have clearly expressed i think you towards those events in ukraine inside the president of the russian federation and the ministry of foreign affairs as well as in the drawing russian authorities your statement of your twenty fourth apart from every answer today to girls in the united nations security council. but he just we also welcome the principled stand taken by the human rights council because that's true tasks decision and matters ration face not only individual countries but the entire system of international relations or level realities and emergent mutants carer's poly centric world record good choir it's obviously relevant as multilateral institutions crucial promotes equitable co-operation yes and a joint search for solutions to emerge and precious few solutions should it strength from but more global rule of law ensure adequate democratic procedures both watching the master and international affairs and would contribute to if you will general observance of the universal declaration of human rights as well as of other interests universally since it was instrumental as well as revealin

second this system must not create any risks for the strategic arsenals of the russian federation eve this through. resolved positively believe we will achieve. success but if you fail and if negotiations be to be in and they would only be used as a cover for nato american missile defense system which ignores the russian interests then of course. we would have no other choice but to take measures to protect those last question one of the main threats one of the main challenges for russia's security coming from from the south is the drug traffic from afghanistan we have been hearing from nato representatives that if we try to fight the drug production of get us then this puts people out of work and they join the taliban so it is bad for for establishing establishing the peace process there how do you cope with it do you agree with such a position you know i don't believe that american colleagues become a bit more aware of the need. production. chain you know starting from the poppy plantations and into the street dealers. for example in colombia the americans puts them for says on the

of the russian federation. and that's it for now from all of us if you want to have your say on spotlight you can always. be back with more on what's going on outside russia. and take a seat. european security system with nato but it would have to retaliate if the shield violates its interests coming from foreign minister. global security conference in munich. opposition. to. egypt. as the british prime minister says multiculturalism has failed british. hundreds of. a very warm welcome to you live from moscow well and historic russia u.s. nuclear disarmament deal is finally about to come into force at a high profile security conference ongoing in munich. treaty means moscow and washington will have to cut the number of nuclear warheads to around one and a half thousand each. going off now has more details for us he is in germany he's at the conference and will be having details from him in just a short while do stay with us here on now there are many issues that are being discussed at the annual security confer

because our laws are welcome for the native looking anti-crisis measures by the russian federation and been put in the governments of european countries economic growth but actually each of reasons in one thousand and ten rules of course we'll see some risks and challenges because of growing energy as rice is with nothing to say we saw a hundred and eighteen to dollars per barrel or barrel of media if you can if this is a serious threat economic growth in the world and if this goes on the theory can i can tell you that actually the russian economy is not interested we want the new my employer process to meet fair and we realize save much and i think economic growth slows down worldwide and this will have a negative effect on our economy as well so we will do everything we can come to it with our european partners who when you go to prevent this from happening of the needs of people yet. although of course we cannot release this effect. of these prophecies directly yet refuse to at the same time who wouldn't belittle about a little if we are recovering the level of trade or turnover bet

the theme that we've coordinated with the russian federation in kazakhstan the demarkation of the caspian sea along the median line in accordance with the coastline has found its legal coral duration and is actually an agreement as you said between your budge on the russian federation and kazakhstan. iran has an approach of its own generally we believe that this approach doesn't reflect the. that have taken shape in the caspian area yes for turkmenistan its approach is generally in support of the median line but we have different points of calculation in how to figure out where the median line is but this in no way prevents us from developing by letter and positive tendencies in other matters and that's what's causing it but what is it that makes iran dissatisfied with the median line demarkation opening to be an office that basically the reigning side wants twenty percent of the caspian which doesn't reflect the existing realities and what we have come to terms with on the russian side and the kazakhstan side on the whole there is a common understanding with the turkmen side would say th

the theme that we've coordinated with the russian federation in kazakhstan the demarkation of the caspian sea along the median line in accordance with the coastline has found its legal coral duration and is actually in agreement as you said between us here budge on the russian federation and kazakhstan. iran has an approach of its own as it's generally we believe that this approach and doesn't reflect the realities that have taken shape in the caspian area that will look for what's causing what is it that makes iran dissatisfied with the median line demarkation opening to be a basically the reigning side who wants twenty percent of the caspian but which doesn't reflect the existing reality as in what we have come to terms with on the russian side and the kazakhstan side of the millions. of us and there is a view that as a bridge on to some extent is playing on the contradictions regarding the south stream by the line it doesn't gas both to e.u. and russia and it says it has enough resources it doesn't really have enough resources let's listen to some of us almost most of us i can hardly g

