it ended up. elsewhere some went down on the maybe a in the pool a clash between the african side by thirty seven points canada got off the mark and pulled the sea beating target in a close fought battle twenty five twenty the finals goal. new zealand have suffered a setback for their next match flyhalf and carter i for friday's encounter against japan with a lower back injury the twenty nine year old suffering that not in the all blacks forty one ten zero the win over tonga and after feeling the strain in training two thousand and five is taking it easy to recover in time for the clash with france on september twenty fourth. formula one driver tally petroff believes his run eighty have put their technical problems behind them as the season enters the home straight the russian came third in the first grand prix of the year in australia but since then he's only had six

top ten finishes and thirteen races however in an exclusive interview he told r.t. he thinks run i am not back on track. like everyone knowing the beginning of the season was over so a good start to the season with. the podiums. and then i will cause it looks pretty strong so we can fight it with a. lot of but then suddenly with some problems because we didn't even start an hour the wind tunnel and what was the bulk of the two weeks and another team was good growing up quite a weekend we was pulling down the side this is where we will start with i think the former center will see our championship. will soon to fighting with them and so this would be but. this time we see even some fancy tools one day it's you know close to something but now actually we're getting to someone who knew i had a hawkish hormones and would be quite willing for the final what if i pulled out of

the pen the seven of. them actually. did start the race one just for us but they were a full team with the city and strong because finally we could make it in the top ten and we can unify to the seven or six seven to eight position so i think we'll to stay positive and now it's next to one hundred percent of the six we'll see if he says. i'm funny if not in pentathlon most championships have concluded in moscow with russia's man ending several podium places while the women's event wasn't quite as successful but i stand and russian response at next year's olympics from one cluster f. has this report. the world championships in modern pentathlon is divided into two parts a limp ache and none of them think events the individual olympic disciplines for men and women so russia's men claiming gold and silver which resulted in an overall team gold medal as well while the women had much less to celebrate and settle for

a team bronze with individual discipline also winning an olympic place in the process was born with the. three zero zero zero zero zero men showed great results which is a good ratio for anyone or the women you vickie agree chiefly go was outstanding as well as her teammate you could sit in a who rescued who unfortunately fail and shoot jumping but posted overall results i think all athletes should be pleased with. a monday tuesday and wednesday were allocated to normal in big disciplines in the men's women's and mixed relay events the latter brought russia another silver medal would you have the key. and city gate kayaking within the honors for their country the women's relay was a failure for russia as the local trio finished in ninth place while team hungry one goal in the men's relay then garion spruik the once again and there one of the world's strongest teams in modern pentathlon by claiming first place on the podium

will the russians finish the event off and told you made could have turned out differently as they were in the lead until the show jumping piece led by that same time and pick champion and that's when the eleven world championship winner and a most if their home team struggled with their horses and as a result they dropped from first to seventh place going into the final combine discipline which involves running and shooting a near perfect performance and the range bump to russia from seven to fifteen the final standings while hungary south korea and ukraine won gold silver and bronze respectively i think we could have given a better performance here if it weren't for the relays we field ensure jumping and that's preventing us from fighting for a higher place in the standings if we started the last event from a different position i think they were all results would have been different to the whole world championship in modern pentathlon turned out to be if you are successful russia's a male athlete while the russian women feel had quite

a lot of work to do on their skills after all that summer olympics in london on this than a year away from on cost fourteen in moscow. now brings the end of the sport for the moment the weather. machine would be soon which brightened if you newly bought someone from funds to pressure inside. these firms starts on t.v. don't come.

