holy text which was suspected of being extreme if. you look to deputies of russia's lower house of parliament have been gathering for the very first session as to find out if the fresh faces will herald of the new changes r.t. talks next to the man in charge of the duma's foreign relations committee. 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 not 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 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. 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 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. is not important for russia russia is not a member of the european union and so whatever the europe. when 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 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 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

a seeing that there is a crisis. as stated in the beginning to mind 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. 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 well 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 basically have gone into an impasse. summits where interim 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 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 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 to do it if 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 the two

aleutians 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 quiet 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 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. pay

no attention for the election times and as we know policies of 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 there is a 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 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 the. 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 reset 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. like to thank you for joining us it's been

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i walk into this porch and these other headlines. say do say me this goes do you know when is the russian player of the year award operating illegally having twenty four goals so far this season. while seeing reds under fire liverpool striker luis suarez admits a tragedy in a couple of the mr red stay with newcastle on the friday. while i want more yevgeny pollution qatar gets his fourth olympics in sochi within the russian championships her record ninth time. at first football and moscow's prolific strike us a do do india has been voted the russian premier league player of the year by the country's sports journalists the twenty three year old is the top flights leaving school or going into the winter break after netting an impressive twenty four goals in thirty games for the all the men so far and the in-form ivorian has also starred in the

champions league adding another five in as many appearances as got a place in the last sixteen well then i must go captain and voting then came second in the journalist poll he has netted eleven goals as well as notching up a league eight and twelve assists and was also named ukraine's player of the year last week while the needs alexander goes you go completes the top three the russia star has scored sixteen goals for the defending champions this campaign including a memorable one trick against ricky's placidyl in with just. meanwhile over in england liverpool striker luis suarez will miss friday's premier league game at home to newcastle after admitting an essay charge for improper conduct the twenty four year old euro why star has been valid for one latch and fined over thirty one thousand dollars for giving an offensive hand gesture to foreman fans in the reds one will defeat at craven cottage on december the fifth 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 while the result six and unbeaten at home so far this season have drawn six of their nine games and scored only eleven goals while in form newcastle a just a point behind that he really wants the reward for the fantastic play that just different is up but he goes because you're looking ten year pursue that. i'm sure next year we will be better for this been said before this year was a strange very late camp program where everybody drew ourselves and sort of my new one so that's very helpful for us. now we're going to have going we're looking forward to the new going to those going to the brass spirit conference about itself and we're looking forward to going to our field well me

manager harry redknapp says gareth bale is not for sale after the welsh bring back scored by the second half goals to know when ignore it in their eighth victory from ten eight games at seven thirty in english premier league while also missed the chance to go forth to be held for a one one draw at home three ten one wolves and q.p.r. came back to draw one one as far as each side after the two days of christmas football the big winners at the top were manchester united on top of the city remain first with a five gold advantage over united spurs a thirty seven points off the leaders with a game in hand chelsea state and also fifty three newcastle who as we had to go to leave a ball on friday are seven times and lost twice on their travels. while at the bottom blackburn remain five points adrift bolton state second bottom and wigan are also still in the drop zone and the wolves kept a lifeline with that one one draw at arsenal. figure skating now on russian's

diagonally pushing the house 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 record ninth time on his much anticipated return after knee surgery well the free time world champion was in second place after the opening short program inside and which was six hundred kilometers east of moscow but his preprogram put him firmly on top of the idea and through that said game one of the three will not prepare the next month's european championships in the english city of sheffield a relative veteran of twenty nine plushenko is still aiming to make his fourth and become parents in stock trade but he knows he has a long way ahead of. him so when i'm happy everything worked to plan at the nash. knows and 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 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 dream. well apart from pollution russia's medal hopes at their first ever winter games in sochi have been given yet another boost a south korean short track legend on has finally been granted russian citizenship the twenty six year old captured history gold in one brahms at the two minimum six back in two thousand and six is also a five time overall world champion 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 such a has taken one and appropriate name victor. staying on the ice and k h l side in our way again have become the first semifinalists into the annual sixteen spangler cup at the ski resort of the boss in switzerland well the latvian

fog has not been enjoying the best time in the k h l so far this season but are looking good on the international arena they beat germany runners up vosburgh of the invitational event and their second victory out of to frederick borg and good thank you panel scored within three minutes of each other. but now we're in the driver's seat roberts birkin's added a short handed goal to make it three nil in the third period while volves could only manage a late consolation through nathan patch and line up so three one was the way to finish. them into the last four russian powerhouse carson petersburg lifted the end of the trophy last season. basketball now and russian side knicks have been pitted against your only champions promise a michaels after the draw was announced in barcelona for the top sixteen stage took a turn against fenerbahce and italian side i mean can milan go ground off until you change it so it looks like a stiff competition is in store for the side focus on. walter scott has been

drawing all the way and much easier to finishing the regular season unbeaten for the second time in make history break out of it and then be on course and sides stunned in the most innocent way to the quarterfinals. and let's finish with some basketball and the latest special holiday feature and be a star dwight howard paid a visit to the russian capital in the summer and our own curiously clove oil drum on course or i've caught up with the orlando magic center. a very special guest 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 playing basketball here at luzhniki fame today you are a first you know emotions what we get when you saw some people going that's going to be in russia was i was very you know i know russia is not a big basketball league soccer or football came down it was just great to see that

and i'm glad to be that this unbelievable experience for me i've always wanted to come but it's not really one of my dreams is to be here in russia that's not found here you know so i've been you know one of the ones they had to look out in the n.h.l. and a bunch of players here came to play in russia because russia may get the second from the from the n.h.l. so what if it's a hypothetical situation there's a lot in the n.b.a. where would you go in europe i don't know this might seem like a good place to live because there is great that the city is going to. risk all things very nice. but you know this is a great place you know i'm having a lot of work here. just mean a lot of people like playing basketball you know been an ambassador where do you see yourself playing at the beginning of next season priyanka because. you know as a little earlier no member that would be able to. i go out to so will the

world everybody's sort of pool deviously metal what team us will play for it all is still there you know i'm happy will go well just hold me you know i don't think i'll be like these hackers. might have to take over if you were to pick go for partners from the n.b.a. will they be oh well. first of all steven tricksy of. those. aerial loops and. anthony meyer are you know i've 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 michael 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 us down but you know this is for good as we look into the race with the series they're going to go cold and so far

as we're very soon have a lot of political so you can just walk around the studio will say look they ask asked all the sort you know what would your advice be to young russian basketball players the ones who aspired to play in the best league in the n.b.a. . often if you continue to work me up to speed patience but also you have seen this and know you have to sacrifice one like this it would be our lives it was so so if you spoke to us was like what you've always got are your cards still in school we have to do the student work also there was no charles or two. it is better than out the only that you focus on nasty out there is no that's all i've got here and i saw a lot of guys claiming to be american they got angry because sacrificing a really loved basketball was not about to do i think very much a best of luck in the upcoming season. and that's all the sport i think.

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