hello this is all to moscow you're watching our weekly review of the week's top stories and first the u.s. credit rating has been downgraded for the first time since ninety seven despite the last minute debt ceiling deal that averted default. this is come on top of wall street's worst performance in over two years in european debt trouble suggesting the share roller coaster rides like you continue monday. egypt's former presidents on trial for mass killing in corruption but

a wary public says the revolution is no low but because the replacement regime is failing to make a democracy. and just across the border in israel over a quarter of a million people have rallied against the government's they're demanding better living conditions and say they're ready to do what it takes. on the eve of the third anniversary of the south the settee a war president of dread of spoke to r.t. as well as the radio and georgian t.v. channel pick about why he took action on the legacy of that decision this is what the russian media say. that's a question that mr president thank you very much for agreeing to answer our questions then 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 it's 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. bush or gore that you know catherine i had the same impression at the time but 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 of 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 it would accommodate everyone and would eventually facilitate a reintegration of georgian territory that's acceptable for all the parties and gauge a negotiation naturally 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 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 on our drawdown counterpart there was no way out of the same time georgia was getting more and more visits from envoys from across the ocean but as they would be dubbed. options the moment of truth for me as i realized later was analyzing those events in hindsight over and over again came with a visit by u.s. secretary of state condi lisa rice still to the 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 those plans were implemented later. mr president am i correct to assume that the way you see it that visit by the u.s. secretary of state was meant to urge president saakashvili a little comfort 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 served georgia's president to reinvade 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 conversation and then our first of the meetings that one will question in here of but 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 as an option to push the georgian forces out of the set yet

and stop at that point to. 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 stop there but what we're hearing from georgia we shall 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 any. vigor the world was 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 i've heard here on the russian federation because as you know it's all mixed there but that was the one that let you know better than what it. was surprised that you were referring to the peace and foursomes operation and i keep

thinking back to today libya and syria when do you consider it acceptable to step up what's your rationale for deciding whether it's ok to launch a piece of it wasn't he she got that there is russia to be lenient to gadhafi in libya and here it is imposing sanctions against syria how do you accommodate your decisions on georgia back then and russia's stance on today's prices pushing figure into that 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 and 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 white thing to do that but there is one nuance you should keep in mind that georgia had been split into three parts by the

time of the war that it should have been about pulling the country back together for them rather than merely restoring constitutional order i don't read libya is still in one piece such a risk does exist for libya but so far the parties in the conflict ending the so-called rebels in the program graphics forces have pledged that 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. would want syria and should syria syria is a more complex issue of but sadly their situation has been unfolding in a very dramatic way so far the mighty 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 you know unfortunately people are dying in syria in grave numbers it is it i'm not around it is our deepest concern that 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 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 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 our objectives are on the menu that's out of there is that but 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 themselves the sect is the de facto government argued that the fighting in simi valley had claimed two thousand lives that was the number that was the now that later on russia's investigative committee

estimate of the casualties it's no more than one hundred fifty people meanwhile it was this alleged toll of two thousand serbs on the main reasons for not getting the so-called peace enforcement operation how do you count this discrepancy now three years after that i will. not go look up anymore that you're getting it's a for me i have explained by rationale for taking out a decision on the universe occasions you see i didn't go get any figures for the motivation this isn't exactly you know case for mathematics it's more there wasn't very remind you what was going on the last little bit on the night between. the seventh and 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. minister told me that georgia had launched a full scale combat operation let's look at the honest my initial reaction was complete damage or things that i told the manager the actual so we could check this is really completely out of his knowledge that robotic like maybe it's just

a provocative act and maybe he stress test your seconds trying to send us some kind of message which an hour later the minister reported to me that he listens no bluff they've unleashed an elaborate 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 had passed and the minister called again i have something to tell you i believe they've just leveled the 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 have been announced at that point agreeable mr president you said you gave the order to return fire let it get out of the operation continued after the heavy 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 another question we got all our colleagues would like answered you who calls on first did you call prime minister putin b.g. first or did he call you but if you did you and the prime minister called me to move. the first time i contacted tale about conflicts this was about twenty four

