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a parliamentary vote as aftermath in the limelight as for the global view from russia r.t. now hears from the man who now leads the lower house of parliament's foreign relations committee about where the country's attention will focus stay with us. i'm joined today by alex a 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 the 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. 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 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. 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 first see a response well i think the response has been already given president medvedev. in brussels he basically stated 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 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 there were. 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 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 on the first opening session of the russian duma which they. 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. 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 seeing that there is. a crisis. as stated

in the beginning to mine for a moment when russia responded positively to the. button that hillary clinton offered just a lover of during that meeting in february. my feeling is the 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 to underscore. in which she 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 were made 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 neal 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 bill and this suggestion was not accepted by nato and recently we have heard from the state department that the united states will not allow russia

to have a veto power on 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 live 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 the

trollish 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 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 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 hold those positions or quiet into russia 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 of just. 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 you know

pay no attention for the election times and as we know all this is of being modeled after the requirements of the electoral campaign a moment 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 union 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 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 to 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 the will you to zero 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. 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. on the results of the election this has just shown that all this state of reset between moscow and washington is extremely. 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

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day one of the late north korean leader's funeral ends but hopes of change under his successor overshadowed by concerns that foreign nations may actually want to keep the status quo. post mubarak egypt seeks to shape its international ties amid turmoil and uncertainty at home leaders trial finally resume. and a russian court decides against banning a translation of a harry christian holy text which was suspected of being extremist up next with all the latest in the world of sports including what i was trying to explain at the end of the news block.

oh well this will become clear these that are seeing red under fire liverpool striker luis suarez admits a charge of. the reds gave the new console on friday. was i want more money pushing targets is false and then picture and off the telly from injury which with the russian championship or a record ninth time. birds of prey atlanta i should say russian only new jersey nets in the pool gave the show n.b.a. season. first a football and livable strike a little suarez will miss a friday's premier league game a time to newcastle after missing an f.a. cup on the f.a. charge even for improper conduct will start again don't you boy you're a guy star has been banned for one match and fined over thirty one thousand dollars after giving an offensive gesture to full of funds in the reds one nil defeat at

craven cottage on december the fifth mon liverpool were also fined for failing to control their players suarez is currently appealing against an eight game ban for racially abusing manchester united's patrice evra and could now miss almost a quarter of the season in the reds are six unbeaten at home side on this season but have drawn six of their knowing games and scored only eleven goals well meanwhile also in the manager harry redknapp says garris but he's not for sale after the welsh win back scored by the second goals and supposed to know when that eight through ten games that set them third in the english premier league earlier on wednesday also missed the chance to go also after being held to a woman on board ten month olds and q.p.r. came back to draw one one of the swans eight. but meanwhile on a draw packed boxing day newcastle scored twice in two second minutes to win to nail that second bottom bolton's chelsea's title hopes but ended as full of shit about your dog walk along the west london. it's like going to ease the pressure on

manager steve keen as they battle to a one one draw at liverpool but still it's all berbatov scored a hat trick that's not united trash ten ronald reagan five mill to go level on points with league leaders manchester city star general no with aston villa in a drubbing with an darby and controversial penalty everton told one one to sunderland and six he failed to score in the week for the first time this season because they were frustrated by west brom in a goal is now by ten swords so often all those games the big winners at the top united and tottenham city remain first with a five dollar vantage over united spurs a thirty seven points off the leaders with a game in hand chelsea stay fourth and arsenal take off those three draws and you can also he's also got it on friday all seven pts have only lost twice in their travels. but at the bottom but when remain five points adrift despite that draw down field goal to stay second lot of things we can stay in the drop zone and a goal difference today countering the defeat of old trafford while wolves grabbed a lifeline with their draw at arsenal. let's move on to figure skating where

