r t here is we're going to top stories anger on the streets of spain where an toast already sentiment is coupled with protest against brutal police tactics aimed at the demonstrators desperation is growing the eurozone fourth largest economy with the highest unemployment rate in the e.u. . the u.s. to whine strong arming the syrian opposition that was also backed by al qaida and spreading fears of washington's push for a huge change in syria could plunge the country deeper into chaos. and the failure of the u.n. nuclear watchdog mission in iran fuels talk of even more sanctions while tan sharon a round of the islamic state begins to take its toll on the very countries supporting those held views in place. while relations between moscow and washington have seen their ups and downs in recent months to discuss the future of cooperation between the two nations r.t. caught up with the newly appointed u.s. ambassador to russia is also the architect of the reset of ties.

michael mcfaul a nearly a point use investor to russia also a professor at stanford an expert in political science who has said that he's first a start with the banks great to have you with us thanks for having me so i'm going to quote your recent tweet productive meetings with russian government officials even as we disagree on syria and sharp contrast with public anti-u.s. statements were you shocked by your welcome in russia. well i was shocked by some of the public things that have been said about my appearance here in russia when it comes to meetings i've had with senior russian government officials and let me be clear on my very first day in the job i met with about a dozen of the most senior government officials that one could meet with. i had

very positive meetings with everyone and the reason simple we've had a very productive run over the last three years and i've been very much involved in that in working with my russian colleagues so all those meetings have been bent ass tick and they're all thrilled i'm here as the president said to my president when he first announced this in view last summer when the president in a very unorthodox way asked medvedev hey i want to send mcfaul to russia what do you think he said banta asked dick that's been all fine the other stuff has been different don't really quite understand it well i wasn't asking the public side exactly the commentators and journalists who were actually condemning you on television. their longtime acquaintances of you know some of them are your friends well your opinion why do you think it cost such a stair. well of course you have to ask them because they're the ones doing it i'm not what i can say is i'm surprised by it it's not in the spirit of the reset.

you're most certainly never going to see president obama or anybody in my administration in our administration say such things we don't think it serves our national interest to have these kinds of exchanges and so we're not going to engage in them along with a state official this you do meet on your second day of the rival the opposition leaders and that's to take on practice after ears of silence i mean surely you knew that probably that wasn't going to send the best message out there you know well first of all the reason i'm here is that president obama sent me here when he wanted to continue the momentum of the reset knowing that this was going to be a difficult period because of the new more difficult issues we're tackling and he wanted to have me out here in the front lines working to advance the reset with respect to the opposition meetings it's our policy it's called dual track and

gateway and president obama was here he spent the first meeting with president getting. government officials he spent the next morning in a very interesting and engaging breakfast with prime minister putin and the rest of his day he spent meeting with societal leaders because there's been such a fuss about it all i'm asking is that how wise was it to meet those people of course you have to the opposition there's the how was was to meet them on a second day of the year a while and i know that that hasn't at all undermined your relations with the state officials they're fine with that it just the people there that the average russian and i know how important was talk about the average russian though so let's not let's not generalize that we all know who the average russian is last time i checked the attitude towards the united states had gotten much more positive under the obama administration i think last year. we were at sixty percent approval rating so yes now there's been this anti-american campaign for whatever reasons but

what i can say from our point of view we're not changing we're the reset is our policy we seek to execute it and we're proud of that last question on an average russian why do you think once again in your opinion so many people here think that you're in russia to inspire revolution it's not an opinion commonly her held. us investor to russia why do it is the case that i am as you rightly pointed out i'm a professor at stanford i teach about political change i teach about democracy at stanford and so for those that want to misconstrue my mission here they can look to my past to say well that's what he's here to do and to that i would just say two things one i'm here to represent president obama and the obama administration to advance our foreign policy what i did ten years ago but that's a different thing i'm not going to dismiss what i did ten years ago and i would say the same thing about your russian government officials here what they did twenty

thirty years ago in previous jobs should not be probative as to what they're seeking to do in their current job in other words let's let's talk about today and what we're doing now and that you've set into the two russian media that united states used to support the college revolutions but that's in the past because that was under a different administration president obama said ministration does not do that anymore that's what you said can you say that under president obama's administration the u.s. is not funding any opposition movement and the rest of the world what we do is we fund. non-governmental organizations non partisan organizations that are advancing what we call universal values so democracy human rights rule of law we do that around the world and we do it here and we're very. proud of that we do not fund opposition leaders and we don't fund pro-government political leaders

