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welcome back here's a recap of the top stories we're covering today on our t.v. the emergency deal to avert a debt crisis has been approved by the lower chamber of the u.s. congress now only escaping a devastating default of the last minute plan fails to address the long term economic woes gripping the country. and. global stocks rally as america escapes the self-imposed budget collapse but confidence in the u.s. reputation as the world's creditor has been severely damaged. and russia says a u.n. action could help bring an end to violence in syria but once against excessive pressures that could lead to a real good solid example that experts stress the e.u.

and american sanctions being enforced against a masochist. outers works. at the voice of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters and calling for the prime minister to stand down and going on the reporting by the international media. and next we take you back in time and space in the famous apollo thirteen mission which failed to land on the moon because of a technical failure however all three nasa crew members managed to return to earth safely well r.t. sophie shevardnadze caught up with the commander of the mission for his recollection of the events that interview is up next.

jim well it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us sir it's nice to be here now you have started out for the moon twice without ever lending is that fair while the first time was deliberate. we were merely going to test out the navigation of the communications look for suitable landing spots for the people who would make the first light and thirteen of course was supposed to be the third lunar landing and as you probably know we had the explosion and so we had to go around the boat and come back home again fortunately we were successful in doing that. jr moonwalk in your dreams oh yes i've been before the flight i would try to figure out what i would be doing there at a place called for. but after i came back i never really dreamed about it after that i mean once i was you know safely back on earth i just forgot about it when you spoke about the moon you spoke of fast loneliness that was inspiring.

to get homesick to join to go back. no as a matter of fact we were here around the bull in an eight and going to run on thirteen and 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 when we look back at the earth and we could put our thumb up to the window and everything behind our earth was was disappeared and everything that we'd ever known was behind or thought of it was that sort of a usual feeling a feeling of how insignificant really we all are back on earth if i could put my thought up and hide everybody. and of course that incredible shot of the earth rides you guys went to france to show us they are and i think for everyone it has a special personal meaning what does that shot signify to you while i think of that

one photograph which was not over here my personal impression of what we saw but to everybody who saw that picture and it's perhaps one of the most famous photographs of the last century. again that we are a. space ship 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 are to survive because you guys were very religious. all three of you on apollo eight he had very strong religious convictions right well we did but we were not that religious to know that. you know that that we were violated 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 upon the way we were read the first ten verses of genesis of the old tested but we did that because it reality the old test of that was the basis of the three basic religions. 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 lady who was the wife of a adieus paper reporter said read for the first to verses this will appeal to most of the people who will be listening to you and most of the earth is not christian it's all the religions too so that's what we did to appeal to the greatest of a lot of people that were listening to help the whole science behind this saturn

launch was very cold and calculated and you said so many times in your interviews that we're just three guys sitting up five million pounds of high explosives and three in piles away from everyone and we had faith it's just a question of when you go in such a mission how much face 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. the faith that god would be on your side is faith in the. fellow band who built that saturn five who built the spacecraft who designed the trajectory of the launch that everybody knew what they are to do here and that everything would be ok you would never get on top of a saturn five booster if you didn't have faith of the people who built it what would you say is the right stuff what does it take for someone to go in space i

think the people who are astronauts are caused by it's. the people who live on the. 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 a really is and enjoy what they had done and when i got gary made his first flights and one nine hundred sixty one you're already rejected by nasa once how do you feel about the twelfth of april nine hundred sixty one well i figured that ever since but back then we knew what they were doing. that that the russians would put somebody up into space. quite early on and we were tempted to try that there were

behind it as a matter of fact what really woke up the american people was public and i think fifty seven up to that time we didn't realize how far danced at that type of silvia's or he had rocket technology and and then we got started of course they had developed their booster to put yuri up into it and it's amazing. throughout the years. the booster the locket and the put up your you could carry a. is the same one today with a lot more modifications that are put in astronauts and cosmonauts it to the international space station this is like the old story of the tortoise and the hare we seem to be the hare we build a rocket said then we don't build up to go to something else so we build this and now our shuttle is stopping this year where as the russians have taken

a different tack they build what they have learned and keep expanding that and pretty soon now that the turtle has funny kissed up to the surpassing the here what has been carrying the present team want to see the last team well i think. is this a biology is something that. has really brought the world closer together i mean he was able to circle the have a gate to the earth and tie everything together and i think that it was a breakthrough. a challenge that that he is a really good symbol and it is that a really a shame that he he bet is it is to use so early in life now when you were. going to fly to the moon and the second time were you anxious i c s 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 a 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 plan and 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 already knew we were safe wed. we saw water splashing over the window but spent we were back of the ocean and the spacecraft that saw some of that because every time from from the time of the explosion of all the way back there were certain crisis that we had to overcome including whether the parachutes will get up because the pyrotechnics to put it 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 one of three your mind when

