welcome back you're watching weekly on our t.v. we'll review the week's top stories the aaa that's now america's accounting exile its credit ground is taken down or wrong in the ratings as investors shutter over how the debt ceiling raise was handled. the news rounded off a rocky regan global markets with wall street's worst week in over two years was worsened by europe's debts and fears of a second possible american recession. as egypt's former president goes on trial for

mass killing at the russian a weary public see the replacement regime failing to meet the revolutions demands. watch in neighboring easer all the reform rallies swells were quarter of a million people in television angry that the government's let living costs get out of hand. and while the eve of the third anniversary of the south of such a war president medvedev spoke to r.t. and other broadcasters about why he took action and the legacy of that decision well here's what the russian leader had to say. that's a question that's just said mr president thank you very much for agreeing to answer our questions but let us go back to the events of two thousand and eight back then you met with the georgian president mikheil saakashvili your meeting took place in st petersburg and there was an impression at that point both in tbilisi and in moscow that we had arrived at some sort of the chord and the dispute would not be allowed to pile over into an armed conflict and i reiterate that this feelings present both in moscow and into d.c.

the task of the managed to agree on anything with the georgian president back then coming up pushing the question you know catherine i had the same impression of the time i can still recall meeting president saakashvili for the first time it was in some petersburg we met in the constantine palace and mr secretary a arrived for i told him literally little you know there are many problems in the region of the moment georgia is an obsolete these unrecognized states but i can assure you that as a newly elected president of russia i shall do everything in my capacity to help you find some compromise solution so that would accommodate everyone and would eventually facilitate a reintegration of jordan territory that's acceptable for all the parties an agent to go c.h. and naturally this is what i told him the word for word his response was spot of course we are ready to cooperate and i also have this impression that we could at least try to find some creative solutions it's not a new chapter entirely but first of all there was an opportunity to meet on

a regular basis which i can tell you earnestly i spent the next month checking regularly for any feedback from our daughter counterpart which there was no not at the same time jordan was getting more and more visits from envoys from across the ocean but as they would be dubbed. the moment of truth for me as i realized later while analyzing those events in hindsight over and over again came with a visit by u.s. secretary of state congolese of rice still to this time following that visit my georgian colleague simply dropped. all communication with us he simply stopped talking to us he stopped writing letters and making phone calls it was apparent that he had some new plans now and most plans remploy amended later. mr president am i correct to assume that the way you see it's a visit by the u.s. secretary of state was meant to urge president saakashvili. do you think the united states was deliberately encouraging georgia to pursue a conflict with almost no i don't think so the united states is a very large country headed by pragmatic people but in politics connotations

a nuance is a very important as it is i don't believe the americans had heard georgia's president to invade but i do believe that there were certain subtleties and certain hints made statements like it's time to restore constitutional order or it's time to be more assertive which could effectively feed saakashvili apparent hopes that the americans would back him in any conflict that they would stand up for georgia and even go to war with the russians therefore i do see a relation between ms rice's visit to georgia and the events that followed just as i see a link in my further discussions with the u.s. president our phone conversations and then our social meetings at the bar or that one will question europe they still believe that well gosh his initial response was legitimate supplicants the threat there are actions of the russian troops where excessive why wasn't this an option to push the georgian forces out of the set yeah

and stop at that point to think of course later. you know so fleet people are free to make speculation like that and i have come across the many times to try putting yourself in the shoes of russia's commander in chief my shoes that is sure we could have merely forced them out and stopped there or what we'll be hearing from georgia we should fall back to our initial position and our american friends and that allies will help us rearm get our new aircraft and what not and then which will resume the same offensive with any. vaguer the world letting them do that would have been a crime against the memory of those and died protecting their land therefore our mission at the time was to destroy georgia's war machine so that it wouldn't be able to target civilians and a set of cars here on the russian federation because as you know it's all mixed there let those that want to let it go but i'm going to. feel they're surprised that you were referring to the recent horseman's operation and i keep thinking back

