it's maybe is already entering a new chapter. to be discord over closer european harmony france and germany a unified economic front to save the struggling the euro but investors are left unimpressed it made growth scribing to a halt across the euro zone. of the republic the caucasus is gearing up for her early presidential election on the twenty sixth of august the vote was called after president said day but gop she died following cancer surgery well a lot is at stake for any future leader with the region is still recovering from a long period of conflict with neighboring georgia a casita had 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's military aggression south set which is another caucasus republic well up next starkey talks to one of the presidential candidates prime minister sergey shabazz 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 is here with us today the upcoming election is the second presidential election after a pause recognition doesn't see both applause 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 for 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 this will 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 is 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 up cause your main competitor is the acting president how do you manage the country well 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 with concerns that the elections would be falsified and promised to fight if your victory would be taking from you hopeful are you ready to go. to pick a lection for does nothing but lying to our own people is the worst crime one could commit all of us here enough because you will do everything to never left out happen political tensions put the country on the brink of civil war in two thousand and four is it a threat today or yesterday if someone attempts to rig the ballot or pull some dirty tricks then of course it can be a threat if you will do what will your foreign policy priorities be. our priority strategic partner is russia and our foreign policy will focus on relations with russia in addition to this we keep working on getting older more distant countries to recognize us we're looking for partners for friendly states which are less dependent on nato's policy and the united states despite some quite

high pressure from the major powers with such states are at their this process continues and it will not stop if we are convinced that it 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 we'll 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 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 a 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 though 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. we are quite used to it by now and 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 to consider. the external threat to our security as a priority issue we have other top priority threats to do with now that goes for how far is georgia prepared to go to restore what it calls its target tauriel integrity question these are the roots of our conflict that lie in the fact that george is claiming our territory as long as they keep claiming it there is no way

to reach an agreement was 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 helped 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 the district residents are asking for is to speed up the process of recognizing their citizenship 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. so this there is a whole generation of people in a positive who survived two wars with georgia during the past twenty years how is it possible at all for these people to live peaceful lives is good 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 needs foreign investments but is it possible to attract capital to projects in the country when its legal and economic status is dealt with by some potential investors will now see 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 saltines olympic projects will move through with just the current stage we're already co-working on this project we're supplying the olympic construction sites with materials and there are a number of other projects which we are interested in participating in but 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 these in the context of the sochi olympic project. sergei shamba thank you for your time with us today.

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towns but they claim that security forces are protecting our dads who are terrorizing. the address here in the studio with all the latest sports and every maria sharapova looking sharp again she's got her game back she's through to the third round of the cincinnati masters on what was a good day really zero all around for the big names plus what was a bad night day for rubin in the champions league. welcome to the sport which is what is coming up to start the group being crushed with three one defeat to leon in the first leg of their champions league. believes the russian charge me victory at the cincinnati masters. great expectations.

runners up plan in their hopes of success on the swedish super coach for the new season. the first three being have it all to do if they want to reach the group stages of this season's champions league they lost three one away early on in the first leg of their playoff despite taking the lead a lot of media dune gave the russian side the perfect start scoring after just three minutes but shortly after the an equaliser was gone this very year then gave them a two one half time later for brian added another after the break else worst i'm grass drew one one was by the russian champion spotted by a solved copenhagen lost three one at home to check side pills and an f c twenty got a two two draw against portuguese giants benfica while arsenal defeated in a zero one zero at the emirates that despite missing cape players and having sold captain says fabregas to barcelona although with nathan stress they take a lot of key players. but a little bit we could have conceded four or five goals for

a team like ours everyone was talking about it were a sparseness assault no one two can do consideration. it's hasn't been easy. games to greet team like arsenal who could have lost my mind we were nervous at the start and confidence minute by minute. well said fabregas could make his debut for barcelona tonight in the spanish super cup again. the sides drew the first leg burn about leaving things evenly balanced for the return game at the nou camp bassett coach pep guardiola said his team would need to produce an extraordinary performance though to win the cup but was corry over whom he would pick for tonight's game given the burgeoning talent he's got squat. we have to manage a discount situation. we spoke about that. the players are huge players. but there are many many many games. they can understand i can imagine that. conference of meet up to the touring solution the

