already entering a new chapter. and as the syrian army reportedly far's that thousands of anti-government protesters across the country some syrians say they are glad to see tanks moving into their towns they claim that security forces are protecting them from armed gangs who work terrorizing residents. of the republic of the caucasus is gearing up for an early presidential election on the twenty sixth of august where the vote was called after president said died following cancer surgery a lot is at stake now for any future leader with the region still recovering from a long period of conflict with neighboring georgia because you have been a fighting for its independence from tbilisi since the early ninety's it was recognized by russia and a number of other states following georgia military aggression on south ossetia which is another caucasus republic well next start he talks to one of the presidential candidates prime minister sergei shamba about the challenges his

country faces. we are in the republic of a pause here where perpetrations are underway for the august presidential election . is the country's prime minister and also one of the candidates and he's here with us today the upcoming election is the second presidential election after games recognition what does it say about a pause as more than an independent state. we have been an independent state for a longer time than we've been recognized so this is in fact already our fourth election democracy is working its way into our society and so each time elections get more democratic the public gets involved more actively and so we expect this time it will be a democratic process how many international observers will be there at the elections and we'll have a number of international observers no doubt we had quite a lot of them during the previous election and they came from different countries

including some european states who's been invited and who has agreed to come and visit and we'll definitely have representatives from those countries that recognize us as well as officials from multiple international organizations political parties including those from europe they will receive invitations from our parliament and our central election committee what else was done to make sure these elections are fair and conform to international standards. we observers reported that our previous election conforms with the standards of democracy remember that the election procedure was well thought through although there has been some feedback from the candidates on what could be improved and that has been considered by the parliament in order to make the election outcome even more reliable with what the prime minister of cause your main competitor is the acting president how do you manage the country. the governmental mechanisms are working and currently in accordance with our constitution the presidential duties are performed by the parliament speaker all the ministries are working as usual you would. and that

elections would be falsified and promise to fight if your victory would be taking from you hope for are you ready to go. alexion ford is nothing but lying to our own people if the worst crime one could commit all of us here enough because you will do everything to never locked out happen political tensions put the country on the brink of civil war in two thousand and four isn't a threat today. if someone attempts to rig the ballot or pull some dirty tricks but of course it can be a threat if you will do what will your foreign policy priorities be known as our priority strategic partner is russia and our foreign policy will focus on relations with russia but in addition to this we keep working on getting more the more distant countries to recognize us we're looking for partners for friendly states which are less dependent on nato as policy and the united states under spite some quite high pressure from the major powers that be such states are at their

this process continues and it will not stop if we are convinced that the cheating further international recognition will to a significant extent depend on how we keep on developing as a country on our progress in home affairs and what example will be setting. is joining russia an option any time in the future. if we are highly interested in joining those international organizations that russia is our strategic partner is a member of the of for instance such organizations as the shanghai cooperation organization with this joint military program also. and the customs union and many other organizations we'd like to participate wherever possible that's our interest but we are not talking about becoming part of another state and neither is russia thinking in such terms more talks with georgia possible move. in a certain format the talks with georgia are still ongoing if we think of the geneva talks as for direct dialogue i think it is possible and will be necessary in future

. i know right at the moment the prospects to reach a consensus on this matter appear quite negative with first of all the georgian authorities have themselves restricted the possibilities for dialogue by adopting the law on occupied territories this doesn't leave any chance for maintaining a dialogue is there fear of another georgian aggression. and we are quite used to it by now we have had to deal with a number of acts of aggression but now that we have a strategic partnership with russia which defines our mutual obligations it gives us reliable security guarantees and our society has stopped considering the external threat to our security as a priority issue we have other top priority threats to deal with now that goes from how far is georgia prepared to go to restore what it calls its territorial integrity. these are the roots of our conflict that lie in the fact that georgia is claiming our territory as long as they keep claiming it there is no way to reach an agreement with more georgian refugees are allowed to return to the bordering

