now high profile gopher events are now coming to russia but it's quite hard for the average person to play because it costs so much doesn't it. it does cost a lot that is largely because there are many courses at the moment in russia to give you an example if you wanted to pay a yearly membership to play here it would cost. u.s. dollars and if you wanted life membership that would set you back three hundred thousand dollars now there are plans to build around five hundred courses in russia by twenty eighteen and i think that will help a lot but it is notable that there weren't any professional russian golfers on the leaderboard this afternoon compare that to a lot of british players that were there or not is largely because there is a good history of golf in europe and in britain where players can play relatively cheaply i was speaking to a couple of them just yesterday and they were saying when they were practicing it only cost them a tenner just to go down the street and go into their local field or course so there is

a big difference but i think that will change in russia as i say it will generate a lot new courses over the next few years but also it's a game in any one complaint you don't have to be a professional to play this game you know you can be young or old or you know male or female it doesn't matter i had a few lessons myself today or at least a few pointers from the from the professional here and it was enjoyable you know the sun shining there's no pressure and often when you play golf it is just like a nice ball. there is a lot of potential to develop golf here in russia it is costing a lot of money at the moment but it is attracting a lot of investment so that means infrastructure will be here over the next few years and of course it is worth noting that golf will be part of the olympics by twenty sixteen so if there are any budding golfers watching now get practicing all right and they were just doing some of those things was there behind you and. i must i must wonder though that with the prices being fairly high as you were saying

for the moscow region golf courses but there's going to be snow on the ground for almost half the year when it comes to winter so prices are pretty high for only a portion of the year nevertheless there are two approaches always to see you and good swinging in you will see you later thanks very much.

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got the green light this week. with. it's time for the senate to vote on a new start that's the title of the letter signed by some top former u.s. officials as well as some form of senators including gary hart thank you so much for joining a pleasure a few days ago i heard ambassador richard byrd say and that if it had to be in a republican president submitting this treaty the strategic arms reduction treaty for ratification it would have already been ratified i mean no doubt it's been a bumpy ride for the for the treaty in the senate but in your opinion how much of that was about the actual treaty and how much about republicans trying to make a point to the democrats well over the course of my active life involved in

arms control issues the pattern has been the republican presidents get much quicker ratification easier read a petition of arms control treaties for example president reagan then democratic presidents and one would have hoped after the end of the cold war fifteen or more years ago that partisan approach to arms control would not still prevail but i'm afraid it still does. questions about the treaty or all coming or virtually all coming from the republican party so i think those of us who signed the letter in the opinion piece or are hoping former secretary of state george shultz and summer he go are hoping that we can encourage bipartisan support for this treaty and hopefully some republican senators will support it mr hart

american officials have more than once told the senate that the treaty in no way limits the ability of the united states to deploy missile defenses. you know when in one send where it was the senate foreign relations. meeting quote at that point in their resolution but the russians seem to understand this type between offensive and defensive weapons in the treaty as legally binding are we lost in translation or is it just me well i hope not the treaties can never be. ironclad in the sense of. absolutely eliminating ambiguity languages language and people from with starting with different language base have different meaning for words but the order of diplomacy in the school board was diplomacy is to overcome those language differences and to have a common understanding of exactly what crucial terms mean and i think that the time

with the ratification is completed here in the united states hopefully successfully there will be a clear understanding on our part and on the part of the russian government as to what those terms mean and that's the best we can hope for it so hard let me explain this a couple of days ago i went i went up two rows go to motive there the key u.s. negotiator i start after the press conference and i asked her about this whole debate on. the connection between offensive and therefore weapons in the train she said yes but the treaty acknowledges that time as a fact and not as an obligation so it is supposed to make sense in legal speak but i honestly don't understand because russians do seem to see it as says legally binding something legally binding which americans don't see it such what do you make of it the skill of bill's teams is such that they would have. had a negotiating record that clarified this issue so you think they do have an understanding

is that it is just outsiders they have to or or they have to agree to disagree that is to say you interpret this we will interpret it that way but that's very. shaky. way to approach these things because it just leads to ambiguities later i have to believe not having participated that there is a common understanding on this apart from that any real concerns about that treaty among senators as touch upon well clearly the republicans. have. concerns some of them genuine i think others less genuine. there is still i think for many of us not the kind of. understanding. by americans of russia and russians government and where it's headed that we would like. but and i think from the russian side there is still confusion as to why. we have not

developed stronger in the last fifteen or twenty years i'm not clear clear on that myself i think we should of but. as time goes on hopefully the questions are being raised again primarily on the republican side will be satisfied at the end of the day there will be a boat on the treaty people will have to vote for or against it and those who booed against it are going to have to justify why they voted against it and why it makes us more secure not to have a treaty then if we have the treaty and it's a very hard burden to carry may start even with this treaty in place we're obviously very far from the global zero they call a nuclear free world you know with new forces trying to get hold of nuclear weapons and think they're going to be around for quite some time and deter and now should we just stop talking about nuclear free world and just tag it as the wishful

