live from moscow this is r.t. it's midnight thirty here now you're watching the weekly a round of the top stories the past seven days another plan to avoid a u.s. debt default fall in flats or for a vital senate vote a little earlier the talks now ticking down in the countdown to choose the deadline as lawmakers are trying to hammer out a compromise deal. collins admitted responsibility for a plane crash that killed president kaczynski last year but the published report still tries to shift some of the play to russia. up to under fifty thousand

anti-government protesters the plot is the streets and squares of israeli cities some hear an echo of the arab spring in the chants calling on prime minister netanyahu system. celebrity interview next queen's legendary guitarist brian may talks to r.t. sophie shevardnadze and shares his thoughts about working alongside frontman freddie mercury and reveals his alter ego as an astrophysicist no less our interview is on the. it's great to have you with us today sir for example so recently i was going through the glass. and your eyes about music and what he says about music is that except it's art it's also true power over nations and human souls and then many

people say that exactly why music is compared to science is like math. so i never really got that because i finished conservatory and i always failed my math class you as a man of music and science can you tell me how music is related with science or exact science like math for example it's a hard question. obviously there are mathematical things in music but ironically i think the most important things in music will be instinctive things so i don't acquire how that works out except maybe gives you a balance but yes i love pure science and i love music and they're not pursuing sure but. certainly throughout history there have been connections and people who were immersed in both of them you know from you know out of the brain soon too. patrick moore you know. it seems to be that we maybe it's an obstruction thing

maybe people who like these things don't like the clutter of the world but want the complications of the world that we live in you know these pieces of stuff they just like to find the essence of life so maybe pure science is in some way close to the essence of nature and music is close to the pure essence of human beings at this point do you see yourself as a man of science or a man of music. depends on the brain in the hour. do you believe in god there's a man called richard dawkins there who is a very strong atheist and i had a little kind of argument with him in the hundred minutes because he he kind of i think he felt that he proved there was no good and my feeling is that's not a very scientific attitude because if you if you make a pronouncement you have to have evidence if you say there is no good where is the evidence there is no good you can say i don't know you know being an agnostic i mean it's a scientific point of view which is supportable but you know he's

a very clever man he has a different point of view to me but in my experience i have felt at times that there is a goat of some kind i don't subscribe to any religion organized religion that's a different matter but if your question is about right there is a god but if there is a god we have very little idea of what that god might be that's inherent in what we are we have very little understanding of. do you think we're alone not there. it's only opinion i have a strange feeling that maybe we are alone i don't know why this is you know but you've spoken about the loneliness state you experience after each performance. and so i know because i've spoken to a couple of astronauts into the moon at for the past readings and they also speak of that vast loneliness that they experience when they're out there in space. stays somewhere using. in your opinion give you that comfort of loneliness.

yeah maybe they do for a moment here and maybe ironically again maybe that's what makes you more aware of feeling this because you plimsolls clinton for instance wonderful togetherness we people are with the universe and then the reality is you lose it so maybe that's why we that's why we feel lonely i do feel a lot of loneliness but this is a conference i'm feeling you know. it's not comforting. but music when you're in it for the moment and science when you're in it for the moment it is all encompassing so yeah you don't have time to think i was going to ask you that it's earlier in your life you know it's the bond. that explanation for celebration was it sex drugs and rock'n'roll what was it for fame money it was never for frame it was like i don't particularly enjoy frame it was never for money because i was always happy with what i had even if we only had fish fingers. it's just because it was there it

was exciting it was unknown it was a door that you thought you could walk through that there are years on you on back to finish your ph d. that you dropped out probably why did you that it was unfinished business. but you have a circle some rights in the circle just doesn't quite. make it right past accomplished but it didn't have to do anything with pinnacle kills towards your parents because you dropped out earlier on in life and make they're a little disappointed in you you went off to rock and roll you know that was a moment you know your stuff didn't mean. yeah right that was very against it in the beginning because he. i think he saw in my education and the place i'd go to the place that he would have liked to have brought to me he never got his degree and so it always held him back in his life so he saw me with his fantastic degree in science and the whole world opening up to me and it looked like i was walking away from it and he found that. so yeah he was very upset and we hung from school