the news already is and they be allowed to provide for him a democracy but people say they're afraid any criticism of the new government will be met with severe punishment. france and germany stand down calls for greece to be kicked out of the euro zone as the third anniversary of the two thousand a financial crash brings concerns and the other is close at hand. and our t. travels to norway spitzbergen archipelago an area that used to be the northern front in the cold war bot is now becoming a base for russia's advance into the arctic. global stock markets have rebounded on thursday on signs that european policymakers are taking tentative steps to tackle

a crippling debt crisis more in business in twenty minutes. in the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. arena josh welcome to the program the leaders of france and britain travelled to tripoli today in a show of support for the regime there were planes helped put in power on the eve of their visit the had of the national transitional council asked for more weapons to fight pockets of colonel gadhafi loyalists still in their strongholds but rebel government thinks the ousted dictator is hiding in southern libya am planning to fight back however the new authorities asserting an increasing level of control over the country for some that's cause for celebration but as archie is marie is the national found out the others aren't so optimistic. a month off to tripoli fell into rebels hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant. the

tearful in parts of the city the rebels triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else. we will do anything from our only moammar even if we have to give our lives. so when support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera yeah. it was a weird feeling how could you tell the camera why. it's the same situation with others to. go if he's hundred percent good we don't want this revolution we don't know the rebels we want them to go away. we are from television so i did tell him on camera no no thanks if i pee in front of the camera they will send the bullets to my room the criminals you don't know them you call them the rebels hey guys do you remember you have a black guy he was arrested a few days ago after here appearing on t.v.

don't do that new flags new slogans new speeches. and the rebels were out celebrating again this week when the head of the national transitional council believe his new authority arrives in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no dark about who's really. those who don't support mr far those only you and who used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago back in khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards here there. was. a very. tough it is effectively a gun then you also have several down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is new free country but it seems that there is at least one thing

that still remains of all the beer fear. one youngster finally agrees to talk about tripoli is now under the control of the national transitional council and we don't feel we have freedom to talk or. to express an opinion if we see something in favor of gadhafi they can kill us and arrest us of course money or in the future. the nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about a new regime ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of the dark is top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu salim. the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear their hands are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently accused both conduct his regime and the one which took place to offer committing war crimes including killings and

torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt space some here that's more his in-store roof notion r t tripoli libya the rebel government in libya has a hard job ahead with alice warning that freedom and peace are a long way off a lot of base middle east political analysts down glazebrook told r.t. that was a new libyan leadership africa face of its colonial past that the real fear of the west is the africa unite and is able to break free from this colonial grip it has been in for hundreds of you and who was the leading force behind united was libya and gadhafi is ruled so nato won a government that will this unite africa that will rule north africa away from a southern neighbors so it's in its very important nato but it is

a racist one but will not continue with this libyan project of uniting africa is a misnomer state but this uprising been characterized by race as well this is. a way north and solar. more opinions first hand reports and the timeline of the libyan revolution just one click away at r.t. dot com and for the latest updates on the story check out our twitter feed and facebook profile. is. the leaders of france and germany have declared

a greece as future allies with the euro their comments come as the second bailout for athens considered to be its last chance to avoid a disaster as the fault hangs in the balance this time lines and a full scale recession have left little patience for greece among its e.u. neighbors they are now threatening to stop bailout payments for the in battle economy economists are also pessimistic and calls for athens to drop out of the euro zone are building as a canonic analyst a metric of venus tells our team the future of greece is far from secure and that carries potentially grave consequences for the global financial system. we're hearing a lot more rumors about of the fall which is frightening but i think the most likely scenario is that. a gamekeeper can down the road france and merkel have been saying france and germany and angela merkel i was talking about how they want to wait until at least twenty thirteen when the european stability. mechanism is in place so they have some sort of institutional framework to go with with the bailout

so i think that eventually greece will default but i think that it's not going to happen on october seventeenth they're not addressing they're not creating a scenario where greece or greeks can say ok in five years and seven years whatever we have a viable plan to exit this this large that burden and go back into growth because right now the economy is in a collapse mode so there's no way they can service this that a lot of the american banks were on the other side of these derivatives deal so they were ensuring that there was on the books the books of european banks so that in the event of the fall the european banks would yeah they would they would lose out on their bonds but then they would go to the american bank and say give us the money because really you wrote the insurance so the u.s. banks would be on the hook and no one really knows and again that's the problem with the banking system there's a lot of uncertainty about counterparty risk the global financial problem is something i've spoken about before there's a problem with the global financial system and there are different philosophies as to how to address the u.s. one often bretton woods and facilitated environment where you could run these chronic current account deficits because it was it's an empire that has the

