it's two thirty pm in moscow and the week's top stories on our t.v. the aaa that's now america's accounting anxiety its credit crown is taken down a wrong in the ratings as investors shutter over how the debt ceiling raise was handled. and around it offer brocky week on global markets with wall street's worst week in over two years worsened by europe's doubts 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 fowling to meet the revolutions demands. but in neighboring israel the reform rally swelled to a quarter of a million people in tel aviv angry that the government's let live in calls out of hand. on the eve of the third anniversary out the south that's your war president advantage spoke to our t.v. and other broadcasters about why he took action and the legacy of that decision 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 into d.c. 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 d.c.

. so the managed to agree on anything that the georgian president back then. forces the question you know catherine i had the same impression at the time but 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 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 that would accommodate everyone and would eventually facilitate a reintegration of georgian territory that's acceptable for all the parties in agent to go c.h. and naturally couples but this is what i told it word for word his response was sort of course we are ready to cooperate and i also have this impression that we could at least try to find some creative solutions if not a new chapter in time 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 georgetown counterpart actually there was nothing a lot of the same time georgia was getting more and more visits from envoys from across the ocean as they would be dubbed. options 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 to thank 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 those plans were implemented later. mr president am i correct to assume that the way you see visit by the u.s. secretary of state was meant to urge president saakashvili little if 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 and 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 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 our first of all meetings. one more question in here about they still believe that while russia's initial response was legitimate self-defense the further actions of the russian troops were excessive why wasn't it an option to push the georgian forces out of the set yet and stop at

that point to change. course they said. 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 sure we could have merely forced them out and stopped there but what we're hearing from georgia that we should fall back to our initial position and our american friends and their allies will help us rearm get our new aircraft and whatnot and then we should resume the same offensive with really. vigor the world were 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 as setia occurred here on the russian federation because as you know what it's all mixed that good that those that want to let them. feel we're surprised at what you were referring to the peace and force means

operation and i keep thinking back to today libya and syria when you consider it acceptable to state what your rationale for deciding whether it's ok to launch a piece of equipment we should got that there is russia billion to gadhafi in libya and here it is imposing sanctions against syria how do you commented your decisions on georgia grabbing a man and russia's stance on today's prices. 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 will us that 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 for military means we don't think it's the right thing to do but there is one nuance you should keep in mind that 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 with rather than merely restoring constitutional order of red libya 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 dappy 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 or i'm merely trying to demonstrate that all of these situations and scenarios are totally diverse. this goes for other countries as well islamic states i see it on syria and they should syria syria is a more complex issue but sadly their situation has been unfolding in a very dramatic way so far too much all of us practical politician should keep a close watch on the developments in that country but 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 with and in our correspondence i've been advocating one principle idea that he should immediately launch reforms reconcile with the opposition restore civil order 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 with the situation is changing and so we're all rejected i mean it's not about us that's the that's of this is a look at some of the numbers in the wake of the war in two thousand and eight russian envoy said the representatives of south us that is the de facto government argued that the fighting in sing valley had claimed two thousand lives that was the number that was a noun that later on russia's investigative committee estimates of the casualties

at no more than one hundred fifty people meanwhile it was this alleged toll of two thousand that had surfaced on the main reasons for not showing this so-called peace enforcement operation how do you account for this discrepancy now three years after the manual yet. you're getting it so for me i have explained by rationale for taking it as a decision on the numerous occasions you see i didn't go at any figures for location this isn't exactly a case for mathematics in one of us and let me remind you what was going on where was the war on the night between. because the seventh and the eighth i received a phone call from the defense minister i was on a vacation at the high sailing down the volga river and the whole world was looking forward to the olympics that were about to take off in china a minister told me that georgia had launched a full scale combat operation can be honest my initial reaction was completely down sources that i told the minister we should check this is really completely out of his mind or like i think it maybe it's just a provocative act i say the stress test they are seconds they trying to send us

some kind of message and i will later the minister reported to me this is no bluff they've unleashed an elaborate artillery barrage which i'm now using grad rocket launches and. i said all right i'll wait for another update you know some more try to pass the minister called again i have something to tell you i believe they've just leveled the temple of our peacekeepers killing every one of them and what was i supposed to do i said return fire and shoot to kill and no figures had been announced at that point. mr president you said you gave the order to return fire the operation continued after the hour weapons rolled in and the conflict turned 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 putin in b.g. first or did he call you how did you and the prime minister called you need to move you can list this is the first time i contacted him about

