the head of the foreign relations department of the church so the church today the russian orthodox church many feel that it's turning towards europe is becoming more open to to. corporation with a european country one of the questions that all the christians around the world are asking is the pope ever coming to visit russia do you think this will happen in your lifetime well the first question which we should pose is the pope and the patriarch of moscow will meet. in russia or in some other place. i think this meeting will take place but we are not here to read it to speak. look asian or the timing of such meeting because it has to be prepared and not only from the point of view of the protocol and the agenda. there are some issues which have to be solved before this meeting takes place. there is the issue of reservoir office three or as are difficult situation in western ukraine the situation which we inherited from the. nine hundred ninety s. but of course the history is much longer. there are many other difficulties which we have to discuss before. we. embark on the preparation of suc

chairman of the foreign relations department in the russian orthodox church and that's it for now from all of us here and if you want to have your say on spotlight you can always drop me a line a cauldron of god for you and let's keep the show interacts moved back with more first time comments on what's going on in and outside russia stay in our teeth and take it. personally thank you rick.

files are from a sealed senate investigation which was the result of the senate foreign relations committee and the u.s. department of justice looking into groups that brought thirty six million dollars into the u.s. to plant stories in the us media and promote israeli foreign policy objectives in the united states they're extremely relevant because they revealed for example of a vast effort to divert us attention from the israeli dimona nuclear weapons facility by saying it was merely a research center they carefully tracked how that story was playing in the us media and they also were using outlets such as the atlantic magazine funneling fifty thousand dollars into that magazine in a major effort to disrupt the u.s. peace proposal which would have involved bringing some palestinian refugees and allowing them to return to their homes and properties in israel it's extremely important for people to see this media influence and the mechanics of it because over the passage of time this is only gotten worse we've done a lot of work over the years obtaining documents about israeli policy initiatives in the united state

state department, there's a new art exhibit that paints foreign relations in a whole new light. subjects are orphan children from thailand. the artists are high school students from new hampshire. >> she said to give you a kiss in front of everybody. >> reporter: the students painted the orphans from photos supplied by this man, ben shumaker. >> to see the portraits here at the state department makes me feel honored to have been part of this. >> reporter: us too. we first met ben four years ago at the base of this volcano in nicaragua. he had come to an orphanage here with a suitcase full of portraits just like the ones on display at the state department. paintings that were never meant for anyone's eyes except the children in them. ben got a high school art class in the states to do the portraits because he thought the orphans would really appreciate them. he was right. remember, these kids didn't have parents snapping baby pictures. most don't even have a single photo let alone a precious painting. >> that's nice. >> that is nice. >> reporter: ben called it the memory project.

department. we just finished a wide-ranging conversation with the lead republican on the foreign relations committee. i'm wondering if you mentioned this is a big week coming ahead for foreign policy issues. i'm wondering what you learned from the senator recaps the hope for the middle east peace process or the president's speech. >> i hauth he had some fairly interesting points to make about the president's speech on iraq and saying that it was probably a mistake to effectively declare victory or perhaps not declare victory in as many words, but to say, ok, plan is achieved and we're out. we're out on schedule. i thought it was interesting that he disagrees with the president on that although there has been a bubbling sentiment to that effect not just in iraq but also in terms of afghanistan and potential beginning of the drawdown of combat troops next year on that. both timelines, that this

. >> i went over and spoke to a group of foreign service officers in the state department and they were trying to figure out how to better civil military relation. and i kind of went back and forth between this is what you think of us and this is what we think of you. but one of the -- we are our own worst enemy, the military is sometimes. i mean, our can-do attitude, we get in there and we just try to do, do, do and everybody else get out of the way, and it is not necessarily the best way all the time. and so that's part of the tension that we have here. and the other thing that just drives the civil side crazy is there is so many of us, you know. i mean, we -- i'd have six colonels standing around a foreign week. this poor guy is going, come on, i'm only one. so there is -- i mean, we have -- and i think we have done a good job of changing and adapting over time. but we have our own culture too and it's not always helpful. >> well, i thank you very much, general casey, for your service, for your comments today. >> thank you, i appreciate it. thank you very much. [applause] >> later today a discussion on the budget. live coverage from the her

can see a new foreign policy no sign of it there's only one area their relations with the european union the aspects of working with the u.s. are also gaining momentum several state department officials have been here for over a month i would say that of them by about and the whole of the interim government are good students of those coming to kyrgyzstan their science certain tasks for certain period of time and then come back to check and assess what has been done i would say the political short sightedness of the temporary government will on effect it gets done as a sovereign state as a member of the as c.e.o. and this yes t.-o. according to some polls over fifty percent of the people believe that corruption is one of the country's biggest problems what do you think could be done to battle it to eradicate it lovely image of political will our future leader will need very strong political will he cannot be corrupt no one should be influencing his decisions neither is wife nor his children nor his brothers no relatives nor lovers corruption and our state can be eradicated within three or four months corruption is not something regular people engage and hardly heaters have t

foreign policy no sign of really that there's only one area their relations with the european union with the most of the aspects of working with the us are also gaining momentum several state department officials have been here for over a month i would say that of them by about and the whole of the interim government are good students of those to coming to. their science certain tasks for certain period of time and then come back to check the recess what has been done i want to say but it's the political short sightedness of the temporary government will on effect if you've just done well as a sovereign state as a member of the as c.e.o. and this yesterday was a session of the collective security council took place and really the eighth this year in moscow and the position of all the heads of the six bluesy states became being clear that they declassified what happened in that case and on as an unconstitutional cooling i think that's the one cleared up a lot of them was that it was a harsh statement and they did became clear afterwards it was a mistake that was made by the kid gives government what if they showed up or were tired its relations with the one strategic partners rather t

. >> i went over and spoke to a group of foreign service officers in the state department and they were trying to figure out how to better civil military relationand i kind of went back and forth between this is what you think of us and this is what we think of you. but one of the -- we are our own worst enemy, the military is sometimes. i mean, our can-do attitude, we get in there and we just try to do, do, do and everybody else get out of the way, and it is not necessarily the best way all the time. and so that's part of the tension that we have here. and the other thing that just drives the civil side crazy is there is so many of us, you know. i mean, we -- i'd have six colonels standing around a foreign week. this poor guy is going, come on, i'm only one. so there is -- i mean, we have -- and i think we have done a good job of changing and adapting over time. but we have our own culture too and it's not always helpful. >> well, i thank you very much, general casey, for your service, for your comments today. >> thank you, i appreciate it. thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyri

. >> i went over and spoke to a group of foreign service officers in the state department and they were trying to figure out how to better civil military relation. and i kind of went back and forth between this is what you think of us and this is what we think of you. but one of the -- we are our own worst enemy, the military is sometimes. i mean, our can-do attitude, we get in there and we just try to do, do, do and everybody else get out of the way, and it is not necessarily the best way all the time. and so that's part of the tension that we have here. and the other thing that just drives the civil side crazy is there is so many of us, you know. i mean, we -- i'd have six colonels standing around a foreign week. this poor guy is going, come on, i'm only one. so there is -- i mean, we have -- and i think we have done a good job of changing and adapting over time. but we have our own culture too and it's not always helpful. >> well, i thank you very much, general casey, for your service, for your comments today. >> thank you, i appreciate it. thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copy