so you was prepared to pull the strings of hillary. says it hopes to an army of rubble and iraq admits weapons and all pride a link to the militants are already pouring across the chair the border. police play into teachers and students angry that there's no heat in their classrooms thanks to austerity cuts greeks are protesting what they see as their country's future relations with the e.u. to get another bailout. and the world's nuclear program must be targeted with a military strike that's the reported view is really intelligence following a new one instruction not to be able to resolve the jet long. relations between moscow and washington have seen their outs and downs in recent months to discuss the future of choice between the two nations are she caught up with the newly appointed u.s. ambassador to russia and the architect of what became known as the reset.

michael mcfaul a new point years and gossamer to russia also a professor at stanford an expert in political science who has said that he's for stay in russia 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 the russian government officials even as we disagree on syria and sharp contrast with public 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 fantastic 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 me a bit of hey i want to sunbathe fall to russia what do you think he said banta stick that's been all fine the other stuff has been different don't really quite understand it well also asking the public side exactly the commentators and the journalists who were actually condemning you know television. their longtime acquaintances of you know some of them are your friends or your people and why do you think it costs that's history. 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 research. you're most certainly never going to see president obama or anybody and my administration 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 the well it's only normal that any ambassador who has something mission that you would usually be doing on a mission but it's not by accident that you were pointed to a u.s. ambassador to russia because you are so closely related to this country since one thousand nine hundred three you are very well acquainted with russian mentality you know 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 meet on your second day of arrival the opposition leaders amidst anti-government protests after years of silence i mean surely you knew that probably that was not going to send the best message out there 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 in the front lines working to advance the research with respect to the opposition meetings it's our policy it's called dual track and each one president obama was here he spent the first meeting with president together. 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 that people of color. yes in the opposition there's the how was was to meet them on the second day of the year and while 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 the average russian and i know how important was talk about the average russian though so let's not let's not generalize but 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 it 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 it is the case but 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 for 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 and in other words let's let's talk about today and what we're doing now and you've said into the russian media that united states used to support the cause of lucian's that that's in the past because that was under a different constraints. person a bomb this 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 and 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 opposition leaders and we don't fund pro-government political leaders either we're not funding the 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 architects it's basically your baby and it's a concept that's very dear to you and. really great deal of things have come out of it but the notion here in russia is that yes america has its assistant pressure in

its final stages of the session today 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 is right and i'm saying the anti-missile defense issue we're still of miles away on that we disagree on syria and iran but that's not just a graduation and there are other sides involved but as far as purely bilateral stumbling point that's really the anti-missile defense and hugh. what's going to happen there is still a table that reset can come on this is the main issue we're going to 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 that a hundred times present 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 you know 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 i want the united states legally binding are intense and i can also tell you right russians are still 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 while seeing you know how

things turn out so russians are saying why should we believe have an anti anti-missile defense they're not giving us any written guarantee that's why i'm asking why not legally binding americans. 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 were 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 this is we have a disagreement about that we 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 and they go. 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 real threats quote unquote threats we hear from the russian side these are problems decades away we've got time would sit down rationally work yes 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 injury and we really truly and that's your thoughts on this mission thanks for having me.

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is no need in their classrooms thanks to austerity cuts protesting what they see as their country's capitulation to between you. and your wrongs nuclear program must be targeted with a military strike that's the reported view of israeli intelligence following a u.n. inspection to resolve the deadlock. and more news for you in just fifteen minutes time now it's the sports with kate. other sports have another big night of european football action but now it's money so let's see if this has managers of things about the return leg at the bernabeu this chart is solid as a stop in time one one draw against reality in the champions league. while feeling is not any more pressure on money than they did after coming back to win three want

to tell a chelsea. legend slopes took the podium stage of the alpine world cup in the first time here in moscow. the first of the champions league and cultivated since he is a happy man this wednesday after test out grab the equaliser with the last kick of the game to a one on the mind's eye when israel madrid at the stadium we dismiss built to learn to mate adrian's are you going to turn out to volley into the injury time christiane or another twenty eight minutes in the game to visit the terminator but it is beyond me that you can't take psychological of the. total time out in the second half especially in the last quarter of the game with obviously be pretty open and it is clear that real has 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 read for us the result of today's game leaves us with

a chance to continue to complete the mission and most important thing the pitch is different and. the result is different because it is a moment. we need to reel in the soul expect to win a difficult match of course what i expect to. meanwhile a little pain from a goal down to the chelsea three one he's been more pressure on blues my guess and i guess your side is now winners in five games it is this did open up the twenty seven. gotten a charm of the lead at the top of stoppage time strike that it is the cut on his side is comfortable advantage over the last. five or twenty. first's it's a negative result of course. but the result that to be sure that you can turn around with a breach due to the amount of chances that we had during the game begin to be more clinical and be more efficient in front of it was the difference between the two