to today libya and syria when do you consider it acceptable to start what's your rationale for deciding whether it's ok to launch it wasn't me she got that here is russia billion to gadhafi in libya and here it is imposing sanctions against syria how do you accommodate your decisions on georgia batman and russia's stance on today's prices bushell figure you see alexey it's always case by case there are no identical countries and there are no identical solutions i guess it's clear to you what is going on in libya so there's a man who has been running the country for forty years and at some point he decided to use force against his own people the will of this was condemned by the entire international community including russia which is we're not taking any part in the military campaign as a few nations are attempting to instill order in libya through military means we don't think it's the right thing to do but there is one nuance you should keep in mind georgia had been split into three parts by the time of war it should have been

about pulling the country back together for them rather than merely restoring constitutional order of resolute b. a is still in one piece such a risk does exist for libya but so far all the parties in a conflict ending the so-called rebels in the program daffy forces have pledged to preserve their country's territorial integrity so the situations are quite different however i'm not saying this to explain how we make decisions i'm merely trying to demonstrate that all of these situations and scenarios are totally diverse. this goes for other countries as well. i think one syria they should syria syria is a more complex issue of but sadly their situation has been unfolding in a very dramatic way so far so much all of us practical politician should keep a close watch on the developments in that country like a daffy for one had issued unequivocal orders to slaughter opposition activists by contrast syria's president never ordered anything like that unfortunately people

are dying in syria in grave numbers and that arouses our deepest concern therefore in my discussions with president assad during our personal conversation was and in our correspondence as i've been advocating one principle idea that he should immediately long for reforms reconcile with the opposition restore civil accord and start developing a modern state should he fail to do that he's in for a grim faced with and we will eventually have to take some decisions on syria to show naturally we have been watching developments very attentively the situation is changing and so where are the objectives on the minutes i don't think that's the guts of let us look at some of the numbers in the wake of the warranty thousand and eight russian envoy sent representatives himself the state his de facto government there are good at fighting in simi valley that claimed two thousand lives that was the number that was there now that later on russia's investigative committee an estimate of the casualties and i was one hundred fifty people i think i mean while

it was this alleged toll of two thousand this would serve to some of the main reasons for launching the so-called peace important operation how do you account for this discrepancy now three years after that i will. look at the. unique admits that for me to have explained by rationale for taking it as a decision on the numerous occasions you see i didn't go get any figures from the equation this isn't exactly a case for mathematics it more noise let me remind you what was going on where is the report on the night between. the seventh and it all gets the eighth i received a phone call from the defense minister after i was on vacation at the time sailing down the volga river and the whole world was looking forward to the olympics that were about to take off in china. the minister told me that georgia had launched a full scale combat operation to be honest my initial reaction was completely down for three years that i told the minister that we should check this is really completely out of his mind maybe it's just a provocative act maybe he stress test clearly

a sentence it's going to send out some kind of message and i later the minister reported to me this is no bluff they vanished and chill out artillery barrage and they using grad rocket launchers and what national i said all right i'll wait for another update or some more time to pass the minister called again i have something to tell you i believe they've just leveled a ten full of our peacekeepers killing every one of them what was i supposed to do i said return fire and shoot to kill no figures had been announced at that point good deal mr president you said you gave the order to return fire that are the operation continued after the heavy weapons rolled in and they're going to turn it into an all out war could you tell us about how you made the decision to continue the operation and not a question that all our colleagues would like answered who calls him first did you call prime minister. or did he call you did you and the prime minister called you need to move on you can as well let's get the first time i contacted him about

a conflict was about twenty four hours after it had broken out that most of us involved was already ablaze or what mr putin just made a statement condemning tbilisi's move that was the right thing to do of course we spoke twenty four hours after the attack over a secure alliance i do understand it's not very appropriate to discuss matters like this by cellphone it's also a lot of trouble to establish a secure line with someone who's in a different country that we taught and we talk more when he came back i mean even before his return i called to meet. at the security council i explained my position my decision to return fire and then gauging the conflict security council members voiced their support for my decision sometime later we had the meeting in which mr putin attended i don't. have anything on the question of russia's accession to the world trade organization is very relevant these days russia was into the w t o w c o wants russian the problem as far as we understand is that georgia is blocking russia's accession it is the only country that's not in favor of russia joining

w.t.f. is. talking about georgia agreeing to agree to russia that session if russia lifts its impact on the inclusive georgian goods i'll make some other concessions is russia willing to pacify for it and what is your take on the prospect of russia joining. us what the russians push and that was very well put and one point i don't want to do is garter for it that would be a moral moderate order has a position on russia's w t o a session we respect that position as we respect the stance of any other sovereign state as long as that position is in line with the goal set out in the w t o's charter trade trade preferences custom regimes are we ready to discuss at all the imports of wine and mineral water we will discuss anything but the problem is something else in essence our colleagues in georgia are trying to force a new edition of the political problem under the guise of w t o a session i'm

