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to meet their demands. but just across the border in israel over a quarter of a million people have rallied against the government they are demanding better living conditions and say they are ready to go. now on the eve of the third anniversary of the south essentially a war president it's made of spoke to archie and other broadcasters about why he took action and the legacy of that susan smith of russian leader had to say. that's a question that mr president thank you very much for agreeing to answer our questions then it is now 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 that points 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 quote or into an armed conflict and i reiterate that this

feelings present both in moscow and its p.c. could you tell us that he managed to agree on anything with the georgian president back then. but question you know catherine i had the same impression at 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 arrived i told him literally of all you know there are many problems in the region at the moment georgia is an 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 you find some compromise solution 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 but this is what i told it word for word and his response was spot of course we are ready to cooperate and i also had this impression that we could at least try to find some creative solutions if 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 georgetown counterpart. but at the same time georgia 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 condoleezza rice still flying following that visit my georgian colleague simply dropped. all communication with us you simply stop talking to us and stop writing letters and making phone calls it was apparent that he had some new plans now and most plans were implemented later. mr president am i correct too soon the way you see it's 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 as a parent hopes the big 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 meetings at the park for one more question in here up they still believe that while the russians initial response was legitimate self-defense the further actions of the russian troops where excessive why wasn't it an option to push the georgian forces out of the set

yet and stop at that point to think. you know sophie people are free to make speculation like that and i have come across the many times tried 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 and what we'll be hearing from georgia we will 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 within. you vigor that we 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 a second occurs here on the russian federation because as you know what it's all mixed there but i also want to let you know that it. was surprised that

you were referring to the recent horseman's operation and i didn't thinking back to today liane syria when do you consider it acceptable to stand what's your rationale for deciding whether it's ok to launch a reason it wasn't usually got that there is russia billion to gadhafi in libya and here it is imposing sanctions against syria how do you accommodate your decisions on georgia background and russia's stance on today's prices motion. 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 that will that's what 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 nuance 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 with rather than merely restoring constitutional order. is still in one piece such a risk does exist from earlier but so far all the parties in the conflict ending the so-called rebels in the program having 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 some of us i think what about syria and should syria syria is a more complex issue but sadly their situation has been unfolding in a very dramatic way so far you're pushing through much all of us practical politician should keep a close watch on the developments in that country and you could daffy for one who should 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 but is it another round is our deepest concern that therefore in my discussions with president assad during our personal conversation was planted 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 actually we've been watching developments very attentively the situation is changing and so we're already actives on the menu i didn't expect that that's of this is a look at some of the numbers in the wake of the warranty thousand and eight russian envoys and the representatives of southwest that is the de facto government there are good at fighting in sin valley that claimed two thousand lives that was the number that was announced that later on russia's investigative committee estimate

of the casualties it normal's one hundred fifty people meanwhile it was this alleged toll of two thousand that had searched some of the main reasons for not doing this so-called peace enforcement operation how do you account for this discrepancy now three years after the meal. itself when i have explained by rationale for taking a decision on the numerous occasions you see i didn't go could any figures for motivation this isn't exactly a case for mathematics ignore the west let me remind you what was going on where is that war on the night between. august the seventh and the eighth i received a phone call from the defense minister 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 look to be honest my initial reaction was completely down that i told the minister that we should check this but in the sack is really completely out of his mind maybe it's just

a provocative act i say the stress test of your sentence trying to send us some kind of message and i will later minister reported to me this is no bluff they haven't lived until i was artillery barrage which are they using grad rocket launchers and whatnot 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 tent 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 if you google mr president you said you gave the order to return fire what good are the operation continued after that your weapons rolled in and the conflict zones into an all out war to tell us about how you made the decision to continue the operation answer not a question that all our colleagues would like answered you who called who 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

