actions is a farce after the government says only it will decide whether to actually release the results it's claimed british officers have been involved in the forcible interrogation of prisoners overseas for years. now the republic of cars in the russian caucuses is gearing up for an early election following the death of its president stakes are high for any future leader as the region is still recovering from the conflict with neighboring georgia next we talked 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 sergey sean bell 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 a pause gained recognition what does it say about applause as a mortar 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 is done to make sure these elections are fair and conform to international standards. the observers reported that our previous election conformed with the standards of democracy and 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 parliament in order to make the election outcome even more reliable 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 presidential duties are performed by the parliament speaker all the ministries are working as usual you wish concerns. that elections would be falsified and promise to fight if your victory would be taking from you hopeful are you ready to go. to election fraud is nothing but lying to our own people it's the worst crime one could commit all of us here enough because you will do everything to never let that happen political tensions put the country on the brink of civil war in two thousand and four is that the threat today. if someone attempts to rig the ballot or pull some dirty tricks then of course you can be

a threat or you will what will your foreign policy priorities be one of our priorities strategic partner is russia and our foreign policy will focus on relations with russia in addition to this we keep working on getting the other 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 and despite some quite high pressure from the major powers such states are at their this process continues and it will not stop 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. we are highly interested in joining those international organizations that russia our strategic partner is a member of for instance such organizations as the shanghai cooperation

organization with this joint military program also you are a sec 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 talks with georgia possible. 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 considering the external threat to our security as a priority issue we have other top priority threats to deal with now that was how far is georgia prepared to go to restore what it calls its territorial integrity question 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 georgian refugees are allowed to return to the bordering district of golly are you prepared to let them return to their homes and so whom the capital of a policy of. this process has actually been completed those people who wanted to return did so well those who didn't are adapting to their lives that their new places of residence and 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 with 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 have been visiting towns and settlements in the bordering district of galilee during the election campaign and the main thing the districts were. events 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. and 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 is the good news or 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 and they're going to be observing the upcoming election 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 will not see as 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 when we were just at the current stage we are 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 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 and we are considering all this in the context of the sochi olympic project. sergei shamba thank you for your time with us today. takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event but the planet has time we don't. it's been going on for months twenty twenty five years and since there's been an eco terrorist before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country when the

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fifteen minutes next sport here on r.t. . hello thank you for joining me the wednesday often in sports update and here's a taste of what's coming up losing star come from a goal down to beat former russian champions rypien three one in france in the first leg of their champions league playoffs. maria marches on sure up about leads the russian charge into round three with an imperious victory at the cincinnati monsters. under great expectations paired show runners up atlanta this season's hopes of the current cup triumph may rival the swedish supercoach. but first a football and russian side remain have it all to do if they want to reach the group stages of this season's champions league because i'm so i conceded an early lead to lose three want french in the first leg of their qualifying playoff remain

enjoyed a dream start but the mere journey from them ahead of just three minutes but the odds were level seven minutes later to a team beaten go made our own goal from sullivan just before half time in geneva leon's seventy first let's try and get the french side victory go check the champions victorious those earning days even better with a three one away when the break you have see twenty and benfica shared a two two draw in the netherlands but a body soft and shrill grounds played at a one one draw in belarus via walcott a third minute stryfe gevalt in a one zero win over two days and at the emirates the gunners most players as well as selling themselves fabregas to barcelona without utilizing stressed bagels and i believe inside. what you probably know that we could have conceded four or five goals for a team like ours everyone was talking about their players arsenal sold you know want to come to a consideration when. it's hasn't been easy so link against a great team like arsenal we could have lost my man we were in. at the start then

we grew in confidence minute by minute. in the meantime says fabric ass could make a fairy tale debut for his home side barcelona than a camp this wednesday night in the second leg of the spanish say pick up against fierce rivals while madrid the size drew the first like to say at the bend about leaving the matter balance on the ice age boss a coach but guardiola says his team would need to produce an extraordinary performance though to win the cup but he was coy over him he would take for the big game given the burgeoning talent he has in his body. we have to manage this kind of situation of decision we spoke about that. they are the players a huge players. but there are many many many games. i can understand i can imagine that every press conference of me after the training session the people the are going to that's why i don't play why i didn't play