referring to entry points control over the traffic of goods then they will want to get the e.u. involved of russia our position on this is clear if you want information about the traffic of goods including transit through and south of setia we will provide it by a modern electronic database i have agreed to the suggestion is made by the swiss president regarding this and i recently discussed it with president obama what we're ready to implement the model but switzerland has proposed to us all what the weather if they try to change current. the tickle reality yes that they were serving as a prerequisite for russia only to have a session we went for that domenici over sessional is not too high a price to pay thank you very much mr president.

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a billion people in tel aviv angry that the government's love living costs get out of hand. all sports news is that the lord with all your big spending have unveiled their latest signings and that's right. was paraded in front of their fans before their win over time yesterday the former chelsea man joining brazil legend roberta carlos at the club have all the action from the russian premier league just stuff. other than thanks for watching the sport and these are the headlines so nice down league leaders fierce guards who you know in the russian premier league to go within two points of top spot. reach new heights and he still more wins big to boost his chances of going to the world or less championships. as long we're in ohio for tiger woods is adam scott so yet right the other world golf championship.

the first the russian premier league coach leach on his policy has praised his team's counter-attacking style that saw them grab it sooner when i reached here scar in moscow the victory putting them within two points of the army. at the top of the table two goals within one second half minute doing the damage alexander could you called opened after fifty four minutes for the pinpoint headed there before a shop in the unmarked alexander a new cough swiftly made it to neil beating people can feel any hopes any remain unbeaten for a night straight game and inflicted during the second defeat of the season on the. maybe it's looking a little bit bigger than they deserve but anyway they use their just as we did and so it's always there when they go home with three points we will have to keep going and keep training so that it elsewhere angie unveiled a russian midfielder you call the head of their home game against tom who they tell

you no thanks the first half go from alexander prudent and the late strike on my catch got here and you stay for the keep up the pressure on the league leaders it's on lingering twelve newmark twenty seven year old here called joins from chelsea on a four year deal and hopes to play in next week's game against moscow. elsewhere an impressive five game winning streak came to an abrupt end by now moscow using three one to keep banging when the head they're going to have a go. kevin could i need their equaliser to cracking strike. but that bit of the second was another p.c. to give the band the lead once again. thank you for having the. picture but come on reckon montaser eighty second minute we're not so rushed off

move out of the bottom to get a one zero victory for them looking bolder despite having seen many saints in the last seven minutes. well today rubin will look to hold their slide down the table they are currently facing trial with a second bottom spot right now jake while terry spartan. ok i look in my face new manager because i can sit at home sticky his incredible stuff that is tough going his fall when i'm forgetting again sport inside korea says yes. and i think i'll be one of the big spenders since the russian transfer window opened on august the first for new players have joined the side which has held the courage to say to revive the moscow club it probably cost her. the railway men have become the forty eight year old portuguese specialist ninth club in his coaching career besides the club circuit josie co say are also managed a national team only showing up during its one to ten feet a world cup qualifiers where he defeated the likes of me austria and the faroe

islands but these moments of the team tame the haze more confidence. because when the games challenge some things in the beach of course yes the start. but i think. the first scene he's easy mind now this gets the acquisitions forward phillida i said oh the twenty two year old ecuadorian international joins look at what see from live on say in this kind of sly league he played thirty two matches for his country's national team and scored five goals in the process over his relatively short professional career he's played full five teams including manchester city sporting lisbon and spain's molokai live on tape another new arrival is the nigerian international twenty four year old winger big sur i've been out was also somewhat of a club hopper and enter milan player he spent the last two seasons on loan first for molokai in spain and the following year west ham in the english premier league

