anger on the streets of spain more and dirty sentiment this coupled with the protest against brutal police tactics of demonstrators desperation is growing in the local fourth largest economy with clients i think one of the greats in the e.u. . the us decline through loud arming the syrian opposition was also backed by al qaida spreading fears of washington's push for regime change in syria but pine trees are into chaos. and the failure of the u.n. nuclear watchdog mission in iran. even more sanctions while the tension around the islamic state begins to take its toll on the very term trees but it will travel to close. relations between moscow and washington and how senior ops and downs in recent months to discuss the future of cooperation between the two nations are caught up with the newly appointed u.s. ambassador to russia was also the architect of the reset of tots.

michael mcfaul a new we appoint you some bastard to russia also a professor at stanford an expert in political science who has her stay in russia 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 the 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 the 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 is 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 done tactic and they're all thrilled i'm here as the president said to my president when he first announced this view last summer when the president and a very unorthodox way asked me to get a fake i want to send mcfaul to russia what do you think he said then fast that's been all fine the other stuff has been different i don't really quite understand it well also asking the public side exactly of the commentators and the journalists who were actually condemning you on television. their longtime acquaintances and you know some of them are your friends or your opinion why do you think it costs such a stir. 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 it's not in the spirit of the recent. you're most certainly never going to see president obama or anybody in my administrator 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 well it's only normal that any ambassador who is sent to the mission does what he would usually be doing on a mission but it's not by accident that you were appointed a u.s. ambassador to russia because you were so closely related to this country since one thousand nine hundred three so you are very well acquainted with russian mentality of the realities on the ground and you better than anyone else really understand how sensitive russians are views of the relations to the united states so ok along with the state officials you do me on your second day of their arrival the opposition leaders in red state in saigon practice after ears of silence i mean

surely you knew that probably that wasn't going to send the best message out that 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 he wanted to have me out here on the front lines working to advance the reset with respect to the opposition meetings it's our policy it's called dual track and gauge when president obama was here he spent the first meeting with president maybe other . 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 society leaders because there's been such a fuss about it all i'm asking is that how wise was that people of. you have to know the opposition leader how wise was to meet them on the 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 was 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 the last question on an average question why do you think once again in your opinion so many people here think that you're in russia to inspire a revolution it's not an opinion commonly her held. u.s. ambassador to russia why do you 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 that i would just say two things one i am 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 and their current job and other words let's let's talk about today and what we're doing now and not that you've said in an interview to russian media that united states used to support the current revolutions but that's in the past because that was under a different strain. personal varmus administration does not do that anymore that's

what you've said can you say that under president obama's administration the u.s. is not funding any opposition movement in the rest of the world what we do is we fund. non-governmental organizations and 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 opposites and leaders and we don't pro-government political leaders either we're not funding putin's presidential campaign either which is to say 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 and it's a concept that's very dear to you and. really a great deal of good things have come out of it but in notion here in russia at

least that yes america has it assistant pressure in its final stages of the session to their belief and that's perfect yes russia is aiding the united states in afghanistan for the past couple of years and that's great but the stumbling point between the two countries right and i'm saying they're anti-missile defense issue we're still miles away on that we disagree on syria and iran but that's not just a bilateral issue there are other sides involved but as far as purely biological stumbling point goes that's really the end time we sell to science and human. what's going to happen there is still a table what receptive would tell you come on this is the main issue we couldn't resolve and we still don't know how to resolve it well first i would say we don't believe it's a main issue all the other things you just described those are real issues 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 or 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 those 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 a hundred times or present united states and so 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 while in the united states give russia 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 guarantees while seeing 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 reason that's why i'm asking why not legally binding variables. well i don't know about the history of nato expansion i'll 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 going to go shading 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 this 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 the negotiations 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 russian side these are problems decades away we've got to 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 a principle that president obama brings to every single issue in the recent thank you very much for this century and we really truly believe the best sitting here close in this mission thanks for having me.

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the streets of spain where at last terrible sentiments this coupled with a protest against a brutal police trying to explain the traders desperation is growing in the girl's arms for the largest economy in the highest unemployment rate and the you led us to

climb through a long time arming the syrian opposition about was also background cried up spreading fear around washington to push for regime change in syria but plunge the country deeper into chaos. and the failure of the u.n. nuclear watchdog mission in iran fuel talks of even more sanctions while the tension around the islamic state begins to take its toll on the very countries putting those manal to use in place time now for sports news with them. hello there good to have you company and these are the headlines smiling slue speeches as manager hails his plays as they grab one for against real madrid in the champions league. while filthy boss spears both feels the pressure is his side suffer a three one defeat and that really. did use like

a small scale successfully stage of the alpine ski world cup 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 in moscow every boy points us were in bloom with a vital strike for the army men who had fallen behind to a first half goal from christiania right now though so i won the score on the plastic pitch newsmaking i coach needed sleep state is a happy man. in the second half especially in the last quarter of the game it obviously became pretty open and it is clear that reale had a chance as 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 complete the mission the most important thing the pitch is different. the result is different because in those moments.

