once again terminating the competition finishing almost down seconds ahead of mclaren rival jenson button. it was ferrari's fernando are those over usually rode into believe though by german battell regained it and kept his number one position after that is red bull team mate not workable was one of a drivers to retire and brushes with early control is another one so it's a bit self was finishing on top again his eighth victory from thirteen races this season important in second with alonso taking the last step on the podium mattel's overall lead in the standings now rises to an impressive one hundred and swell points over a longer. stay with motor sports where mika had been benefited from teammate yet a much loved down under team orders to win the australian barely been taking his second win of the season with his compadres relegated to second place overall here but in the fifteen points behind seven time defending champions the boston globe with three races and still to go the season rushes you gain in norfolk of how the

rough ride during a particularly challenging stretch of terrain crashing out here. so it is here one who takes the victory described ford teammate loveless super weekend of work week one thousand special stages better solberg came third the lonely seats events of three. to the european basketball championships now where russia continuing to do everything right on the hardwood they did lots and now unbeaten after seven games following victory over two thousand and five champions greece the game close in the opening half of the griefs match to russia shock shot by the russians were up by eight to start the final quarter thanks mainly to some superb shooting from soon to be possible macedonia have not lost since their opening game are up next for russia later today. now russia's added another three pieces of silverware on the second day of their more than pentathlon world championships in moscow to all the girls.

and that latest success profile the heaviest fest overall with three day still left and the sentiments are on course after parts. of this world championship was supposed to be held in egypt however due to political instability in that country russia won the rights of all the prestigious events in moscow it took the local organizers only a couple of months to prepare the capsule's a limb pick arena for a major pentathlon event which was held indoors for the first time in history. it was all but easy to receive the owner of hosting this world championship there were many countries who wanted to bring this tournament to their home soil and we're very proud and happy that this brilliant think event is here in russia. to find a little champion and they had yet to taste the world championship victory going to this final in the russian capital perhaps it was that short haul charging him forward in all five disciplines of the world championship after finishing first in fencing and a moyes save posted the six best result in

a swimming event which still air in him an overall first intermediate place another russian that's once it's in the world championship runner up alexander list soon was on the heels of his teammate sustain close in third place throughout the tournament thanks in the show jumping events both local leaders displayed a near perfect performance and retained their first and third places going into the final phase of the competition only one rider managed to complete a showjumping piece without any points deducted and that's hungary's adam who eventually won the bronze thanks so three russian men had a chance to sweep the podium in the last running and shooting events commonly known as they come blind and dream ice age and alexander listen obviously had the better chances i mean it's all free well they're compassionate for a lot of face that suffered sask from fit place and it was a dream come true for the two time olympic champion andre moyes say oh fine. it

claimed the world championship gold after winning four of the five events first just across the us and i'm very happy that i won three it's my first victory at the world championships and that's even more significant but i also have to admit that our country has always had great traditions and pentathlon and this news that my generation should do is visit to cuba alexander listened was brilliant at the range as his shooting skills had been rewarded with a bump from the tournaments bronze silver medal while in the air for love only managed to climb up to an overall fourth denying the local crowd the pleasure of seeing three russian flags on the podium for medical the rush at the start of the jailer of the competition from all over the next three days and says another three sets of medals stated lives relate as well as a mixed relay race from our cost for a party possible. and the last surviving ice hockey player from the deadly force in to add disaster has died in hospital and it's a day alexander ghalibaf was one of only two survivors of last week's plane crash

so many six year old died from severe burns in intensive care in moscow after his health was on this morning meaning the only survivor is now crew member alexander who was in critical condition a plane with club black on my team on board crashed in central russia near your slogan on the seventh of september killing forty four people. and salesforce news for now coming up is the us.

