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fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we've seen the inauguration of the recently elected a second president took place today learned to be long now ahead of the event we spoke to the new leader and that is next here on r.t. our special to me. we're joined today by leigh i need to be is the newly elected president of south a said yeah new credit mr to be loved thank you for finding time for our team. what will be your first start as president of the republic of south a city where. we will hold the inauguration of south a city as president and the republic's current government will be dismissed the new president will start forming a new government during our presidential campaign we came up with a name for this new government it will be a government of the people's trust so this will be our first step because the new government will have

a lot to do south the city has basically been destroyed during the georgian aggression we need to rebuild everything we will work out an integrated approach to this rebuilding process. will you continue the policy of your predecessor and you course. my predecessor worked in different conditions we will continue the course chosen by our people its goal being prosperity for our people improving living standards we are at a new stage of our republican development right now and we will act in accordance with the demands of this new stage at the. one you know. do you plan to work in cooperation with your opponent from the past elections maybe offer him a position in your government in the. senate korea it was my opponent in the election is on the presidential staff will meet very soon and we have met before i think that his expertise and professionalism would be

a great asset so we plan to work with him in the future as part of a new government of the people's trust so there is such a possibility yes there is a possibility of course. what in your opinion are the most important problems partly facing south of. rocky's my meetings with my constituents showed that there were many problems south a city was attacked by georgia several times has damaged our economy greatly so we have many problems in the industrial and agricultural sectors as well as other areas we will work on solving these problems. or has your experience in the security services useful for the successful implementation of the functions of the head of state. and i was part of the security services for many years we worked in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies through this cooperation i learned how other structures function and ministry of internal

affairs the prosecutor's office that cetera so i have experience in this area also working for the security services i traveled all over south asensio and know basically all the people in the republic so my expertise will be very useful. that the election you won was not let us attempt to elect a president inside the city and the previous election ended in scandal what is your version of those events were wrong. but. i guess you're talking about the election that was supposed to take place last november it did take place but there were political and legal incidents that made the vote illegitimate the supreme court invalidated the results of that election say we failed to elect a president at the time i think that we could revisit this issue later and figure out why the election was invalidated. the sea for years and even to the south a city is an independent state recognized but only

a few countries aren't you fearful that you'll repeat the fate of the republic of northern cyprus which has for a few decades now settled into a state of isolation from the rest of the international community. with us we're not frightened by the northern cyprus president because in the first three years of its independence south the city it was recognized by several countries and first of all by such a great state as russia who are grateful to russia for it russia has always been the first one to come to our rescue i think that the countries that recognize our independence will be followed by others we will try to create a certain image of our republic so that other countries make its new south a city a better let's hope that we will not share northern cyprus its destiny. on election day you spoke about your dream to unite south a city with a north which is we know is a member of the russian federation how do you foresee this happening. it is not

just my dream it is the dream of our people we've had this dream for a century today we have an independent state but as we have the stream for our people to reunite we have been split into two parts one part lives a north a city or the other part lives in south a sect here say we held a referendum in ninety ninety two where we asked one question do we want to become part of russia people answered yes to this question over ninety nine percent did so we still have this issue and this problem cannot be solved in a day we will work together with north or setia towards reuniting our people and this is the dream that i shared before. how the relationship between south osieck in georgia developed they still see the republic is part of their territory and did not even recognize the legitimacy of the presidential election here. it is a mistake on georgia's part not to recognize the political process in south a city or as legitimate that goes for the presidential elections as well i believe

georgia should recognize our republic as an independent state the first thing georgia needs to do however is to compensate for the damage it's been dealing to us since nine hundred eighty nine georgia has attempted to start a war with the south said several times since then practically destroying it as a result georgia has not paid a penalty to compensate for that damage they're obliged to compensate for the damage they have inflicted. your relations with georgia a subject to negotiation you probably know that negotiations on that are underway in geneva. any you pretty much in stevens he talked about restoring order in the country what do you mean by that and working weeks back from this. but. yes the rule of law in south asia was a priority in my election program how shall we restore order in the country through rule of law we will need to reorganize the law enforcement agencies to make that happen the law should be above all and everyone should have by it we will bring

order through law. have to know how your relationship with russia will be formed political recognition is a key issue but what is the role of rushing the further development of your country both politically and economically. so russia our neighbor in the north was always the first country to come to our aid the events of august two thousand and eight are an example of that georgia attacked south of setia in an operation they named clearfield if russia had not interfered to save its citizens we would have suffered extensive damage we will build up our relations with russia based on the principles defined by our own people we will forever be with russia the president and the government of people's trust that we will create will work to integrate into russia's infrastructure and cooperate with it politically economically and in the areas of defense in arms trade how do you assess the situation with russian tourists to georgia who are arrested for visiting

south sake and what effect will the georgian lure have on keep my territories. according to my information is this happened on several occasions i think it does not do credit to the georgian authorities as it's a violation of human rights the georgian authorities seized the opportunity to detain people on the sole grounds that they were only georgia's territory it is not the only case of human rights violations in georgia we can observe them quite frequently in that state i know that from my own experience. and important. for the development of the countries to travel in would invest in and who is interested in some. sort of said he does indeed need investment that applies both to industry and agriculture as well as the republic's infrastructure it is in the best interest of the people of his setia and also naturally not in the least of the investors themselves we're going to create a relevant legal framework that would attract investment into south or city's

