he's available in the movie joy b. who chills the some of the greats we go to the grand imperial truly the taj was the push coromandel you can away with maternal closeness you're going to see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was her turn to retreat. hello this is artie from moscow my name's kevin thanks for being with us not really watching around the world the top stories russian billionaire owner of several british newspapers alexander lebedev says he wants to revive the screes news of the world weekly closed in the wake of the cold stuff this is pressure on the british prime minister who gets a grilling in parliament today over his ties with the space news corp executives. and. the last remaining war crimes suspect wanted by the u.n. from the balkans conflict is captured as serbia the rest of the commander got

a headache. and tripoli will not consider gadhafi stepping down that is the position revealed by libya's foreign minister at a meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow. next r.t. talks to the man behind the hubble space telescope we believe despite the u.s. shuttle program winding down now we're still witnessing a golden age of astronomy and space exploration. mr williams thank you very much for being with us today it's an honor sir my pleasure said the beauty of hubble's images security basically its funding and its place. to think that beautiful ideas do you have a better chance of being successful by them and that is there aren't that pretty.

no i would say well it's always nice to look at beauty. but in fact. far as the scientific value of hubble is concerned we're trying to understand the universe and beauty is one of those things maybe you've heard the expression and the beauty is in the mind of the beholder and so in fact what i see beauty and sometimes is a picture that other people might not consider beautiful but that reveals the answer to some important question like how stars form galaxy from and so to a scientist the beauty is a totally different thing the fact that hubble produces beautiful images that children like to see is very important for the funding of mobile and of course that's important for we scientists and so in that sense yes it is important in fact i can tell you in the united states maybe in many countries schoolchildren tend to

be fascinated by certain things they're fascinated by dinosaurs for fifty years now if you would go to a typical classroom in the united states and look at posters on the wall you would see pictures of dinosaurs for the first time last year pictures from hubble space telescope occurred more often than the dinosaurs on the walls of the classrooms of america that is quite an accomplishment thank you children for funding. well you know well in fact that's true but there are we've had service in missions to the hubble. five of them actually and the last one there was a lot of questioning because the economy was having problems whether or not it should go ahead there were some committees that actually recommended against the final servicing of in fact it was the public the american public that insisted that hubble should be serviced so it could continue sending pictures for

another five to ten years so the public has actually helped save the life time of trouble or extend could you validate helpless contribution to science on one hand and nasa is p.r. on the other hand what impact does it have there related nasa has done a good job of publicizing gold but in fact i don't think that's really the key to success as we all know you can try to publicize something that doesn't really have much value and you don't succeed i think harbaugh really has been a remarkable discovery machine and because of that it has been very easy for nasa to. be successful in the p.r. of the telescope i just mentioned that we're going to speak to the apollo eight crew members and everyone is that they brought back the shot of the earth right now you see responsible for perhaps the most sensational photographs of the skies and

who really got it from point a couple nothing how much of a gamble was it a big gamble really i have always been a risk taker and more right when i was a child first thing i did when i got my first job after school was to deliver newspapers i saved up money got a telescope i was interested in astronomy even at that age twelve years old first thing i did was on a dark night. i took it out to see how far i could see fifty years later when i became director of the institute that operates open space telescope it seemed to me at once to do the same things scientifically looked to see just how far out that could see galaxies. there had been some studies scientific studies done before the launch of hubble trying to predict the important scientific problems that it would help solve and imaging distant galaxies was not one of them and there were valid

reasons why many astronomers thought that hubble would do many great things but it probably would not make much of a contribution in studying distant galaxies i question that. and i thought it was sufficiently important that i was willing to take a recess and point at. what i called an undistinguished spot in the sky for ten four days to see what it could see. some prominent scientists were very worried about this because we did this just after a hotel had been repaired you know for the first three years of its existence there was a flaw and the mirrors that needed to be corrected and so the american public was very upset about that hubble space telescope at the time of its launch was the most expensive scientific project in history. two and one half billion

u.s. dollars very expensive and it was not working for three years the astronauts repaired it famous servicing mission very successful perhaps the greatest moment and nasa is history except for the moon landing. and so it was very worrisome to many people that right after the service a mission when people had bene posed to the telescope because it wasn't working. here's some crazy astronomer was going to try to see if he could image distant galaxies and they were afraid that i would get no results and if that were true then the public would really be opposed to the telescope but i thought it was worth the scientific risk and. fortunately i had a very good team of young scientists helping me and of course it didn't work out so there's a story here it is important to a scientific basis but that's my question i mean it's

a huge relief from what you've described a huge amount of money that could have been so many const more than prose what drove you that intuition or is that is that reason partly no it was that's a good question actually it was intuition. that's. i in my science i do tend to rely on my intuition probably too much actually because i can point to times in my scientific career when i had a hunch we call that you suspect something and i followed it and it turned out not to be productive in the case that. in the case of the field it was productive and you know it it's true in life that if you're going to make really interesting discoveries something that is unexpected you do need to be a risk taker and i guess i like to go for the big discovery and so i'm willing to