a conflict was about twenty four hours after it had broken out that was or was involved was already ablaze what mr putin just made a statement condemning to d.c.'s move that was the right thing to do of course we spoke twenty four hours after the attack over a secure line of i don't understand it's not very appropriate to discuss matters like this by cell phone if it's also a lot of trouble to establish a secure line with someone who's in a different country that we talked and we talk more when he came back but even before his return i called to meet. 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 such a mess mr putin attended i don't want anything on the question of russia's accession to the world trade organization is very relevant these days rushing off into the dark and w.c. who wants russia and problem as far as we understand is that george is blocking russia's accession it is the only country that's not in favor of russia joining the

w.t.f. is going talk about georgia agreeing to agree to russia's succession if russia lifts its impact on the import of georgian goods or make some other concessions is russia willing to pass a for it and what is your take on the prospects of russia joining the company. and that was very well put and one thing i don't want to do is carter for it that would be immoral georgia has a position on russia's w.o.t. over session we respect that position as we respect the stance of any of us other instate 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 it all the imports of wine and mineral water we will discuss anything but the problem is something else in essence our colleagues in georgia 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 russian opposition on this is clear if you want information about the traffic of goods including transit through abkhazia and south of setia we will provided by our modern electronic database i have agreed to the suggestions made by the swiss president of guarding this and i recently discussed it with president obama what we're ready to implement the model that switzerland has proposed to us all about the weather if they try to change current. mystical reality yes that would serving as a prerequisite for russia germany to have a session we went forth about domenici i was special which is not too high a price to pay thank you very much mr president. are lucky. the

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swelled to quarter of a million people in tel aviv angry that for the government's left living costs get out of hand. more details and all those stories coming up at the top of the hour we're up next sports with andrew from. hello there good to have you company and the use of the headlights. down leaders t.s.r. to new in the russian prime league to get within two points of top spot. class on the world number threes on the rio but get a ninth win in a right to reach the final for the next few insurance open. to all those laws and i hired tiger woods is alan scott takes yeah right in the world golf championship. russian prime milligan's and letty has praised his team's counter-attacking stars

or than gravity you know when i was in moscow the victory putting them within two points of the army men at the top of the table to go within one second half minute doing the damage alexander courage because i mean there are fifty four minutes to pinpoint before a shockingly unmarked alexander a new coughs will be made it saying we'll beating people up and fear at the near post to meet remain unbeaten for a ninth straight game and inflicted a second defeat of the season on the. minute we have played she has carried many times the new the attacking dangers of their food such as love and gambia so we made a decision to limit the space and to defend deep to try to catch them on the break they had more possession but we would achieve one. elsewhere angie unveiled a russian midfielder you reach your coffee ahead of their home game against one who they beat you neal thanks to the first half call from alexander pruden a cough and a late strike from the cash gods yeah i'm just

a force to keep up the pressure on the league leaders with some lingering in twelve spot meanwhile twenty seven year old here called joins from chelsea on a four year deal and hopes to play in next week's game against spartak moscow. elsewhere an impressive five game winning streak came to an abrupt. then for third place now most goalies in the once the banks went ahead for the city that haven't got any equalized with a great strike. but that would of got the second which was another way to keep the band in the debt. and sure so powerful left it to keep the kilcoyne call the complex right. while black among today's eighty second minute when a still rough start moving out of the bottom two one of them again struggling volga despite having sent off in the last seven minutes. let's look at today then rupee

will try and hold their slide down the table they're currently fifth and trail the second one now take all terry thought i lost a lot of my teeth new manager jose castillo i just keep up his incredible start up a lot going for his full forward to four games against bottom side pleased to get still a lot of mighty power being one of the big spenders since the russian transfer window opened on the first of all grist for new plays of joy in the side which is helped coach considered i revived the moscow club is from across iraq. 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 t o little i am sure he gets one hundred ten people world cup qualifiers to where he defeated the likes of remedial austria and the faroe islands but these moments the team have a team in the hay small confidence. because when the games challenge some scenes in

the beach of course yes the sides are too. but the scene. of the first scene is amazing mine's now this gets the acquisitions forward to leave it i said all of the twenty two year old ecuadorean international joins look let's see from live on today in this banished 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 for five teams including magister city boss sporting lisbon and spain's molokai to live on to another new arrival is the nigerian international twenty four year old banger fixer of the not was also somewhat of a club hopper and entering the last player he spent the last two seasons on loan first for molokai in spain and the polo year at west ham in the english premier league you can see a lot of players from europe a come over to listen to what's different clubs here and also when

