unresolved issues still hanging over the two aren't you spoke to the new russian ambassador to britain alexander yeah about how he expects the relationship to progress. today i'm russian embassy in london talking to mr alexander yet again k. has just taken up the post as the new russian ambassador to the u.k. he was formerly of the press department at the ministry in moscow thank you very much for talking to us he congratulations on your new pasting and a very warm welcome to london now who took up your first post as a diplomat in one nine hundred seventy six how do you think that working for the diplomatic service and diplomatic relations between countries in general have changed since then i think since that time you know there were quite a serious changes. first of all if you look at the agenda of the leaders of the countries and the agenda of the negotiations between the ministers of foreign affairs you can find you know thirty thirty five years ago. more than fifty percent were the by little issues know when the ministers are meeting they are talking about the climate change the talk about the i

yeah. oh, no. now this one can't spell "alexander" or "great" but they can spell "the," so he should probably get a well, what do you expect from a kid who's named after a games console? where's the mouse that you killed? i put it in a plastic bag in the bin. i want to give it a proper funeral in the garden. it needs closure. closure. right. well, uh, as long... as you promise to keep it in the plastic bag-- don't snatch!-- and you thoroughly wash your hands afterwards. is it a girl or a boy? i haven't had the results of the post-mortem. well, if it was a mummy mouse, then it will have had lots of little babies waiting in its hole for it to come back, and saying, "squeak, squeak, squeak! where's my mummy?" why are you addressing all this to me? because daddy said that you were the one who couldn't bear mice. look, i only-- karen, it was both of us decided to put out the traps, okay? she told you to say that. karen! why is it always mum who gets it in the neck? ( doorbell ) jake! whoever that is-- jake: i know, just say, "no, thank you." always me, isn't it? she's always all over lovely daddy. i did

my name is alexander i'm serving five years for robbery and still got three years to go yeah. i've been convicted of serious assault and halfway through it so yes sentenced but with. the juvenile prison. so the performance takes place in a commodore to begin with one of the offenders films the boys routine the inmates will see it later this is when the finishing touches have been put to the film the play will be shown in many other prisons. i dare say you're still hoping that your friend andrei will help you your hopes are futile look midnight is approaching and so is a terrible ordeal that you will have to go through young man me meanwhile your so-called friend is looking at his favorite book of stamps and savoring some fruit ice cream it's a law in law if you see a. fellow inmates now have the chance to take in the video before. admits he wants to continue his acting career when he's set free. i would like to keep doing it. for. myself. but then try to achieve high goals step by step. action from. experience he. i've got lots of plans for the future. psychologists offer thei

alexander, nbc news, new york. >>> the weather channel's mike seidel joins us now from minneapolis where the snow is already piling up. a different scene than we saw this morning from you, mike. >> reporter: yeah. when we talked this morning, lester, the "today" show, there wasn't a flake on the streets of downtown minneapolis. boy that changed quickly around 10 a.m. look at this time lapse video and look how quickly the snow piled up here in the city that has already had five feet this season, five feet, that's 50% more than their average to date. the storm heads east tonight, spreading snow and some ice just in time for monday morning rush hour. here in the twin cities, wind up with a foot in spots. no real issues in chicago. long flight delays but mostly rain there but syracuse will crack the 150-inch mark. and you think you had a bad winter? new york city only needs three more inches to hit five feet for the season and they may do it by tomorrow morning. one thing is for sure, lester, there's 60-degree temperatures which had many hoping from boston to new york to d.c. hoping that this winter, this snowy winter, had come to an end. those temperatures off the weather charts for the rest of t

alexander vi, he had 12 children and several mistresses. >> jimmy: wow. >> so it was really very different then. >> jimmy: i guess so. yeah.e've got nine episodes of it. it's directed, a lot of it, by neil jordan, who's a great filmmaker. >> jimmy: oh. >> and it opens up rather as "the tudors" did in the last couple of years ago. but this is italy, middle ages and, sort of, makes new york seem like disneyland. i mean, it's really dirty times. >> jimmy: really? >> yeah. >> jimmy: this is rough stuff. and "the tudors" -- yeah, that was a big thing. >> yeah, "the tudors" was very popular. >> jimmy: it was very good because i didn't know much about, you know, "the tudors." "the borgias," i clearly didn't know much. >> you knew nothing about it at all. >> jimmy: i thought it was pronounced "bor-gi-as." >> "borgias." >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. [ imitates italian accent ] >> "borgias. it's good." >> jimmy: the brogias." yeah, it's a casino in atlantic city. [ laughter ] you got a lot of amazing, dramatic stuff here, but, coming up, we have the two funniest people, the farrelly brothers. will you stick around and talk to those guys? >>