thinking you know what i think of human beings need goals and more than just rhetorical goal schools that are that are achievable. why don't the seats and russia are key to this because we have. ninety percent of the nuclear weapons on the earth and we cannot go to the russians and the americans cannot go to china or to india or pakistan or any other nuclear power france great britain and say reduce your nuclear arsenals until we've done our job so it all begins with the bilateral negotiations between the united states and russia. if we are serious about hermetic reductions in these nuclear arsenals then we widen the club and bring in all the nuclear powers and. ideally at least north korea and even iran for that matter and say enough we're all we're going to get rid of all

these it does seem like a kind of ideal dream but it is a goal to reach for in your opinion who is america afraid have right now well i can't speak for three hundred million. americans. there is still deep concern in this country about terrorism. one thing that a lot of americans don't realize is we're not the only target of terrorism russia is the target of terrorism many countries have terrorist problems pakistan and many others it's a global problem a post cold war global problem where almost any country one way or another can be vulnerable and can be attacked so the international community has to combine to try to solve this problem i think president bush's war on terrorism it's not the right

approach but it's you know america is not the only one in this that's being victimized by this so hopefully we can have greater cooperation not only between us and our european allies but some russian and others. who suffered the same threat may so hard russia has so many times in the past offered the united states to and create this joint defense system missile defense system and there are people who are very skeptic about it saying that russia and the us their interests are so different what would you tell them in a way there's a very sound logic to that if in fact these technologies or purely defensive and have no purpose other than protection. why not i mean what what is what's the argument against. every or at least countries that we can trust having this capability and if it is

a confidence building measure as it should be seems to me if i were the thing to discuss very complicated technologically. to transfer these technologies from one laboratory to another but may be sophisticated russian scientists might be able to help us with some of this just to be fair a missile defense cooperation u.s. officials express willingness to work on a do you see some real signs of such cooperation coming sometime in the near future maybe well i would hope so i've been i've spent a lot of time in russia unfortunately i haven't yet learned the language but i've spent in the cold war years and post cold war years off a lot of time in russia met a lot of the russian people in leadership and it always seemed to me after the end of the cold war in the ninety's that the two scientific communities should have

gotten together and i'm not quite clear why that didn't happen for example the president we have yet to win to silicon valley. within the last year very. well reported trip. seeking cooperation seeking investment in the russian technology sector scientific sector i have always thought from the early ninety's on after the end of the cold war that there ought to be very very close cooperation. not only between government laboratories but in the private sector also american investment in russian technology russia has some brilliant so it is mathematicians physicists and it would seem to me it ought to be a natural partnership and hopefully it's still coming up and it's not happening i don't know i hope i haven't been able to go to russia nearly as much in the last

few years so i don't know mr hart when the first starting of course remember that was signing was a breakthrough. breakthrough that will change the world will start to change the world and will not in the dramatic. historic sense it's a step. and it's a large step it will get rid of dangerous unnecessary nuclear weapons on both sides so it will change the world incrementally in a rather large and important step but it will not be the hinge of history that people will look back on and say that was the. that was the event that that fundamentally changed the world there are going to be more coming there has to be step by step by step thank you very much very cultured and thank you.

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a far right party claiming they've been attacked and denied freedom of speech. and other stories that have shaped this week russia awaits a decision on the extradition of one of its most wanted terror suspects from poland where he was detained on friday the plater released. russia and norway breach of a milestone agreement on their borders in the energy rich parents see putting an end to a forty year dispute over the waters. and a spike in poverty in the u.s. new figures reveal one in seven americans was living below the breadline last year that's the highest number in over fifteen years of record. on the sports is next with the toddy. hello and welcome you know watching the sports news in our t.v.

headlines this hour. this freaking gave southern moscow region that we never do number moscow in the peak of saturday's premier league action. johnson the body is aiming to win his first major cycling race at love well time and also become the first italian writer to do so since nineteen nineteen. and also all roads lead to so she the black sea resort sees the conclusion of a twenty town so way around a good news for a shot in the trunk so. let's kick off with russian football was not moscow failed to escape the lower hall full of the premier league table on saturday in the blue and white suffering a disappointing defeat at the hands of sup to win but that only about bagging a brace for the hosts including this winning effort after a free kick on sixty three minutes that made the score three want to the most courageous side to them up old one back later on through thomas doing more of it sure but it didn't help them avoid the defeat three to stop jordan leaving ninth in

the table. early the day i'm car moved a little further out of the drop zone edging out fellows to i was creating a set of two want to tell stephen sarre stage for the house in front off to fifty eight minutes planty of reasons for the macedonia to celebrate their spring on his fast and in the russian top flight visitors got back loud vol in the dying minutes of the tiles though you've given his sobbing right on cue to let some sort of cross with the strike of sand from hero to zero right after the break and the eight ball choose initial shot right into his zone that by seven for what turned out to be on cars went up the fair and side moving five points clear all for. you who remain second from bottom in the standings. and else was surprised by just all of our up to pool despite playing out a golden draw at a line here and it was the home side of starter the brighter us to. mention the