. on with that so the first and i contacted him about a conflict was about twenty four hours after it had broken out no matter what involved was already ablaze 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 line was i to understand it's not very appropriate to discuss matters like this by cell phone you know 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 talked more when he came back i mean 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 the security council members voiced their support for my decision sometime later we had the meeting in sochi which mr putin attended as. anything on the question of russia's accession to the world trade organization is very relevant these days russia wants into the top of the w.c. who wants russia and 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. has been talking about georgia agreeing to agree to russia's expression if russia lifts its impact on the in particular to 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. us. 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 our 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 we're 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 are trying to force 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 of russian opposition on this is clear that if you want information about the traffic of goods including transit for abkhazia and south of setia we will provide it by a modern electronic database i've agreed to the suggestion is made by the swiss president regarding this and i recently discussed it with president obama what we're really to implement the model but switzerland has proposed to us however if they try to change current. the tickle reality yes that's serving as a prerequisite for russian w t o a session we went full flaps. recessional is not too high a price to pay thank you very much mr president. mission . couldn't take three months for charges three. months

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the week's top stories from our team the u.s. credit rating has been downgraded for the first time since one thousand nine hundred seventeen and that's despite the last minute debt ceiling deal that i've heard you took. this is come on top of wall street's worst performance in over two years i agree with you that troubles suggesting the share roller coaster ride is likely to continue monday. egypt's former president is on trial for mass killing and corruption but a weary public says the revolution is not over as the replacement regime is fouling to meet their demands. also just across the border in israel over a quarter of

a million people have rallied against the government they are demanding better living conditions and say they are ready to do what it takes. more details on those stories coming up at the top of the hour before that the latest sport with kate. hello welcome to the sports news and here are the headlines looking out twice for champions rubin aim to pile the pressure on the leaders as they travel to a struggling spotlight now in the russian premier league. while to present this one last night in midst a group of play boys and girls can walk down so they're playing heroes part of a fan campaign. under the trees a charm world number three beers on the rover aims to clinch a third title this year as she reaches the final of the mercury insurance open. first a football and twice former champions are being at second bottom spot at nogent

looking for a victory that would put them back into the top four of the russian premier league but it's still goalless in now take on still being defender the under just silver so he's evil i don't think so i said it is because while in the lower half of the table new boys class a guy came out easy to know what is a sound card thanks to early strikes in h.r. one last year and they cannot drink which is why in just under half an hour that's what most spartak moscow in the final game look much easier than it is jessica seto will be keeping to keep up his impressive start it's all three of the four games that is most their side take on us and separately is set up so. well in the meantime lucky for being one of the big movers since the transfer window opened on august the first for new players have joined sixth place moscow side with new magic in sarah hoping to build on his team's confident start to the season around cancer as reports. the railway men have become the forty eight year old portuguese

specialist nine club in his coaching career besides the club circuit shows because they are also managed the nationals your little radio during the twenty seven people world cup qualifiers to worry if you do like sober media austria and the faroe islands but these moments. the team to me it's more confidence. because when the games challenge some seams on the beach of course yes the strategy to. put us in. the first scene using these mines now this gets the acquisitions forward to lead it i said all the twenty two year old record gauri international joins look only at the from live on say in this kind of slightly got 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 matches through city basel sporting lisbon and spain's molokai live on tape another new arrival is the nigerian international twenty four year old bangor big sur

a big not was also somewhat of a club helper 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 coming over to russia to support spades and different clubs here and also when a close plays in europe on a club plays in the champions league or euro political it more diverse players a lot of the nice west hands he made money while the cost 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 sides all in two thousand and seven with an as posing as a. final. for the stories that go into so it was a test to see that the canadian training you see he's a save you want to pay for itself away you also we want to get

a look on the cvs latest signing a spanish fielder albert zapatero who joins the club from sporting lisbon it's twenty six year old started in the league as our goal where he played for five years scoring five goals and winning the spanish super got in the process in an interview with looking at seeds of fish. website zapatero admitted that he had offers from force and his clubs as well as if his parmar england's new castle and olympiakos from greece however look much these offer alex wade the rest mainly because of the new head coaches josie calls heroes personal involvement. so we're going to see are yet to lose a match or even concede a goal under josie called zeros the management team is now ready to reach new heights in the remainder of the season and that the new yorkers this sense of should help the team achieve that goal remark offer of artsy moscow. they will suffer a champions in eight humbled league ada's tesco moscow two nil to cut the gap to the top to just two points two goals with a more in the second half minutes to the damage alexander cocksure cough opened

