make his case debut at his temper in new scientist as it travels to to truck talk but as he told richard van port fleet his preparations haven't been easy. and hockey fans around russia are reveling in the fact that starts from here a child returned home. america has caused some problems for the players. galo point you died just some of the difficulties we're facing anyway pay for the plane over to seize you know in a shell and we we knew it's going to be a law called bob everybody still have like last hole you know for. my b.c. isn't going to be going and right now. when the real everybody is moving here i have a have family who would like stays and feel right now and i have to find a school for my kids and i have to find a nice apartment for my family where you can leave and that's the problems or have to face it right now besides the hockey hockey it's a main reason and the rest of the problems have to put on their side and when all they have some free time i got to tell your teammate it hasn't played club hockey in russia for over a decade in the last n.h.l. lockout he stayed in north am

the team will also have a new captain with eager to myself given the honor of leading his country richard van port fleet has more. it's astonishing statistic but russia having qualified for a world come since two thousand and two months will in fact be a compelling has been brewing to try and change just fine. russia coming off the back of a disappointing campaign at the euro two thousand and twelve finals but the timing is confident he's seen enough positives to help his side to get to brazil in two thousand and fourteen what happened to the past is. in the good. but i think always in my mind to see for what to achieve absolutely. the next. will be really really good i think the team that we go with these good team the games they did played in the euros they played some games really really way. and i want to see the same. spirit the same the team the same as thigh that they saw in some games that they played here. capello will have a fully fit squad to choose from all the players are based in russia and of course there's no under the shadow of in who's been dropped italian as an ounce for ji

stars in moscow this weekend the youngsters are some of the most talented from across the continent richard van port discovered they've got an experience they'll never forget. both of our boarders has been helping the development of the sport in europe for over a decade even though even took place in moscow children from zero to twenty countries took part the youngsters selected by the local federations and all extremely talented and have the potential to become stars of a future of a camp itself is going from strength to strength what happened was we were shooting a commercial for the united nations with body bags eleven years ago during the balkan wars and actually they had just ended and they said is there no way we could bridge put together a basketball camp and bring all our children together for the six now independent countries and we did it we realized it was so successful that we said ok how about will have the whole continent involved and do community relations projects so far from there there was no shortage of expertise for the kids to learn from and they could only include some of

twenty three year old joining the minnesota timberwolves from sas car journey the summer but as richard van portland explains i have a more than familiar face to help him settle stateside. it's a dream come true for alexei sheered to finally move to be n.b.a. the twenty four year old has improved dramatically over the last couple of years as a key part of his country side who won bronze in london this summer he hasn't had much rest of the former sas guard guard says he's raring to go i have already been in training for the last two weeks and i just want to get there and start playing they say the first season in the n.b.a. is always the hardest but i hope one particular friend will help me out when i get there and i hope everything will be ok he'll have a massive helping hand way moves to minnesota as he'll be joined by m.b. a veteran i'm particularly income and the russian says it's fantastic to have such a good friend as a team mate the still goes up and he's been playing in the n.b.a. for ten seasons and he's vastly experienced he's always the kind of guy you can go to for some advice he

enjoying the last few weeks of their break before heading back to north america for pre-season so richard van port a potties to catch up with andrei kirilenko is looking forward to joining his new club the minnesota timberwolves. in the end it wasn't a difficult decision to return to be even though he was offered a lucrative contract to remain in russia which shares the lure of the biggest basketball league an award too good for eight hundred forty seven to turn down but i'm very happy you know to go back to the states. not be. because of the you know. the stuff except the basketball you know of course basketball as biggest biggest part of the highest level and i think i still feel that i'm ready to play the highest well i want to be there. it's been a busy summer for the russian as he was heavily involved at this summer's olympics in london he helped his country to win bronze and a k forty seven senators this is one of the best achievements of his basketball career so far as the highest achievement there where you know we're going to get olympic medal you know it's a huge huge goal of the we

let's turn to political analyst, msnbc political analyst richard wolf with us tonight, and van jones,resident of rebuild the dream and author of the book by the same name "rebuild the dream." great to have you with us tonight. richard, you first, if the convention waw a reflection of mitt romney, what did it tell us last night? what did we learn? >> well, it tells us they have a strange world view. the romney campaign, romney himself, has run a very tactical affair here, and we do focus on shows like this on punching, the back and forth, the lies and distortions, but if you listen to thototality, what you heard was an image of america that many people would find unreal. never mind about the lies and the truth of it, for a start, they don't want to talk at all about the crisis that this president inherited. they say, you can't talk about that. it's a bit like saying if you're president bush, you can't talk about 9/11. the crisis was real, he turned around a situation of losing nearly a million jobs a growth to a situation where we're growing, all be it, not enough, but still, it's a tu

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richards, and congressman barney frank of massachusetts. eric shinseki also be speaking in that hour. in the 9:00 hour, representative chris van hollen, and sandra fluke, who gained public attention for her positions on contraceptives, and the uaw president bob king, and the governor of delaware, jack amrkell. at 10:00, elizabeth warren, and then the presidential nomination speech from former president bill clinton. there will be a vote on the presidential nomination and a roll call of states which we expect to go late into the evening. you can catch that all on c-span throughout the night and you can find out more information on our website. let's look of some of the highlights from last night's convention. we heard from the san antonio, texas, mayor julian castro, and then we heard speeches from the democratic mayor of massachusetts, devak patrick. let's start off with the julian castro, san antonio mayor. ♪ tonight is going to be a good night that tonight is going to be a good night that tonight is going to be a good, good night i have a feeling [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. my fellow democrats,