also bought a tonsure the security of russian nationals in the bad old egypt according to the russian federal tourism agency most russian tourists were airlifted tone during the weekend and it hopes to bring back the rest of them by february fourteenth back to peter. you want to say something before the break but it also has to like everyone i ask everyone on the panel it seems like over the last two weeks actually the last couple of days is that the united states and western governments and certainly israel spoke out very loudly about it in and out my interpretation is that they want a mubarak lite suleyman which i can hardly can see could be lighted considering he has been involved in rendition in torture and all of these other nasty things to call under the rubric of the war on terror so you know if i'm going to come out i mean you know what what is this what is happening right now is there a lot of things going on behind the scenes to determine what the demat democratic path will egypt be because it'll be just a repetition of what we've seen western powers do over the last five decades. y

practice in one thousand nine to one he became the first popularly elected president of the russian federation two months later amid a coup by a group of common is told linus urged people to defend democracy and that's what declaring illegal all the decisions in decreased by the state of emergency committee yeltsin issued a ban on the communist party which added to the euphoria of the freedom of the time however this was followed by much less popular decision to dissolve the u.s.s.r. and the real blow to yeltsin's popularity was the economic reforms of the one nine hundred ninety s. labeled shock therapy. nineteen ninety three so violent confrontation when yeltsin eventually made a decision to shell the russian white house. the new constitution adopted afterwards would give more power to the president yeltsin received support from world leaders russia's relations with the e.u. and the us improved greatly he stood up for freedom and democracy and openness he really believes that russia couldn't go back to communism or back further to extreme nationalism what the west could never forgive yeltsin

weapons to afghan rebels as far as we're concerned and actually we're working quite hard with the russian federation to provide equipment particularly helicopters now to the afghan army so this is another area where in fact we're doing much more together than we did we does nato want to see more russian involvement in afghanistan maybe even selling something because now that what we would like to see is and we are seeing is more russian cooperation with us in supporting afghanistan's stability we're stepping up our training of counter drug narcotics officials there's a center just outside of moscow where russia does also now outside of st petersburg and one in turkey we've trained about one thousand three hundred counter-narcotics officials already as i mentioned we're going to help provide helicopters but in particular training and spare parts and russia provides transit for us so that we can bring our equipment in and out of afghanistan we're very grateful for the will nato do you think nato may play a role in defending in securing the transom against the pipeline which is yet to be built well yes

respect that as well and i think that the russian federation has a very important role to play and i raise the matter with the president because he has recently been there i think he was there a few days before me. yorkston see another middle east country with such ueshiba human rights is iran's a pretty pretty low human human rights record and you you have already expressed concern over the situation there you said you mentioned the number of those executed including three known to be political dissidents and you said you were planning to visit this country pretty soon and to enter and to try tried to go in depth into the situation there. is really happening i and all these plans are going to be released in time soon i received the invitation from the national human rights commission of iran and thereafter it was supported by the government of iran asking me to come as a high commissioner for human rights and observe the human rights situation there and i welcome these because some of the countries simply closed the door to us. but i laid down several preconditions the key one being

special how safe is it now for foreigners to stay in the territory of the russian federation. because the pros look up the number of crimes committed against foreign nationals from the near abroad mainly the c.i.s. states dropped by twenty five percent last year while crimes against foreigners from the far broader have dropped by fifteen percent this is showing a stable trend towards a stabilization of the crime situation in moscow and it makes it possible to draw a long term conclusions. the citizens from the western countries and far abroad turn to police for help most foreigners speak english or french or some other language how do they communicate with your officers. problem we don't have any problems in communicating with foreign nationals interpreters help us do that we don't have a shortage of this in moscow but generally we don't draw any divisions between foreigners and russian citizens police treat foreigners the same as they do russian nationals. but a lot is being said about modernization this in fact is presently dredges goal president has recently suggested renam