hours after it had broken out that most of us involved was already ablaze mr putin just made a statement condemning tbilisi's move that was the right thing to do of course but we spoke twenty four hours after the attack over a secure alliance as you understand it's not very appropriate to discuss matters like this by cell phone and it's also a lot of trouble to establish a secure line with someone who's in a different country that we taught will be talking at all 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 the security council members voiced their support for my decision sometime later we had the meeting in sochi which mr putin attended i don't know. anything on the question of russia's accession to the world trade organization is very relevant these days russia wants into the w.t.f. the w c o wants russian 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 c oh yes there's been talk about georgia agreeing to greet a russian succession if russia lifts its impact on the imports of georgian goods to make some other concessions is russia willing to barter for it and what is your take on the prospects of russia joining. us 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 t o a session we respect that position as we respect the stance of any of a 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 it all the imports of wine and mineral water we will discuss some of things that are the problem is something else in essence our colleagues in georgia are trying to force us to 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 if you want information about the traffic of goods including transit through and south a sense here we will provide it by a modern electronic database i've agreed to the suggestions made by the swiss president to go to this and i recently discussed it with president obama what we're ready to implement the model but switzerland has proposed to us whatsoever if they try to change current. the tickle reality is that serving as a prerequisite for russia germany to have a session we won't fall for that company cio especially is not too high a price to pay thank you very much mr president.

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week's top stories from our t.v. u.s. credit rating has been downgraded for the first time since one thousand nine hundred seventy first despite its last minute ceiling deal with averted default. this comes on top of wall street's worst performance in over two years and european debt troubles suggesting the share rollercoaster ride is likely to continue monday . egypt's former presidents on trial for mass killing and corruption but a weary public says the revolution is not over as the replacement regime is failing to meet demands. and just across the border in israel over a quarter of a million people have rallied against the government there demanding better living

conditions and say they're ready to do what it takes. you up to date you watch it r t from moscow. alone welcome to the latest on the wii sports update and here are the top stories. looking up twice former champions robin pollock pressure on the top four edged struggling spot right now one nil in the russian premier league. that's why they're champions manchester united come from two goals down to beat rivals manchester city three team in stoppage time to bring the community shield at wembley. and threes a charm world number three vera zvonareva aims to earn a title this year as she takes on. in that carry insurance open final. but first a football and twice former champions rubin have kept up the pressure on the top four clubs with a controversial one zero win at second bottom sponsor no trick in the russian

premier league remains and only under so i saw his people first start penalty phase best they get is he caused us to be going to save his clashes with a seventy second minute strike is fighting a wave of protests from the home side who insisted the striker tumbled the ball in the build up nevertheless the ravine to victory just a first level of points with goals placed underneath blotto i caught you one up against these things to. make you come out of going on back to spotlight a second half penalty and in the final game last night it's new manager josie cusato will be taking to keep up his impressive starts to clarke and his fourth waitstill four games because he's not staging take on the bottom side clear so that's a. call in the early kick off the boys came out to me when i was a lonely and proud when their for a match just once they night i must say i bet you opened thirteen minutes in i recollect during church lost it in a longer range rocket from

a sec piece and i am this i am car today but defeat for games. well i started a champions league humbled league leaders take on moscow to nail to cup the gap to the top just two points two goals within one second half minutes did all the damage alexander cocksure cough open after fifty four minutes with a pinpoint header. before and unmarked send off swiftly made it to know the team played by eagle rock in favor of his in the post defeat was only the second the season for taste was a nice and out and beaten nine games which the child especially praised his charges that counter-attacking style. ruth you think we've played see your screen many times the new the attacking dangers of the sea which soldiers moves and don't be so we made a decision to limit their streets and to defend detroit to catch the brain can. they have more possession we were the team that won than you so already face a father san francisco supporters but some of the fans will want to remember this

day for a very long time as a group of birthday boys and girls were given the perfect present the chance to walk out on to the pitch with thank you rise up again for. 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 and the sights of brits i read the announcement on says sky website and now both my sister and i are here to read the players out. the announcement sasha was talking about is the club still more country and 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 submit their kids' birth certificate to see a scar and they will get not china to leave it there physically or one of her games classroom or schools and women that told me that i could leave the player on to the ph i said yes trade away because he left his car and even to the cape is my