for. various things happened but eventually he came to see a story. he said to me. when. the funny thing was you know he was very curious all the time i was doing something off with queen he was drawing. little maps and charts of how the record sales were doing i mean he was following with great detail what i was doing so he was always kind of into it he just didn't perhaps want to. say that but one obviously when you think queen and see you playing next to freddie mercury all those great hits come to my mind and then i understand that when you reach that level of success with someone you definitely are special alone you form a special bond and i've heard that the range of you say that you still see freddie

in a strange way can you elaborate on that it's like a family member you lose them but you don't quite understand because you take the review. and we were so long forget it. you get that close on from somebody particularly in a creative environment other thing framers are going to do it or you can success but in the creative environment you know you learn to know what somebody else might be thinking you might not always be right but you have a feeling that i mean so i still feel that rodgers as well in a particular it applies more if we're working on a screen in this room we think will work for the story and you are probably would say this. you know he's part of the creative process because he's part of what we are because we really chisel this thing out all together me and george freddie and roger so you know i mean for a while i didn't want to you know i was very. it was a point you know the grieving process where i just didn't want to talk about we

didn't want to feel that it was there even the surplus history but it sort of got through and now i regard it as part of my life which will never go away and it shouldn't go away because it's so big part of what i worked to create a question what do you think happens after death after death you will be questions in there. i don't know. i'm inclined to think that our view of the universe is very simplified and you know in a way that people crawling over a piece of paper has it has a very limited view of the universe i think we also have a limited you know so this existence that we know maybe just a very small part of the whole picture you know and i'm excited to think that maybe so. i'm not counting on it because maybe maybe in the you know life at sea i don't know. you know one thing you said you can't use it as an excuse you saying ok

you know this life is really bad but the next one is going to be ok you know you have to make the best agree more so i can't not ask you i know that you've been very successful and yet you were on the verge of. what stops at that point that fear of death or love of life. yeah i felt very bad depression which a lot of people deal with at certain points what stops you killing yourself. i think what stopped me was the fact that i had children and people who depended on me and people who love me. and you just think in a sense is a very selfish thing to give you sir because you make so much mess you do terrible things to the people around you and i would have been oh my children. and maybe i would like to tell you that there was a glimmer of hope there but there wasn't at that time i remember driving and seeing the bridge and thinking i could do this and i just thought it would make you know i

had to somehow discover what what is going on and. yeah it would be a bad thing to do because of the people around me and you come up more empowered after that once you actually. i think if you do certain kinds of work you come out more empowered yeah and i do kind of chuck my life in and check myself into a depression. clinic which was actually the best thing i ever did because it was a new start it's like restarting your car you know and i had to teach more preconceptions and that would definitely carried me and. i knew energy here wasn't instant but it gave me the tools to deal with mark in a slightly different way i think you have to get to the point where you throw everything away. because that's the only way you can make a new stone i realized that if i did not deal with its oppression i was no use to anybody so it's the same kind of logic is not killing yourself you know. killing

yourself is really bad for everybody around you but was staying in depression is very bad for everyone around you there's no you struggling in trying to keep doing what you've been doing the whole time it's it's going to be the same thing you know you have to somehow get outside. and trust that you can come back as a person who can deal with things are going to make you've got all the money you want your educated man you love staring at stars would you consider maybe flying as a space tourist i don't want to bring a tourist it's funny but you say that you know if i was flying in there was some reason for it into space i think i would enjoy it more it's like being here. i keep busy in my life and it's quite hard for me to take a week off just to come to generally although i'd love to know what but there was an excuse to come you know i had work to do i had things which you. and i think that's made me and joy the sunshine and and the beach more the fact that i'm sort of part of the life of this sign and i love the sun and anyway and it's because of

the really it's not because of being a tourist so you know if there was some reason to go into space if i thought it would. stop people torturing animals. but i would enjoy it have you spoken to some of the brilliant brain cells our time for the past three days what do you think what you think could be or is the twenty first century the high priest . of the twenty first boy oh boy oh boy. maybe nelson mandela. because he has a very important theme i think apart from wisdom and moments. he has the key of forgiveness which i think saved his country completely from abroad. and i think people the people who run these planets studied under nelson mandela and we would

definitely get a better planet and i think that would be more than anyone else i think he has became right thank you very much for this interview. if you're followed up on my do. gooder than good. friends are sort of a throwback and archaic part of our long. and it goes back to a time when people would write down their forces in the wild lands and take up these huge debts important to mention the sheriff for prosecution there's no money what company may. feel. when they go out there he's got weapons. and you have to hope that nothing. that.