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building bridges british and russian leaders pledge what differences aside it improving strained relations between the two countries. italy's disputed fifty four billion euro austerity package entering a final debate in the lower house of parliament but protests against popular cuts have already started. powering up iran prepares to officially plug in the russian build new share reactor station to the main national grid the country's first atomic facility. is a moment that the world is heading for a second sequel the recession as russia well plays to override the turmoil more and business is not trying to minutes.

three pm in moscow i'm not good to have you with us here on r t our top story political differences won't be a sticking point in improving russian british relations as a pledge from leaders in both countries after a meeting in moscow it's the first official visit from a british head of state to the russian capital after. six years of strain ties are his and he said i was following the talks he joins us live with more i will unease or so relations have been called for some time but the leaders chose to focus on positive aspects what exactly was said after a meeting. they did indeed president it's made of called the top star rackets and constructive david cameron called them excellent the two leaders have pretty much agreed to disagree on their sticking points saying that they have to be able to move forward in other spheres especially business how britain is pretty much the number one investor in russia in both sides and including businessmen as well want

that of course to keep moving forward a lot of talk at least in the news conference a lot of questions about the lives when you go case and how that will if it will really continue to in fact ties like you said the first time british prime minister officially in moscow for six years and those six years full of a lot of issues that they really did affect relations both sides saying that they don't want to take you to affect any further growth i david cameron went as far to say that the issue is not part of what we will continue to grow in other spheres let's see. it remains an issue between britain and russia and we haven't changed our position about that and the russians haven't changed their position but i don't think that means that we freeze the entire relationship that short talking issues just recognizing there is

a disagreement that hasn't changed the two countries are changing their arrangements because of it but we should work on our relationship. just to remind you alexander litvinenko was a former russian security officer who was poisoned with polonium and died in the london eye diplomatic spat broke out between the u.k. and russia after that british authorities want to tax to buy us insisting on facebook oh boy but according to the russian constitution in fact article sixty one which president has made it reminded david cameron once again today doesn't allow for the russian federation to extradite its citizens to another country to be tried and basically what president medvedev said was that will not change that is our law and if people are going to kids criticize russia for not upholding law what would it mean if we went and changed our constitution i just to extradite this russian citizenship u.k. so again i agree to disagree i'm a bitch when i go issue but i think it's fair to say that we've seen some progress

progress is certainly open mindedness towards moving forward on other issues the russian u.k. also agreed to cooperate on an international agenda so what is the situation moving forward there. will get through the years of course work together in many different formats including the g twenty the g eight the un security council and both sides spoke about that in terms of the most pressing international issues they spoke about livia and it turns out they spend most of their time speaking about the situation in syria both pointed out that they still do have very different viewpoints on that but they do encourage each other to be direct and frank about what they think and try to use each other's ideas to move forward david cameron mentions that he believes that that sanctions should go even further and president medvedev pointed out that he is for you what president doesn't think what's happening in syria is right and something needs to be done but by no means can this

turn in to another libya. let's just get russia believes a resolution syria should be tough but at the same time guns to address to both in the syrian conflict president assad and the opposition only day can such a resolution succeed it should be tough but not automatically sanctions syria is already on the e.u. and u.s. sanctions it doesn't need additional pressure. so certainly no major breakthrough in british russian relations but a very positive atmosphere considering that a british official at that level hasn't been in moscow on a visit like this in so long positive atmosphere lots of laughs in fact one of the last questions asked at the news conference by the b.b.c. to david cameron asking him about rumors that he was possibly recruited or attempted to be recruited into the k.g.b. back in the ninety's cameron said he doesn't think he would be a very good k.g.b. agent president it's easy to beg to differ. but.

they would well i'm pretty sure that dave it would be a good k.g.b. agent spoke up in your bill in this case he would never have become the u.k.'s prime minister ok if. this is. so the official visit at this level ended on quite a light no lots of laughs there after that joke about the k.g.b. and david cameron he goes on to meet with members of the civil society and n.g.o.s and also will be sitting down with our prime minister putin on this visit to moscow right he's a nice and i live for us outside the crowd there and moscow thanks for that report . syria is one of the main stumbling walk the two countries russia wants talks in syria and imposes sanctions that britain supports political analysts to be true about it says moscow's position is just. russia somewhat conservative stance on this issue and i think russia has reasons we have

just recently seen with a small cold arab spring in the lead to what you need shipped to the rense a chemical of israeli embassy for the first time in home in thirty years. so it's not such a one way nice street. how the events i develop in the media least and of course russia is concerned which course syria will take if indeed it has no future with the president or something i would like to remind you of the president across all that his father present the minority kids in syria what happened to the spring or if you it looks like. great britain and the majority of western countries just view this situation in terms of nice democrats against the evil authoritarian regimes i think it's a simplification. during our other top stories on r.t. italy's much disputed fifty four billion euro austerity package to slash the