a close plays and in europe a collapse plays in the champions league they will probably keep it more disgrace players the law will be necessary wes had seen a man who held a caution also joined looking at sea during the summer transfer kiriat the portuguese defender's trophies include the french cup in two thousand and six and the netherlands side's role in two thousand and seven with an as closely as there. are no. choice four years ago and they are. the best i think that they can be in the training isn't. just say it was true for the feel good it was an order good looking with the latest signing in spanish we feel they're all there is up there who joins the block from sporting lisbon it's twenty six year old started in lagos zaragoza where he played for five years scoring five goals and winning the spanish super cup in the process in an interview with looking at cvs official website zapatero admitted that he had offers from four spanish clubs as well as if they spar mock you castle and only packhorse from greece however looking at these offer

outweighed the rest mainly because of the new head coaches jos a cosy rose personal involvement. so we're going to see they 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 neo-cons this sense of should help the team achieve that goal it's grown on cost free of ardsley moscow. now an england bench united face match to city in the charity shield at wembley later today this think traditional curtain raiser at the new premier league season which kicks off in a week's time united held an open training session for fans at old trafford yesterday before they have it's in london i was fifteen thousand people turned up to get their first glimpse of the new signings midfield the ashley young defender phil jones and keep the key it all on show so it seems that the familiar faces of nine hundred fifty chief hopes the captain aside to the twenty three title i am wayne rooney who scored seventeen goals last season you feel the downs that

consistently had a late fitness test headed to face. the pre-season with a five. elsewhere barcelona finished off their pre-season tour of america but it will rain even makes a case of america as they are no picking activity of that for the first meet likely . and then in the final minute of the game said the fight that got the second from point blank range sixty eight thousand fans at the cowboys stadium to watch this one pass and i had to fade. your own catalogue. boss who also played the following week in the city put their rivals in good form to ending net toward china with the six little flashy local side tianjin paid a packet getting the first from me and the others came from the. way christiane. because they go there i like it bends and. i tennis rush of it is vulnerable

is on course for her third title of the season the world number three coming from a set down to beat anna revalidate to reach the final of the mercury insurance open in california she lost the first step but then came back to take the next to this the ninth win in a row for the twenty six year old real fall during the hard court season one of the overall papers i discovered in the final of the she feet and repackaged also in three sets with france because they found herself the hind the german whose hour saw her take one step. however pet give it a picture late in the second set largely because she was feeling sick and had to run off to the bathroom to vomit station showed off the words. she did return for the deciding set. vance who herself had a heavily strapped shoulder grounded out six for to take a match. and in the men's going veteran radek stepanek has made the final of the

legg mason classic in washington d.c. beating new kid on the block american donald young comprehensively six three six three although this is it was the first semifinal on the a.t.p. tour for him but he couldn't cope against and he will face a free for the title after the french got another american prize and going back to set one. in athletics olympic champion and he still north could be going to next month's world championships in south korea after all the russian has so far failed to qualify for the show you can see event but has now won the latest a major event ahead of it at the twenty six year old cleared to meet his thirty six centimeters at his first attempt at the dime in the 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 world record holder at the same bolt was sitting this one out so i wanted to explain away the field in the men's two hundred meters to get there with peerless in the women's one hundred meters machine

or stop a second straight victory in the diamond lead. now tiger woods has slipped further down the leaderboard at the world golf championship in ohio the man to catch that is adam scott and he's found a winning formula for tiger's fall my caddie steve williams scott was in a four way tie for the lead at the start of the day but moved in rightly on the sixteenth with a pinpoint approach here he ended the day with a sixty six to put him on twelve under par overall with a round to play that's a shot ahead of fellow was trailing jason day a nineteen year old japanese star do you shake our tiger woods meanwhile i don't know that disappointing and he carded a seventy two i'm going to start the final round on one over admitting afterwards he struggled on the greens where to be fair you had a bit of a stinker. yesterday i didn't hit the ball well starting at all and i fixed it put together again and. really had a good come on starting of all the right flight the right tragic never to shot was

flush everything was back to where it was to begin the week the only difference is i didn't call again today and had to horseshoes. three foot eighteen and you know i was in a bit of make a bogus head was around sixteen of us four shots right there and that is all the support we've got more out that i saw. you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the future covered.

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