breaches of regulations which he signed when he received a critic as a journalist working in the russian federation he used it to visit in the area where an anti terror operation was underway without notifying the russian security service he visited border areas where the access of foreigners was limited he admitted his mistakes and asked us to prolong his visa until me as an exception for family reasons he simply behaved in the wrong way in the field to observe basic regulations which have been in effect since nine hundred ninety four. the foreign ministry added that luke harding will face no problems and agree as at immigration as soon as all of the documents are in order harding who is the guardian's moscow correspondent was sent back to london after allegedly being detained for forty five minutes the guardian earlier reported harding had a valid visa that was cancelled when he landed in moscow. turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe and italian tanker with twenty two crew on board has been seized by pirates in the indian ocean the e.u. says five hijackers fired arms

and i think at the moment the situation is however that it's actually the russian federation that has suspended its implementation and there are various discussions taking place in vienna and also nato russia council is a is a place where this discussions can take place and we hope very much that we can work out again ok well let's get back to lisbon that this pool lisbon declaration confirmed. and that nature's daws i quote remain wide open for all european democracies well i think this is. one of the quotes from from nato papers that makes people in russia want to well start talking again about possible russia's membership in nato well this this for me has always sounded strange well maybe i'm a product of the cold war this well i remember this time so so so i don't think this may ever happen in our lifetime at least the did do you think this is something to think about at least for the for the future may this ever happen what would you say the question of any potential interest in applying for membership of course has to be put to the country itself because you know we've never bee

how safe is it now for foreigners to stay in the territory of the russian federation. the number of crimes committed against foreign nationals from the near abroad mainly the c.i.s. states dropped by twenty five percent last year while crimes against foreigners from the far broader have dropped by fifteen percent this is showing a stable trend towards a stabilization of the crime situation in moscow and it makes it possible to draw long term conclusions. but a lot is being said about modernisation this in fact is presently dredges go prison has recently suggested renaming the militia force as the police force what do you think about that why do it what's going to change except for the name. of my attitude to this initiative is normal i think that there's some concrete meaning behind this renaming it means transition to new standards of service a new standards of attitude to people i knew model of relationship between law enforcement bodies and citizens runs like a golden thread through this law in my view it's a transition from the dominant model that has existed all t

like to say that this is a common package of the problems the elderly people are facing in russian federation this is not only the financial issues to reach out extremely important but this is also their social isolation the lack of social support there for medical and other possibility for the elderly people frankly speaking it's very difficult in russia to get funding to find out the money for the programs focus on the interest of the elderly people and from all the people of the money raised it's about sixteen percent only goes for the grants through the end job providing assistance to the elderly well stay for more of the close up coverage as we continue to cover the events and we'll cover other issues in our future programs as well. as there with our t. as well to say one of the oldest and largest protected areas in russia the caucuses nature reserve there's a world heritage site can only be reached by helicopter it's a trip that offers many rewards if you watch our report at six thirty pm jamie g.m.t. here's a preview. discovery. test yourself and become. see what nature can give you. y

responsibility as a respected member of the international community in that endeavor i'm sure the russian federation we will do its best to aid and support the united states effort in full accordance with the letter and spirit of just recently signed up and ready fide start treaty. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and shots have been traded along the border line and from bolivia for a fourth day in a row the conflict is centered around a temple internationally recognized as belonging to. dispute this but clashes have so far claimed five lives since friday and forced the evacuation of thousands of villagers a time military source reportedly described the latest skirmish as a misunderstanding. two bushfires driven by hot summer winds are raging on the outskirts of perth in australia west coast fifty nine homes have been destroyed or more have been damaged the strong winds are hampering efforts to contain the blazes with water bombing aircraft affected meanwhile the cleanup from floods and cyclons of the country's east coast continues the floods have been the country's

pacific ocean the past of the soviet union after the second world war and have been part of the russian federation ever since then we could make a very paid and historic first visit to the curdles and november his defense minister also went there just last week for a member says that a get out for off a short trip to the japanese criticisms that moscow wants only friendly relations with. the expressions used by the japanese officials are far from diplomatic and in great contrast with the polite and friendly tone of the meeting between president veered of and prime minister naoto kan and you can. i don't know perhaps it's due to the so-called northern territory's day that's been celebrated in japan today at the same time as we have said repeatedly we are still willing to closely cooperate with the japanese in carrying out specific projects lose regions of russia. ok a quick check now on some other world news this hour a tie vote is all battling for a fourth successive day over a disputed border area the conflict is centered around a temple internationally recognized as belonging to cambodia althoug