welcome back here's a recap of the top stories today here on r.g.p. washington takes the first step to approve the long awaited deal to increase the u. was step one that just a day before a potential devastating to the. highly publicized partisan struggle of all american legislators has severely damaged confidence in the u.s. economy's reputation as the world's creditor. russia says u.n.

action could help bring an end to violence in syria but once against excessive measures that could lead to a libya style intervention some experts suspect the mask is being targeted for regime change by the way since. the voices of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in easy calling for the private a certain stand down are going on reported by the international media the demonstrations surrounding the social justice are the biggest the country has seen and. all next we take you back in time and space to the famous apollo thirteen mission which failed to land on the moon because of a technical failure but all three naso crew members managed to return to earth safely well archy's sophie shevardnadze caught up with the commander of the mission for his reelection of the events that's next.

it's a great pleasure and honor to have you in essence nice to be here now you've started out for them twice without ever lending money is that fair well the first time was the deliberate part we were really going to test out the navigation of the communications and but for some of the landing spots for the people who would make the first light in. the course was supposed to be the third lunar landing mission as you probably know we had the explosion and so we had to go around a bit and come back home again fortunately we were successful in doing that. walk in your dreams. before the flight i would try to figure out what i would be doing there at a place called. but after i came back i never really dreamed about it after that i

mean i was you know safely back on earth i just forgot about it when you spoke about the moon you spoke of past loneliness that was so inspiring. to get homesick to go back. no as a matter of fact we were around the moon and eight and going around thirteen we were still sort of attached to the earth but we did have this idea of being you know. away from the earth and separated from the earth and although i have to admit that the world we look back at the earth and we can put our thumb to the window and everything behind our thought our earth was was disappeared and everything that we'd ever bill was behind or thought it was that's sort of a usual feeling a feeling of how insignificant really we all are back on earth the fica put by thought up and hide everybody. and of course that incredible shot of the earth

right thing that's when the first to show us they are and i think for everyone it has a special personal meaning what does that shock signifying teen. what i think and that one photograph which was not over here is my personal impression of what we saw but everybody who saw that picture and is perhaps one of the most famous photographs of the last century. again that we are a. spaceship here on earth and we're all astronauts whether we want to be or not and we have to live and work together if we heard us the five thank you guys we're very religious all three of you on apollo eight we had very strong religious convictions right well we did but we were not that religious to know that. you know that that we were violating the sanctity of heaven. because god is with us

on earth as it is with us just two hundred forty thousand miles away around the moon and so as a as a better fact you know i thought the way we were read. the first ten verses of genesis of the old test but we did that because in reality the whole test of it was the basis of the three basic religions. on earth islam christianity and judaism and so when we were thinking about what to say being the first three people around the boom what can we say and we said the lady who was the right of way adieus paper reporter said read the first to the verses this will appeal to both the people who will be listening to you and most of the earth is not cursed to other religions too so

that's what we did to appeal to the greatest of out of people that were listening to those that the whole science behind this saturn launch was very cold and calculated and you sat so many times in your interest that we're just three guys sitting up five million pounds of high explosives and three in piles away from everyone and we have faith it's just a question of when you go on such a mission how much space how much to space matter can you only be guided by reason or you have to have faith well you have to have faith you have to have faith that civil rights and the faith that god would be on your side is faith in your fellow band who built that saturn five who built the spacecraft who designed the trajectory of the loss that everybody bewith there to do it and that everything would be ok you would never get on top of

a saturn five booster if you did have faith of the people who believe that what you say is the right stuff what does it take for someone to go in space i think the people who are astronauts are cosmic it's. the people who live on the edge. people who like to explore. people who like to see something different who like to open up new doors and these are the people that you know fired as astronauts and cosmonauts and the people who are here today at the starbase festival that who have to see the earth as there really is and they have a joy what they had done and one time barry made his first flights and one thousand and sixty one year already rejected by nasa i once i should feel about the twelfth of april one thousand nine hundred sixty one well i've i figured that. ever since but dick and we knew what they were doing. that that the russians would put

somebody up into space. quite early and we were attempting to try that the were behind it as a matter of fact what really will come up the american people it was but there and i think fifty seven up to that time we didn't realize just how far advanced at that time the silvia's were they had rocket technology and then we had started a course they had developed their booster to put yuri up into it and it's amazing. throughout the year it was. the booster the rocket that put it eureka garrett is the same one the day with a lot more bought of occasions that are putting astronauts and cosmonauts into the international space station this is like the old story of the tourists and the here we seem to be the hair we built of rockets and then we don't belittle go to

something else we build this and now our shell is stopping this year where as the russians have taken a different tack they build on what they've learned and keep expanding that and pretty soon now that that hurdle has finally kissed up at the. the supremacy of the here could have been carrying the present teen what to symbolize team well i think if you care it's like the symbology is something that. has really brought the world closer together i mean he was able to circumvent have a gate that the earth had tie everything together and i think that it was a breakthrough. a challenge that that he is a really big civil and is. a really a shape that he had met is is the body's so early in life now when you were