either we're not funding putin's presidential campaign either which is to say that the kind of norms that we apply is that we don't get involved in the politics of who gets elected and who doesn't that's a back to the core of your mission here in russia it's the reset policy you're it's architect it's basically your baby but as far as purely bilateral stumbling point goes that's really the end time to sell to solve the issue. what's going to happen there well first i would say we don't believe it's a main issue and let's not forget where we started in the fall of two thousand and eight us russian relations were in a very bad place. people sometimes forget how far we've come we worked through a lot of issues and had a lot of success so by definition the hardest issues are left on the table right we solve some issues but no harder issues are there missile defense is one of them for thirty years forty years it was this issue of confrontation we're just in the initial phases and we have to we have to demonstrate that this is not threatening

we've said that a hundred times are pressing united states has said this is not designed to undermine strategic stability between the united states and russia we have no interest in an arms race we have a lot of faith in the russian military industrial complex and the capabilities of russia so we know that that's a loser strategy and we don't have the money to do that we'll just have to keep working why i want the united states legally binding guarantees and i can also tell you why russians are so skeptical because there's another example where. george bush sr promised the russians that nato would not expand into a soviet bloc but gave no legally binding guarantees will seen you know how things turn out so russians are saying why should we believe they want to anti-missile defense they're not giving us any written guarantees that's why i'm asking why not give legally binding guarantees well i don't know about the history of nato

expansion a leave that for the historians whether that's true or not i just i don't i don't know the history. what i would say is this we're negotiating outcomes that would be good for russia and good for the united states. that the obsession with legally binding guarantees for us is not rational. so we're decide we have a disagreement about that we've said very clearly we will write these no will will declare the stuff. we've said very clearly we would like to give more transparency . and i just said i would just say this i don't want to get ahead in the negotiations that we're getting a little bit ahead of there goshi asians but when i sit down in the negotiations i see a way forward i hear it from the russian side i hear from the american side i'm not going to predict it's going to happen this year probably won't happen this year we have a lot of other things going on but we've got time to deal with this issue because

the the real threats quote unquote threats we hear from the russians on these are problems decades away we've got time let's sit down rationally work this and will we need to do it in a way that makes russia better off and america better off that's the principle that president obama brings to every single issue in the reset thank you very much for this interview and we really truly wish you the best and sitting here with us on this mission thanks for having me. it's all designed to keep you closed in your. world as a prison. so you leave somebody in there for a couple hours like that in

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anger in the streets of spain where anti spirity sentiment is coupled with protest against brutal police tactics aimed at the demonstrators desperation is growing in the eurozone fourth largest economy with the highest unemployment rate in the e.u.

. the u.s. declines to rule out arming the syrian opposition that was also backed by al qaida spreading fears that washington support for regime change in syria could plunge the country deeper into chaos and. the failure of the u.n. nuclear watchdog mission in iran you'll talk of even more sanctions tension around the islamic state begins to take its toll on the very countries supporting those penalties in place. as we have lines here in our team sports next with andrew. hello there good to have you company and here is a taste of what is coming up smiling sleepy to scar's manager hailed his plays as they grab a one one draw against real madrid in the champions league. while chelsea suffer a three one defeat to napoli if the pressure mounts on the blues boss to be both.

very keen slate's moscow successfully paced the stage of the alpine skiing world cup for the very first time. but first the champions league and it was a good night for tears skaar who got a last minute equaliser against spanish giants rionda dreaded in moscow pontin's weren't going with the vital strike for the army men who'd fallen behind to a first half goal from christiane who are now in doubt so one one the score afterwards to discard sluice gate prices pace. in the second half especially in the last quarter of the game obviously became pretty open and it is clear that real had chances we also had a large number of approaches which could have turned into something bigger and that we managed to equalize on the third minute of extra time of course it was a very happy event for us the result of today's game leaves us with a chance to continue to compete and most important thing the peach is different. and the result is different too because in those moments. we are winning the real

meaning of the song i expect to win a difficult match of course but i expect to win. confirmation of that result while in the other game chelsea lost three one at napoli even more pressure on blues boss andre. his side had taken the lead to one matter but a brace from the very easy and a strife and gave the italian side the win afterwards because by explained his side's poor finishing. first rule is a negative result of course. but the result that to be sure that you can turn around at the bridge due to the amount of chances that we had during the game again being more clinical and being more efficient in front of all was the difference between the two teams both the teams with almost the same amount of opportunities with fifteen one another one with sixteen very open game for the champions league and two went but napoli found that efficiency in front of all that we did find. it

was also true that today was a good match we had a chance to see chelsea's strength and they play well a very good team with several excellent players it will be really hard for us to win the second leg because if you want to face a team like chelsea with the right approach that it is easy that they can score a couple of goals of their own pitch about champions league action continues today with mass a hosting into milan the start velodrome in the first leg of their round of sixteen the french team are unbeaten in fifteen games while clarity around the everything into have lost four of their last five games and conceded fifteen goals in the process so it sounds like a huge for the french side what i must say couch didier the seans doesn't see it like that. i'm convinced that the real strength of this team and its players hasn't shown over the last four or five games we know but given how important the match is into will have a different attitude champions league can bring big focus and determination missed . well in the champions league game on wednesday swiss side bars will host by

