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welcome back you without a lot from moscow with me real research a recap of our top stories the u.s. house of representatives swings behind the debt limit bill to avoid default all amid criticism that america still faces posh times ahead of a recovery despite the compromise deal the legislation is now expected to clear the senate and then president obama's desk. nato members press for tough u.n. action against syria's government in response to escalating violence but russia to block any resolution leading to a libya style interference. and israel is seized by a tidal wave of a. government protesters demanding

a sweeping economic reform but demonstrators complained summer of discontent is being passed over by the international media. by a visit headlined stay with us next we take you back in time and space to the famous apollo thirteen mission which i did fail to land on the moon due to a technical glitch however all three crew members to return safely to earth so if we should say caught up with the missions commander for his memories of the events . it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us it's nice to be here now you've started out twice without ever lending is that fair while the first time was deliberate the

way 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 lady 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 model 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 around the eight and going around 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 earth thought it was that's 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 aren't 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 is 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 you 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 on 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. on earth islam christianity and judaism and so when we were thinking about what to say being the first three people around the moon what can we say if we said lady who was the wife of a adieus paper reporter said read the first head versus this will appeal to most of the people who will be listening to you and most of the earth is not christian other religions too so that's what we did to appeal to the greatest of a lot of people that were listening to us help the whole science behind this saturn launch was very cold and calculated and you set up 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 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's 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 and launched that everybody knew what they were to do 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 knots. they are 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 said the people who are here today at the starbase festival that who have see the earth as there really is and enjoy what they have done and when god 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 making fifty seven up to that time we didn't realize how far danced at that time the

soviets or they had rocket technology and and then we got started of course they had developed their booster to put it to 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. rockets 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 a boat they have learned and keep expanding that and pretty soon now that the turtle has funny test up at the surpassing the here what has been carrying the

present team but if it's in the last team well i think. it is this a biology is something that. has really brought the little closer together i mean he was able to circumvent the gate to the earth and tie everything together and i think that it was a breakthrough. a challenge that that he has a really. simple and it is that a really a shame that he he bet is his demise 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 broke a leg or something like that i was all set to go but i wanted to actually cure 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 were saying. well we own who we are a safe way. we saw water splashing over the would build. but spent we were back of the ocean and the spacecraft that saw. 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 soaked 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 lend him or even to explode is it are you still mobilized that you're not even you don't even have time to fear that

or 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 pretty so straightforward 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 houston 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 i'm often off 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 suffered 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 will 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 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 travel to look at the earth after we say 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 that 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 beat 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 doesn't doesn't thrill me anymore but. that

maybe there be some commercial operations where people start you know going to could read their honeymoon trips around the round the earth thank you very much for this mission my pleasure take care.

headlines on all its key the u.s. house of representatives the swings behind the debt limit bill to avoid do you fold amid criticism that america still faces a harsh times ahead of the economic recovery despite the compromise deal legislation is now expected to clear the senate and then president obama. nato members pressed for tougher u.n. action against syria's government in response to escalating violence but russia valves to block any resolution leading to a libya style intervention. and israel was seized by a tidal wave of anti-government protesters demanding sweeping economic reforms but demonstrators complain the summer of discontent is largely being passed over by the international media. i know those are the headlines here and don't go anywhere.

here with the sports. thank you all going to live for us on our team the headlines this hour reports claim russian international unity is that of all things to join one of the country's richest sides after a disappointing to us foul way of chelsea. being meanwhile a lot of favorites to progress in the champions league main competition following a cynical way of it's not my key is the former russian champions keep it pairing for wednesday's second leg. and break time former tennis world number one tonight. then there is forced to miss the rest of the season with a nagging back injury. where the biggest signing in the russian premier league this year looks old but a done deal swenson million dollars is believed to be the figure has offered for chelsea and russia when. the twenty seven year old is believed to have visit the

club's training ground with thames on a four year deal now agreed joined russian old chelsea from two years ago versatile player failed to secure a regular place in the starting line up a series of mean juries didn't help new schools either jeez management has declined to comment on the move the sign the side sign brazil's legends are about to call us in february and have been constantly linked with big names throughout this season. in the meantime champions league qualifying is in full swing this week with most of the fixtures due to take place on wednesday but three games are up for grabs later it's a day let's look at the fixtures botted bodies of hosting a goal is to where we could go a cent down so it also ended in a joyous scoring won the last wednesday while copenhagen travelled to shamrock rovers with a victory from the first leg sold the old and some gave the tennis champions the

narrow win within a strike in front of the home crowd. in the meantime the only russian side in contention for a spot in the main complaint be enough preparing for wednesday's home second leg against key of the film double russian champions with two new windows last week in ukraine but for being with beaten three male in their latest premier league fixture on saturday the match. at eight pm moscow time. staying with the goal against this guy who has been voted as the best of the ball season in europe by a portuguese magazine the strike chosen was. a good buy. in may one one join me sam the forward back heeling home across the song say scott and rushing to national goalkeeper a good i can fit if wayne rooney's famous bicycle kick against manchester city was voted second.