district of gali are you prepared to let them return to their homes and so whom the capital of a policy at the peace process has actually been completed for those people who wanted to return did so well those who didn't are adapting to their lives at their new places of residence they should be receiving help both from the international community and georgian authorities because the problem of refugees is a two way problem which should be addressed everywhere via a combined two way approach those people who can be brought back home should be helped to return and that's what we did in jew course well those who couldn't return should be helped find accommodation where they ended up living there those people who can be brought back home should be helps to return and that's what we did in due time well those who couldn't return should be helps to accommodate where they ended up living. those people who have been returned home want to be citizens with full rights we've been visiting towns and settlements in the bordering district of galilee during the election campaign and the main thing that. residents

are asking for is to speed up the process of recognizing their citizenship and providing them with passports and that's what we want to help them become our country's citizens with full rights under just to all international processes to this there is a whole generation of people in a pause there who survived two wars with georgia during the past twenty years how is it possible at all for these people to live peaceful lives it's good to know if we speak of youth organizations we have twelve such groups in abkhazia and two of them are participating in the fair election campaign their position is neutral but they're going to be observing the upcoming elections and ten other organizations have gone public with their decision to support my candidacy because it needs foreign investments but is it possible to attract capital to projects in the country when its legal and economic status is doubted by some potential investors in the us is that we have a law that provides guarantees to businesses and international investors and we are

working on other additional mechanisms to provide security guarantees for their business we're very interested in us and our laws will be increasing the extent of security guarantees for their business we do want to attract more investors the russian city of sochi is very close to cause is there any profit for a pause in the fact that so much is being invested into solti's olympic projects where we were just the current stage were already co-working on this project were supplying the olympic construction sites with enormous materials and there are a number of other projects which we are interested in participating in and it is possible we will at any rate we're already receiving support on some communications projects as you know we've obtained a loan to restore our railway system and we've signed a letter of intent pertaining to the reconstruction of our airport is that we are considering all this in the context of the sochi olympic project. sergei shamba thank you for your time with us today.

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towns they claim that security forces are protected by armed gaps were terrorizing residents. next is the sports news of andrew so are there things going to tell us in cincinnati. federal among the first to reach the last sixteen of the masters tournament. last night champions league football stuff the. welcome to the sports these are the headlines. being crushed through a three one defeat in the first leg of their champions league. wall. the russian chargers victory at the cincinnati masters. great expectations runners up. hopes of success on sweeping. all the stuff. but first rubin have it all to do

they want to reach the group stages of this season's champions league their last three one away at leon and the first leg of their playoff despite taking the lead doesn't mean they are giving the russian side the perfect start scoring just after three minutes but shortly after the end equalized from goal miss valliere then gave them a two one half time leave before bryant added another after the break elsewhere drew one one with better russian champions batting brought us off copenhagen last three one at home to check side pillars and an f c twenty got a two two draw against portuguese giants benfica there while arsenal defeated in a z one nil at the emirates that despite missing key players and having sold past incest fabregas to barcelona or the stress they too have lost key players. we could have conceded four or five goals for a team like car works everyone was talking about arsenal salt no one to come to

consideration. hasn't been easy. gainst a great team like arsenal who could have lost by more we were nervous at the start in confidence minute by minute. barcelona's new signing says fabregas could make a stable tonight in the spanish super cup against reale madrid this side street the first leg at the bernabeu to two and even things evenly balanced for the return game at the nou camp. guardiola said his team would need to produce an extraordinary performance to win the cup but we scored over who he would pick for tonight's game given the burgeoning talent in the squad and redesigning. we have to manage discount situation of who we are spoke about. the. players are huge players. but there are many many many games. they can understand i can imagine that every conference of me after the training session the

people the are going to that's why i don't plea why i didn't play the displayer. to the tennis now maria sharapova will be somewhat relieved today after early exits that recent tournament in stanford and toronto she has made round three of the cincinnati masters the former world number one who's the four seed in ohio this week be destroyed and to see what i'll be on of in straight sets six one six three the score she rapped about afterward saying despite a few ups and downs in the second set she was pleased with her performance while we now are joined in the third round after a comprehensive win over lucie safarova the chinese in great form taking the first set six three and then the second six four with a victory only taking an hour and twenty two minutes. now there are also first round matches going on russian gio not even care olenka both winning their although twelve seed and to see