take a risk even though the majority of the time perhaps you come up with nothing very interesting so it's a style that is a personal style that scientists have some people are not such a mistake because they can be very successful i happen to be a risk taker. i've certainly had some failures that turned out to be a success and i think it was definitely worth it now it was a nine to five when you revolutionized the visuals of the signs i mean for us for ordinary people it was a revolution of the visuals and science and you took a chance you can raise what scientists and space researchers now can't can they take a chance to gamble or are the stakes too high budgets to tight. it's becoming more difficult when funding is an issue there is greater pressure to come up with a result and of course it's very it's much easier to come up with a result when you don't take a risk when you're doing something where you already know it's likely to give you a positive result but of course the great discoveries are those in which you're

completely unexpected and therefore you cannot anticipate and i believe for the progress of science it is essential that you risk takers and i think it's important for the people in the political world to fund expensive scientific. rejects to realize that it is important for the march of science for the march of human knowledge that a certain amount of risk taking be undertaken just to make sure one more time for you this odyssey of a humble what's more important the facts or the visuals that that that that's mind boggling for us. the facts the facts yes so what's more important is it more important for you to see a beautiful picture and we can say that that's art and that's important or is it more important for you to realize that there's the discovery that tells you something about the origins of life even if that image is not pretty i would say it

is the increased understanding of the universe that comes even from an image that is not very pretty to me that has much more value then there's something that's beautiful although that of course does have value itself but you ask me as a taxpayer i think. that depends upon your values do you value art and depicting something that is beautiful more. fundamental understanding you also said that we're now experiencing the cold age of astronomy you still of that opinion maybe you are even with budget cuts. because this extends over a period of some years we're going through difficult periods now in the past few years but when i talk about the golden age of astronomy i talk about the the space missions that we've had in the past fifteen years and the large ground based

observatories in the new or the technological developments that have enabled us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that have really advanced understanding the strong if you look at the fundamental discoveries that have been made in astronomy about the polls ours was a writers and. the existence of planets around other things in the past fifteen years there's been an explosion the knowledge about things largely is important technological developments so they've all come together through because of the large number of discoveries that i would say relieve makes it appropriate to call this age a golden era of astronomy but what do you think how both crowning achievement will be i actually think it is produced many interesting scientific discoveries i believe the crowning achievement of hubble space telescope will be the fact that you made the public aware of the universe and the fact that we can understand it

and the fact that humans are a part of the universe and the fallout from that i believe that is hubble's crowning achievement thank you very much for this interview my pleasure.

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full with me kevin i mean just fifteen minutes away now there are tons of divers the latest sports catch up with you know. good to have your company this is sports to be here on twenty four hour t.v. plenty ahead including. par for the course after a weekend of shocks in the cup but america's new favorite europe wide justify their status by qualifying for the decider. title on the line the ice something dotted on the t's crossed for the w b a boxing class between russia's own beaten heavyweight alexander preventing. and highs and lows paul curry is seeing more and more in russian streets these days we cultural fit some of the disciplines finest practitioners and make it difficult look easy. let's start with the news on the tell you to find yet more room in our

home luggage after claiming goal number three at the world championships the russian well she's been a force of nature in shanghai wrapping up her third synchronized swimming title when say in the free so the team earlier in the week it shrank it secured top spot in the so little technical it's technical events for eons sports center this is all this millennium thirteenth world championship gold record screens on the full went is on china's sun when yeah taking the other movies. that brings us to football or europe why have booked their place in the final of the cup america following i will win over prue in the opening last clash of this year's tournaments and europe lines dominating the first half but just could not break the deadlock it wasn't until early in the second period when they finally seize the initiative with suarez the man breaking the deadlock in the fifty third minutes. five minutes after that

the same fear came his grace stealing from his face and the process liverpool man doing what he. goes best one one finishing two mill how it ended europe why not meet the winners of the park why dennis willis semifinal. venezuelans who are into the cup a semifinals for the first ever time undergoing their final preparations for part of why later this evening both sides causing a nuisance of themselves in new york iraq once program i'm not going out the fending champions brazil while venezuela sends a highly targeted chile squad packing also in the quarter the teams met in the group stages throwing three apiece. it was a case of revenge for ed vall posts in hagen in stage seventeen of the tour de france the sky team cyclists taking the women way after being overtaking up the line at the earlier they know each and securing his second win of this season's events begin leaving home a pretty quick group in the one hundred seventy nine longer long mind stage he

