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welcome back here's a recap of the top stories today on r.t. the u.s. a swallow self-made bitter pill to avert the devastating default but experts say there's little hope for efficient economic recovery in the long term committed to conflicts around the world or washington is left with a limited resources to address the needs of americans back home. moscow was against calls up the u.n. to target the syrian regime urging for action to push the warring sides towards dialogue the escalating violence in the country well this comes as dozens more

protesters were reportedly killed on tuesday more than one hundred deaths over the weekend. and a six month south are being toppled former egyptian leader hosni mubarak is finally set to go on trial for the killing of protesters during the february uprising wallowed in their rejections feel the revolution the promise to bring change to the country has delivered a very little. of that we take you back in time and space to apollo thirteen mission which famously failed to live on the moon because of a technical failure however all three crew members did return safely to earth and r.t. sophie shevardnadze caught up with the mission's commander for his memories of the events that interview's up next.

it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us it's nice to be here now you've started out for the moon twice without ever lending is that fair well 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 lady and thirteen of course was supposed to be the third lunar landing mission 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 a while 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 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 thought our earth was was disappeared and everything that we'd ever had known was behind or thought of it was that sort of a mutual 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 right think that's where the first 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. 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 are to survive and 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 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 on the way we were read the first ten verses of genesis the old tested but we did that because it reality the old testament 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 moon what can we say and we said lady who was the wife of a newspaper reporter said read 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 other religions too so that's what we did to appeal to the greatest

amount of people that were listening to us help the whole science behind the saturn launch it was very cold and calculated and you sat so many times in your insurance that we're just three guys sitting up five million pounds of high explosives and three in biles 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 does faith 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 sivits and 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 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 cosmos said the people who are here today at the starbase festival that who have this and see the earth as a really is and the joy of what they had done and what got gary made his first flights and one nine hundred sixty one year already rejected by nasa once how do you feel about the twelfth of april nineteenth sixty one life 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 on and we were tempted to try that the 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 just how far danced at that time the soviets were they had rocket technology and and then we had started a course they had developed their booster to put yuri up to it and it's amazing. throughout the years. the booster the lock at the put up your you could carry a. is the same one today with a lot more bought of occasions that are put in astronauts and cosmonauts had 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 what they have learned and keep expanding that and pretty soon now that the turtle is funny stuff the surpassing the here what is it gary in your present team want to see in the last team well i think. why is this a biology is something that. has really brought the world closer together i mean he was able to circumvent the gate of 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 really a shame that he he bet is it is to buy it is 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 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 would open up because the pyrotechnics to put out the parachutes had been cold so for four days and we did know where the the

explosions of the charges were put out the persians what goes through your mind when you don't really know when you going to land or even expo is it are you so mobilized to eat you not even you don't 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 we don't worry about 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 there's rules to 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 ots who 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 moon 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 there and that season and so a lot of us of course prabal were to look at the earth after we've seen it 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 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 to could read their honeymoons on trips around the round the earth thank you very much for this isn't fair my pleasure to hear. wealthy british sign it's time to. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy for

a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two cars a report on our. top stories on our t.v. u.s. swallow self-made a bitter pill to avert the devastating default but experts say there's a little hope for an economic recovery in the long term committed to conflicts around the world and washington is left with limited resources to address the needs of americans back home from. moscow was aghast calls at the u.n. to target the syrian regime urging for action to push the warring sides towards dialogue to end that the escalating violence in the country this comes as dozens more protesters were reportedly killed on tuesday more than one hundred deaths over the weekend. six months after being toppled former egyptian leader hosni mubarak is finally set to go on trial for the killing of protesters during the february

uprising ordinary egyptians feel the revolution the promise to bring change to the country has delivered very little. units you're with the sports news now you're telling me you can be a tally of the super cup is taking place in beijing i'm telling you no lies that's exactly right the first trophy of the football season in italy it's going to china simply because. spawn machines have been there already and they know there's a big piece of the pile of profits to be made from chinese fund so that's where the games taking place this year. finally back with golf club in hand does that right a long three months from a house and swung in. there's a big money tournament just around the corner let's see if tiger has what it takes again more not coming up in a second. great

to have you with us this is sports today here on twenty four hour r t plenty had this hour including. run to anything better than a two nil defeat for grouping because i'm at home to do now my key tonight will see the russian side make that champions league playoffs. fury with google is in cases up fifty percent this year in the russian premier league we look at the reasons behind the worrying increase. back in the swing former golf world number one tiger woods returned to the greens after a three month layoff playing a practice round off the bridge don't take. burring major upset. will make the champions league playoffs by the end of tonight that's how things stand i fed hold a goal advantage against the nomic following last week's third round qualifying first clash in ukraine who are being seen here going to a disappointing three nil loss the domestic league against fellow title hopefuls at

the weekend have a couple of injury concerns but monitored is acting cagey refusing to name who they are meanwhile are injury free will be naming to join two of the russian clubs in the group stages of european football's premier club competition xeni. sides already there. it's been a bad season so far for the russian football union violence premier league games throughout the country making the headlines on both back and front pages but changes are afoot and improve security for fans is of parliament concerned stay at the f.a. following a number of high profile incidents grinds over the last month a new draft law has been tabled which prohibits the use of fireworks during games with family or areas being introduced within stadiums the new rule should be approved over the next number of weeks. following on the theme heavy handed

