not g.o.p. does american security interests and still he was a kid and he was accused of being too soft on russia he was accused of being the architect of the reset policy i mean to be an architect of the reset policy is considered to be but the sum of republican candidates is

a sin so what kind of resent can we have. in these conditions i mean the administration will have to be sensitive to this attacks they cannot just. pay no attention for the election times and as we know all this is of being modeled after the requirements of the electoral campaign obama cannot be insensitive to this criticism so i think we are in for a very hard year in russian you know solutions i think that in russia too the reason lot of disappointment with the reset russian. parliament or it's also russian population is of the benin that russia has given more to the united states than it has received from the united states we have offered i would support on iran sanctions against iran we have stopped to sell iran the c three hundred and to missile systems we have basically passed

a resolution well it was support with staind but basically we allowed the recent lucian on libya to be accepted in the security go solution open the way for the nato operation in libya so we made a number of steps which were quite important for the united states and to go to support for those their policies in the framework of the resets now what have you got in return the admission of russia in w t o basically i don't think it's really a kind of payoff because those elections have been going on for almost twenty years and i seem russia was doomed. to be inside the w t o it was just a question a matter of time and when hillary clinton decided that it is. affordable for the u.s. administration to attack. russia on the results of the election this has just shown that all this state of research between moscow and washington is extremely for john

so i'm not very optimistic about the prospects of the reset in the electoral he both in the united states and russia. like to thank you for joining us it's been a pleasure to welcome.

egypt is working to shape its post-revolutionary future by reestablishing relations a broad as the country's foreign minister heads to moscow. thousands of syrians demand international protection on the streets of the country's most turbulent city of the arab league observers visit homes to assess the scale of the government's bloody crackdown i mean doubts over impartiality. britain consists of measures to protect itself from the potential demise of the euro parents reportedly with restricting cash flows and closing borders. a controversial trial starts in russia as prosecutors seek to ban a version of the main book of the early christian movement for the extremists and

if that's course an outcry among india's political elite. sports news is up next. hello and welcome to sport on r.t. coming to you from the russian capital with me or i'm on course for a in this edition we will bring you the latest news along with holiday specials prepared by our correspondents but first the headlines. farewell and good luck to russia are preparing for the first ever use the winter olympics which gets underway in austria in january. when c eleven bottled that soup called the n.h.l.'s detroit red wings speaks exclusively with our after be named the best russian n.h.l. or. three movie games for coeur is taken to russia by storm who will

bring you the best highlights of a summer festival as part of our holiday series. there are now only a couple of weeks to go before the first ever youth winter olympic game. get underway in austria russia will be represented by its sixty seven athletes and some of them according to russian olympic committee president alexander jerk off may soon make history for their country. the upcoming util in big games is a great chance for us to test out just how good it will be at winter sports in the near future and in some sports even over the next few years they could reinforce teams very soon and if some of those youngsters will. they may with a little more time doing the russian olympic team or sort she twenty fourteen meanwhile here in the russian capital legendary ice hockey goaltender of love is love tretiak saw his grandchild off to the youth in austria he was one all the best

in the sport's history and now his grandkids maxime is set to follow in his footsteps and joins up with russia's ice hockey team the fifteen year old wears his grandfather's jersey with the number three wednesday and is eager to repeat the successful family tradition the. world championships and three and the gold medals including gold in the one hundred seventy six. i'm glad to be in the u.s. olympic team it's a pleasure to reaches a level but it's also a great responsibility to wear the home countries jersey it will be very hard for him to become a great goalie has been under pressure since he was five everyone wants to school when. i don't tan me he metol i didn't have his bag grown so i wasn't under as much pressure it will be psychologically heart but everything depends on him he loves hockey and devote a whole his time to training. let's move on to figure skating now where you get the

pollution call is once again on course for that so it shouldn't take since once a fourteen two thousand and six olympic champion successfully returned to the sport by winning the russian national championship for the ninth time in his career the three time world champion beat all his rivals in the capital of the russia's republican party's olivia sarongs by taking the men's singles sites all with a total sum of two fifty nine sixty seven points despite any injury parts or get finished in second with to forty nine point eight while it's are gay bar and all completed the podium with the results of forty point seventy nine. to ice hockey now where russia have made a successful start in the under it's once the world championships in canada but larry broadens men scored three unanswered goals against switzerland's. and cold war on the scoreboard for the defending champions in the other games sweden

thrashed latvia and nine for canada destroyed by eight goals to one while the americans left that more caps of the no chance defeating them eleven three. let's stay on the ice and move on to our tease holiday specials now where we'll bring you the best stories of twenty eleven which will air over the next couple of weeks by build that soup has ended alexander ovechkin a five year reign as he won this year's harlem of trophy the prize run by the russian newspaper said askew sport recognizes the top russian player in the n.h.l. and is named after the legendary soviet hockey player artsy caught out with the soup who gave his views on his life both on and off the ice. it's a hard question slope we also saw in war they have a manner of doing system where i'm out there from the mike not only in the inside

team and the whole organization i'm not really working closely with them build the list fifteen years might be more the limits of the people who work harder weren't jump inside to feel like i'm in the families in this way to everybody in the more important days with me from here. i'm still playing soccer annihilate sides never walk down. main sword so it will slow but i can like more turned. to his merry way when i'm drunk i'm just thinking with the fireplace partly some of them playing so i get to them start in them play in the hockey and then find a time for soccer and i might be working. with

cement build with more throws her from my brother tim is more than up also in the courtroom me from the minute in her ear training was just going to make help when i was with a small girl small business like communication. or maybe are strong enough to hold somebody or frequent that so more than be in the mode like penalty it's always penalty you know when you stop working so i never thought i was. worth going on to. it's a being a secret it's a be immortal it can't it is new being into this post i'm going to be followed you

to stop washington looking for. the fisher a million russian build a. thing is something the movements of the slave mall store that want to never been sufficient so close to the couple from the look of the book it's a number you present in a small way quietly and once a week but i do find it an old pulse on all being at water and more fish tank and the things i'm older than. the new year for sports starts on the first of january with the annual dakar rally the russians are traditionally the main contenders for victory in the trucks category the face of the team has become younger though the line out for the upcoming fifteen day race includes nicholai if andre carr get health i right

marge's a half and his brother in law gives our seven sides a car race japie have led the march again where it's our ad from this last february will be that seems manager the veterans counts on the youth and hope that the new generation won't let them down and continue that seems a winning tradition. should we expect serious rivalry between our young drivers and i'd be trying to say to the saddam from the russian t.v. in previous years. a race will be interesting and unpredictable groups would hope that the rupees will be able to continue great winning tradition in the sport. unless and this edition with another holiday special power corps is the art of overcoming urban obstacles on surveillance of all four on train people in everyday life now the discipline has been made famous in europe through movies and is slowly but surely winning over the hearts of russia's youth a festival called three move games was held in moscow in the summer and our teams

put together the highlights of the events that as it usually happens turns into a huge party.

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