two thirty am in moscow these are your r.t. headlines the u.s. is stripped of its prized aaa credit rating for the first time triggering fears of another global financial crisis as investors ready for a black monday the downgrade comes despite the white house breaking all last minute deal with the republicans to raise the country's debt ceiling. in the eurozone debt woes provoke a turbulent with european central bankers agreeing to buy italian and spanish bonds to stop the rot brussels is worried if italy's economy fails it would be too big

for rescue and could drag the whole currency down with it. plus demonstrations in israel as a quarter of a million protesters demand the government drive down the cost of living or go prime minister netanyahu has set up a team to look at reducing taxes but the opposition says he's trying to end the protests not deal with the issues. and finally we go to the republic of south ossetia marking three years since the conflict with georgia devastated the region but finally brought recognition to morial service is being held in the capital city hall for the victims of the. on the eve of that anniversary president bit of spoke with r t along with a home lost me radio in georgian t.v. channel p k about why he took action in the legacy of that decision the interview coming up this. that's a question that mr president thank you very much for agreeing to answer our questions then it is clear that 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 could not be allowed to pile over into an armed conflict and i reiterate that this feeling was present both in moscow and into d.c. the task 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 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 an absolute 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 jordan territory that's acceptable for all the parties in agent

to go c.h. and naturally couples but this is what i told her word for word and his response was spot of course we are ready to cooperate and i also have this impression that we could at least try to find some creative solutions 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 daughter counterpart. but at the same time georgia was getting more and more visits from envoys from across the ocean as they would be double speak ships 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 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 a visit by the u.s. secretary of state was meant to urge president saakashvili. do you think the united states was deliberately encouraging georgia to pursue a conflict with the most no i don't think so the united states is a very large country headed by pragmatic people but in politics connotations a nuance is a very important as it is i don't believe the americans had heard georgia's president to invade but i do believe that there were certain subtleties and certain hints made statements like it's time to restore constitutional order or it's time to be more assertive which could effectively feed saakashvili apparent hopes that the americans would back him in any conflict that they would stand up for georgia and even go to war with the russians therefore i do see a relation between ms rice's visit to georgia and the events that followed just as i see a link in my further discussions with the u.s. president our phone conversation and then also in the meetings at over one more

question in here a but they still believe that well russia is the initial response was legitimate self-defense the further actions of the russian troops were excessive why wasn't this an option to push the georgian forces out of the city yeah and stop at that point to change. course later. you know sophie people are free to make speculation like that and i have come across them 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 or 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 with a resume the same offensive with really. vigor the world letting them do vastly 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. and the russian federation because as you know it's all mixed there. isn't it. mr president you were referring to the recent horseman's operation and i keep thinking back to today libya and syria when do you consider it acceptable to stand up for what's your rationale for deciding whether it's ok to launch a piece of it wasn't me she 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 about iran and russia's stance on today's prices ocean secular you see alexey it's always case by case or 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 us that this was condemned by the entire international community including russia which is we're not taking any part

in a 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 border with what should have been about pulling the country back together for them rather than merely restoring constitutional order reza 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 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 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 the states i see what about 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. all of us practical politician should keep

a close watch on the developments in that country but it 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 great 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 muslim state should he fail to do that he's in for a grim faced with and we will eventually have to take some decisions on syria to show naturally we've been watching evelyn's very attentively the situation is changing and so we're really active on the minutes that's that's that's that's 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 of south the state his de facto government are good at fighting and seeing value had claimed two thousand lives that was the number that was there now that later on russia's investigative committee estimates of the casualties are no more than one hundred fifty people meanwhile it was this alleged toll of ten thousand that 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 little. league game itself when i have explained by rationale for taking a decision on the numerous occasions you see i didn't go get any figures for his nation this isn't exactly a case for mathematics in war no what's more let me remind you what was going on where is the war on the night between. the seventh and it all gets 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 be honest my initial reaction was completely down that i told the minister shaul said we should check this is really completely out of his mind maybe it's just a provocative act and maybe he stress test earlier saturday and they're trying to send us some kind of message and i will later you know minister reported to me that he this is no bluff they've unleashed an elaborate artillery barrage and they're using brad rocket launches an awful i said all right i'll wait for another update in order 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 or no figures have been announced at that point a good little mr president you said you gave the order to return fire it was a bit over the operation continued after there were weapons rolled in and the conflict turns into an almost war could you tell us about how you made