favorite. those lucky enough to be among the first eleven up against little birthday present which their friends will probably talk about for months after all it is a dream come true to the day your idol to such an important much like the one thousand c.s.k. and senate. 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. it's not the c.f. card last year that will probably soon be erased from their memories a dress suit for their parents but thinking the reminiscence of a special birthday present more than likely mean in their hearts for. scott mcclellan are to. why running a nanny scored twice including the stoppage time when as defending premier league champions lunch to night if came from tea. goes down to beat f.a. cup winners and fierce rivals manchester city three two and a thrilling community shield encounter at wembley but the dish will curtain raiser

to the new season three to be the last i will give united a psychological lift as they took the top flight title to number twenty city took the lead after thirty eight minutes joleon lescott hitting boss debutant goalkeeper they asked hands in first off stuff is done in jacko had enough space to run five hundred sixty seconds however united. a goal back soon after the restart and united were leveled within an hour ninety chicken keeper joe hart then deep into stoppage time hesitation by friends and company on the halfway line last night to run unchallenged round and complete a scintillating comeback three to. one elsewhere barcelona finished off their pre-season tour of north america with a two no win over mexican side problem erica i don't know if he does diving very often the first on which way through the first half and then in the final minute state plates are met and the second. range sixty eight thousand fans practice the cowboys stadium to watch this one basket and now heads back home base your own

sunday find the catalonia cop on cheese day. it's very good because it's now in russian verizon a rover is on course for her third title of the season the world number three came from a set down to beat honor advantage and reach the final of the mercury insurance open in california the twenty six year old who lost the first set i think came back to take the next two this is the ninth win in a run for the russian you see it real full during the political season on a rope the next place to go to advance getting the final out of the polls and also in three sets well rivals got to found herself trailing the german whose power saw her take a one set leave however capitulated in a second largely because she was feeling ill and then not surrounded with all three vomits however she did return. for the deciding said wear who has had a heavily struck shoulder. six for to take the match. now

in the meantime it was as extreme as it gets at the latest x. finds his event in poland as micah broke his leg to conceive the series lead to twice defending champion nate adams crashed and fractured his five bone injury you qualify on thursday as the region has been operated on since hope to be back in action for the end of the year the injury rule in the matter of next month's season finale in sydney well back at the city stadium the capacity crowd were treated to a drive by local ski jumping legend out of knowledge as the four time champ in the came to race in the next two years that correlate while back on two wheels eventual victor adams was surprised he actually won the event but the americans at phillips did while the judges so it was he in champagne corks in the end also securing a narrow or three point cushion that's all. funny too i saw detroit red

being center of that suit has won this year's karloff trophy ending alexander ovechkin five year reign they want to zero by russian newspaper soviet sports which recognizes the top russian player in the n.h.l. and r.t. caught up with that soup who spoke about life on and off the ice. and so the hard question sludge will so when will they have another drink system there i'm not there from last night not only in the inside team when the whole organization i'm not a working let's. build a list fifteen years might be more when it's a group of people who work hard just weren't drunk inside didn't feel like to be in the family business why everybody in it is more towards the days leading from here .

i'm still playing soccer i'm i would start to have a lot of other. things stored soit will sort of hiking like more and. this is my way when i'm drunk i just think in winter kind of late partly some of them going sideways with them stuck in the play in the hockey i didn't find the time for soccer and i might be talking. with some little abortifacient or from the god given is more than enough also a little bit cold for them even though my dude in the carrier they mean was just going through the whole thing i was listening to the guests this is like a miniature.

maybe i'm not strong enough to hold somebody or three greens because and so i was i'm be thinking about like final team it's all that's going on here together when you stop working up so i never stopped working and i have words but not in. it's a big secret and it's a being more like interest movie just post the number of people long old young to stop watching from the old man for. the fish train. rushing below. thing is something the movements of those like mos were the ones that never looked so different so now it's a little stumble for those with the focus on. the president in a small

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