kazuya in the caucasus is gearing up for an early presidential election on the twenty sixth of august the vote was called after president thirty about died following cancer surgery a lot is at stake for any future leader with the region still recovering from a long period of conflict with neighboring georgia because he had been fighting for its independence from tbilisi since the early ninety's it was recognized by a number of other states following torture military action on. another. next start talks to one of the presidential candidates prime minister. about the talent this country faces. we are in the republic of a cause here where preparations are under way for the august presidential election . 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

a pause recognition doesn't see both applause as a more 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 the 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 so they came from different countries including some european states who's been invited 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 central election committee what else is done to make sure these elections are fair and conform to internet. standards. we observers reported that

our previous election conforms with the standards of democracy we've been to that the election procedure was well thought through although there has been some feedback from the candidates on what could be improved and it has been considered by parliament in order to make the election outcome even more reliable than 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 would concerns that the elections would be falsified and promised to fight if your victory would be taking from you how far are you ready to go. lection full it is nothing but lying to our own people if the worst crime one could commit all of us here not 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 is that the threat today

or yesterday of someone attempts to rig the ballot or pull some dirty tricks then of course it could 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 but 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 as 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 each even 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 is that 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 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 you 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. 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 deal with now that goes for 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 it 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 jew 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 have 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 used 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 rather just to all international processes. so 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 our cars 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 economics that is dealt with by some potential investors will not 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 nomura which just for the current stage were already co-working on this project

were supplying the olympic construction sites with 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 report sergei shamba thank you for your time with us today.

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hello there thanks for joining me and this is what is coming up over the next few minutes bad start to being crushed to a three one defeat to lay on the first leg of their champions in the playoffs. while maria sharapova lead to the russian charge with victory at the cincinnati masters. and great expectations runners up atlanta pinned their hopes of success on the swedish super coach for the new season. but first rubin have it all to do if they want to reach the group stages of this season's champions league they lost three one away at least on the first leg of their playoff despite taking the lead. gave the russian stars the perfect start scoring after just three minutes but shortly after that leon equaliser his goal missed very as and gave them a two one half time before bryant added another after the break elsewhere drew one one with better russian champions but he bought a soft copenhagen lost three one at home to side pills and an f.c.

twente he got a two two draw against portuguese giants then three killed while arsenal defeated naisi one nil at the emirates that despite missing key players and having sold out incest fabregas barcelona alluding naisi stress they too had a weakened side. by a little bit but we could have conceded four or five goals for a team works everyone was talking about it were a sparseness old you know want to come to consideration. it's hasn't been easy. games to greet team like arsenal we could have lost by more we were nervous at the start in confidence minute by minute as. well c'est fabregas could make his debut for barcelona tonight in the spanish super cup again dritte this side through the first leg at the bernabeu to two living things even the balance for their. the end game at the nou camp barcelona coach pep guardiola said his team would need to produce an extraordinary performance dive to win the cup but was caught over who he

would pick for tonight's game given the burgeoning talent he's got in the squad. we have to manage discount situation of the season who has spoken word that. the players are huge players. but there are many many many games. i can understand i can imagine that every conference of me after the training session the people the i was going to that's why i don't play why i didn't play a display or. to the tennis now maria sharapova will be somewhat relieved today after early exits that recent tournament in stamford in toronto she's made ran three of the cincinnati masters the former world number one who just four seed in ohio this week beat australia and to see it early on of eight in straight sets six one six three the score afterward saying despite a few ups and downs in the second set she was pleased with her performance. in our joint in the last sixteen after

a comprehensive win over least she suffered over the chinese in great form taking the first set six three and then the second fix for the victory only taking an hour and twenty two minutes. of first round matches going on. mary carey lanka both winning there is also told both twelve cs and the c. a public. losing to flavia pennetta answering that williams seemed relieved to get through her first round match against the n.c.a.a. to check to see how to dhaka the former number one took the first set easily enough six three i look comfortable to you but then she had a match points in the second set and ended up just winning it on the tiebreaker williams clearly glad to take in straight sets. and there was a bit of revenge for roger federer in the men's martin del potro the man who beat him in the u.s. open final two years ago by federation glimpses of his very best in the set she

took six three and even though the second was tougher the world number three got a crucial break to win seven five better then heads into the last sixteen. also there is number eight seed thomas birdie. scraping the first set on the tie break against one monaco it looked far from certain whether he would win but the czech sing song with any data is plowing through the next set six games to love and finishing off with a nice on match point to get past yards. 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 fabio if any in less than an hour from fantastic four hands giving him the first set six four and he brings three of the second six to his finishing things off but it is a third round. of the matches going on for russia's new guy that would make the

second round he. called skate and next place last week's finalist in montreal mardy fish however fellow russian usually suffered a first round exit at the hands of michael low draw from. another news the international olympic committee had said russia is making substantial progress in preparations for their first ever winter games while their medal hopes have also received a boost to south korea short track speed skating and sue says he has been competing for the host nations in sochi in three years time the triple olympic gold medalist most of all world champion hopes to acquire a russian passport in october the twenty five year old is currently far from his peak though after failing to qualify for the bank games last year but with his knee injury the property field. could be gunning for more glory with russia after dominating the sport a few years ago russia has yet to take a medal in any of the short track vents and finally he was the first ice hockey

coach to win both the olympics and the world championships in the same year but now swedish legend the funny face is another huge challenge this time on a club level after being given the task of guiding runners up so if the good guys are in cup and the fast approaching season daniel has the story. it's often a narrow margin that separates moments of glory for moments of disappointment april twenty seventh this is the same drill site that launched infused with new life by derek coolidge. made it to the good going cup finals where they were stuck just one step from the trophy like a child by the house so i want you life on the eve of the fourth season the magician and a 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 similarly clad blue and yellow ambitious expectations are is clear as daylight old goose the sun 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 or should be up there so it's sort of tough. to set a goal right now or whatever the fifty three year old has a precise understanding of what he wants his team to be and are going to be a kid 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 lot of skills players we have the best defense is the great often superior play in europe us a 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 and blunt definitely have

the strength to play in that way with their frontline being the most impressive part of the team the 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 he. it russian players even a chill with 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 not i'm still all three and i'm still healthy i'm still playing hockey i still got the job and i'm still competing i'm still a fan of you know have a chance playing front of people and enjoy that the crowd the noise and everything else that's not there's nothing better than. one of at once other new signings drunkards avoid each confessed it's far better to play with a star of carlos caliber than against him is

a legit ladies i play with and against him in the n.h.l. i was a young guy and you know he was here he has a really good great 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 brands to take on reigning champions so i bought in a month wooing would please overflow season's final about archie. and not wraps up this fall for money coming up next hey i'm not. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. plans.

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