you can see a lot of players from your old carlo votes and russian and they seem to participate so you are in different clubs here and also when a close plays in a new role on the globe plays in the champions league or in the republic play it more experienced players a lot. west ham teammate manual that cost out also joined looking at sea during the summer transfer period the portuguese defender's trophies include the french cup in two thousand and six and the netherlands title in two thousand and seven with him as personally as a. primary. for the stories according to. the test don't think that you can be in the training easy to simply want to play for preferred the forward it was when i would begin looking at these latest signing is spanish we feel they're all there to zapatero who joins the club from sporting lisbon it's twenty six year old started a lively guests are going where he played for five years scoring five goals and winning the spanish super got in the process in an interview with the committee's

official website zapatero admitted that he had offers from four spanish clubs as well as if they spar mock england's you counsel and only got calls from greece however looking with these offer outweighed the rest mainly because of the you had goal just shows a ko sorrows personal involvement. it's all a good seed are yet to lose a match or even concede a goal under josie close zeros the management team is now ready to reach new heights in the remainder of the season and the should help the team achieve that goal at ramon cost of artsy moscow. downing that manchester united face much to city in the charity shield at wembley today this is the traditional curtain raiser to the new premier league season which kicks off in a week's time you know i did have an open training session for fans at old trafford yesterday before heading down to london i was fifteen thousand people turned up to get a glimpse of their new signings midfielder ashley young defended phil jones and keep

it ever to show citing the familiar face of the man debate you see kept in the side of it twenty three title. or seventeen goals last season they failed it down factor by the way i don't like fitness test and if i had to share business most. season with the bikes. finished off pre-season tour of america saying you'll win over mexico as club america had to be on a picking up garbage via the first mid-way through the first half and then in the final minute of the game to become like that got the second from point blank range sixty eight thousand fans at the cowboys stadium to watch this one pass and i head back home to face your own not because of that but. possible playground for the following week in the super cup that rivals in good form think ending net worth trying with a six no rushing local side paper package got the first spot the others came from and of the media and one persona and now they are getting the pick of the goals of

this effort properly benzema scored twice off the bat enough to match those in the ring is said to me by. the good seeing so. competitive everybody feels all part of it everybody. must be ready to play and at the same time the young boys from the second team they know they have a chance so i hope tomorrow i don't read again what he wants more players because i want more players i'm happy with the short score they have we do good things and with the boat sinks. after that it's a little bit high jump champion angry soon off could be going to next month's world championships in south korea after all the russian has so far failed to qualify for the showpiece tournament and has now won the last major event ahead of it the

twenty six year old played two meters thirty six centimeters at his first attempt at the time in the league meeting in london while three years ago a similar jump was good enough to seal off to take gold at the beijing olympics elsewhere two americans triumph in the sprints with full record holder the same bolt sitting out all the votes blew away the field in the men's two hundred meters long time left. here this everyone's hundred meters machine not stop a second straight victory in the dying leave. tiger woods a slip further down the leaderboard at the world golf championship in ohio the man to catch there is adam scott he's found a winning formula with tigers for my caddie steve williams scott was in a four way tie for the lead at the start of the day that moved into the right lead on the sixteenth with that in point approach here he ended it day with a sixty six to put him on twelve under par overall with a round to play that is

a shot ahead of fellow restrain jason bay and nineteen year old japanese study and she cowered tiger woods meanwhile had another disappointing round he carded a seventy two will start the final round of one over admitting he struggled on the greens where to be fair he had a bit of a stinker. yesterday i didn't hit the ball well starting all fixed it put together again and. really good coming all started the ball on the right flight the right track never to show was flushed everything was back to where it was again a week or difference as i didn't call again today and had to shoot for shoes three foot eighteen and you know i was a bit of making a bogus and was there on sixteen of us four shots right there and finally with just over a month to go into the rugby world cup in new zealand then kartik eight fifteen points as the all blacks comfortably peter strayer thirty points to fourteen in that tri nations in canada in all can retain the bledisloe cup the traditional for the gang

boosted the i'm ations morale on the all blacks dominated from the off that you can park where they have not lost a test or strike since nine hundred ninety six new zealand were seventeen a lap at half time off the cries from nani and kevin me alarm me and subdued any city bar to put the match beyond that forty minutes into the second half to bring connecting with me for a spectacular run from a key twenty five seven be high on and indeed get on the school board for the wallabies in the second period but the business is never like getting back into this one needs even deny two wins from to try and actions following their success against south africa last week a quick look elsewhere england beat by old at twickenham yesterday twenty three points nineteen and scotland got a narrow victory but i. know that brings that today but more a bit later on next. well

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