as to pull the strings of the syrian conflict by possibly the red rock admits weapons and al qaeda linked militants are already pouring across it should the order. the spanish police lay in to teachers and students angry that there's no he's in their classrooms thanks to a thirty plus major credit rating agency guard grades week again saying the fault is the part unavoidable. and a lot of people program must be targeted with a military strike that's the applauded view of israeli intelligence following a u.n. inspection that failed to result. to bring it up to date for the moment we've got a lot of summary for in about fifteen minutes from now the meat of relations between moscow and washington have seen their ups and downs in recent months to discuss the future of toys between the two nations or to be caught up with the newly appointed u.s. ambassador to russia who presents his credentials to the president today.

michael mcfaul a newly acquired it yes and vassar to russia also a professor at stanford an expert in political science there his first day 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 russian government officials isn't 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. 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 top state and they're all thrilled i'm here as the president said to my president when he first announced this in the 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 stick that's been all fine the other stuff has been different don't really quite understand it well i was going to ask you the public side exactly the commentators and journalists were actually condemning you on television. their longtime acquaintances of you know some of them are your friends or your opinion why do you think it caused 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 research.

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 that well it's only normal that an ambassador who is sent to mission that's what he would usually be doing on a mission but it's not by accident that you were appointed the u.s. ambassador to russia because you were so closely related to this country since nine hundred eighty 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 me on your second day of arrival the opposition leaders and their current practice after ears of silence i mean surely you knew that probably wasn't 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 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 where when president obama was here he spent the first meeting with president get a. 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 it seen meet the people. yes and the opposition leader how wise wants to meet them on a second day of your arrival and i know that that hasn't at all undermined your

relations with the state officials they're fine with that it's just the people who are there but the average russian and i know how important most talk about the average russian though so let's not let's not generalize that we all know who the average russians last time i checked the attitude towards the united states had gotten much more positive out of 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 revolution it's not an opinion commonly her held. semester 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 and previous jobs should not be probative as to what they're seeking to do and their current job in other words let's let's talk about today and what we're doing now and not about you've said in an interview to russian media that united states used to support the current revolutions that's in the past because that was under a different strain. personal promise 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 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 in leaders and we don't pro-government political leaders either we're not funding putin's presidential campaign either which is to say. the 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 fact 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 things have come out of it but the notion here in russia is that yes america has it assisted russia in its final stages of the session to their goal

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 anti-missile defense issue we're still of 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 bilateral stumbling point goes that's really the anti-missile to some solution. what's going to happen there is still a table what reset people will tell you 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 u.s. russia 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 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 the 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 yet the capabilities of russia so we know that it's a loser strategy and we don't have the money to do that we'll just have to keep working right i want the united states 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 summit bloc but gave no guarantees will seem you know how things turn out

so russians are saying why should we believe that when i type anti-missile defense they're not giving us any written guarantees that's why i'm asking why not keep legally binding. well i don't know about the history of nato expansion and 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 will be good for russia and good for the united states. the obsession with legally binding guarantees for us is not rational. we have a disagreement about that we said very clearly we will write these no the world will play or 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 they go shushan 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 it probably won't happen this year where 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 i've these are problems decades away we've got to sit down rationally work 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 century and we really truly wishing the best on seeing her posts in this nation thanks for having me.

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what's really happening to the. global. community who are watching our team. oh. please. be so much brighter if you song from first impression some of. these stunts on t.v. dot com. top sources are not t. the u.s. prepares to pull the strings of the syrian conflict possibly arming the rebels and iraq admits weapons and al-qaeda linked militants are already pouring across its

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learn about. illmatic. play on the great champions league. like oppose night backyard considers retirement champions snouts next opponent to bradley on the controversial court response. but first a football and striking call us time as well mismanaged the city's europa league match at home to porto this wednesday night despite apologising unreservedly to the club following his self-imposed three month exile in his native argentina the twenty eight year old recently training last week after a lengthy fall out with the club hollowing his alleged refusal to warm up in the two nil champions league defeat by a meeting last september but the argentina star has not been registered to play in this competition so he will take all the time to bordeaux in just over ten minutes for the second leg of their europa league last thirty two time you need to go through to the next round after winning the away like two one. but the game is