going to fly to the moon and the second time were you anxious i said yes i was anxious because i wanted to do something i had always planned on doing and i was the backup on apollo eleven so if bill armstrong had become sick or broken leg or something like that i was all set to go but i wanted to actually care sort of close up my fly space career. now of course here returns you have to control the space ship manually and cap make all the calculations right there when did you know that you're safe. well we only knew we were safe wed. we saw water splashing over the window which meant we were back on the ocean and the spacecraft had that saw some of that because every time from from the time of the explosion all the way back there were certain prices that we had to overcome including brother the persians will put up because the pirate techniques to put out

the parachutes have been cold so for four days and we did know where the the explosions of the charges were put out the persian mother through your mind when you don't really know what are you going to lend them or you can explode is it are you still mobile life that you eat you not even you don't have time to fear that or a book or through your mind at that point and while i think our our training has got us in a position and a mindset that do we really look at things went one step at a time our minds are concentrated on what the next step is going to be what we have to do we don't worry about failure we'll worry about that if a failure occurs but not until that time so we're priest straight forward what we're doing and thinking about our attackers could you really say houston we have a problem the true story which seems to be. going around all the time never never

die is that where the explosion occurred jack's wife or first said. hey houston. we have a problem here. the capsule communicator came back and said say again please i then said he used to we have had a problem that's there's rules in the story about that of course where they made the movie. they had tom hanks say and who said we have a problem to ask questions when i think of austin austin retire now you are a successful businessman but many of them couldn't really find their place in life after they retired from active duty a lot of them suffered physical depression alcoholism not means that why is it that when often it's retired they can always find the right way on earth. well

i think it's very similar to that old saying that after you've been perry what else is there you know. it is a it's a high point in everybody's life and then when that high point stops and you come back down to living a normal life again a lot of times it's hard to recover because many people say yes i understand what you did but what can you do for me now. and so. to be successful you have to always look forward to what backward yes i went to the price i made for spaceflights that was of the past what am i doing now what how can i satisfy a bad life and enjoy life and the seasons and so a lot of us of course travel hollywood to look at the earth that we see that so far up twenty think of the moon when you see it now well it says it doesn't have the roll bands for me that i had had what before i went to the moon. i was pretty close

to it right now sometimes i wish i could go back and actually because landing but put that is way in the past but you know as a space tourist maybe as a space tourist yeah now i think i would if i could just go around the earth i've been there all the time and still that does it doesn't thrill be any more put that maybe there be some commercial operations where people start you know going take it there or honeymoons on tips around the round the earth thank you very much for this thinking my pleasure to hear.

for the film we've got. the biggest issues get the cuban voice face to face with the news makers the. top stories on our t.v. washington takes the first step to approve the long awaited deal to increase the u.s. debt limit just a day before a potential devastating default. highly publicized partisan struggle among the legislators has severely damaged confidence in the u.s. economy's reputation as the world's creditor. russia says new action could help bring an end to violence in syria but once against excessive pressures that could lead to a libya style intervention some experts suspect the basque is being targeted for

regime change by the west. and the voices of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in ease row calling for the prime minister to stand down for going on reported by the international media the demonstrations to big social justice are the biggest in the country nancy. i'll be back with more of those stories in about fifteen minutes time but first the sports highlights with them will be there we hear that one of russia's best footballers a look set for a return from the wilderness is that right yes indeed it is it was always mr forgotten man he was known as youri djorkaeff spent two seasons at chelsea burley place but now there is a high profile on a big money move to russia it might be helping more not just the second. it's great to have you with us this is works today plenty ahead over the next ten

minutes or so including. moving home or staying style is the question reports claim russian international your is your cup is to join one of the country's richest sides on g. after a disappointing to your spell with chelsea. low points on course not too late one one draw in some mara denying. the chance to move off the bottom of the russian premier league. break time former tennis world number one to norris often is forced to miss the rest of the season and knocking. let's go with football where the biggest signing in the russian premier league this year looks old but said twenty million dollars believed to be the figure on g offered for chelsea and russia winger youri djorkaeff the twenty seven year old is believed to have visited the much cooler club's training ground with terms on a four year deal now agreed upon your course joining russian own chelsea from c.s.

to moscow two years ago but the versatile player feel to secure a regular place in the blues starting line up a series of knee injuries not helping his cause either management of the climb to comments on the move the side signed brazil legend roberta corliss and feb have been constantly linked with big names throughout this season. staying with the russian premier league itself knowledge to put a four game losing skid behind them on monday evening but the remain at the foot of the table following the one one draw with. the home side is we're on course to move out of the drop zone going one milliwatt up to ten minutes and come on the player letting rip but with nine minutes remaining tell you. i love pop top with an equalizer for car heartbreak for the hard working crazy man who stay rooted to the part of the of one just two out of eighteen games so far this season.

