welcome back here's a quick recap of the week's top stories from our t.v. the triple a that's now america's accounting anxiety its credit crowd has taken down a wrong in the ratings as investors shudder over how the debt ceiling raised was handled. it down the hall for a rocky ricotta global markets with its worst week in over two years worsened by europe's debts and fears of a second possible american recession. as egypt's former president goes on trial

for mass killing and corruption a weary public see the replacement regime for failing to meet the revolution's demands. but to neighboring the reform rallies swell to work more of a million people in solo being angry that the government's let the living costs get out of. them on the eve of the third anniversary of the south of such and war president medvedev spoke to our tea 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 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 an accord 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 details of the managed to agree on anything with the georgian president back then to push the question you know catherine i had the same impression of the time when i can still recall meeting president saakashvili for the first time i was in some petersburg we met in the constantine palace and mr secretary arrived i told him literally little you know there are many problems in the region at the moment georgia is at odds with 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 him find some compromise solution is that would accommodate everyone and would eventually facilitate a reintegration of georgian territory that's acceptable for all the parties and gauge a negotiation naturally couples this is what i told it word for word and his response was spot of course we are ready to go operate and i also had 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 let's i can tell you earnestly i spent the next month checking regularly for any feedback from our daughter counterpart that there was nothing out of the same time georgia was getting more and more visits from envoys from across the ocean that they would be double speak up shit 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 condi leesa rice still feels like following that visit and i georgian colleague simply dropped. all communication with us he simply stopped talking to us and stopped writing letters and making phone calls it was apparent that he had some new plans now and those plans were implemented later. mr president am i correct to assume that the way you see that visit by the u.s. secretary of state's out 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 american side 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 as a parent 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 conversation and then also some the meetings at the. one world question dates in hero but they still believe that well why should the initial response was legitimate self-defense and further actions of the russian troops were

excessive why wasn't it an option to push the georgian forces out of the city yeah and stop at that point i think. you know sophie people are free to make speculation like battle 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 a sure sure we could have merely forced them out and stopped there but we'll be hearing from georgia which will fall back to our initial position and our american friends and that allies will help us rearm get our new aircraft and whatnot and then we should resume the same offensive with when. vaguer the world letting them do that would have been a crime against the memory of those who died protecting their land and 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 second occurs here on the russian federation because as you know it's all mixed back those that want to let me feel better about your logical. mr president you

were referring to the recent horseman's operation and i get people back to today libya and syria when do you consider it acceptable to stand up for what's your rationale for deciding whether it's ok to launch a piece of equipment we should got that there is russia a billion to gadhafi in libya and here it isn't causing sanctions against syria how do you accommodate your decisions on georgia back again and russia's stance on today's prices ocean secular 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 reza 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 new os

you should keep in mind georgia had been split into three parts by the time of the war with them 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 like lending the so-called rebels in the program half the forces have pledged that 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 or 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 but sadly their situation has been unfolding in a very dramatic way so far. all of us practical politician should keep a close watch on the developments in that country by 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 because if i'm not around is our deepest concern that therefore in my discussions with president assad during our personal conversations and in our correspondence i've been advocating one principle idea that he should immediately launch 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 actually we've been watching developments very attentively the situation is changing and so what are the objectives on the minutes as if that's the that's the this is a look at some of the numbers in the wake of the war in two thousand and eight russian envoys and the representatives themselves as thanked his de facto government they are fighting in thin volume that claimed two thousand lives that

was the number that was a noun that later on russia's investigative committee estimate of the casualties at no more than one hundred fifty people i think i mean while it was this alleged toll of ten thousand this would serve to some of the main reasons for launching this so-called peace and into operation how do you counter this discrepancy now three years after the initial. commits of what may have explained by rationale for taking out a decision on the numerous occasions you see i didn't know could any figures for globalization this isn't exactly a case for mathematics ignore the west and let me remind you what was going on where is the book on the night between. the seventh and august eighth i received a phone call from the defense minister after i was on vacation of the 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 complete doubters that i told the minister we should check this the sec is really completely

out of his mind maybe it's just a provocative act and maybe he stress test below your settings in trying to send us some kind of message and i will later minister reported to me this is no bluff they vanished and sure allowed artillery barrage and they're using grad rocket launchers in the national i said all right i'll wait for another update. some more try to pass the minister called again i have something to tell you i believe they've just leveled a ten foot of our peacekeepers killing every one of them and what was i supposed to do i said return fire and shoot to kill no figures had been announced at that point . mr president you said you gave the order to return fire what are the operational continued after there were weapons rolled in and the conflict turned into an all out war could you tell us about how you made a decision to continue the operation and so not a question that all our colleagues would like answered you who calls him first what did you call prime minister putin in b.g. first or did he call you how did you and the prime minister called you need to move

