a translation of a harry krishna holy text which is suspected of being extremist. russia's political life took its fair share of the world headlines this month with a parliamentary vote and its aftermath firmly in the limelight as for the global view from russia r.t. now hears from the man who leads the lower house of parliament foreign relations committee about where the country's attention will focus. 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 ground is larger. than to be 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 armaments basically i never left the field of foreign policy studies so i would not say that i'm 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. 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 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 president medvedev. in brussels he basically stated that the opinion of the european 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 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 which had 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 the sets. 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 of policy. as stated in the beginning of the mind when barack obama came into power and when russia responded positively to the. button that hillary clinton offered to a lover of during that meeting in february. 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 by me to me did it underscore . 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. summits where mentoring a bit of. nato leaders in the vendor 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 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 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 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 mark 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 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 these 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 heard i was 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 that was

a support web 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 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 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 fragile 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 talk of. the least explored korea's. touched. surrounded by stupid. case paintings on display for thousands of years. beyond the tiger. teeth.

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day one of the late north korean leader's funeral ends but hopes of change under his successor could be overshadowed by concerns that foreign countries might actually want to keep the status quo. post mubarak egypt seems to shape its interactional ties amid turmoil and uncertainty at home while the ousted leader is trial finally resumes. a russian court decides against banning a translation of a harry krishna holy text which was suspected of being extremist. and kates up next with all the latest in the world of sports stay with us.

and i will welcome to the latest force and the use of the top stories harry's hotspur read not says garrison bales not for sale as the well swing back brace sends tottenham third off a two no when english premier league. i want more any patient gets his fourth an index also returning from injury when the russian championships the recording minds time. birds of prey atlanta thrashers russian own new jersey nets in the hopes i mean game of the shortened n.b.a. season. but first a football until the manager harry redknapp says garris bile is not for sale after the welsh win back scored both goals in spose to know when ignoring that sent him certain english prime. really the twenty two year old car one hundred five defense apart to score two goals in twelve second half minutes and ensure a top ten record of their eighth when in ten league games well earlier also missed the chance to go fourth after being held to

a one one draw at home to ten man nerves and q.p.r. came back to draw one want the swans eight. but me want on a drop back to boxing day newcastle scored twice into second half minutes to win to deal with second bottom vaulters chelsea's title hopes all but ended as full of kids back to draw one one in the west london darby but then ease the pressure on manager steve keen as they battled to a one one draw at little pol pot's dimitar berbatov scored a hat trick is manchester united trash ten men within five to go level on points with league leaders match the city star dream we all know with aston villa in a troubled midlands dog the controversial penalty held every controlled one wanted some villains and city fell to score in the league for the first time this season as they were frustrated by west brom in a goal this nail biter up the horse and. so off to all those games the big winners at the top of manchester united and top of city remain first a five goal advantage over united spurs a third and seven points off the leaders with the game in hand chelsea's play

fourth and fifth after those two draws. has moved on to figure skating where russian star you're going to pollution car has talked up his chances at the sochi winter games in twenty fourteen the two thousand and six olympic champion spoke after winning the russian national championships for a record ninth time on his much anticipated return after the surgery well the three time world champion was in second place after the short program inside she's six hundred kilometers east of moscow but he's free program puts him firmly on top of the podium ahead of afterward i can state that gave one of a relative veteran at twenty nine pushing is still aiming for his fourth olympics appearance in sochi but he has a long way ahead of him. which in the williams for him so when i'm happy everything worked to plan at the nationals i'm pleased with my resign. in my ninth gold i'm happy i was able to perform the quadruple jump and all the combinations but emotionally it was very hard for me to compete for the first time after the injury and now i will try my best to prepare both mentally and physically for the sochi

olympics i know there are still more than two years to go but when people say you can no longer compete at this level at twenty seven it's nothing but a lie yes you can if there is a will and a tree hm. well apart from placing russia's medal hopes of their first ever winter games in sochi have been given yet another based a sas korean short track legend has finally been granted russian citizenship twenty six year old captured three golds along with the charity six back in two thousand and six he's also a five time overall champion but has been struggling to fully recover from the no injury which he picked up four years ago however the newly converted russian aims to win saatchi and has taken on an appropriate name victor. meanwhile the first ever u.s. winter olympics will get underway in the austrian city of innsbruck in a fortnight russia sending a team of sixty seven assets and according to russian olympic committee president alexander as you call someplace in the making history. clear used. the

