british citizen measures to protect itself from the potential demise of europe plans reportedly include restricting cash flows and closing borders. controversial trial starts in russia as prosecutors see. the brain book of. being extremist that supports an outcry about india's rate. russia's political life in december dominated world headlines with the parliamentary election and its aftermath firmly in the limelight 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 alexei 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 round is larger not larger than life but the i have started my career as a diplomats in the united nations in geneva i was part of the russian delegation in soviet legation of. the committee on does arm and basically i never left the field of foreign policy studies so i would not say that i am new to the area. what. 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 cinc of russian foreign policy what kind of foreign policy they would like to. and. what image 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 nation. foreign policy measures 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 first see a response well i think the response has been already given president medvedev. in brussels he basically stated that the opinion of the rupee in parliament. not important for russia russia is not

a member of the european union and so whatever the european in think of the russian elections is not relevant for the russian leadership. and i sing basically the. taking into account the statements which were made on this score by the leaders even of opposition parties. this is a consulate datas 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 do not support the declaration of the european parliament and the statement which was made by hillary clinton they regard it also as a domestic affair. therefore i think that the parliament will probably stick to

this position although as we have already seen there were 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 dealing with those issues are open 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 or 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 basically is a declaration that they have accepted the results so you mention hillary clinton

and the united states being 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. 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 is a saying that there is. a crisis. as stated in the beginning to mine when barack obama came to power and when russia responded positively to the. button that hillary clinton offered just a lover of during that meeting in february two thousand and nine. and 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 but me to me did it on the score. in which he mentioned a number of kontum measures that russia may take if the. 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 knee jerk reaction or some kind of impulsive statement i think it is the result of the fact that the negotiations on the basically have gone into an impasse. going summits where interim inventive. nato leaders in the member last year was declared. a success but it was maybe a success in p.r. relations i mean. the spirit of the summit was positive but the results of the

summit with neal basically we. russia offered a certain plan which could 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 or. 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 call 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 think. 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 and 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 it's much harder to do the republicans 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 of 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 per 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 jeopardize 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 by the some of the republican candidates as a sin so what kind of reset can we have. in these conditions i mean the administration will have to be sensitive to this attacks they cannot just you know pay no attention for the election times and as we know policies are being modeled after the requirements of the electoral campaign a mama 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 the russian population is of the seen in 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 missile systems we have basically passed a resolution well that was not support with staind but basically we allowed the recent lucian on libya to be accepted in the security council which opened 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 there are policies in the framework of the reset now what have you got in return the admission of russia in there will you go 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 a tech rush on the results of the election this has just shown that all this state of research between moscow and washington is extremely for gyle so i not very optimistic about the prospects of the reset in the electoral both in the united states and russia. like to thank you for joining us it's been a pleasure to welcome.

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krishna movement with the extremist group that's cause an outcry about india's political elite. sports news next with a much. hello and welcome to sport on r.t. coming to you from the russian capital with me or amman calls for it and this edition will bring you the latest news along with holiday specials prepared by our correspondents but first the headlines. farewell and good luck in russia are preparing for the first ever use the winter olympics which gets underway in austria in january. best up to one see the eleven battle that soon called the n.h.l.'s detroit red wings speaks exclusively with our team passerby to maintain

the best russian n.h.l. or. move games park or is taken russia by storm we'll 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 games get underway in austria russia will they represent is by its sixty seven athletes and some of them according to a russian olympic committee president alexander's your golf may soon make an epic history for their country. are used in 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 senior teams very soon use and if some of those youngsters people will brokers where they may with a little more time doing the russian olympic team who are sort she twenty fourteen

meanwhile here in the russian capital legendary i saw he goaltender of love is love tretiak saw his grandchild off to the youth and picks in austria he was a one all the best in the sport's history and now his grandkid maxime is set to follow him. 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 eager to repeat the successful family tradition the. world championships and three and the gold medals including gold in the seventy six. years 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 when everyone wants to school one three t.x. in the net i don't tan me he metol i didn't have his background 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 wednesday fourteen two thousand and six and the 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 russia's republic of marjoe via 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 sue forty nine point five zero eight while it's or gave foreign off completed the podium with the results of forty point seventy nine. to ice hockey now where russia have made a successful start into the under its once the world championships in canada but larry broadens men scored three unanswered goals against switzerland. and the

regular ankle were on the scoreboard of the defending champions in other games sweden thrashed latvia and nine for canada destroyed in wins 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 orange seas holiday specials now where we'll bring you the best stories of twenty eleven which will air over the next couple of weeks that soup has ended alexander ovechkin his five year reign as he won this year's trophy the prize run by the russian newspaper said askew sport recognizes the russian player in the n.h.l. and is named after the legendary soviet hockey player r.t. caught up with the soup who gave his views on his life both on and off the ice.

it's a hard question slow process so in order to have a matter of being system there i'm out there from. mike not only in the inside team and the whole organization i'm not really working like. bill de lis fifteen years might be more when the people work harder to learn to jump inside to feel like i'm in the family or the square and everybody in the more important days waiting for me and. i'm still playing soccer annihilates sides. but i. think stuart saw it all so that i can like more tend. to his merry way when i'm down to just thinking with the fireplace partly some of them play inside of them stuck in the play in the hockey and then find the time for soccer and i am i've been working.

at some level with more throws her from the broad theme is more than i also in the courtroom me than the minute in her ear training was just going to make how well was this for us to do this like communication. or maybe are strong enough to hold somebody or prevent that so more and be in the mode like penalty it's always kind of you know when you stop working applause i never thought was. worth going on to.

it's a big secret it's a be immortal it can just move me into this post i'm going to be followed you to stop what you're going to looking for. the fish for a million russian build a. thing is something the movements of the slightly more slow the ones that never been so efficient so close to the double for those with the look it's a number of that person in a small way quietly and one and so on but i do find this an old pulse on all being i wired more fishtank in 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 up for the upcoming fifteen day race includes nicholai if andre carr get health care of and his brother in desire are seven times a car race japie have led her charge in her it's art from the 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 mom from the russian t.v. the previous year it is. a race it will be interesting and unpredictable to groups we hope that the rupee's will be able to continue great winning tradition in the sport. and let's end this edition with another holiday special bark or is the art of overcoming urban obstacles unsurmountable for 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 art scenes put together the highlights of the events that as it usually happens turns into a huge party. to be able to meet with.

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