now the united states mans for books he will have a decidedly german flavor now that he has been klinsmann has taken over as manager the forty seven year old stating on the day he was unveiled that the us will live 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 he did it in silva and in soccer is the same way soccer is self teaching you learned you get better than the more you play if you play twenty hours a week you will get really good to 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. moving away from football and in town is do not aside from that won't be playing any competitive game for the rest of the year the former world number one is nursing it assists and back injury having already missed plenty of action since may and so on to five year old russian has slipped to sixty fifth in the world

standings to each area she also made the french open and wimbledon this season so often and her brother mara distinguished as the only sibling to have both held the world's top ranking brother softened now generating headlines in the world of politics after retiring tennis a few years ago the thirty one year old aiming for a seat in the russian state duma standing for the united russia party. now there's just a month to go before the european basketball championships take off but russia have been dealt a major blow in their preparations as. cowan was forced to miss the competition with the injury the twenty six year old was scheduled to undergo mine a growing surgery earlier today it will take him up to four weeks to recover ruling him out of international duty and david blas school however you the jazz forward andrei kirilenko the in-form victimhood out by my famous golf of the denver nuggets are all expected to fly the flag for russia in the third any in september the

continental championships are vital for qualifying for next year's london olympics russia's only european success came four years ago. and saying on the hardwood there's no movement in the ongoing and b labor dispute between team owners and the players' association that's according to commissioner david stern who states quote everything remains the same on all the issues ahead of the november first season starts and there will be more meetings later in august. we're at the same place were. thirty days ago. we agreed to be the coach to schedule some additional beats that's all so you can only go so long discussion about economic or seems to be issue the stars of the catholic steps or can eventually all bring you back to what's. multi-sport sent two thousand and six mode that should be champion nicky hayden has found out what it's like to take to the track on four wheels the thirty

year old given a few tips from ex formula one man david coulthard in amos say it is a d. t. m. car the kentucky kid of cool is familiar with a crowded garage until the tiles come a little bigger than he is used to on his motorbike was then hayden's time to get behind the wheel of the german speed machine and burn some trad with cold hard as copilot hayden though having a few difficult especially with the car was so much safer to have of than his usual ride the american who sits seventh at the moment stated off to was him like to compete in the car clause bought from now the differences are too great from his day job. to break the compared to a motorcycle with four wheels and a downforce that you can brake much steeper than that would. go with the other three often the female that's the one thing i've never liked about motorcycles i like the freedom to be able to use my body and move around more in the same you're

locked down you're not going anywhere so that was. comfortable. and finally to malta sport of a more heavy duty variety germany's johann hong has extended his overall lead at the european truck racing championships the competition hitting the smiley and scoring for the second straight here 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 championships 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 herrmann to get hosting the sport's elite for the second straight time for the fifth leg of the two thousand and eleven european championships the reigning champion until noble third in proved to be the fastest

driver during saturday school vacation and started the race won from poll position although this season's leader and hun was quick to overtake this one year and lead the way to fourteen left action soon turned into a duel between the two with the spanish fire while i'm melting the german in a thrilling finale of what tenet taking the advantage of a slight mistake by han and snatching victory in the dying seconds of the race i was staying with the portray that labs to see if they make a mistake at the end i happy he made them say yeah 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 it cording to the competition regulations so the top eight start in their verse order a perfect opportunity to shine with those who'd failed in the first event of the day germany's mark was strike was keen to take his chances and win while russia's

biggest hope in the sport alexander who of finished both races in the ninth place pretty disappointing for the thirty nine year old who had claimed 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 other 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 of your one hand to the lead and claimed a confident victory well above third and failed to finish a second race in the roof due to technical problems two hundred two in

a syllable eat and clean 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 last year i have pulled muscles like this and i have put as much as i make a big step in the champion not. now i'm very happy it's monday and this is 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 gill said look scores amongst themselves something the russian fans of motor sport will look forward to witnessing again in two thousand and twelve robert gordon young r.t. . that's latest in sports for the hour coming up shortly after this as the weather and rory will update you on the main years stay with us.

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