imperial currency so yeah and that's the centrifuge has been here and that's where the real financialization has kind of expanded. the debt crisis that brought the euro teats knees began exactly three years ago when the unthinkable happened america's fourth biggest bank lehman brothers declared bankruptcy igniting a worldwide economic crisis that's still raging today but have the lessons of the day really been learned. street cleaning brothers has filed for bankruptcy stocks all around the world are tanking because of the crisis on wall street the more things change the more they stay the same how will lehman's bankruptcy filing really change the landscape of the entire banking industry in two thousand and eight wall street's bad bets and risky speculation led to the collapse of america's housing market and a financial crisis around the globe today banks have grown more powerful and profitable while the threat of a double dip recession has deepened their part of the problem was too big to fail

and of part of the problem was high dependence on the financial sector if you fast forward three years we have even bigger financial institutions which were at least equally divided so the structural problems are probably worse and certainly not a whole lot better washington seed wall street with nearly one trillion dollars in government bailouts yet in the past three years critics say that washington has failed to effectively regulate wall street the financial industry can still trade brundle debt and that the same way it did thirty six months ago is still the same the only difference is right now they are worse is because these. trillions of dollars were. the subsidies that were really in a worse position than we were or this is what. america's great recession has chipped away at the middle class exacerbated when listeners and resulted in at least fourteen million unemployed citizens. just last month zero

jobs not one was created meantime wall street executives broke records last year pulling in one hundred forty nine billion dollars in pay in compensation according to analysts the u.s. is approaching its highest level of inequality since world war one if you're not in the top ten or twenty percent you're significantly poorer than you were in two thousand. i mean that in two thousand and eight you were making one fifteenth as much money as the wealthiest people in the united states we've seen you know corporate profits make profits record breaking profits in some cases three years after the crisis and why is that they're taking the risks with investor you know investors' money depositors' money that they were taking before and why because they know they'll be bailed out if there's a problem in two thousand and eight u.s. credit agencies fail to forecast the problem reading lehman as

a secure investment just one week before its historic bankruptcy very little has changed with their business model the only thing that really has changed is that there's once more skepticism towards them the collapse of lehman brothers ignited a perfect storm of economic distress and here around the world three years later problems that caused the crisis remain unsolved many economists are predicting that this means another economic collapse isn't just probable it's inevitable. not artsy. as the world labor savoy drag a double dip recession things are looking much brighter on wall street the construction of an underwater cable between new york and london will speed up market trades by some six million seconds and that calculates to roughly one hundred million dollars more in annual profits for big investors and that's not sitting well was our chief financial guru. is high frequency trading and this three

hundred million pound project i mean high frequency trading is looting. and now this is what i don't understand why david cameron in the u.k. he castigates the looters and the rioters but all they're doing is emulating j.p. morgan bankers they're looting this is a high frequency trading looting and they're getting the government they're getting these people who are looting you know sticks of juicy fruit gum on the street because they're having their money stolen to pay for high frequency trading looting of course they're going to be looting of course you invited this into your own homes because you support looters at the banks in the city of logic because david cameron lives alluding he is in fact a terrorist is no they say that not to be glib i say there's a political cameroon and all born are terrorist or financial terrorists. and it catches all kinds of report later this hour here on r t. now tensions are increasing in cost civil authorities and the serbian breakaway region are planning a new attempt to take over a few border crossings in a serb dominated north

a previous stand in july result in clashes in which a policeman was killed serbia has called for an emergency un security council meeting to prevent a possible repeat of the large scale unrest cost us prime minister has responded by using serbs of violence in the region russia's representative to the un told r t the international forces in the region seem to be taking sides and that isn't helping the balance of the situation the full interview with italian to again is coming up next hour but here's a preview. into action was a most of the of course will bring you know sort of this and push them or basically . more than possible by force citing all sorts of arrangements of the customs situation administered it would have to be a proper province of course or potentially to make requests is a crisis of the another very disturbing element of the. is that the international

presence is that which of in order to preserve peace they seem to be cooperated with a pretty big. hold of this meeting is going to take place in order to prevent those dramatic developments of course of the book to me this will be reality chip or whether indeed there's a curator also we in the united nations are interested in preventing disputes and peaceful mediation. a deal to deploy an american radar system in eastern turkey has been agreed by the two countries it's hard nato backed missile defense plans it comes just a day after washington struck a similar agreement with romania under which interceptor missiles and over one hundred military personnel will be based on romanian soil caught a version of plans are designed to fan europe against the possibility of attack from states like iran and north korea but bruce the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space believes that's not what the fans feel it's really about