russians yevgeny plushenko 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 championship for a record ninth time on his much anticipated return after knee surgery three time world champion in second place after the opening short program. six hundred kilometers east of moscow but he is free program put him firmly on top of the podium headed. he said gave a relative veteran a twenty ninth lucia is still aiming for his fourth olympics experience in such a way that he has a long way ahead of him. was in the audience for him so when i'm happy everything worked to plan at the nationals i'm pleased with my result and 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 term 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 dream. well apart from pollution russia's medal hopes at their first ever winter games in sochi have been given yet another based south korean short track legend on joensuu has finally been granted russian citizenship the twenty six year old captured three gold and won bronze of the cheering olympics back in two thousand and six he's also a five time overall world champion but has been struggling to fully recover from a knee injury which he picked up four years ago however the newly converted russian aims to win saatchi and has taken on an appropriate name vic that. now the new year for motor sport starts on january the first with the annual dakar rally and after the retirement of russians that have led me a jag in the country will be relying on some young blood in the callus team to bring home success from argentina chile and peru the new look team that was

unveiled here in moscow will be spearheaded by the most experienced at what make a lie of the russian team had been the perennial favorites in the trucks category but one child and retired from the sport in february though the seven time back our chad has moved up to become the family's team manager and the veterans of the new generations will keep up a winning tradition. 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 a tough car race will be interesting and unpredictable but we hope that the rookies will be able to continue our great winning tradition in the sport. and russian side eunuchs have been pitted against yearly champions promise unlike us after the draw was announced for the top sixteen stage in barcelona tennis champion spent about ten italian side olympia delano roundoff back with james so

it's like a stiff competition is in store for the sides from prison while it has come also have been short against perhaps no caribbean defiance including occupation the regular season and deep into the second time in their history greek outfit olympiacos and two more trash sides on stem getting their way to the quarter finals . well meanwhile in the n.b.a. russian and club the new jersey nets lost one hundred sixty seven to one hundred forced to the atlanta hawks on tuesday night and that's had beaten the washington wizards in a way through game but were totally eclipsed by the old who were playing in their first match the visitors led by eight points to normal after a k.g. two no half minutes and they took a two g.-g. lead still in the first quarter after a game you have none of which inflicted the biggest damage the serbian went on to finish with a game high seventeen points off the bench marshall brooks would pour in as many for the nets but the home side never got close to a start and robin williams scored another fourteen for atlanta to substitute the

south with added a double double of searching points and eleven rebounds. and let's finish with basketball and the latest holiday special feature and be a star dwight howard paid a visit to the russian capital in the summer and our own run on course are of course up for the orlando magic senda who spoke about who's the best in the league and how hard it is to make it feel very special guests of for you here today and that's the magic said white howard white thank you very much for speaking with us today your first time in russia you've seen a bunch of people play basketball here it was that you saved the day you are a first you know emotions were worried you know when you saw some people going bats going over in russia i was very you know i know russia is not a big basketball game. soccer or football and down the street the cedar. fair to be the least unbelievable experience believe i've always wanted to come it was really one of my trees is to be here rush you know small found here you know so

i would be you know one once they had a look out 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 if. the people here are very good the suit is beautiful. good risk all seems very nice to hear but you know this is a great place you know and i'm having a lot of fun here just meeting all the people who like playing basketball you know it's been an ambassador where do you see yourself playing at the beginning of next season. because. you know as a little earlier a member that would be a little. i know it's helpful to everybody sort of poorly this year medal what team us will play for it all is still there you know i'm happy a little small for you know you know all the right these hackers. might

have to take place right if you were to pick go for partners from the n.b.a. or would they be oh look. first of all steven tricksy. was. very aloof. and. anthony morrow or you know i got five months here so you know getting back to russia what of the rest of your plans and would you like to come here like incognito not with no not anybody knowing you just have some fun by yourself and. i think both of those of you who know to be a good idea may just come here and this will lead. but you know this is bull. it is ridiculous grossly to assert their great yet still. so far as were very sort of a lot of political silly and disclosure of the student will see the good news of the status of all this is so beautiful what would your advice be to young or

russian basketball players who want to aspire to play in the best league in the n.b.a. . off the hook and so you know we're moving up to speed patience but also you have seen this in the us the second part of this would be our lives at the same. school. districts have always rather your car is still a stool you have to scoot look all sleep there was no time to go and solution in outlook and be focused on the street you know that's all i've got here so a lot of guys who believe you now they've got to sacrifice so they really the best was not about what it was like thank you very much a best of luck in the upcoming season. and that's all the sports these bison.

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