we're facing killers and you gotta keep that in mind others that to me though it will be the rest. were not superheroes we can be killed two of you know and i'm going to die. and. once you hundred nine you never go back i'm going to. tell stories or not take another plan to avoid a u.s. debt default was full and flat out for. vital senate vote the clock sticking out of the countdown to choose days deadline as lawmakers are trying to hammer out a compromise deal. poland's admitted responsibility for the plane crash that killed president kitchen's last year but the published report still tries to shift some of the blame to russia. and the two hundred fifty thousand antigovernment protesters have flooded the streets and squares of israeli cities some airco of the arab spring a chance calling on prime minister netanyahu to step down. it's midnight forty five in moscow about the news in full in fifteen minutes but it's early monday morning

sport now with kate. well i was in the sports news and here are the headlines. getting the army's elite narrow the gaps leaders taste down to five points off the beaten struggling spot acknowledging one nil on all the army men drawing coverdell. while. the transgenderism button i use is second victory of the season in two hundred we raced into eating contest at the holiday across the prairie. and ice in the z. n.h.l. superstar and further playboy you have to develop it is back in the gym after the surgery after his return to the penguins. to go first though in champions and have narrowed the gap to five points to russian premier league leaders tesco mosco after

winning one nil attempt a second bottom spot a trick which on as well as the sides took the lead after twenty three minutes and that defies human paired up with alexander courage of course the illegal game and the same pieces back side hold on to their narrow lead. tense victory of the campaign unbeaten in each consecutive games. so just go looking to restore their seventy four and cushion at the top that new boys club to go up but they took a seven minute lead things d.p.c. it is no longer but the home side missed the first half penalty getting the post will finally equalizing only out to under a mid-air and want to finish the amens lead down to five points not to mention moscow state seven despite winning three nil across stopped in the late game elsewhere in a moscow maintained their top three position were they to know if you're going to stop them longer than you boys were reduced to ten men approaching the hard foul. the about picked up two yellow cards in just over

a minute however it was only after sixty minutes that russian midfielder or central . not to the beauty finally open for the home side and extend the sun he had off into the school lying midfielder was first to the rebound deep into injury time. yes. well on saturday twice forward champions rubin suffered a short string of defeat at the hands a visiting on jamie brazil a general better call us initiated angie's first scene after the break between goalkeeper said get it off drop the ball much as you have finished it off then midway through the second half and send up to take off headed his first top flight goal in almost three years and things went from bad to worse for a green on phone she was awarded a stoppage time penalty obama did have to retake a spot kick that spoiled the less you know t.j. . so robin slide down to fifty in the standings with spartak moscow two points

further back following a disappointing one one goal against the by a less seen a try or a penalty put the visitors ahead just before half time ballots and find the equaliser just after the break. while in the early kick off track one one nil at time to a goal to think longer actually that of a simple tap in that room on the road in siberia. now fee for players nearly no messi different states to the pitch that's a record crowd still gathered to watch manchester united exact revenge on and understands barcelona side in a pre-season friendly in washington d.c. over eighty thousand fans pats the washington redskins stadium where midway through the first officer danny welbeck feed nani made prosecutor victor valdez the halftime entertainment was provided by n.b.a. superstar kobe bryant different kind of penalty shot this for three of them as well

and like in their champions league final triumph over united in right boss the coach at the. audio fielded mostly youngsters and it was teenager tiago replies with twenty minutes to go however united manager sir alex ferguson took no chances relying on his heavyweights michael owen grabbed the rest six minutes later she won the english champions winning all five of their north american matches go. ahead with the new season. but seems to be north of changes and so it was there were people to go away. but it. poured so disorderly. for me i'm sure that we had a fit. i'm sure gets forward. i was some good young players coming through. so these are all courses and terms of this cause people to deal with the winds are going to scream and your opinion of course. well into formula one and