normally missed like yesterday after world champion through official finished ahead by whelan a full thirty seconds his winning margin this time around just went back up malema and some pieces are from second and third on the day another freshman thomas voeckler ended and eight seno conceded twenty seven seconds to his knees right now . boxing to top heavy with contenders to put pen to paper as they seek to claim the recently vacated w.b. a belt. and russian alexander perfect came to go head to head on august twenty seventh in germany it will be two thousand and four olympics gold medalist but the first title fight the thirty one year old is undefeated in twenty one professional poets the course needed to feel right at home to her for a venue having fought sixteen times in germany chick i have already heard about w.b. a belt around his waist back in two thousand and seven p. thing another russian nick lie about the reds but the thirty two year old leader

feels to defend the crime cheechoo injury and was forced to relinquish it the title vacated out there for bell told of the mirror klitschko. fortnight ago beating david haye as it could have been years before he defended it. the russian occupied championship wrapped up with only a select few able to say they took to the events like a fish in water the moscow event bringing together competitors from all walks of sporting life reports. one in the sun was just around the corner from capital with other equated through the air sent to travel through the spar with the war plenty of discipline. contested but the spectators made their viewers choice by flocking to the aqua white freestyle band. pound for pound best in a disciplined event but tynan was noticeably absent mean the battle for top spot was wide open and an unlikely contestant from a completely different sport emerged at the end of a hard fought outing twelve time windsurfing champion shot showing his prowess

and like any true winner your show off saw plenty of room for improvement in what is a relatively new discipline for the fans but i would say i gave it about seventy percent of what i'm capable of i lost some rhythm while trying to perform complex tricks so i know i can be passed out. however our hero of the day strongly believes the overall level of the sport is on par with the global standard. competitors who are fully capable of winning the world championships i would say it . is currently the best in russia plenty of multisport athletes had a chance to showcase their versatility alexandre shah is another one of those well rounded participants who may have had one of his last at will by outings he previously raced in the runabout f three power gold class but initially made his mark in events where the water is of a much lower temperature. i'm looking to quit. a little or just become russian

champion for the first time previously when the same title in the snowmobile cross writes and now it's time for me to start racing. so i quite a good devils of their skills on display of all the amazing feats are clearly far from their complete resume in the sporting world vonzell gorski arche. there's been quite an incredible achievement in athletics with oscar pistorius booking his place at the upcoming world championships in south korea the double amputee also known as the fastest man on no legs needed to talk forty five point two five seconds in a four hundred metres race in italy to make it there on the south african did some more surpassing the mark by zero point one eight seconds in lake nano that means currently twenty four year old the story is eligible to take part in both the world finals in august under twenty twelve summer olympics in london if he reeses again

twice next year i'm gets the same time or better pistorius legs were amputated below the knee when he was eleven months old after being born with a chin born. bernie ecclestone is being investigated by german prosecutors after the sale of formula one in two thousand and six the sports president is alleged to have bribed. for forty four million dollars in order to buy his stake the german say that ecclestone received forty one million dollars worth of by commissions in return of the main man in f one says he expects to be cleared of any wrongdoing by the court first to trying hard kosky michael stone to huge shareholding in motor sports talk which. the excitement rushes up a notch in the world of cricket this week the top two run countries in the test form of india and england calling head to head at lord's in thursday's opener on this year's world cup none of the tournaments believes it's going to be as tight on

the crease as it is on paper. i think it's going to be very exciting season definitely they've got really good bowlers and then to some broader. resonance so it's going to be sort of be a tough fight i think the team plays well. plays well under pressure and i think they're more than physical toughness really mental toughness who is mentally tough is going to win it. let's finish with a hop skip and jump or actions to that effect park her or free running which initially was made famous for the film industry is now gaining momentum in russia or among cost read takes up the story. can we call it a sport if your performance is not rated well these three runners don't care what you call there are four four who are practitioners also known as tracers are growing in number across europe and the discipline is now making headway in russia as well but you can see the development in the guys you can see that you know this

experience in their training and the way they move the strength of that sort of thing you can you can visit you know we see that wherever we go if we've been to somewhere and then visited again a few years later we do see a difference in the strength and the ability in the confidence of the practitioners normally. john edwards regularly travels the world giving seminars and presentations on pork or this being his third visit to moscow his arrival always third's into a great spectacle by his russian associates and outdoor party promoting not only a healthy lifestyle but also raising doubts about the very laws of physics. very important to be able to have complete control over the party could also be very practical too like when you fly in from bad guys or something if i like what i see here who knows i mentioned. russia's climate doesn't allow for a year round outdoor park work but that's exactly the orse the last fifty to overcome an obstacle unsurmountable in everyday life. that could have the support

of the russians don't have many opportunities to practice park or especially in winter when it's cold and their food thing is covered with snow despite i was impressed with the technique and believe it has a future here. the global community truly has no boundaries with the world's youth united under similar slogans and that's to be healthy in body and. spirit through the attainment of flexibility reflex coordination and most importantly self-discipline ramana calls for an artsy mosco. amount of self might do some jumping but alas not this time a lot is all your support whether sexy is for. hungry for the full story we've got it first or the biggest issues get the human voice

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