on with his went with the first time i contacted him about a conflict just it was about twenty four hours after it had broken out that what it was involved was already ablaze a little institute in just made a statement condemning tbilisi's move that was the right thing to do of course but as we spoke twenty four hours after the attack over a secure line as you might like to understand it's not very appropriate to discuss matters like this by cell phone it's also a lot of trouble to establish a secure line with someone who's in a different country that we talk and we talk more when he came back but even before his return i called to meet. of the security council i explained my position my decision to return fire and engage in conflict security council members voiced their support for my decision sometime later we had the meeting in sochi which mr putin attended i don't want. anything on the question of russia's expression to the world trade organization is very relevant these days russia wants into the w t o s

a w c o wants russian the problem as far as we understand is that georgia is blocking russia's succession and is the only country that's not in favor of russia joining the w.t.f. has been talking about georgia agreeing to agree to a russian expression if russia lifts its in bargnani important georgian goods will make some other concessions is russia willing to part of for it and what is your take on the prospect of russia joining. us what the bush and bush and that was very well put and one point i don't want to do is barter for it that would be a moral order has a position on russia's w t o a session we respect their position as we respect the stance of any of us over in a state as long as that position is in line with the goal set out in the governor charter trade trade preferences custom regimes we are ready to discuss it all the important wine and mineral water we will discuss some of things but the problem is something else in essence our colleagues in georgia are trying to force us

a new edition of the political problems 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 our position on this is clear that if you want information about the traffic of goods including transit through abkhazia and south or setia we will provide it via a modern electronic database i've agreed to the suggestions made by the swiss president of guarding this and i recently discussed it with president obama but what we're ready to implement the model that switzerland has proposed to us however if they try to change current. the tickle reality serving as a prerequisite for russian w.t.r. recession we won't fall for that. essentially is not too high a price to pay thank you very much mr president.

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a million people in television angry that the government's lead living costs get out of hand. for its next about three so i hear you have some good news for russia to get sick of it is of on audio but she can start winning at the moment and is on course for her third title of the year of one up plus the latest goes the russian primary just in a much. thanks for joining me you're watching the sport here on r.t. and these are the headlines. league leaders to discard to kneel in the russian premier league to go within two points of top spot. on the road world number threes on the rio they get ninth win in a row to reach the final of the next three insurance. while there's more you know high the tiger woods as adam scott takes yet rightly the world golf championship.

but we will start with the russian premier league and any. he has praised his teams and for attacking style that saw them grab a single when i was here in moscow the victory putting them within chin point to be army men at the top of the table achieve goals within one second half minute doing the damage alexander could you called the fifty four minutes that pinpoint headed there before a shockingly unmarked alexander new coughs fifty made it saying we'll be thinking about you but i can feel today as any remain unbeaten them for the ninth straight gang and inflicted a second defeat of the season. 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 call with three points we. need to keep going keep playing so thats it. elsewhere angie unveiled a russian midfielder you to hear called the head of their home game against told me

they'd been taken ill thanks to a first half goal from alexander pruett nicko and a late strike from my patch but yeah i'm just a fool to keep up the pressure on the league ladies' home lingering well for the moment i mean well twenty seven year old year twelve 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 for third place to now moscow using three one to get banned he went head to get damaged or that can be put on here equalized with a cracking strike. but he said you'll be after that and it was another p.c. to give. me the end. goal. stuff but take that back a month eighty second minute winner so ross the move out of the bottom two one nil

victory for them at struggling despite having two men sent off in the last seven minutes. today rubin will look to hold their slide down the table they're currently fifth and trying to second bargain spot on our cheek while terry start at moscow and look at motives new manager. taking part this incredible start at the club going to his full win four games against bottom side chris to get so. well off the mighty have been one of the big spenders since the russian transfer window opened on august the first for new players have joined the side which is how we see it revived the moscow club in costa rica. the railway men have become the forty eight year old portuguese specialist ninth club in his coaching career besides the club circuit josie cause they are also managed the national to lithuania during the one to ten people world cup qualifiers where he defeated the likes of armenia austria and the faroe islands but these moments came