a quick look at the bottom of the table confirms that screw sitting on a dozen points missing the chance to move the polls were transported because of last night's result on course the eleven only seven points clear of the relegation zone. the other end its c.s. gal who are still the team to catch off the weekend's action to the mostly fights only knowledge to throw at c. cross the jordan sunday meaning champions need to help close the gap to five points at the summit our third closely followed by angie being. ok we stay with the russian game were a goal against league leaders c.s. gas being floated as the best of the past season in europe by a portuguese magazine the strike chosen rule a circuit of adolphus equaliser for compound in a one one draw away to the army man in a twenty ten striker pocky ling home across the stone russian goalkeeper igor i can feel when rooney's famous bicycle kick against manchester city was voted.

spanish giants real madrid have been ridiculously are numbered in what was arguably the biggest mismatch in the club's history cristiana rinaldo on team it's taking on one hundred nine local kids in china the reason to remind everyone that real were funded that many years ago this scrubby in kind you're also part of their preparations for a pre-season friendly lines you ever grand day when you prefer a league season kicks off in spain in three weeks time. now it's an aura soften it won't be playing any tournament tennis until at least the end of the year the former world number one nursing a persistent bucket dri having already missed plenty of action already. since may the twenty five year old russian slipping to sixty fifth in the single standings to nagging injury concerns she also missed the french open on wilderness year and her

brother murat's are distinguished as the only sister and brother held the world's top ranking brother suffering generating headlines in the world of. tennis nine the thirty one year old be aiming for a seat in the russian state duma lists running for the united. there's just a month to go before the european basketball championships tip off but russia has been dealt a major blow in their preparation see eskimo school centers such account forced to miss the competition with injury the twenty six year old is to undergo minor growing surgery and shoes they know little to come out to for weeks to rehabilitate ruling him out of international treaty on david plotz squad however you touch us for the under the in form but. tim affair must go from the denver nuggets are all expected to fly the flag for russia in licky we need a constant all championships are vital in qualifying for next year's london

olympics this is only european triumph came four years ago. there is no movement in the ongoing n.b.a. labor dispute between team owners on the players' association is according to commissioner david stern who states he's very pessimistic about the state of affairs ahead all the november first season starts. we're the same place to work. thirty days ago. we agreed we'd be in touch to schedule some additional meetings that's all. no go so discuss some non-economic or system issue sorry next song can eventually overage back to was. quite a championship son over in china though despite winning four goals in shanghai there is no time to rest for michael phelps the greatest ever olympian named as global ambassador for the special olympics the games for children and adults alike with

intellectual disabilities are also held on a poor basis the next special olympics will be the twenty thirteen winter games staged in the south korean city of young china also twenty eight thousand which are expensed venue fourteen time olympic gold medalist phelps joins the likes of a tired possible star ja ming the real madrid midfielder cock out in raising awareness especially against the american himself saying he's finally feeling good again ahead of the olympics in london. i haven't really felt the way i have been the water mentally wise. you know over the last two years and really being over being able to get that back six months i think is going to play here. for a six year. brings us finally to motor sport of a heavy duty variety germany's a walking home extending his overall lead up to european truck racing championships the competition in some a length screening in central russia for the second straight keeper over the

weekend. power and speed on these trucks gear up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour and could have gone even faster if they hadn't been restricted by the regulations of the european truck racing jumper ships the high obtained action which hit russia over the last weekend this minds between the two year old track designed by famous formula one arctic air man to get hosting the sports elite for the second straight time for the fifth leg of the two thousand and eleven european championships. the reigning champ and fun to know the third and proved to be the fastest driver during saturday's occasion and started race won from full position although this season's leader you can hunt was quick kill were taken one year and lead the way to fourteen left actions and turned into

a deal between the two with the spanish fire while i'm melting the german ice in a thrilling phenolic of what it taking the vantage of a slight mistake by hand and snatching victory in the dying seconds of the race i was trying to host the course i had all that absent to see if they make a mistake. am i happy right that you say yeah i was there a short break so the drivers could recover and so could the trucks they were back on the plan for race two which according to the competition regulations for the top eight start in the reverse order a perfect opportunity to shine but those would fail and the first event of the day germany's mark was oestreich was keen to take his chance and win while russia's biggest hope in this court alexander will finish both races in the ninth place pretty disappointing for the thirty nine year old would claim his first victory in spain earlier this year but far from fulfil his potential in front of his home

crowd my. well i would say performing on home soil is a bit harder for me it's about the art of responsibility you want to produce your best make your fans happy and i also try to share my time with the fans who want a photo of me or sign a poster so it cuts both ways however there were still to move racist schedule for sunday so still time to set the record straight the key event of the day race three turned out to be the decider of your health hard to believe in clean and confident victory well over thirty failed to finish a second race in the roof due to technical problems to hunt to see who believes in play and overall victory for the russian stage of the european championships just like he did last year i think it's a very good place for a last year i have a budget this year i have to make a big step in the jimmy a lot. of belly happy is my life and this is how it stood when it came to race food

week with the winner decided to prove to be a true gift for the spectators it looked like the drivers had lost their inhibitions and live there are drugs killed sitting schoolers amongst themselves something the russian fans of the sport will look forward to witnessing again in two thousand and twelve robert gordon young r.t. some pro russia. is here for the mechanics after all those crash as well as all your sports whether it's next to you shortly. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on t.

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