munich by and will be without their star midfielder bastian schweinsteiger who has ankle ligament damage play also short at the back with diego content oh no and danielle van missy. elsewhere manchester city striker colors tevis has apologised to the club following a self-imposed three month exile to argentina the argentine returned to training last week after his lengthy fall out with the club following his refusal to warm up in the champions league game last september in a statement he said i wish to apologize sincerely and unreservedly to everybody i've let down and to whom my actions have caused offense well teles isn't in city's europa league squad and so won't feature in the game with porto this evening city with a good chance of making the last sixteen of the competition after winning the first leg two one in portugal. a game is dangerous about this but to start from. but we know there is

a top team. who should play like. zero zero two and that is difficult again will be a very difficult game. we need to play. well porto got a taste of the stadium during a training session yesterday and have it all to do if they are to end their bad run in england which has seen them fail to win fifteen visits but after last week's tie there were allegations city striker mario balotelli was racially abused by porto fans although porto bought the top pair believed it could have been a misunderstanding. just so. i didn't hear any racist comment so i can't comment on what i didn't hear i have no idea i hear very often and hulk is here so he can comment on that our supporters many times a whole cult hulk but they're referring to our forward of great quality as a way of motivating him i was focused only on the match to see what was happening inside the four lines i didn't notice any comment that could force the club to make

any apologies. weather in moscow may not have suited place in the champions league last night it was a perfect for another event taking place nearby the russian capital hosted a state of the alpine ski well cup on hundred brave the cold to watch including a couple of boxing stars with more as for the dance. it one winter frost could prevent muscovites from staying out of doors on tuesday evenings to resume watching the pick up alpine skiing in action. it was the first time this huge ramp in the heart of the russian capital has hosted a world cup leg with a top fifteen stay in the men's and women's overall standings have to had only fifty six metres high slope when the barrels thrown. this event which is unique for the sport turned out to be full of surprises and the first wrong was finding the

boxing stars and then the spectators. not going to the organizers even offered me to get there on the round and test the slope it scares me a bit but i feel i could do it in terms of proper preparation i have six years' experience in alpine skiing so far and i just love it. oh no i can't do that now playing skiing is almost impossible for a man of my weight she worked for me. but to be more precise it seems dangerous for this piece and for the people around meanwhile some more bombshells came from the completion itself ladies first in the spotlight the three time world cup winner concurrences loser lindsay wound was only left with third place them american edged out in the semifinals by had compadre. who can do

a brilliant run. in the finals against me have a look here house and to claim the most to prune. it so it's tough to go against your teammate not in the finals but the best in the fight on but you know every anything happens out there and i got lucky when she hooked an arm so i was able to relax a little more second run and that's kind of how parallel is it half mental and half the full and very impressed with building the slope in the middle of moscow in the format and everything was really cool and exciting for us racers we really liked it and it was a good job. the men's event proved to be unpredictable too with gratian world cup leader he would suggest being out of the completion due to injury it was alexis binturong who claimed the very first role. in his career. the twenty year old whose pre-game plan was just to gain experience constant limited to the big final where

he faced german pillocks no rather. to run so that their take turns taking the lead when it was the frenchman who proved the first was on the night you know it's a different thing you have the foreign saw the nose again. and you just try to push your doings around and there's no one was going to see you saw it is the source. of tuesday first pancake in the open skiing events of the top level turned out to be far from a fail or. the best marty. good stuff now action from the n.b.a. where there has been an astonishing comeback the cleveland cavaliers overcoming a seventeen point deficit to beat the detroit pistons one hundred one point two one hundred cleveland's rookie kerry leading the comeback score you take me for twenty five points seventeen of which were in the fourth quarter but it was a long as i've changed for the cavaliers ahead for good today. thirty seconds from

time to night school shooting high of twenty four to detroit but the defeat of the pistons three game three. and finally qatar has presented its bid to host the summer olympics in two thousand and twenty hoping it will be second time lucky you'd have wanted to host the twenty sixteen games but that was turned down because of the scorching summer temperatures in the country so this time of day hari's bidding to host the games in the winter with the lympics starting in october followed by the paralympics in november competing against terror here in madrid and back in azerbaijan for the right to host if successful it will be the first time the games have been held in the middle east last year incidentally cattle won the right to host the twenty twenty two football world cup. so that's all the sport for the moment we've got the weather coming up next.

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