huge weekend is ongoing for american football fans with the first games of the n.f.l. season already shaking things up the philadelphia eagles are a squad loaded with dream team level talent they did what was expected by beating the injury that played at st louis rams on sunday eagle star signing nandi are somewhat on his colleagues commemorating a decade since the september eleventh tragedy on the field of action things started bittersweet for the rams stephen jackson injuring his right leg three has touched. the spring michael vick will have a great thing for going to the sean jackson speech to receiver jackson a key figure right is to take it to the. royals to run some drought for a while injured a finger on his throwing hand late on to the visiting sites injury wolves just get . the new york jets watch former u.s. president george w. bush do the honors on the con toss before storing huge comeback with the dallas

cowboys. and then to me first with miles holding on tight because tony romo made it seventy seven the jets went all the time to get the twenty fourth piece of the story in a block punt return i'm sure about the rally we've been set up the chance to win intercepting remote nick who was from the pro bowl sympathising line for speaking struggles in the office because he's fifty yard twenty seven twenty four. and cricket sri lanka looked up being saved by the elements during the second test against australia thirty six overs played before rain forced an early end to the day sri lanka with a lead of eighty runs after posting three hundred seventeen for six in their second innings an experienced starting first with jr wharton on. an exclusive partnership she already getting his thirty nine test. century of his

teammate run in sixty nine after pearl left the crease like a struggle some water with two wickets in hand and plenty of time left rainbow push the sides call it a draw a strongly one nil following their one hundred twenty five run victory at the start of the month a third and final test in colombo away. and finally russia moved to the top of the standings up the modern pentathlon world championships the host storming into the lead thanks to the men's portion of the games on sunday were among cluster of watch the action unfold. thank you this world championship was supposed to be held in egypt however due to political instability in that country russia won the right to hold a prestigious event in moscow it's a local organizers only a couple of months to prepare the capsules a little arena for a major pentathlon event which was held indoors for the first time in history. it was all books 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 really big event is here in russia. since i'm a limit champion and a moyes had to get to taste the world championship victory going into this final in the russian capital perhaps it was that short haul charging forward in all five disciplines of the world championship after finishing first in fencing and a moyes save posted the sixth best result in a swimming event which still in him and overall first intermediate place another russian that's once it's in the world championship runner up alexander lists all in one spot on the heels of his teammate staying close in third place throughout the turn and thanks in the showjumping events both local leaders displayed a near perfect performance and retained their person third places going into the final phase of the competition only one rider managed to complete the show jump in peace without any points deducted and that's hungary's as

a moral seat 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 andre moyes safe and alexander listen obviously had the better chances of being in that's all three while they're compassionate enough for a lot of pace at suffered sask from fifth place and it was a dream come true for the two time olympic champion and a moisi who finally claimed the world championship gold after winning four of the five events first just across the russian i'm very happy to. i once again 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 in pentathlon and this means that my generation should do his best to keep up with alexander the soon was brilliant at the range as his shooting skills have been rewarded with a bump from the tournaments bronze silver medal while india for a lot only managed to climb up to an overall fourth denying the local crowd the

pleasure of seeing three russian flags on the podium for mental health for russia this sort of mentality competition from all over the next three days can send another precept the mental state is really as well as the next grades a month off from hard to muscle yes still plenty of action there are all the sports for now though weather is next.

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we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we've done to the future covered. stronger relations for mutual benefits russia and the u.k. agree not to allow their divided opinions on the livin in co scandal and the resolution of the syrian crisis to stand in the way of their political and economic partnership. and to find out whether or not prime minister david cameron would have been a good k.g.b. agent joined me i need to now wait for details from the crowd. because it was good for business to multimillion dollar deals and will have more nods in business since one thousand minutes. of. generating power iran plugs its first nuclear plants into the national grid the facility at bushehr was built for the help of russia. and its leaders closer to the center of the eurozone debt

crisis as its crucial sturdy package enters the final stages triggering a new wave of protests and tough spending cuts our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from a headquarters here in central moscow this is the unsolved issues in russia u.k. relations should not stand in the way of healthy and profitable corporation that's what the leaders of the two states concluded off them losing at the kremlin lottie's and he said now he has more now on the outcome of the first official visit by british prime minister to russia for six years. president iterative called the talk star racket and constructive david cameron called them axel would the two leaders have pretty much agree to disagree on their sticking points just saying

that they have to be able to move forward in other spheres especially business a lot of talk that we stay in the news conference a lot of questions about the litter and yank ok's and how that will if it will really continue to affect ties just to remind you alexander litvinenko was a former russian security officer who was poisoned with polonium and died in london i diplomatic spat broke out between the u.k. and russia after that british authorities wanted tax to buy russian citizen 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 both sides saying that they don't want to live in a queue to effect any further growth i david cameron went as far to say that the issue is not parts but we will continue to grow in other spheres let's take it as