a display or. tennis now and former world number one maria sharapova has stormed into the third round of the cincinnati open with an imperious display in her first match against former compadre anastasio don't have a share up of the is seeded fourth in ohio and have receded by into the second round but she took just over an hour to knock out her astray an opponent's trap of converting the first of her three much points to wrap it up six one six three. they were also first round not just going on russian is not good but they're over and maria kirilenko has both won there is still a twelve seed anastasio probably chunk of that is out losing to the f.a. that's a only loss arena williams was feeling the toll of last week's title winning run in toronto the american was clearly relieved to have got through her opener against lesser known czech lucy. before but world number one took the first set easily enough six three and she was looking comfortable but then she let match point slip in the second set ended up edging it in time break. while french open champion

ali is through to the last sixteen the chinese start was in great form against new c. of the czech republic gnarly was equally impressive from the baseline and at the net all nerves got the better of the crucial moments and she returned the ball into the nets to lose it six three six four in a match that lasted less than an hour and a half. under there was a recent event for roger federer in the men's draw at the swiss master blitzing argentina's juan martin del potro man who beat him in the us 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 the three sealed a crucial late great to sew it out seven five i did then heads to the last sixteen . for him is james blake the partisan home crowd were eager for him to make up for andy roddick's early exit the day before and blake did just that if you think this was funny in less than an hour. fantastic four hands gave him the first set six for

increased to the second six to his sizzling so finishing things off. the surge around. times joining him as number eight seed thomas byrd if he scraped the first set on a tirade against one one i would go and look far from certain with a check would win but he soon silenced any doubters ploughing through the net next set six games to love and finishing off with an a so much point was the origin time . while it was an easy first round match for informal joe wilfried tsonga who returned to the top ten in the a.t.p. rankings on monday and lived up to his new status summer stretched crotch marin church to the limit in a blistering six four six three when it's a french word hunt for his first try to do most tonight is to go out of wimbledon in the semifinals so we ventured a champion just a search last month. while rather stepanek reached

a big landmark the thirty two year old czech notched up win number three hundred on the tour and making the victory even sweeter is the fact he had to endure an impressive twenty one aces local giant john isner seven five five seven seven six the final school. and another much instructions that i've ever think of made it into the second round he beat ukraine set against the gulf state and next phase last week finalist in montreal the fish however fellow russian recall usually suffered a first round exit at times like a lot of france. now the international olympic committee has said russia is making substantial progress in preparation for their first ever winter games while their medal hopes have also received a boost as south korean short track speed skating greats are consumed says he'll compete for the host nation in sochi in three years time the triple in big gold medalist in chewin and multiple world championships to acquire a russian passport in october the twenty five year old is called a fall from things played in after failing to qualify for the. on to the games last

year but with his knee injury now probably haleakala shunsuke could be getting more going in russia after donations for fifteen years ago russia is yet to take a medal in any of the short track events. finally he was the first ice hockey coach to win both the olympics and world championships in the same here but now swedish legend bent gustafsson faces another huge challenge this time on a top level after being given the task of guarding us up atlanta to garren cup glory in a fast approaching season that onion reports. was itself in a narrow margin that separates moments of glory for a moment of disappointment april twenty seventh this is soon drew aside and infused with new like what their coach. made it to the good mornings where they were stuck just one step from the trophy like 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 similarly clad blue and yellow ambitious expectations are as clear as daylight although gustafsson remains cautious and it's tough to set a goal now we're going to win the championship i mean of course everybody wants to win it but that's not a realistic goal right now but maybe during the season we will feel that you know we're we could be a should be out 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 and are 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 and of course with skills players we have the best defense is the great often superior player novus are so much 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 client 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 champion and nineteen ninety four stanley cup winner has always been considered one of the moves gifted russian players 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 a job and i'm still competing i'm still a fan of you know have a chance to play in front of people and enjoy that crowd the noise and everything

else that's not a bad thing about it and. while one of apply. other new signings branco devoid of each confessed it's far better to play with a star of carlos caliber then 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 great hands and skating is really good and i'm happy to be on the same thing so the new season gets under way in three weeks' time and it's a case of deja vu for bryant to take on reigning champions so i bought in a month wooing would please off last season's final robot r.t. . and that's all the sports news for his palace and i'll be back with another update in just under two hours the weather the news headlines are next.

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