a decision to continue the operation and another question that all our colleagues would like answered you who calls him first did you call prime minister putin in b.g. first or did he call you but yeah i did you know the prime minister called me to move on you can as well listen so the first time i contacted him about a conference just was about twenty four hours after it had broken out that one of us involved was already ablaze what mr putin 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 alliance i do understand it's not very appropriate to discuss matters like this by cell thirty so you know 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 and 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 into the w t o w c o wants russian the problem as far as we understand is that georgia is blocking russia's accession and is the only country that's not in favor of russia joining the w.t.f. is what is being talked about georgia agreeing to agree to russia's expression if russia lifts its in bargnani important georgian goods will make some other concessions is russia willing to pass a for it and what is your take on the prospects of russia joining w.t. and. what that was very well put to one but i don't want to do is barter for it that would be a moral moderate 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 governor charter trade and trade preferences custom regimes are

we ready to discuss at all the import of wine and mineral water we will discuss some of things that are the problem is something else you know in essence our colleagues in georgia trying to force us 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 russian opposition on this is clear if you want information about the traffic of goods including transit and south etc we will provide it by our modern electronic database i have agreed to the suggestion is made by the swiss president regarding this and i recently discussed it with president obama what we're ready to implement the model that switzerland has proposed to us however if they try to change current. it's a cold reality yes that serving as a prerequisite for russian w t o a session we won't fall for that. essentially is not too high a price to pay thank you very much mr president. more

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seeing from the streets of canada after. shanghai for asians around the day. reviewing the week's top stories on our t.v. u.s. stripped of its prized aaa credit rating for the first time triggering fears of another global financial crisis as investors are ready for a monday the downgrade comes despite the white house making a last minute deal with republicans to raise the country's debt ceiling. in the eurozone debt rose provoke a turbulent week with european central bankers agreeing to buy italian and spanish bonds now to stop the rot brussels is worried if it italy's economy fails it would be too big to rescue and contrived to hold her and see down. and fervor spreads as a part of

a million israeli protesters demand the government drive down the cost of living or go prime minister netanyahu sets up a team to look at reducing taxes but the opposition says he's trying to end the protests and i deal with the issue. finally we go to the republic of south has said here marking three years since the conflict with georgia it devastated the region but finally brought about a recognition morial services are being held in the capital synthol for the victims of the con. stay with us here on our sports up next. hello and welcome to the sports news and these are the headlines. game of the season spartak moscow missed the penalty but come from two goals down and made a flood like failure to win four two at ten months in a russian premier league thriller. plus that's why they're champions manchester

united come from two goals down to beat rivals manchester city three two in stoppage time to win the community shield at wembley. our lives to reach russia come back from three goals down to beat switzerland six call to be crowned european beach soccer champions. refers to conventional football and an unconventional much having missed a penalty and endured a break for a flop like failure spotlight moscow came back from two goals down two with thought see that their act and a pulsating match in the russian premier league the home side so the first half least through after that off as they normally see as netted a rebounding penalty to make it to no answer just before. mr penalties thanks to nil it stayed there three minutes after the interval the next sas lounge and i ever saw the reds and pulled a goal back from the penalty spot before our eight needed to tee off the seventy six minutes but then the lights went out of the new stadium and it took fifteen

minutes to get them cautioned the realest and when the game resumed and valid it netted a goal reached deep into injury time he was spot on the win forty yes in complete contrast it was an uneventful game for a lot of motifs who were held to a goal of the struggles i've gotten so at least of myself. paul meanwhile twice former champions rubin kept up the pressure on the top four with a controversial one their win at second bottoms on no to reinvent only under the silver star his feeble first half penalty tonight was to to go. but he didn't think it saved his blushes with a seventy second late strike despite a wave of protests from the home side who insisted the strike out how do people in the build up so we're going to retreat and stay focused. while in the early kick off the new boys that i can write easy to know when is it lonely out there for a match winners for once a ninth grade you opened thirty minutes and. in the second half i think you lost it in a long range cracker from

