markets. can find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two cars a report on our. secular the headlines now herriot tens of thousands of a grieving north koreans have packed into the capital to pay their last respects to their late leader kim jong il has been laid to rest after that and days of national mourning. egypt is working to shape its post-revolutionary future restart mission of the nations abroad as the country's foreign minister heads to moscow. britain considers measures to protect itself from the potential demise of the euro plans reportedly restricting cash flows and even closing borders. and the

controversial court case starts in russia as prosecutors seek to ban the main book of the hari krishna movement being extremist in a move that's caused an outcry among india's political elite. political life in december dominated world headlines the parliamentary election that's often bought for him in the limelight caught up with the newly appointed head of the foreign relations committee in the house apartment and i asked him what changes might be expected in russia's foreign affairs. i'm joined today by alex the push pull 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 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. 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 the president made a video. in brussels he basically stated that the opinion of the rypien parliament. is 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. 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 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 were some public protests against

the result of this election and some opposition party members of those opposition parties took part in this process i. know that the russian services should dealing with those issues that open twenty or twenty one criminal case so these two 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 on 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 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 is they saying that the reason. crisis. as stated in the big. rope a moment power in. russia responded positively to the. but to the. just a lover of during the 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 me to me did it underscore in which he mentioned

a number of kontum measures that russia may take if the. system 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 search 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. summits where midterm inventive. nato leaders in the member. was declared. a success but it was maybe a success in p.r. relations i mean. some of the spirit of the summit was positive but the results of the summit with neil basically we. russia offered a certain plan which could mean a compromise between russia and nato on the a.b.m.

issue but this bill and 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 offer 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 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 live hang in the air do you think that both with russia

and the us having presidential elections and two thousand and twelve do you think that there's going to be some sort of impact on bilateral relations with that outcome. by the two alicia and 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 it would have been possible i mean two presidents could have met once again and decide was what has gone wrong with their why we are in an impasse on a why this new tension we should hear 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. during the elections is much harder to do the

republicans taking a bomb of from the right sometimes a far right position and basically hold those positions or quiet into russia they are accusing obama of being too soft on 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 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. pay no attention for these election times and as we know all this is a 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 the russian population is of the 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

into missile systems we have basically passed a resolution well it was all to 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 they go to support for those their policies in the framework of the resets now what have we 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 gyle so i not very optimistic about the prospects of the reset in the electoral he both in the united states and russia alexei pushkov i'd like to thank you for joining us it's been a pleasure. it's

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hello and welcome to sport on r t coming to you from the russian capital with me room on calls for of 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 used winter olympics which gets underway in austria in january. when she eleven battled that super bowl the n.h.l.'s detroit red wings speaks exclusively with r.t. after the main to the best russian n.h.l. are. free to move games park or is taken russia by storm 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 games get underway in austria russia will be represented by its sixty seven athletes and some of them according to a russian olympic committee president alexander's your golf may soon make a limping history for their country. the upcoming useful in big games is a great chance for. 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. 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 left out so his grandchild off to the youth in austria he was one all the best in

the sport's history and now his grandkid maxime is set to follow in his footsteps and joins up with russia's ice hockey team sixteen year old wears his grandfather's jersey with a number so wendy and eager to repeat the successful family tradition the. world championships and three and the gold medals including gold in one hundred seventy six. i'm glad to be in the youth 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 devotes 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 the salt shouldn't take since one to 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 russia's republican 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 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 rigor ranko were on the scoreboard with the defending champions in other games sweden thrashed latvia and nine for canada destroyed ten 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 our g.'s holiday specials now where we'll bring you the best stories of twenty eleven which will air over the next couple of weeks old 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 russian player in the n.h.l. and is named after the legendary soviet hockey player artsy cut out with the soup who gave his views on his life both on and off the ice. it's a hard question slug your soul in water they have a manner of doing system there a man there from. mike not only in the inside team and the whole organization among

the more closely to build the list fifteen years some of the more the one that submitted people work hard just weren't to jump inside to feel like i'm in the family business where and everybody is more important ways we can from him. still play soccer or annihilate side together a lot of. men saw it saw it will some hiking what more turned. to his merry way when i'm drunk i'm just thinking i'm going to the fire place party and some of them pull in so i get to them start in them play in the high kill and then find the time for saddam and i am i've been watching. it so my bill would more throws her from the rug to me in this modern i also in the

courtroom me than a minute in her ear training was just one too big help and i was just one. small business like commission. maybe are strong enough to hold somebody or frequent that sort of more than be in the mode like penalty it's always penalty you know when you stop working up to and never thought was. worth going on to. it's a being a secret it's a be immortal it can get a sneak into this post a number of people load your own to stop watching looking for.

the fish or a million. thing is something the movements of the flame all slow the ones that never have been so efficient and so knowledgeable about the bill from the look of the book it's a number that's resume in a small way quietly and one and so on but i do find it an old hall so all being i wire them more fish ink and nothing to mold or isn't. 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 healthy i write mar de of and his brother seven times

a car race japie have led the march again where it's art from the sport last february will be that seems manager of the veterans counts on the youth and hope that the new generation won't let them down and continue the team's a winning tradition. we expect serious rivalry between our young drivers and had been trying to say to the from the russian team in previous years. 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 on surveillance of all four on train people in everyday life now the discipline's 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

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