. the u.s. is using nato and nato expansion as the i think a quarter of a carrot to draw you know other countries like turkey enormous making them feel like they're going to be taken care of by the european union. but clearly what we're talking about here is major tensions in the region between united states missile defense deployments that are now going into poland. turkey and other countries in the coming years as well as nato expansion throughout the region we're still you basically in sort of russia at the same time the u.s. is doing the same thing to china with its bases in missile so that's the point and south korea okinawa. u.s. is the point patriot missile defense systems on your i want and so this is clearly trying to control and you can see in both russia and china. now let's take

a look at some other stories from around the world the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has vowed not to retreat from plans to push for statehood at the u.n. next week and that's despite reports step the palestinian leadership has decided to water down dear application senior u.s. and international envoys are in the region trying to revive stalled peace talks with israel and make the palestinians draw an airplane. around six thousand students joined a march for free education in chile's capital the majority were peaceful although police did resort to tear gas and water cannon against some demonstrators and iran of governmental talks to resolve the issue are continuing thousands of students have been skipping classes for months to show their discontent at the risk of losing scholarships. the commander of the twenty eighth expedition to the international space station has handed the station over to his successor mike fossum the leader of expedition twenty nine phrase his colleagues

leadership saying he perfectly overcame every challenge she faced christine will and their mission undock and head back to earth on friday. well sometimes you have to leave russia if you want to get to know it better this week a special series of r.t.s. russia close up reports come from outside the country from norway's spitzbergen archipelago russia owns about a third of the territory having to develop a remote coal mining community there during the soviet period some boy who went there and found out following the collapse of the use of sark the area has actually become more important for russia. it cost her violence but in the devil and the deep blue sea could be used to starve the swedes bergen archipelago was a lot like order to recruit for the us not entirely its own yet not food for in a form pulls between north america and western europe and as many hope the future

base for the russian advance in the arctic. just a few words about this morning in. their lives of course yeah of course all of. the most western tourists this morning meant is a testament to the failed soviet envisions the town of barons burke once a flourishing mining community is in his sorest a. year behind the stealing facade one can also see a freshly painted the writing on the wall the russians on a living in fact they're back. it's a russian birthright to be here. every second summer in a row that telling titian coffins standing on spitsbergen decorating this kindergarten is the fiction of russia as an arc is not to project an image of an unshakable state emerging from dire straits of history in a time that still experiences difficulties with running water and electricity this

choice of priorities would have been questionable if it wasn't politically timely it was. there was a time when the soviet union was feared and respected you can't turn back time but russia should also position itself as a strong state people who visit barents big should feel like they've stepped on russian soil. technically that's already the case russian settlements on the streets bergen have greener grass because of the several loads of black soil that was brought here from siberia in soviet times it legally belongs to norway and nine hundred twenty agreement guarantees that signature is the right to conduct industrial activity on the archipelago an option fully utilized only by moscow that for decades has been mining coal here. coal produced here has always been afraid expansive but that can solve the times it was not an issue of the konami's but rather the politics cosco needed to maintain in smiling face here to this burden at any cost but our production volumes have been built just

a fraction of what they used to be but one t.v. russian presence here is still considered a matter of strategic importance of a soviet math and die hard the minds of quitman hasn't changed much in the last fifty years while the athlete composition of the workforce could make severe to feel solvent nostalgia. i'm twenty seven years old so i don't have clear memories of the soviet union but i do still read spirit is very well preserved here we have people here from ukraine will rue central asia and we all feel like citizens of one country ironically attitude toward the minds profitability is also inherently soviet it's been a loss making venture for decades he is increasing its efficiency it's politically inconvenient. coalmining is what allows russia the president's speech program to be profitable we needed one three times as much calls we do now but since the posits are finite we have to go.