after fifty four minutes with a painful. four and unmarked cars swifty made it to nil in something like in favor of his near post that i think was only the second this season for taste i wasn't now completely knowing games which china split and raised his charges that counter-attacking star. is reflecting on a look we have played c.s.k. in many times the know the attacking dangers of their forward such as one of a dummy and 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 were the team that won. so we're ready for it so far this season to test our supporters but some of the fans will want to remember this day for a very long time as a group of best they poison goals were given the perfect present the chance to walk out on to the pitch with a start with lennon as well. all these kids have at least a couple of things in common one of them of course is their undivided love for the

red and blue club says moscow and the other is that they're all celebrating their birthday in august. that's a project i read the announcement on says sky website and now both my sister and i are here to lead the players out. denouncement saw she was talking about is the club's true move campaign aimed at winning over the hearts of supporters from an early age and this case is with boys and girls aged eight to twelve all parents have to do is submit their kids' birth certificate to see its color and they will get an opportunity to meet at their favorite clear i want to flip the games that come from more schools are going to that told me that i could leave the player on the pitch i said yes straight a break because he loves his career and interrupted kate is my favorite. those lucky enough to be among the first eleven up against a little birthday present which their friends will probably talk about for months after all it is a dream come true to be to your idol to such an important much like the one between sears and senate that. i've been

a fan of says scott ever since i can remember myself and i would not miss this chance for anything something like this may never happen again. if not to see a star lost his or her will probably soon be restored their memories but gratitude for their parents but thinking of the reminiscence of a special birthday present will more than likely remain in their hearts forever. scope acclaim and our two. now overeating and defending premier league champions manchester united are taking on a fake one as unfair as rivals manchester city in the community shield at wembley the traditional curtain raiser to the new domestic season which will kick off in a week's time and it's an absolute cracker it's all square it to two in london joleon lescott headed in that it's always free to talk to thirty eight minutes past the most unfortunate that is of course he said that he and the other spine is backing the ball out of the net for a second time in first half stoppage time i think jack is getting too much space to run and five hundred thirty second spots chris smalling hold on but united saying

off the restart is the signing ashley young this is the red devils level the game minutes later now go on to say. well. bossa love to finish off their pre-season tour of north america with a two no win over mexican side of america at around a pixel started the first goal way through the first half and then final minutes if you take them to the second one rage range even sixty eight thousand pounds that's the cowboys stadium what's this one boss alone are now head back home to face corona in the semifinals to move on tuesday. it is now a russian verizon a rover is on course for her third title of the season after the world number three came from a set down to be one of each and reached the final of the medical insurance i in california does the six year old lost the first set for then came back to space the next week this is the ninth green in

a race for the russian to save real fortune article in season one of the next day i missed but i sunset in the final on the colbert and also in three sets well i bounce got found herself trading the german whose power saw her take a one set leave however which capitulated second largely because she was feeling ill with last winter bonnets however she did return for the deciding set where robin scott who has so heavily struck shoulder round out the match six will. moving on tiger woods was was thirteen shots of my start of the third round of the world golf championships in ohio while the monte couch after the third round was adam scott is trailing pairing up with tigers form a caddy steve williams for a third tournament scott was in a four way tie for the lead at the start of the third day but the australian moved into the out right lead on the sixteenth hole following in approach thirty one year

old ended with a with a sixty six to put him on twelve and par overall with a round to play that was a shot at head of fellow australian jason day and nineteen year old japanese star reaction caught me while woods had another disappointing round he carded a seventy two and started spawn around on one over par with former world number one admitting he struggled on the greens for his parting but let him down. yesterday i didn't hit the ball well starting oh and i fixed it put together again and. really become a whole sort of the ball over the right five or to show was flush everything was back to where it was again a week or differences i didn't call again today and a two to four shoes of three foot eighteen and you know i was a bit of a bugger the same way as around sixty of those four shots right there and that's all sports news for this person i'll be back in a couple of hours' time either. lucky

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