you don't really know what are you going to land or you going to explode is it are you so mobilized to eat you not even you don't have time to fear that form what goes through your mind at that point well i think our our training has got us in a position and a mindset that do we look at things one one step at a time our minds are concentrated on what the next step is going to be what we have to do and we don't worry about you know 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 and thinking about are did 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 weicker. first said. hey houston. we have

a problem here. the capsule communicator came back and said say again please i then said here's to we have had a problem and that's israel's true story about that of course where they made the movie. they had tom hanks say and he said we have a problem to ask questions. when i think of austin ought to retire now you are a successful businessman but many of them couldn't really find their place in life after the fate i retired from active duty a lot of them suffer it clinical depression alcoholism why is that why is it that when awesomeness retire 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 it's

a high point in everybody's life and then when that high point stops and you go back 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 not to look backward yes i went to the bone twice i've made four spaceflights that was of the past what am i doing now what how can i satisfy my life and enjoy life as it sees it and so a lot of us of course prabal were to look at the earth after we see that so far what do you think of the moon when you see it now well it doesn't have the roll bands for me that i had one before i went to the bone. i was pretty close to it right now sometimes i wish i could go back and actually break the landing but you

guys 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 me anymore but that maybe there be some commercial operations where people start you know going take it honey moves on trips around the round the earth thank you very much for the sunscreen for my pleasure take care.

stories on our team emergency deal to avert a debt crisis has been approved by the lower chamber of the u.s. congress now will the escaping a devastating default but the last minute plan fails to address the long term economic growth of the. whole global stocks rally as america's scapes the self-imposed budget collapse but confidence in the u.s. reputation as the world's creditor has been severely down and. russia says un action could help in bringing the end to violence in syria but warns against excessive pressures that could lead to wait libya style intervention experts stress the e.u. and the american sanctions being enforced against a mask are only making matters worse. and the voices of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in the east row calling for the prime minister to stand

down are going on reported by the international media. would you please here how would a sports use and i hear the goal of the year in russia has been awarded to a player not from one of the mosque or st petersburg teams for a change indeed you are right tessa but it has been scored against a moscow team you have to go all the way down in south to cross the door to see the player who scored the goal for twenty ten grid africa we're going to have a look at it in a moment. good to have you with us this is sports today here on twenty four hour r t plenty ahead this hour including. moving home or staying puds reports claim a russian internationally is to join one of the country's richest sides after a disappointing to your spell with chelsea. low point i'm course not

a late one one draw and some are denying off the chance to move off the bottom of the russian premier league. break time former tennis world number one dinara safina is forced to miss the rest of the season with a nagging back injury. but football is where we begin the biggest signing in the russian premier league this year looks all but say twenty million dollars believed to be the figure on g.e. have offered for chelsea in russia when you're here is your cough the twenty seven year old is believed to have visited the club's training ground with terms on a four year deal agreed upon the jerk of joined russian own chelsea from c.s.k. moscow two years ago but the versatile player feel to kneel to on a regular pace in the blues starting line up a series of knee injuries not helping his calls either management declined to comment on the move the side signing for silage and roberto carlos in favor of

being constantly linked with big names through the season. ok let's stay with the russian probably league work. to put a four game losing skid behind them on monday evening but the summer i thought remain at the foot of the table following the one one draw with a car home siders were on course to move out of the drop zone going up to ten minutes. the pair letting rip but with nine minutes. meaning ilya kind of popped up with an equalizer from car heartbreak for the hard working men who stay rooted to the bottom the if one just two out of eighteen games so far this season. a quick look at the foot of the table confirms that it's clearly and are sitting on a dozen points missing the chance to move. because of last night's results chorus the eleventh but that's only seven points clear of the relegation zone. the other

end it see a scout who are still the team to catch after the weekend's action though the muscovites only managed to draw at f.c. crossness on sunday meaning champions and eight have closed the gap to five points at the summit their third closely followed by angie and ruby. meanwhile a goal against league leaders c.s.k. on has been voted as the best of the past season in europe by a portuguese magazine the strike choosing where sergei del adolphus equaliser for could bomb in a one one draw away to the army man in may two thousand and ten the striker back healing home across the stone russia goalkeeper igor in fear of wayne rooney's famous bicycle kick against manchester city was voted second. the united states men's football team will have a decidedly german fever now that you're going klinsmann has taken over as manager the forty seven year old stating on the day he was on veiled that the u.s. will look to discover a global star of their own following in the footsteps of america's more popular