marriage jenson button has trying to second win of the season in his two hundred career race just thrilling and getting grand prix which was won and lost on tire strategy but don't change tires at his third pit stop before rain fell off to make his come from to take on the. same track where he is focused on a victory six years ago red bulls championship major sebastian vettel who started on pole the second was a man that along. comes an axe six pit stops including advice from penalty stop pass mark webber is red bull to finish fourth best o'malley's the championship by eighty three points from webber houses third eighty eight points adrift the longest for. some reason like these commissions i don't know if you want to. but it worked out. great call by the team to put me on the program. and i think a great cause but all about when we decided not to go to the. all round amazing

weekend that all of the big trick in the whole team. now young taiwanese gulf yani tseng has made yet more history by winning her fist major title at the women's british open at the tender age of twenty two while in june saying had already become the youngest ever player both in the women's and men's game to win all four majors and the world number one carried her top form into this tournament to retain her title impressive fashion saying i won by a solid four shots from american brittany lang champion narrative mr needle at the fulton told to do a six day initial sixteen under par overall. familiarizing yourself going on and it was a highly anticipated bout in mixed martial arts rushes the other evil yawning curse suffered his third defeat in a row after losing to forty year old american dan henderson in illinois the pair

were fighting in a strike force everyone in global heavyweight contests aren't the last emperor was beaten by a technical knockout after just over four minutes and that was the russians thirty feet in a row having previously gone on the ice at twenty eight points running a decade this result of nancy the thirty four year old retired from the sport it's now the world aquatics championships have ended in shanghai and great is ever a limpin michael phelps had been a pretty torn favorite but the fourteen time gold medalist was upstaged by u.s. teammate and friend ryan lochte who claimed the five golds and the world record but he credited them to his rivalry with stops. i wasn't really satisfied of what i accomplished in terms of. just tired i was tired of always getting second to. kind of more. that's when i basically got really focused. on my story change a lot of things in my guy in my training also in the pool i mean it just

has me just an illusion. and finally one of the world's highest paid ice hockey stars they're getting out and celebrated his twenty fifth birthday on sunday here in the russian capital recovering after serious knee injury and. once you congratulate him and wish him a speedy recovery. you game all can stanley cup winner in the russian household name is now going through one of the longest and toughest periods in his life then a child star nicknamed geno suffered a serious knee injury after a collision with a defenseman in general and was sidelined for the rest of the season. to care for it was really hard for me as it's the first time i've been in such a situation you can't get away without injuries in hockey you just have to put up with it and don't let it play on your mind so it was more of a mental challenge for greater however the surgery went well and this month the

star forward was able to train with his strength and conditioning coach in moscow and in a month and a half he will start training camp and his team that is not being well thought. that you can say there are nights up place. such. percent tax. cuts to. work out that you are up by so. i can develop through the system a trash and power house with the old one the lawyers and get it for the team in two thousand and three when he was just seventeen the following year he was drafted second overall babies were behind his national team mate alex and i reached him but due to a dispute your way a contract with mental gina was forced to stay for another year however his dream of playing in the n.h.l.

came true in two thousand and six when he finally swapped the russians still city for the american one to keep the ice and alongside it began. up and coming canadian see me cause me and it seems like the wind is wide enough to hold both hockey giants. and we're going. to crosby was injured last season too and we spent a lot of time together while we were recovering we supported and cheered on our team mates when we couldn't we keep in touch and i know that his recovery is going well too and he's training on the ice already he's a nice guy and a big star has already won almost all the trophies in hockey and he has no superiority complex has been adding to all of his to his cabinet every year but there are still no olympic medals in his collection and undoubtedly it's one of his career it is for the near future. enjoy your i haven't won a lot with a national side which for me it's a great honor to play for my country all the greats like mario lemieux and wayne gretzky one goal and pick gold crosby's already grabbed gold too so i'm determined

to win the olympics and not only insulting one medal is never enough. despite many honors the star where remains a straightforward almost reserved person while still greedy for victories on the ice at the age of twenty five because the penguins forward is just starting and spectators both in north america and in russia should enjoy his skills for many years to come. and that's all. i think.

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