people you're going to that's why i don't believe disco where i didn't believe your displeasure to the tennis now and maria sharapova will be somewhat relieved today after early exits recent tournament in stamford and toronto she has made round three of the cincinnati masters the former world number one who was the four seed in ohio this week beat a strain and to see it early on in straight sets six one six three the score she rapped afterward saying despite a few ups and downs in the second set she was pleased with her performance while the now joins us live in the third round after a comprehensive win over lucy suffered over the chinese in good form here taking the first set six three and then the second six for the victory only taking an hour and twenty two minutes. while there are also first round matches going on russian gio. caroline kept both winning there is that although twelve seed and this is a public change of ease and losing to flavia pennetta and serena williams seem relieved

to get through her first round match against the unseeded checked to see how decker the former number one took the first set easily enough six three and a comfortable but then she led a match point slipped in the second set and ended up just winning that one on a tie break williams clearly glad at the end to taken it in straight sets. and there was a bit of revenge for roger federer in the men's draw he beat one martin del potro the man who beat him in the u.s. open final two years ago federer showing glimpses of his very best in the first set which he took six three and even though the second was tough for the world number three got a crucial break to win it seven five federer then heads into the last sixteen. so two is the right thomas although after just scraping the first set on a tie break against one monaco it looked far from certain whether he would win but the czech saying silenced any doubt is plowing through the next set six games to

love finishing off with an x. on match point to get past the argentine. i'm responding to the support of the home crowd was james blake they were eager for him to make up for andy roddick's early exit the day before and blake did just that defeating italy's bobby affinia less than an hour some fantastic four hands giving in the first set six four and a breeze through the second sixty his sizzling serve finishing things off break into round three. and other matches to russia's nuclear junk to make the second round he beat ukraine cygnus the navasky and next place last week spineless to montreal mardy fish however fellow russian. suffered a first round exit at the hands of michael over france. in other news the international olympic committee has said russia is making substantial progress in preparation for their first ever winter games while their medal hopes of also received a boost as south korean short track speed skating great sue says he will compete

for the host nation in sochi in three years time the triple olympic gold medalist in turin and multiple world champion hopes to acquire a russian passport in october the twenty five year old is currently far from his peak form after failing to qualify for the vancouver games last year but with his knee injury now properly healed on whom sue could be gunning for more glory with russia after dominating the sport of few years ago russia has yet to take a medal in any of the short track events. finally he was the first ice hockey coach to win both lympics and the world championships in the same year but now swedish legend bank all good stuff some faces another huge challenge this time on a club level after being given the task of guiding cage show runners. land to lift the cup in the fast approaching same. as the story. itself in the narrow margin that separates moments of glory for a moments of disappointment april twenty seventh this is a cinderella side

a blonde infused with new life where there are check coach. needed to the get go in cup finals where they were stuck just one step from the trophy bike a chill powerhouse so i want you life however on the eve of the fourth season the magician men are looking to become even stronger with their major reinforcement 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 simulated clear blue and yells ambitious expectations are as clear as daylight although gustafsson remains cautious you know it's tough to set a goal now we're going to win the championship course everybody wants to win a pretext not a realistic goal right now but maybe during the season we will feel that we could

be or should be up there so it's really tough. to set a goal right now however the fifty three year old has a precise understanding of what he wants his team to be when are we going to be like this is a pain in the ass for every team because we're going to be very active all the hard working team and of course with lot of skills players we have the best defense is the great often superior play an 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 i didn't definitely have the strength to play in that way with their frontline being the most impressive part of the team because biggest signing alexei kovalev is the strongest proof of that one thousand nine hundred ninety two olympic . and nineteen ninety four stanley cup winner has always been considered one of the gifted russian players in the n.h.l. the thirty eight year old superstar is no back to where he began and claims he

still has the passion to shine in the. one thing. i'm still you know i'm still healthy i'm still playing hockey i still got a job i'm still competing i'm still a fan of have a chance playing for. the crowd the noise and everything else that's nothing nothing about it and. while one of the other new signings. confessed it's far better to play with his star of kovalev skill of them against him news a legend i play with and. i was a young guy and. you know he was here he was really good and skating is really good and i'm happy to be on the same thing so the new season gets underway in three weeks time and it's a case of deja vu for a client who takes on reigning champions so a lot in a month will remove priests off last season's final robot r.t.

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