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Still robin youre watching the aljazeera news our life one headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. Were watching those votes lead a vote against us will save a lot threats from donald trump were just hours away from a showdown between some members of the United Nations and the white house plus. At this stage we believe that a deliberate act and i repeat that at this stage we believe he is i believe work act two people have been arrested after a car plows into a crowd in Melbourne Australia injuring at least nineteen. Also the cholera epidemic in yemen reaches one million...

What i felt as a former professional diplomat for thirty years and i was an ambassador to poland but they were mothers postings. I felt i had a certain responsibility to my own society to say look we are being fed. Bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what were being told about. I want to go and i want to see what its like and my process of disenchantment from the western Propaganda Machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest thousand and fourteen with the events new crime and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian eve...

Time surfing and i know its a typical but i think its a nice mental picture to get you through the long russian winter but i suspect when you say russia and theres trial and contacts. The associations are probably not so positive are they. They can be quite negative unfortunately weve been fed a diet of cliches about russia. Russia is still very much seen through a post soviet lens. Of success the state to the soviet union and somehow or other. Of starvation in the countries of extreme cold discomfort of. The kinds of things that unfortunately still linger and you wrote the whole book to addre...

Interest thousand and fourteen with the events new crime and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. You mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country its a very complex society its sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism and loving russia is its a bit like caring for the disabled loved one you know the disability you ha...

Ask you whether you ever felt that you are giving this country an easy pass i dont think i think that the majority of the content of my book deals with the sometimes very disagreeable parts of russias history ive got a chapter on the leg museum ive got a chapter on the Jewish Museum of tolerance and i talk very frankly in those two chapters of some of the black spots in russias history and i think what i felt as a former professional diplomat for thirty years and i was an ambassador to poland and. That we must postings. I felt i had a certain responsibility to my own society to say look we are...