a public. the using to flavia pennetta answering the williams. was obviously relieved to get through her first round match against the n.c.d. czech lucy how did the former number one took the first set easily enough six three . and look pretty comfortable but then she let a match point slip in the second set and ended just winning it on the toy breaks williams clearly grabbed to take it straight say. there was good range for roger federer in the men's draw he being one martin del potro the man who beat him in the usa final two years ago federal showing glimpses of his very best in the first set which took six three and even though the second most tough of the world number three got a crucial break to win it seven five federer then heads into the last sixteen. also the number eight seed. after just scraping the first set on

a tie break against monaco it looked far from certain whether he would win but the czechs soon silenced any doubters ploughing through the next six games finishing off with an ace on match point to start desperately. now responding to the support of the home crowd which james blake they were eager for him to make up for. the day before and blake did just that defeating. less than an hour from fantastic four hands giving him the first set six four and he brays through the second sixteen he's finishing things off like in texas. the second round he beat ukraine cigarettes the hole to ski and next place last week's finalist in montreal madi however by the russian mikhail youzhny suffered a first round exit at the hands of michael frost it's. not a matter of the international olympic committee has said russia is making substantial progress in preparation for the winter games while their medal hopes of

also received a boost as south korean short track speed skating great. says he will compete for the nation. in three years time by the triple olympic gold medalist multiple world champion to acquire a russian passport in october the twenty five year old is currently fall from his pace but after failing to qualify for the vancouver games last year were these knee injury not properly healed and who could be gunning for more glory with russia after dominating the sport a few years ago russia has yet to take a medal and he's been short track. finally he was the first ice hockey coach to win both the lympics and the world championships in the same year but now swedish legend bang stuff soon faces another huge challenge this time on a club level after being given the task of guiding his up land to lift the guarin cup fast approaching season but that done. it's often

a narrow margin that separates moments of glory or moments of disappointment april twenty seventh this is the same drill site that blanks infused with new like by derek coolidge. made it to the good during cup finals where they were stuck just one step from the trophy like a chill boat house so i want you life on the eve of the fourth season the magician men are looking to become even stronger. with their major reinforcements coming from sweden new head coach bent gustavsson led his country to olympic gold in turin two thousand and six and world championship victory in the same year this isn't the simulate clad blue and yellow as ambitious expectations are is clear as daylight older gustavsson remains cautious it's tough to set a goal now we're going to win the championship and of course everybody wants to win

it but that's not a realistic goal right now but maybe during the season when you fail that you know we're we could be a should be up there so it's sort of tough. to set a goal right now whatever the fifty three year old has a precise understanding of what he wants his team to be going to be like kids but there's a pain in the ass for every team because we're going to be very active out there and hard working team on the course with a lot of skills players we have the best defense is the great often superior play and officer song is tougher and we have the park to stop the other team to score so we take the park and we keep it for sixty minutes and i'm happy a blunt definitely have the strength to play in that way with their frontline being than most impressive part of the team that close biggest signing alexei kovalev is the strongest proof of that one thousand nine hundred ninety two olympic champ dan and nine hundred ninety four stanley cup winner has always been considered one of

the moves good. it wash and clears even the chill is thirty eight year old superstar is no back to where she began and claims he still has the passion to shine in the. one thing what makes me happy that i'm still you know i'm still healthy i'm still playing hockey i still got the job and i'm still competing i'm still in front of you know have a chance to play in front of people and enjoy that the crowd the noise and everything else that's not there nothing about it and. while one of other new signings brunker devoid of each confessed it's far better to play with the star of kovalev spellberg than against him is a legend i play with and against him in the n.h.l. i was a young guy and. you know he was here he has really good hands and skating is really good and i'm happy to be on the same thing so the new season gets underway in three weeks to him and it's a case of deja vu for bonds to take on reigning champions so i bought. the ring

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