country's crippling debt well over a final debate in the lower house of parliament monday that would increase taxes cut government spending aimed at balancing the budget by twenty thirteen but constant changes to the plan and squabbling between lawmakers has damaged people's faith in it as are his ivory better reports there is a town that's decided it doesn't want to wait. welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of italy that also claims to be an independent principality and to prove it it's even started printing its own money the man on the new note says town mayor luken solari now self-proclaimed prince i guess everyone dreams of being a prince when you're a little boy and so did i now i get to live that dream filleted nose going solo in protest over government plans to slash council funding he wants all towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred fifty tino and it's mayor of the chop.

it's a terrible idea because it makes no economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides our neighboring towns are at least thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it wouldn't even save that much money most regional administrations do nothing we should get rid of them instead of italy's in deep shit one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. the second highest in europe and unions a furious with the cuts accusing the government of punishing those already at their poorest even some of silvio berlusconi's own allies now oppose them with amendments piling up but filipinos fed up the term and to be the next san marino a constitutional republic within italy that has no national debt a rare thing in europe the methinks the town can live off its natural resources of wood and water but currently profits go to private companies there are

constitutional hurdles but since autonomy is not illegal it could just be a matter of time at the moment these notes are legal tender just souvenirs that the plan is for two theory to be worth one euro and for this to be the only currency they could be spent in the shops and restaurants here the. business is always been slow in this sleepy town but shopkeepers hope the new money will bring new cash. i'm sure that once we start using the new currency the economic situation here will significantly improve it will have a positive effect on tourism of course the track to meet people to the town. far from being a p.r. stunt filipino means business and berlusconi knows it he's visiting the town later this month to stave off the rebellion and he'll have a fight on his hands to latino is the source of rome's water supply and the mayor is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants rather than it r.t.

filipino italy. that leading greece meanwhile is planning to impose a property tax it claims will open country meet the demands of lenders as the government struggles to curb debt tax collectors and taxi owners have started a two day strike angrier more proposed austerity cuts where we speak with greek m.p.'s sin or satirical blue joining the euro zone was detrimental to his country is financial. with the help of the european union greek foreign most have stopped producing can imagine a country like greece right now calm feeds its people we don't produce enough for me we don't produce enough we even oil we are important and we had the scheme from the european union that farmers were paid so that they wouldn't produce anything. we destroyed you're no main from a massive support of our economy the investments that were made to europe were only

to sell germany you know what's the biggest investment it's made in greece for the past ten years super markets. and we ended up buying german productions buying german cause maybe greece road a lot of money in the past ten years from regular people get them from germany especially why don't you check out how much money germany has made out of greece the past ten years you'll discover that it's more than what we borrowed. and watch a full interview with little more than an hour here on our t.v. or any time on our website archie dot com still ahead this hour egypt and turkey turn their backs on israel which is warned that it could be isolated in the region with two former allies expressing growing resentment plus. libya's new leadership continues its search for ousted leader moammar gadhafi we take

a look at whether nato is forgetting its original aims in the country. but first a hockey player one of only two survivors of a plane crash that killed almost the entire local ice hockey team has died in the hospital despite a doctor's best efforts twenty six year old alexander gallagher of died from severe burns to his body and respiratory tract ok. in carrying russia's cage hockey team crashed in central russia last week and was honest way to belarus for their first game of the season more than one hundred thousand people gathered to honor the much loved players in their hometown with ceremonies also being held in their native countries zero four and players a crew member from the plane is now the only survivor of the forty five people on board when it went down with our website r.t. dot com for more on the tragedy. iran's pushchair nuclear power plant is officially about to start providing the country with electricity the facility which was built with russian help will be

forty percent operational russia's energy minister praised the efforts and the cooperation and promised similar projects in the future. is just to give the would only rate income for parts when through difficulties some problems build into the ship plans to deal with can be brought to the results that are true in the attention of the whole world i'm sure the cooperation in reading the station and developing other nuclear energy projects will be distinguished by the atmosphere we created while working together as. you know gratian ceremony is underway and shared these are live pictures from the scene when building the plant russia also agreed to provide fuel for it but iran will return the spent fuel rods rods to russia to ease western concerns over the country's uranium enrichment program terran has once again stressed its atomic ambitions were peaceful and not aimed at building nuclear weapons. staying in the region turkey has warned israel