a set piece to condemn his full size and they're thirty feet in four games. one on saturday champions and eight home gold leaders taste garlasco to nail to get the gap to the top three just two points two goals within one second half minutes did the damage in the persian gulf and fifty four minutes with a pinpoint header before an unmarked and it's in that new course it's within me to know it's unclear eagle acking say if it is near post the defeat was only the second this season that is sky was neat now unbeaten in nine games. so i read it so far this season for it's ayscough 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 onto the pitch with their heroes scott mcclellan has more. 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 site supports i read the announcement and say the sky website going down both my sister and i are here to read the players out. the announcement sasha was talking places the clubs premal company in india 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 the sky and they will get an opportunity to leave it at their feet or clear one of their home games that come from the schools were made that told me they could leave the player on to the pitch and said yes straight away because he loves his car and eager to kape is my favorite. those lucky enough to be among the first eleven up against a little birthday present which the friends will probably talk about for months after all it is a dream come true to the day you're idle to such an important much like that one can see and senate that might. have been

a fan of say scott ever since i can remember myself and i would not miss this chance for anything something like this may never happen again but. it's not the see i start most will probably see the rest of my benefits address you for their periods but thinking in the reminiscence of a special birthday present more than likely made in their hearts for. scott mcclellan are to. fall over in england not he scored twice including the stoppage time winner is defending premier league champions munched united came from two goals down to beat f.a. cup winners and fierce rivals manchester city three c and win a thrilling community shield encounter at wembley the additional curtain raiser to the new season proved to be a thriller the luck of united a psychological that if they are a top flight title number twenty city took the lead out of thirty eight minutes joleon lescott had a five day meet up goalkeeper babie the head and. first off the first time i have enough space to run and find i'm sixty seconds however i ask you not it's chris

smalling volley to go back soon out of the restart and united manager within an hour none of the chipping keep such a hot ben diffident in stoppage time hesitation by vincent kompany to hotwire line last night to run unchallenged ground hot and complete a scintillating comeback. meanwhile russia has won the euro league super funny in beach sawka for the second time in history up to coming from three goals down to its wits and six four and also as marcos reference of. russia has already established itself as one of the world's beach soccer powerhouses alongside giants like brazil stay in gorgie goal to name just a few a euro league super final held in moscow for the first time by the way proved once again that they seem is a force to be reckoned with from the world cup however the home team started the super final slow and that's put it lightly the swiss side who are the your league runners up in last year's tournament managed to upset the sold out improvise be sure read up three times by the end of the first period their star player and look

at what he must go striker deion stankovic scored a brace and his teammate borrero added the third she didn't get it it was obvious that we weren't in top form in the opening minutes believe we could hold on to the bull and eventually conceded some pretty easy gills thanks to ok which we were by far more come from the second period on wards i think and achieved a result about the russians finally brought some joy to the fans in the first minute of the second period after scoring a penalty switzerland replied with a goal of their own and minutes later but despite the disadvantage their home side managed to build on that first goal and equalized at the end of the second period it's not easy to play here against three thousand people and also one strong russian team. that i think they make a good case but also you know russia is one of the best team in the world. that. you have to learn from this to this game. the story made it for four until the clock showed three minutes before the final whistle and it was

a band of russia to believe for the first time in the super final through the neatly she should two minutes later the same player with a girlie crown beyond any doubt for russia after scoring his second for the see russia have become the champions of the continent for the second sign while switzerland have lost the euro league super final for the second time in a row however both teams to get a chance to square off once again at the upcoming world cup in september the twenty one days soccer season baseball from over the top nations are numbered at all to the benefit states compete for the all corners that the soccer world cup where russia is considered to be one of the favorite things wrong call for an arctic moscow final twice ok on detroit red wing center battle that so has one vicious column of tracing the waters given by russian newspaper soviets the sport which recognizes the russian player in the n.h.l. and out he spoke with that soon but life on turn off the ice.

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