waking wonders to keep the game school as given state of the man with that volley seventeen minutes and and the mention held his ground until the very and meaning the match will finish male male. meanwhile also will have missed the chance to take control of the english premier league and amazing ninety fourth minute equaliser from sunderland mount the game ended one one sent fabregas again as the lead on thirteen minutes before michael spann slammed a dramatic go deep in the injury time now a point behind chelsea who themselves play blackpool later on sunday and while spouse has climbed into the kilt for. scoring one of their three against wolves elsewhere three joules on the day with west brom a new call still only on the victim is. now in cycling when chance a new body is set to become the first italian in two decades to win love well that

after the meek wiggles doing more ida finished second on the penultimate day of the race saturday's mountain stage twenty two with belgium to pull adel would deal with a fifteen man group breaking away with some twenty kilometers left however the main interest was whether anybody could retain his fifty second advantage over. the spaniard seem to have broken the ball at one stage but the taliban in the red jersey there kicked on again in the final metres eventually allowing most heritable in the stage to bali cross the finish line just second behind the meaning and as the final day as the hot favorite for the overall title. a bit of golf now and jamie will start his final round with aid. laid out the russian challenge cup if this card wanes at the latest on the mend or the european challenge still there is every chance he'll be swinging with the game's biggest names on the european tour proper next season here is and a far more reporting from the newly built so labor golf club just outside moscow.

unsettled weather had affected play over the last two days at the tissue leave a golf club but the rain held off as mccleary held off his rivals to stay on top of the leaderboard. he had a three shot lead at the start of the day and hit a one under par round of seventy one to keep him or nine under overall but he was put under pressure throughout scott jamieson was also in the lead his group and showed moments of brilliance the chip in save par on the ninth and even when his form fell away to others emerged as threats firstly denmark's the orban oleson carded a sixty nine to go to shots off the pace. he's already qualified to play on the european tour next season and was showing why and tied with him in second is in glynn sam walker he's also two shots back but missed a great chance to half the deficit on the last hole after mccleary missed the green

walker had this pup a birdie but missed leading the scot with a two shot cushion going into the final round both knowing victory for either would seriously boost their chances of playing on the european tour next season. i didn't play very well at all of this was a bit of a struggle oh they're. really well. i think on days like today when you are when you're struggling you know other days maybe seventy five seventy six miles here and seventy one which is was a bit of a bonus so it was good for you to play very good today you know and just in the whole many parts you know it so did the first few days but you know who's always tomorrow which is a good thing with playing finish no sun you know it's for us to hole in some parts we never know never know what could happen so it is everything to play for going into sunday's final round mccleary has a two shot lead over walker to set up a thrilling finale to this russian challenge cup which will see the eventual winner

walk away with twenty eight thousand euros in his back pocket and. a region. tennis now where nine time champions for also back into the davis cup final after all know claremont and michelle the draw gave the country a three love lead against argentina on saturday it was a case of old hands teaching the youngsters a lesson in all the french deal with little trouble against the lesser known and the out of the and who are so the ball is came on and will draw at the opposite time straight sets explore seven five six three possible and that one which means a clean sweep for all its alpha male drysdale one fierce one of the two singles rubbers a day earlier. and they were final cross will face either serbia or the czech republic with the czechs currently better placed to reach the decider after that pairing all products to panic and told the story they gave the visitors a two one lead in the doubles serves novak djokovic and then had jim on each day

for a set six three but couldn't leave with a check self that was losing the following three six one six four and six want. now there's a new king of the russian trucks and a lot of nikolai besting come as team mate and outright favorite to weigh in that's why it sounds silk way rally the country's most prestigious motor sport events no smooth back in this tournament or even found saying to keep the spectators out but neither coul nor rocky road school stop nikolai dropping off a super a stage to win his first major cross-country rally the twenty six year old taking victory by a massive twenty two minute margin over a child and a remarkable side on the podium with russian kamala's drivers taking gold silver and bronze for those of the masses nearing the third place. and also ending that a day journey down saw she way where the car driver has somewhat of an anticlimax this though with the reigning champion carlos signs having loud since early in the

week and the spaniard didn't waste his eleven minute advantage having just saturday for using another solid effort to win with eight minutes to spare the man who pushed him hard over the last few days nasra like secured sack and overall with mark millar third want to finish for volkswagen in that section. meanwhile former motor g.p. champion case is still in a house of hope favorites to poke position for the inaugural aragon grand prix in spain the australian was quick to stay in the last practice on saturday morning and he carried the stop over into the afternoon we did get to ride of the only one of the field to go on to one minute and forty nine seconds during qualification championship the more go round so will be second on the grid with fellow spaniard dunny madrid surrounding all. around so has yet to finish outside the podium this year and he is sixty three points ahead of the draw at the top of the stairs.

and back to goal finally on the merry go round continues at the top of the austrian openly the board where. englishman danny alina and danny willett share the lead before the final round the barrack riding an eagle and seven birdies apiece to go thirteen on the ball off to three days of action there was also a trio tied for second praise aberg and he was so open champion graeme mcdowell all two strokes behind the latest. and that's it for the moment but to stick around for a check on the world weather and the headlines right after that. every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get there and want to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join the technology update on our g.

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