dangerous and like it's better to start from zero to one. but you know that part. we should play like a four star. zero zero i think that is difficult he will be a very difficult game when i was really. going on what i got a taste of the f.a. had stadium during a training session how did better when their fifteen game winners run in england following last week's first like defeat they were allegations city striker mario balotelli was racially abused also founds like had with your brother lives in a misunderstanding. i didn't hear any racist comments 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 it our supporters many times say hey cull coke but they're referring to a 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. moving on to the champions league work around yairi is leaving the question as his into milan cider in last say 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 that's all they are currently seventh in syria are fourteen points behind leaders and arch rivals ac milan after losing four of the last five games have also been knocked out of the corporate area. of mass a rich vein of form but right side has one of the last three matches and are unbeaten in fifteen out and however that only fourth in france's top league and twelve points of top spot which they did they sure is wary of their italian opponents. so you know you just but i'm convinced that the real strength of this team and its players and shown in the last four or five live games given how important the match is into will have

a different attitude which obviously can bring the focus and determination missed. suicide bombers all caused by in munich like of their last sixteen tie court on john. q twenty one for injury the german team also short of the back if. they know and finally gotten it all wrong. one choose they could lead it's if he is optimistic about his side second the joneses aftertaste but rather a last gasp equaliser during one one of nine ties with israel the three pillars nicky stadium swedish midfielder cultism only laid a dream debut by scoring the dramatic. almost the last into the games after christiane i ran out i think after twenty eight minutes in a case of this is dominating pots it was no longer than a psychological advantage. in the second half especially in the last quarter of the game would 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 compete in the most important single pitch is different. the result is different because in those moments. we are winning. so i expect to win a difficult match of course what i expect will. well meanwhile in italy napoli came from a goal down to be chelsea three one using more pressure on luzon agenda. is light is now winless in five games this is did open out a twenty seven minutes run nothing but only a trot from the tail of it see first half the stuff is times fight every sunday morning it was like a comfortable advantage. boxing now one of the sport's best hands upon fight as manny pacquiao says his retirement is imminent much with used to set any dates as

the filipino began promoting his next title defense however the thirty three year old says he has at least a couple of fights left in him w b a welterweight champion is due to square off against american timothy bradley in las vegas in june and pretty face each other from the media in los angeles twenty eight year old bradley holds the w.b. oh i like to welterweight belt he's on beacon in twenty nine fights and is relishing the chance to try and strike down the boxing great however for now he was striking poses as the filipino congressman took his own pictures as a group human presser but i'm not a fighting talk has also put. retiring i'm playing for. rick perry meaning retiring soon. enough so what i was announced at. the top of the bag above me yet ok i'll quit because all together was just a general you know people see me you know not guys out you know one point you know

i put them on a canvas we're going to get everything i put the this is not again this is what you know. he was in a chair you only cared this. on to into sport now and there's been a maiden podium finish for russia's nicholai all union at the snowboard cross world cup event in canada of all da over france was in top form right from the start and see if the second straight win that this overall england trial is alex pullin to be bound for still got bazza laps on the final turn prove costly for the defending world champion this twenty year old are you going to make him something cheever caving serves while another russian and legal recourse finished just outside. a certain place who. and finally hundreds braved the cold on tuesday night as moscow hosted a stage of the alpine ski world cup for the first time and among them were a couple of boxing stance with robert but only on records. i know it when winter

frosts could prevent muscovites from staying odors on tuesday evening to resume watching the peak of alpine skiing in action. it was the first time this huge ramp in the heart of the russian capital has hosted a ruled couple leg with until fifteen in demands in women's overall standings had to have only fifty six metre high slopes and the perils flown. this event which is unique in a sports turned out to be full of surprises and the first wrong was finding true boxing stores in one of the spectators. not out of the organizers even offered money 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 do that alpine skiing is almost impossible for a man on my way to work with. bugs to be more precise and seems dangerous for the skis and for the people around meanwhile some more bombshells came from the completion itself plays first in the sport like this three time world cup winner concurrences loser lindsay wound was only left with third place them. in the semifinals by head compadre. who continues her brilliant run in the finals against the hail of the house and to claim the most who crowned it always have to go against her teammate not in the final battle but 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 past mental and physical very impressed with building the slope in the middle of moscow when the format and everything was really cool and exciting for us racers we really liked it and it was a good job. demands of been proved to be unpredictable to. gratian world cup leader even sicker still being out of the competition due to injury it was a lexus 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 consistent limited to the big final. where he plays german pillock snowy winter. to run so the third take turns taking the lead when it was the frenchman who proved the first responder night you know it's a different thinking you have. to get another guy with you and you're just. doing zero and there's no was what i see you saw.

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