upcoming util in big games is a great chance for us to test out just how good we'll be at winter sports in the near future as well and in some sports even over the next few years they could reinforce our sooner it seems very soon and if some of those youngsters. brokers they may with a little more time doing the russian olympic team or sort she twenty fourteen. well the new year for motor sport starts in january the first of the annual dakar rally now and after the retirement of russians the chargen country will be relying on some young blood in the camels team to bring home success from argentina chile and peru well the new look team that was unveiled here in moscow will be spearheaded by the most experienced edward nicholai of the russian team had been the perennial favorites in the trucks category one chagnon retired from the sport last february though the seventh time back on track and has moved up to become the

calmest team manager and a veterans now hopes the new generation will keep up their winning tradition. should usually be too we expect serious rivalry between our young drivers and those who had been trying to steer the farm from the russian team in previous years this year top car race will be interesting and unpredictable to the group but we hope that the rookies will be able to continue our great religious tradition in the sport actually it's not a good basketball now and in the n.b.a. russian and club the new jersey nets a failed to make it two wins from two so far in the shortened season losing one hundred sixty seventy on home court the atlanta hawks well the nets did beat the washington wizards in their opening game but were totally accepted by the hawks who were playing their first match of the visitors and led by eight points to no on after occasions two and a half minutes and they took eight digit lead still in my first quarter. that none of which inflicting the biggest damage serbian went on to finish with

a game height seventeen points off the bench marshawn brooks with four in as many points for the nets but the home side never got close to mobbing williams scored another fourteen. georgian substitute zappa truly had a double double a thirteen points and eleven rebounds. and let's finish with basketball and our latest holiday special feature and be a star dwight howard paid a visit to the russian capital in the summer and our own robin concert caught up with the orlando magic center who spoke about who's the best in the league and how hard it is to make it there. very special guests for you here today and that sell orlando magic said white howard white thank you very much for speaking with us today your first time in washington you've seen a bunch of people playing basketball here at luzhniki stadiums and say you know you're a first you know emotions when we you know when you saw some people playing bass well you know you know russia was i was very you know i know russia is not their

big basketball or soccer or football and down the street will see that you know enough there to be the loose unbelievable experience for me i've always wanted to come it was really one of my dreams is to be here rush you know small found here you know so i would be you know one of the once they had a lockout in the n.h.l. and the bunch of players here they came to play in russia because russia because the second time with the n.h.l. stalls what if it's a hypothetical situation there's a lockout in the n.b.a. where would you go in europe i don't know this might seem like a good place to be. because we're very you know the soup is beautiful. good risk all things very nice to hear but you know this is a great place you know and i'm reading a lot of fun here just meeting all the people like playing basketball you know it's been an ambassador what you see yourself playing at the beginning of next season. here here because. you know there's a little earlier than that because we want to. know now that it's helpful to

everybody's sort of pool deviously medal what team ossicles hopefully it will still be you know i'm happy a little small group you know all the right things happen. in life to take place if you were to pick go for partners from the n.b.a. to with a b. oh look. first of all steven tricksy of. the summer. their lives ruined. everything in my. life and i've got five months to live getting back to russia would know the rest of your plans and would you like to come here like incognito like we're not anybody know where you just have some fun by yourself. i think both of those of you who are going to be good to you know just come here and this will lead. but you know this

is for the good is looking to us with the certainty that told me. so far it's worked very closely with a lot of football so you can't just walk around the studio singing with the. last test all this little bit of what would your advice be a young a russian basketball players want to aspire to play in the best league in the n.b.a. coming off the hook into the word move up to speed patience but also scientists. know you have to set limits would be our lives in the sun the sun is still. such is always whether you're close to the storm a school you have to spin the ball so there was no time for the words of the movie for the now look at the for the story let's look at the surface but that's all i've got here that's a lot of guys who believe yeah they got really good sacrifice so really the best was not about one of the two i think very much

a best of luck for the upcoming season this was a wide howard speaking exclusively with artsy on room on call for a forty in the center of moscow at disney's stadium. and that's all as well that as well as a lobby more in just under two hours please join me again. rock to clean goes. squandered money.

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