sports nobody showed kobe bryant to do so it moves you know. and soccer is the same way it's self teaching you learn it you get better then the more you play if you play twenty hours a week you will get a really good play two hours a week you will be always limited so if you want to one day have a messy representing the united states you need to find a kit that picks the boron twenty hours a week. dinora soft and i won't be playing any tournaments tennis until at least the end of the year the former world number one nursing a persistent back injury having already missed plenty of action since may the twenty five year old russian slipping to sixty fifth in the singles from standings jude to injury concern and she also missed the french open wimbledon this year suffered on her brother murat's are distinguished as the only siblings to have both held the world's top ranking rather soften generating headlines in the world of politics after retiring from tennis and the nine thirty run even for

a seat in the russian state duma running for the united russia party i. there is just a month to go before the european basketball championships tip off but russia's been dealt a major blow in their preparations centers such account forced to miss the competition altogether with injury the twenty six year old is scheduled to undergo minor growing surgery today it will take him up to four weeks to rehabilitate ruling him out of international duty on david plotz squad however utah jazz forward under the informed. tim of fame golf from the denver nuggets the are all expected to fly the flag for russia in lithuania the continental championships are vital for qualifying for next year's london olympics which is only european came four years ago. so there's no movement in the ongoing n.b.a. labor disputes 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 of the member first season start. we're in the same place to work. thirty days ago. we've really been just go through some additional meetings that's all so you can only go so long discussing non-economic or system issues its horrors of the care of the next song can it eventually over and get back to what's. two thousand and six motor g.p. champion nicky hayden find out what it's like to take to the truck on four wheels the thirty year old given a few tips from x. former one man david coulthard in a mercedes de t.m. car that kentucky case of course familiar with a crowded garbage though the tires to come a little bigger than he used to on his motorbike it was then hayden's time to get behind the wheel of the german speed machine and burn some trade with could start as copilot even though having

a few difficulties controlling the car it's spinning out certainly see for ever down on his usual ride the american who sits seventh of the moment in the movie standing stephen king back to compete in the car class but for now the differences are too great from his pitch. to break compared to a motorcycle with four wheels and downforce something you can break much steeper and that was that was what was coming to me often. that's the one thing i've never liked about motorcycle i like the freedom to be able to use my body and move around more in this and you're locked down you're not going anywhere so that was. comfortable. finally moving to motor sport of a heavy juicy variety of germany. has extended his overall lead to european truck racing championships the competition hitting the smilin spring in central russia for the second straight year over the weekend. power and speed all

in one 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 octane action which hit russia over the last weekend this mine's green the two year old track designed by famous formula one architect herman 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 champion until noble thursday proved to be the fastest driver during saturday's qualification and start the race won from pole position although this season's leader you're in hun was quick to overtake this bar near it and lead the way the fourteen lap action soon turned into a deal between the two with the spanish fire while in melting the german ice in

a thrilling finale of with it taking the advantage of a slight mistake by hahn and snatching victory in the dying seconds of the race i was staying the course very had other labs to see if they make a mistake at the end i happy he made them say oh yeah and i was there a short break so the drivers could recover and so could the trucks they were back on the track for race two which according to the competition regulations saw the top eight start in the reverse order a perfect opportunity to shine for those who'd failed in the first event of the day germany's markus all strike was keen to take his chance and win while russia's biggest hope in the sport oleksandr off finished both races in the ninth place pretty disappointing for the thirty nine year old could claim his first victory in spain earlier this year but far from fulfil his potential in front of his home crowd. i would say performing on home soil is

a bit harder for me it's about the added 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 with me or sign a poster so it cuts both ways however there were still two more races scheduled for sunday so still time to set the record straight the key event of the day race three turned out to be the decider your hand hand to the lead and claimed a confident victory well above third and failed to finish his second race in the role due to technical problems so high. in a syllable eat and claimed overall victory at the russian stage of the european championships just like he did last year i think it's about a good place for me and i see i have pulled muscles in this hell i have put in as well as i make a big step in the champion not. now i've been a happy it's monday and this how it's stupid when it came to race four weeks with the winner decided still proved to be

a true gift for the spectators it looked like the drivers had lost their inhibitions and live there are drugs sitting scores amongst themselves something the russian fans of motor sports will look forward to witnessing again in two thousand and twelve robert r.t. . a sport for the faint hearted great stuff that is all your sport for now whether it's next season. download the official anti up location to go on the phone i pod touch from the i.q. drops to. watch on t.v. life on the go. video on demand parties mind will come. and already feeds now with the palm of your.

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