we're winning the ring all the time so expect to win a difficult match of course with expect to win. confirmation of a bad result while any other game chelsea last three one in napoli keeping more pressure on rivers both the side haven't won for five games they did take the lead on matter but of greats from the very end of streisand caravanning gave the talian side when he is playing his side's poor finishing. first since it's a negative result of course. but the result that it had to be sure that you can turn around with a group due to the amount of chances that we had during the game begin to be more clinical and being more efficient in front of all there was the difference between the top teams will salute be almost the same amount of opportunities and one minute with fifty one of them and sixteen very open game for the champions league and the went at it but not believe found that efficiency in front of all that we can find.

it was also true that today was a good match we had a chance to see chelsea strength 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 it is easier that they can score a couple of goals of their own pitch. also feeling the pressure is into man courage clarity ranieri his side are in mass a for the first leg of their round of sixteen tie and it's a game italians are desperate to win to make up for a disappointing season they are currently fourteen points behind rivals ac milan in syria after losing four of their last five games and have also been knocked out of the carpet italia in contrast mass a ahead of rick playing a form they've won their last three matches and are three hundred fifty knighting so it sounds like a sure win for the french side where they're not. doesn't see it like that. i'm convinced that the real strength of this team and its players and last for five

league games when they were given no matches and will have a different attitude toward you champions league can bring big focus and determination best. to be able to game of mind states which side plans on lining expire know who we without their star midfielder fastness wind started as an ankle injury they are also short at the back of it to be a complete game so good to know and daniel grant we can all missing. aswell city striker has apologised to the club following his self-imposed three month exile in argentina the arjun time returned to training this week after his lengthy fall out with the club following his refusal to warm up in the champions league game last september statements he said i wish to apologize sincerely and i'm reservedly to everybody i've let down and to whom my actions have caused offense teammates are preparing to face porto tonight in the europa league city with a good chance of making the last sixteen of the competition after winning the first leg two one in portugal maybe

a game is dangerous about this but that will start from one. but then we know that . we should play and i. think that is the form game would be a very difficult game depend on us really at the global. porto got a taste of b.s.e. at stadium during a training session and how it all to do if they are to end their bad run in england which has seen them fail to win in fifteen visits following last week's defeat there were allegations second striker liability tally was racially abused by porto fans although porto coach we talked earlier believed it could have been a misunderstanding. i didn't hear a racist comment so i can't comment on what i didn't hear i have no idea i hear very often and help is here is if you can comment on that our supporters many times say hell cult hulk but they're referring to awful would have 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. cold weather in moscow may not have saved a place in the champions league last night but it was perfect for another event taking place nearby the russian capital house in the state of the alpine ski will cut for the first time one hundred sprite the cult to watch including a couple of boxing stars with more his rabbit than yeah. it will win the force could prevent muscovites from staying on the doors on tuesday evening to resume watching the peak of alpine skiing in action. it was the first time this huge ramp in the final of the russian capital as opposed to the rules cup leg when they took fifteen skin demands in women's overall standings had to had in the fifty six meter high slope when the girls flown.

the city of van which is unique in the sport to be full of surprises and the first one was finding the boxing stars and then the spectators. got to people recognize used even offered me to get there on the ground 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 alpine skiing was almost impossible for a man on my way to work for me. but to be more precise it seems dangerous for this beast and for the people around meanwhile so move bombshells came from the competition itself ladies first in the spotlight the three time world cup winner concurrences loser lindsay wound was only with third place them eric

and aged out in the semifinals my head compadre. who continues. a brilliant run in the finals against me have a look here how since you claim to move to crown it's always tough to go against your teammate not in the final but the best fight on but you know every anything happened 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 after mental and physical very impressed with building the slope in the middle of moscow the format and everything was really cool and exciting for us racers i really liked it it was a good job. demands have been proved to be unpredictable. but gratian world cup leader even sicker still being out of the completion of u.t. injury it was a lexus binturong who claimed the very first role in his career. the twenty year

old was pre-game plan was just to get experience. limited to the big final where he plays german pillocks new router. to run so the third take turns taking the lead but it was the frenchman who proved the passes on the night you know it's a different thing you have. to get on those a guy. and you're just. doing zero and there's no. specific source. to use the first pancake in the open skiing events of the top level to be far from where you are. marty. good stuff now action from the n.b.a. where there has been an impressive comeback a cleveland cavaliers overcoming a seventeen point deficit to just beat the troy pistons one hundred one points to one hundred eleven zero asking to carry leading the comeback scoring

a title twenty five points over half of which were in the final quarter but it was a long as a juvenile but a cavity is ahead for good. the best slam dunk thirty seconds from the time round a night school team high of twenty four points for detroit the defeat ended the pistons three game winning streak. and finally cancer has presented its bid to host the summer olympics and twenty twenty hoping it will be the second time lucky 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 go far is admitting to host the games no brainer would be lympics starting october followed by the paralympics in november also fighting for the right to be hosts our tokyo madrid a stand ball in azerbaijan but if successful it would be the first time the games have been held in the middle east last year cattle wonder right to host the twenty twenty two football world cup. so that brings us up to date kate will be here in

the next couple of hours for the rest of the day to tell you what's happening in the rest of the sport but for the moment to make bison. killers of so much and it means that as. long as the sun shines and iraq is the drumbeat towards war now inevitable as the chattering classes discuss the possible danger. if. the economy. seems to be easy. to. see.

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