. to his small coffee yes. because when the games challenge some scenes in the beach of course yes the strategy to. put us in. the fire season is mind now this gets the acquisitions forward phillida guy said all the twenty two year old before dorian international joins the currency from live on say in this kind of slightly got you played thirty two naches for his country's national team and scored five goals in the process over his relatively short professional career he's played full fight scenes including manchester city basel sporting lisbon and spain's molokai live on tape another new arrival is the nigerian international twenty four year old beggar picture of a napa was also somewhat of a club hopper and injure milan player he spent the last two seasons on loan first for molokai in spain and the following year at west ham in the english premier league you can see a lot of players from you know

a couple of words recently to support spades and different clubs here and also when a close plays in. plays in the champions league and the real political admits of a split as a lot of the knesset west ham teammate manual that cost up also joined looking at the 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 an as closely as. i know you. for your stories according. to a test i think that the canadian training music. you simply want to play a full court of appeals from where you also or begin looking at these latest signing in spanish the people there are all there is up there who joins the club from sporting lisbon it's twenty six year old story that usually gets zaragoza where he played for five years five goals in winning the spanish super cup 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 new castle and olympiakos from greece however looking much these offer outweighed the rest mainly because of the new head coaches josie coles hero's personal involvement. so look at c.b.r. yet to lose a match or even concede a goal under josie cozier olds the management team is now ready to reach new heights in the remainder of the season and that they should help the team achieve that goal remark offer of r.t. moscow. and england mention i can face managed to city in the charity shield at wembley later today this is the traditional curtain raiser for the new premier league season which kicks off in a week's time now united held an open training session for fans at out trafford yesterday before heading down to london over fifteen thousand people turned up to get this first glimpse of the new signings midfielder ashley young defender phil jones and keep it david to give all and show say to the familiar faces i'm david h.

and thanks to captain the side of the twentieth league title i'm wayne rooney and seventeen goals last season but feel the down flat you by the way had a late fitness test ahead of today's meeting to show he missed most of the pre-season of violence. barcelona finished off this season towards america but it's a no win i do mexico pub america video no picking at that would be ahead for the first midway. and then in the final minute of the game to keep it got the second from point blank right there sixty eight thousand fans had boys standing to watch this one pass and i had. i know no pass unless you. possible play real madrid the following week in the super cup their rivals in good form to ending their tour of china with a six year old russian would likely start. caca got the first from us but the other is the idea i don't follow when i christian or now that i got the pick of the girls

to be selfless i. like school why i. am not unusual russian visibility is on course for her third title of the season the world number three coming from a set down to be an advantage to reach the final of the mercury insurance i've been in california she lost the first set the bank came back the next it's the ninth win in a row for the twenty six year old has hit real form during the hard court season as a very overwhelmed by this good response in the final of the sheet and to be effective in three seconds but advance here found herself behind the german who's up so her take a bun settling however to give each particular in the second set largely because she was feeling it say how to run off the power for him to vomit apparently. she did return for the deciding set god bless her. who herself had

a heavily strapped shoulder rounded out six or to take a man right there. in the men's game check but not exactly like has made the final of the legg mason classic in washington d.c. beating new kid on the block american donald young comprehensibly six three six three although this was his semifinal the eighty eight all but couldn't cope against stepanek and he'll face go on all three for the title the frenchman got past another american john eisenberg that sets up. an athletics olympic high jump champion andre soon of could be going to next month's world championships in south korea after all the russian has so far failed to qualify for the tournament that is now one of the last major events ahead of it i live to eighty six year old pleased to meet is thirty six centimeters his first attempt at the diamond league meeting in london while three years ago a similar jump was good enough to see him off to take gold at the beijing olympics

elsewhere two americans triumph in the sprints with world record holder at the same boat sitting this one out while to dig through away the field in the men's two hundred meters while carmelita jet was paralysed in the women's hundred metres as she knocked up a second straight victory in the diamond league. and so i go towards a slip further down the leaderboard at the world golf championship in ohio the man to cash 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 but moved into the act right lead on the sixteenth with that point approach here he ended the day with a sixty six to put him on twelve under par overall with a round to play but he's a shot ahead a fellow astray and jason day a nineteen year old japanese dark. tiger woods meanwhile. i don't know that disappointing rand he caught it a seventy two will start the final round on one over admitting afterwards 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 at all and i fixed it put it together again and. really hit a good coming home starting the ball over the right flight the right traction never to show it was flushed everything was back to where it was again the week or differences i didn't call again today and two to horseshoes out freeplay team and you know i was sort of going to make a bogey of the second was around sixteen of us four shots right there and so that is the sport and i'm over the top of the last part. you deleted stem science technology from around the world. we go into the future covered.

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