teams both teams with your most assume all of the opportunities one minute with fifteen were another one hundred sixteen very you put a game for the champions league and to wind it up but not believe you found that efficiency in front of all that we can find if you don't it was also true that today was a good match we had a chance to see chelsea's strength we play world 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 chill see with the right approach that it is easier that they can score a couple of goals of their own pitch. well also feeling the pressure is former chelsea coach fabio ronny ery who is current side into milan are in must say for the first leg of their last sixteen tie it's a game the italian side is desperate to win to boost a disappointing season so far and that syria are currently seventh in syria fourteen points behind leaders and arch rivals ac milan after using for the last five games and have also been knocked out of the copper italia well in contrast

must say it's a rich vein of form the french side has won their last three matches and are unbeaten in fifteen and since however they're only fourth in france's top lead and twelve points up top spot in the additional is what every other italian opponents. you know you disagree respectfully i'm convinced that the real strength of this team and its players has been shown over the last four or five league games even home matches in two will have a different attitude. and determination. like any other game on wednesday swiss side basel host four time champions find meaning the german side will be without starving filibusters finds he has an ankle injury while they are all so short at the back gate of company they know that one bite and or missing. their arse where much the city striker collar status has apologised to the club following his self-imposed three month exile in argentina the argentina star returned to training last week after

a lengthy fall out with the club following his refusal to warm up in their to champions league defeat by munich last september in a statement he said i wish to apologize sincerely and unreservedly to everybody i have let down and to whom my actions have caused offense but i was his teammates are preparing to host porto in the second leg of their you wrote believed last thirty two tie city are in with a good chance of making the last sixteen after winning the first like two one in portugal i believe is dangerous about this but that was tough on one. but we know that. we should play like that. zero zero. it's difficult game very difficult. to play very well for me more porto get a taste of the if you had stadium during a training session and i have it all to do with better and their fifteen game winners run in england following our streets the first leg defeats there were also allegations city striker mario balotelli was racially abused by porto fans although

coach believes it could have been a misunderstanding. as a group. i didn't hear any racist comments so i can't comment on what i didn't hear i have no idea on here very often and how because here is if you can comment on it supporters many times see how cold coke but they're referring to are full 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 but it could force the club to make any apologies you health and former world number one tiger woods escaping his call ahead of the w.j.c. match play in our zone or despite his first round of the longest run it was spain saying what is possible while the american is currently ranked twenty eighth in the world and has gone without a tour title for more than two years how the now fully fit when the off season chevron world challenge in december by the time has passed improving didn't stop

going under him saying woods is not at his best but the fourteen time major winner was unfazed by the remark. it's just an opinion it's their own opinion. everyone has a. hole and you know it it's just like that so. that's kind of how i look at it it's their private us their opinions and what matters is you know what i go out there and how i play and how i'm progressing in my game. but at the end of the day when i'm retired. i think i will have amassed a pretty good record. and finally well the cold weather here in moscow may not have suited some of the football isn't the champions league it was perfect for another event nearby the russian capital hosted the stage of the alpine ski world cup for the first time and hundreds braved the cold to watch including a couple of boxing stars that's rather funny on records. it when winter frosts

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 is hosted by rules couple leg. with the top fifteen still demands in women's overall standings had to had only fifty six meter high slope and the barrel flown. to see the land which is unique on a sports turned out to be full of surprises and the first one was finding three boxing stars in one of the spectators. that guided the organizers 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 and alpine skiing so far and i just love it. oh no i can't do that now

barring skiing is almost impossible for a man of 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 completion itself ladies first in the spotlight the three times rule cup winner concurrences lindsay whom was only left with third place them are edged out in the semifinals my head compadre. who can do a brilliant run in the mornings against me have a look here house and to claim the most who crowned it know it's tough to go against your teammate not i don't know about the best and if i don't 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

physical very impressed with building the slope in the middle off out in the format and everything was really cool and exciting for us racers i really liked it and it was a good job. demands of land proved to be unpredictable. that gratian world cup leader he would suggest though each being out of a completion due to injury it was alexis binturong who claim the very first roll call when he's career. the twenty year old was pre-game plan was just to gain experience. to the big final where he faced gentleman pillocks know whether. to run so that their take turns taking the lead but it was the frenchman who proved the fastest on the night you know it's a different thing you know. you're just. doing zoran and.

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