policing has been the main cause of football violence in russia that is according to the premier league's head of security with hooliganism up fifty percent on last year police are now being encouraged to let stewarts take control of games. scenes like this have become an all to regular occurrence at stadiums across russia this season supporters response at moscow's any to petersburg into nama have been the main culprits however the russian premier league's head of security believes heavy handed policing is the root cause of most of these problems. the main problem we are facing is with the organization of games different styles of policing the quality of the stadiums and other factors can have a massive impact on the way fans behave if the police act in a civilized way towards the fans then there is no source of provocation a. meeting of meets fair is a problem of hooliganism in russia those states but this is also a problem amongst a number of countries in europe however the spotlight is clearly on russia to clear

up it sounds as if they will host the world cup in two thousand and eighteen. the russian premier league head of security once to say a complete change in the way security is don't work in stadiums across the country . we are very interested in the police playing a much smaller role in organizing security of football games in russia we need to train security personnel and stewards to carry out this job the police should not try to provoke the situation but rather try and work with the fans both parties need to work together the police have been seen as the main cause of the problem by russian football fans who have long called the stewards to be the sole security force in the country stadiums than the police's chief of public security who spoke about the matter last week but meets with something has to be done. with very interested in the police playing a much smaller role in organizing security of football games in russia we need to train security personnel and stewards to carry out this job the police should not

try to provoke the situation but rather try and work with the fans both parties need to work together. things are slowly starting to improve does he need some petersburg fans who threw a banana roberto carlos has been found and banned from the stadium both he will not face any criminal proceedings however unfortunately a similar incident happened and some are on the perpetrator has yet to be called. but all in all there is still a very long way to go until football in russia will become an activity where parents would not think twice about taking their children to watch a game which a bump wolf we don't see. the current fourth ranked side in russia on the one that roberto carlos actually plays for have been attempting to lure a brazilian team needs sensation neymar to dagestan for weeks now but then so have countless other clubs across europe is the legendary pele the nineteen year old son tall striker is worth the attention. it would. seem

to. me like a man. like because i can see a. chance for that because it excellent player i hope to. hell score that. staying with football or interoffice city rivals milan for the first trophy of the italian season this week in the super cup clash chicken place in beijing for the second time in three years and to holding their first training session at the city's famed bird's nest stadium on tuesday the ground was the hub for the two thousand and eight summer games the two sides share super cup record honors having one of five times apiece interment filler wesley schneider who has been linked with a possible manchester united move is expected to start for last year's italian league runners up gian piero gets perini expected to be the dutch players in the last game in the blue and black. the reason it's not

a problem he's playing for us to any with us and to bloom certainly there is only have to say about him. tiger woods is the former world number one golfer one hundred missed three months of action through injury but practice on the greens yesterday ahead of this week's bridgestone invitational the good news being the american said he felt no pain afterwards woods is twenty eighth in the rankings currently he is now set to compete as well in next week's p.g.a. championship his first major tournament since the masters in the april where he finished in a tie for fourth thirty five also spoke on his split with long time caddie steve williams last month. i thought it was time for a change. i felt that you know steve and i have had some amazing run i mean he was a hell of a caddy to there's no denying my career and i think i've helped as well and we've been. we've had a great partnership with it for twelve years it will be more in the one

a bunch of terms but i just felt it was time to change things up a little bit two thousand and eight beijing olympic gold medalist carmelo anthony chris paul and dwayne wade have wrapped up their week long busker ball tour in china three of the n.b.a.'s marquee stars who ever find their future is still uncertain of the league's labor dispute shows no signs of being results the fans in beijing would no doubt love to see such top caliber names come and play in the chinese basketball association the star trio themselves staring their options remain open while keeping a close eye on the coasts emotions back home of course former n.b.a. player stephen marbury plays in china but said most american players would find extremely long training sessions tough going but often he said that isn't the problem should a potential. but we've been through no no life so as far as training in their goals. you know that comes with the territory but as far as coming over here we always hold true but she's open hopefully we want to come and we hope we have

a season but who knows we shall see. bruising autumn is in store for rugby enthusiasts with the world cup in news. just over a month away whales have quite a warm up on their hands this weekend a classic buffer against england at twickenham a good way to go in the red man's readiness the welsh well going to be without their cup the must you release for salaries road trip to hooper nursing a neck injury and could very well miss their world cup opener on september eleventh against holder south africa some warburton the stand in skipper with willis record try to score shane williams they are both for the clash the two thousand and eight world player of the year william standing that's heading into battle is the only way to truly determine the team's overall fitness. but it's going to be tough we know that i think probably you know if we are on this it's all about four months and see where we lead into the world cup probably see both sides are going to want to win this game on the following came this week but as far as we can certainly

smoke how we progress since the six nations so you know where we are so as a side going into the world cup and looking forward to that clash a lot is all the sport for now whether it's next he shortly. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. british stock.

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