they release the results it's claimed british officers have been involved in the forcible interrogation of prisoners overseas for years. now the republic because the russian caucus 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 conflict with neighboring georgia next we'll talk 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 preparations are under way 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 a pause in 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 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. 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. the prime minister of 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 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 promise to fight if your victory would be taking from you hopeful are you ready to go. alexion for it 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 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 it can be a threat to world 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 the other 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 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 we. is joint military program also

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 for 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 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 considering the external threat to our security as a priority issue we have other top priority threats to deal with now because 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 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 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 at 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 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 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 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 but it's 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 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 they're going to be observing the upcoming elections 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 it's legal and economic status is dealt with by some potential investors 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 there is there any profit for a pause in the fact that so much is being invested into sochi is a limp dick project when we were just at 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 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 but we are considering all these in the context of the sochi olympic project. so again 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 nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terrorists because

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hello welcome to the sports news and here are the headlines. losing starts may all come from a goal down to beat former russian champions rubin three one in france in the first leg of their champions league play off. while maria marches on issue up of the leads the russian charge around three within a period spectra of the cincinnati masters. sounds great expectations k h l runners up getting this season's hopes that during the trial and the arrival of the swedish supercoach. first football and russian side rubin have it all to do if they want to reach the group stages of this season's champions league because onside conceded an early lead to lose three won the french johnson in the first leg of their qualifying playoff well robin enjoyed a dream still it was like even

a judge telling them ahead after just three minutes that the old well level seven minutes later better to go meet while in goal from solomon that clearly are just a side and should realize the seventy first minutes try to take the french side victory czech champions victoria close on the even better with a three one away when a company can f t twenty and benfica shared a two two draw in the netherlands that's a bad result and strong grounds played as a one one draw in valerie fear walcott minute strike also a one zero win over it isn't at the emirates the gunners missed key players as well as selling captain said patrick asked about solona about utilizing stress they've also had a we can solve. the problem but we could have conceded four or five goals for a team like ours everyone was talking about their players arsenal sold you know one two can do consideration with most players and it's hasn't been easy it was playing against a great team like arsenal we could have lost my man we were nervous. at the start

we grew in confidence minute by minute. in the meantime says fabregas could make a fairytale debut for his home side barcelona at the new camp this wednesday night in the second leg of the spanish super cup against fierce rivals while madrid the sides drew the first leg to two at the burn about leaving the matter balanced on the ice age was a coach but guardiola says his team would need to produce an extraordinary performance to win the cup but he was coy over him he would pick for the big game given the burgeoning talent he has in this quarter. we have to manage this kind of situation of the season we spoke about that. the players are huge players. but there are many many many games. i got in this day and i can imagine that every press conference of me after the training session the people we are going to that's why i don't play this game why didn't play a display or. another football news check giant young caller has announced his

retirement at the age of thirty eight the strike aside a thigh injury as the reason why he was quitting the game at just over two metres tall call it was a towering figure out both for his country and his club's cross by constant aerial threat to the opposition over a decade of international duty he scored fifty five goals and ninety one caps more than any other player rival the czech republic of czechoslovakia in a club level while it was a one time belgian top scorer at anderlecht the german champion nuclear standoff also spent time russian side korea's service of. tennis now a former world number one maria sharapova has stormed into the third round of the cincinnati open with an imperious display in a first match against former can patrick anastasio deliver for up about a seeded fourth in ohio and have received a buy in to the second round where he took just over an hour like that strange and tired and drop of a converting the first three match points to wrap it up six one six three. i think

they're also first very much is going on the russians not have but the robot and maria kirilenko both while there is no trial to interfere probably a change of that is trying to use into flavia pennetta. world meanwhile serena williams was feeling the toll of last week's title winning run interim so the american was clearly relieved to have got through her opener against lesser known check lisi credit score for more world number one took the first set easy enough six three and was looking comfortable but then she let a match point slip in the second set and then to the edging this time break. while the french open champion and gnarly is through to the last sixteen the chinese star was in great form against lucie safarova of the czech republic. equally impressive from the baseline and at the net while nerves got the better of shivaji but at the crucial moment she returned the four into the net to lose it six three six four in a match that you know to be less than under half of her and there was

a bit of revenge for roger federer in the men's draw the swiss master blitzing argentina's point i came down patoka a 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. now even though the second was tougher the one of the three still the crucial late break to serve it out seventy five federer then heads into the last sixteen. and next up is james blake the parties are the home crowd were eager for him to make up for andy roddick's early exit the day before and blake did just that different from italy's fabio fognini in less than an hour some fantastic four hounds gave him the first set six six four groups the second six to his sizzling serve finishing things are placed into the server hand. and joining him the next round is number eight seeds the word that he scrapes the first set on a tie break against crime marco and get far from certain whether the check the wind

got to see him silenced any doubters plowing through the next set six games to love and attention or with an ace and much point to quit the arden time to do so while it was an easy first round match for inform joe will be tsonga who returned to the top ten in the a.t.p. rankings on monday and he lived up to his new status tsonga stretched cry intermarrying church to the limit in a blistering six four six three win the french count his first title in almost two years after getting out of wimbledon in the semifinal second ventura county novak djokovic last month. why now that it should happen next reached a big landmark the thirty two year old czech not to start with number three hundred on the tour and making the victory you can squeeze me is the fact you have to endure and present twenty one aces the giant local boy john isner. seven five five seven seven six the final score now must go as a thank you t.v.

tower is no stranger to death defying parachutists and now no longer is the sole tower as a south korean lun-lun has just made its debut as a base jumping hot spot in fact it was the for the first time ever that blood from the asian nation huge daring americans overcoming all the red tape to make it happen. or certainly eight year old mike swanson won the right to go fest so off he went spiraling dallas the town and right into the history of it that he was somewhat outdone by the next in line a mustache a forty two year old spice it up a bit this somersault standing at two hundred thirty six meters the cell tower is far from being the highest in the world seems to have all it takes to become an ace something that he.

so found finally he was the first ice hockey coach to win both the lympics and the world championships in the same year and now swedish legend banged. faces another huge challenge this time on a club level after being given the task of guiding kitchell runners up at land to garden cup glory in the fast approaching season rather than young as well. was it open a narrow margin that separates moments of glory for moments of disappointment april twenty seventh this is soon drew aside a blend infused with new like what their coach. made it to the good guy in cup finals where they were stopped just one step from the trophy by career chilled by the house 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 big 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 same route clear blue and yellow ambitious expectations are is clear as daylight although gustafsson remains cautious you know it's tough to set a goal now are we 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 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 a lot of skills players we have the best defense is the great often superior player no person 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 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 champion and nineteen ninety four stanley cup winner has always been considered one of the moves gifted russian players in the n.h.l. this 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 i'm so competing i'm still a fan of you know have a chance to play in front of. enjoy that crowd the noise and everything else that's not there but think about it and. while one of atlanta other new signings branco devoid of each confessed it's far better to play with a store of skill of them against team you the legend i play with and.

it 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 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 both last season's final robot but when young archie. and i saw this post i thought. 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 on.

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