but it faces growing isolation as the turkish prime minister heads for a meeting in egypt and jewish state recently found its relations with it as well as cairo strained after rioters there ransacked the israeli embassy and anger swelled after israeli security forces responding to a cross border militants attacked mistakenly killed five egyptian police officers officers last month the turkish prime minister said israel's raid on a gaza block flotilla last year was cause for war but his country refrain from taking action did however cut military and trade ties with israel after refused to apologize for the deaths of nine turks in the raid for more on this now i'm joined by author and editor hugo wald live for us in tel aviv thank you very much for joining us so israel recently had this far with her and now with cairo where do you think it comes from this rapid losing of allies in the arab world and what do you think could lead up to this is that on the verge of possible military confrontation . and i think there are two factors here of turkey

you know we've seen the rise of an islamic government prime minister don it's been quite the. youth of israel but also with the united states for example back in the second gulf war. american forces to go through a sort of can to iraq. egypt similarly with the fall of mubarak again more power increasingly setting the tone on the street the second factor is the peace process or nonexistent peace process. because for us this is being completely. under governments the world and the arab world they don't believe in a tiny i was sincerely interested in peace and as a result we're seeing more tensions more anger more a solution of israel. so speaking of tensions do you think it's time for israel to change its stance toward the peace process with the palestinians it wanted to keep its allies and do you think the palestinian bid for statehood this month were only

increased tensions. it's to change its approach it's not only up he was really sorry to tell us kenyans are also very interested apparently in restarting the peace talks but i think even the palestinians presentable sorts of preconditions does not absolve israel of its responsibility to them to move ahead with the peace process i think israel has to take the initiative has to come up with. some emotions has to push through through the poor and you cannot just wait for other people to do it for us to your second question i think pensions will be higher there's no question about it following the palestinian bid to the united nations the real question is how how bad are those tensions going to be. going to see palestinian protesters trying to clash with israeli forces or trying to. go into israeli settlements that could lead to deadly

clashes and as you mentioned earlier with the growing tensions turkey might be involved egypt may be involved in under the state of affairs and could get very messy in the region very very soon hopefully it's not going to get to the palestinian authority as it is they're not planning any violence meanwhile in israel and it's out to show restraint in these really mean. quite a bit of a lethal weapon in recent months so far it's going to get to the tensions that exist and if the situation deteriorates you know you could have very very quickly and get very messy and they said all right author and editor hugo joining us live from tel aviv thanks for your perspective. stay with us here on our heroes plenty more stories and video for you on line at r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. that emotional tribute all across the u.s. ten years after the tragic nine eleven attacks in memory is ended with

a concert in new york and a laser light show it. tating the collapsed twin towers. and for the fourth time the top prize at the venice film festival coming to russia alexander so caracas ambitious rendition of meet our rivals to win the golden lion cross all our other best videos on our you tube channel be sure to check those out to. the official.

on the. colonel qaddafi is remaining troops are continuing their resistance in libya of the rebels advance on one of their final strongholds with the help of nato airstrikes put off these fighters did not lay down their arms before surrender deadline last week but the whereabouts of libya's former leader who vowed to fight to the death is still on no one of his sons all sides he has been given refuge in neighboring asia where earlier reports suggested other family members and some associates have also fled there but with khadafi now on the run journalist chandan thinks nato might be contradicting the initial aim of its mission. we have now nato

was the main rebel commander in tripoli who was the former friend of al qaida on a so-called jihad the the. this is really the big news that we have today which and not hardly any of the news or news networks are covering it the world has to learn that the west will never give up its domination of the globe without devastating and taken the rest of the world to war so in as much so doing the main lesson for us the learn is how do we develop our effective internationalism against aggression or thoughts the lessons of obviously been learned by the west because what they've done in libya and gadhafi has more of a social support in libya than the taliban do in afghanistan unlike when it's not in libya is this neighboring europe so the resistance that is raging in ben will lead them to go in in libya i think europe needs to watch its back. here now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least sixty one people have died eighty injured after a gas pipeline exploded in nairobi kenya hospital staff so.