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 it's not talking an issue is just recognising 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. with it through the years of course work together in many different formats including the g twenty the g eight the un security council in both sides spoke about that in terms of the most pressing international issues they spoke about livia and it turns out this but most of their time speaking about the situation in syria david cameron mentioned that he believes that that sanctions should go even further and president medvedev . and to doubt that you are you would read it 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 the resolution in syria should be tough but at the same time to address to both parties in the syrian conflict president assad and the opposition only day can such a resolution succeed it should be tough but also matic legal sanctions syria is already under 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 of 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 present it to beg to differ. i'm pretty sure that david would be a good k.g.b. agent but in this case he would never have become the u.k.'s prime minister 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 also met with the prime minister vladimir putin and members of the civil society where the focus there was on human rights. as russia and the u.k. know their differences over approaches to the crisis in syria moscow is steaming ahead with its efforts to mediate peace there and russian lawmakers are hosting a delegation from damascus after holding talks with the opposition last week president bashar al assad's advisor says her country would appreciate a fact finding mission by russian officials which moscow has promised to send any day now and the government demonstrations in syria flared up march with the regime responding with brutal crackdowns at least two thousand six hundred people etc been killed. since the un to take action that would push the warring sides towards dialogue and says assad needs more time to implement democratic reforms but the u.s. and its allies want a more aggressive approach that will target the regime and they've already called

for assad to step down. iran's bushehr nuclear power plant has officially begun operating and is now providing electricity to the country's national grid it's a first such facility in the entire middle east region and has been following the launch in bushehr. this is a truly historic day for iran as its first nuclear power plant in bush era is joining the national energy grid it's going to start operating with thirty five to forty percent of its capacity that is the plight thirty five to forty percent of the energy and it's going to reach the hundred percent potential within the next couple of months now this is something that has been in the making for a very long time this is a joint russia iran venture russia's adam story expert there's been a vigorous lee helping the rhenium side in the destruction of this nuclear power plant specially since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the opening of the plants has been attended by russia's energy minister spazz called and also by the head of story expert both of whom have underlines the importance office then sure

for both countries now russia's energy minister has said that all of seriously of course conducted by russia and iran should be stinkers think realized with international standards together with all your income to parts went through difficulties and problems building plans and probably through the results that are drawing the attention of the whole world i'm sure racially driven the station and the building of the nuclear energy projects will be distinguished by the atmosphere we created while working together you have to remember that this is the first nuclear power plant in the middle east so we should never underestimate its importance it's absolutely integral to iran no russia is going to supply the fuel for the power plants and it's also going to discard off the fuel this is going to continue for the next three years so russian engineers and specialists will stay at the plant will stay in iran for the next couple of years but then afterwards they will slowly handed over to the iranian side and then by two thousand and fifteen it all the plants will should become fully operated by iran on its own like we said

this is a very important venture for both iran and russia and of the there is a lot of hope for this power plant which is which has just become operational in bushehr in iran. well shortly to come this hour for you here on r.t. israel in growing isolation we report on how some of the jewish state's neighbors are brimming with anti israeli sentiment in the wake of the arab spring. but first global markets slumped on monday over fears that italy's debt crisis is worsening as the country's fifty four billion euros thirty package goes before the lower house of parliament for a final debate the government plans to make changes to the way its rural communities are run but some people are beginning to lose faith in their government's ability to make the right decisions which is of a bennett went to one rebellious town that wants to break free from the rule of rome. welcome to filipino

a small town in the middle of a cli that also claims to be an independent principality and to prove it it's even started printing its own money a man on a new note says town mayor lucas a lhari now self-proclaimed prince i guess everyone dreams of being a prince when they're a little boy and so did i now i get to live that dream filipinos going solo in protest over government plans to slash council funding he wants mall towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred filipino and its 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 they should get rid of them instead italy's in deep debt

one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. is second highest in europe but unions a furious with the cuts accusing the government of punishing those already at the poorest even some of silvio berlusconi's own allies now oppose them and the 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 aren't legal tender just souvenirs but 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 attracting more people to the town. far from being a p.r. stunt filipino means business and berlusconi knows it he's visiting that town later this month to stave off the rebellion but he'll have a fight on his hands filipino is the source of rome's water supply and that may is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants either bennett. filipino italy as financial words echoed deeper inside the euro zone fears are growing that greece could be heading away from the euro unable to contain its debt crisis you hand over to the editor in chief of belgium's leading business magazine the trends thinks that greece should jump ship by the greek economy is in an outright depression now keady be shrinking at the moment at seven to eight percent

on an annual basis unemployment is officially at sixteen percent but in reality into more close to twenty five percent what we hear from people from the i.m.f. informally is that the situation is out of control so there's no way that greek and greece can escape from this situation unless there's a somewhat orderly exit from the eurozone followed by a huge devaluation of the new greek currency think we have passed the point now where we can argue that we can see from greece within the euro zone greece will ask to exit it can be organized in an orderly way but the risk is of course that there will be contagion in the direction of countries like for example portugal maybe i will and then of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. warning israel it faces growing regional

isolation as the turkish prime minister arrives on a visit to egypt. to one is expected to cement closer ties with caro with both countries experiencing recently strained relations with television on friday night a raging mob in egyptian capital stormed and sacked the israeli embassy forcing its staff to flee and start after five egyptian officers were killed in a border clash with israeli forces last month. expelled israeli diplomats last week television official to apologize for killing nine turks during last year's raid on a garden bound aid flotilla. turkish prime minister says the attack was a cause for war but his country chose to refrain from aggression but let's cross live now to istanbul and get some perspective from professor. thank you very much indeed professor just to confirm you can hear me there in istanbul. so great now the turkish prime minister has taken a very tough stance against israel lately just how influential is turkey now

becoming in the middle east. in the. last couple of. years very influential in the middle east. progress. in the middle east there. will be a lot of. a lot of. islamic world will. we talk about the anti israeli sentiment we're seeing in egypt at the moment can you give us an idea of why that's happening and indeed this is not just a recent sentiment but it's been quite deep rooted in the past. well actually it seems that the peace agreement egypt made with israel did not.

see in the last couple of months and people don't believe in it anymore and especially the killing of egyptian soldiers by israeli security forces. for paul the. ongoing. so that's why we have him back is really a sentiment we should distinguish. on some night ok could we see the same sort of feelings against israel from the turks though that same sort of anger in the future . well. i mean especially the government the government officials. people are very very upset of impactor summary execution of nine turkish activists in international waters what made it worse of course is will stand against not really taking the necessary steps to.

congress to asian down so people are really angry what happened in turkey and they believe by simply you cannot go around killing people and especially the nine activists the. old nine thirty five bullets and many of them the united nations. indicates that from a close range they were shot their people are very angry that we've been talking about a couple of incidents that provoked this feeling against israel but it's fair to say this arab spring has actually generated an anti israeli sentiment not just in egypt but elsewhere and it's something that maybe israel should be very worried about as a result of what we've been seeing these so-called democratic change or an attempt for democratic change in the middle east something that israel should be not

concerned about. well i don't think so i mean my personal opinion although the issue. is will base their policy not on me international about also internally there is a constant very strong. anti israeli feelings around of all therefore we have to stand and unite together so whatever is will do is to their neighbors it does include invading lebanon on an attack another country so actually always done under the pretext of security for israel defending itself but now as we see in the middle east what's happening is that these regimes are collapsing one by one and more importantly people are more aware of the corruptions and a lot from the time they believe that their leadership actually made

a peace and they never had. what they call response or public response was so i think in my opinion if israel first before all the israeli government so that i mean is that if people have nothing to do with it is that if they take the peaceful actions with their neighbors and try to build an establish better relations i'm sure there wouldn't be much problem but it is not an easy step for both sides so why not all heartedly i mean one day one day this will actually and i think both sides should take it or stretch it or stress is so much just sunnily as we see these regimes full one of course asks what happens next and i do understand that there's quite a lot of interest in the arab world in the way that the turkish political system works can you just briefly tell us how that works and why that would be of interest

to potential new regimes new governments i should say in the arab world. well turkey is a democracy a country where the population or rather the majority all population are muslims so turkey with success in economy and in the development in democracy and thirteen are both very good examples for the army it's slummy world because they see that it is possible and this can be actualized by the muslims themselves therefore turkey is attracting a lot of attention and i was in tunis a couple of months ago when i was going through people constantly asking me if they want to know more about turkey's volatile. actually saw it happen out of a very very good model for everyone curious about it well really could still see if

they want to adopt it was thanks very much thanks so much for being with us professor david hanson of. university live there in istanbul thank you for your time. well you can access the news of any time on our website ality dot com here's what's working for you online right now about ninety percent of afghans are aware of the september eleventh attacks or the reasons behind the country's decade long patient by u.s. forces you can learn more about it online. and russia dominates the london international film festival with multiple movie entries euclidian it's on to suck it off fast which is the top award at the venice film festival.

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