economy i believe that investors would be interested to take advantage of it and work here. with already if you have imagine that he would become president of independent south camp. i've been approached with requests to become a presidential candidate since two thousand and one this year however the circles close to me including the intellectual circles and my friends have undertaken a great effort to have me greta run for president because our republic is facing now a great number of tocs and i think that i am the team i'm planning to create who will be able to deal with these tasks i never wanted to become president for the sake of being one it's a job with a high level of responsibility and i'll do my best to live up. with. which politicians have inspired he in your political career who do you look up to. there are many politicians in history that set a good example to follow the most recent example is set by vladimir putin who's

been elected to be russia's next president as we all knew when to be putin and his team succeeded in driving russia out of a deep political and economic crisis that happened a few years ago that's why he is the politician i'm trying to look up to. where do you see south eighteen to five or ten years from now what will be like. in two or perhaps three or five years' time i see south a city as a prosperous state where people will feel it ease to go to for a vacation and enjoy their stay here as people do in the civilized western world this is the goal we should all work hard to achieve guided by the example of the leading developed countries thank you very much for the seem to be. thank you very much and many thanks to your team for coming to work here with us in south asia your quarterly welcome here anytime. good buy.

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hello welcome to the first line sports round up with me and here are the times. but not dry and i was going to square by garritan final series against auburn guard as they host a crunch time in the russian capital. chelsea insist there's still work to do after that one nil first leg big trip home to barcelona in the champions league semifinal. and play time concerns are raised about the state of the court ahead of russia's crucial cup semifinal against serbia. but first to ice hockey and the pressure is on the now moscow to pull but level in that case final series against visiting out on god not open for tomorrow the for what is right in his first match of the playoffs but want to start a morale boosting goal after striking it's right in the russian capital want to know tomorrow so far now it's into football and chelsea is a good manager roberto di matteo isn't getting carried away off to his side grabbed

a vital one though when it's time to hold his barcelona in the first leg of the champions league semifinal well i made of the out to be a druggist's all over the blues only care chance in first half stock which time despite the visitors having seventy percent of the possession hitting the woodwork twice and having the shots cleared off the line however despite boss a counterpart brought here that same chelsea and other favorites to reach the final he retires still believes all the side goes for it. no i don't think it makes sense favorites of fifty fifty for both teams to go through to the final. you know you know what to expect when you play. a newcomer it's going to be very very difficult and. we still have to believe that we might be able to school. to be in tough game instance instead of going to any of your position that goes to barcelona. we have to be the best you can we don't which is

a regime which we had lots of chances to score the only had the one good result go through us it is a great pity we didn't score but we are happy with the way we play it created needs and scoring opportunities and we are confident for the return leg pretty low you can feel well there's a you can use the turn of the europa league seven finals with an all spanish tie in madrid between athletico and balance here has thousand of them champions athletico picked up by six points during the last five league games well the match is a chance for revenge for controversially lost in the quarterfinals three years ago while portuguese five sporting years with will be doing their best to ensure it's not an all spanish final as they host athletic bilbao. tennis and men's world number one know about talk about child survived to get a labor into the quarter finals going on to call the most those that's not right so one dot dot to outmuscle less than a ukrainian alexander double pole off in three sets well before that first seed

andy murray moves into the quarter finals often hugely embedded so we tried it six times to buy down our per set and next up a murray to sixty four was well the big serving czechs national basis came from the set down to beat japan's traineeship henri paul steve jones wilfred song that held up in spirit if such a challenge my commandos would ask a drop of a straight sets victory for the spaniard. and in the meantime russia's female tennis stars are preparing for their first cup semifinal against serbia this weekend although there's been some concern about the state of the course here in moscow which has been right on top of the ice rink on the records. russia's previous encounter with thirty two years ago was no easy matter meeting you said lanigan it's over and i recently bonobo doubles with just straight past the balkans they flew too but being on home territory this time around russia will be hoping to make lighter work of the semifinal opponents i'm pretty confident all this time

playing for fans because it's for play and i'm not alone so i feel support from i see him and i feel support from the crowd especially playing now the semifinals of the federation's cup is nothing new to russia even though it's the first time it's going to be held on a clay court so business however could be rattled because they've never reached the seventies before and they're feeling to relatively inexperienced players and it looks like the crew which. was trailing behind me ranked one hundred ninety five and ninety six respectively nineteen year old crewe each and twenty year old you are not a good look the nerves get the better of them a former number one you little younger which believes rankings camp a little when playing in the fed cup i think there are players who play very good for when they play for their country no matter what their ranking is those players who are ranked very high don't really do so playing for their country so i think

it's. i think that the youngsters themselves are will aware of the pressure but spirits in the certain camp are high where all the time thinking about the. team most feared big because that's the most important thing and we don't think if we're in the same means or in the final you know it's just going by itself you know where we so i think we have a very good team and i think we really deserve to be in the same is russia greece passed last year similar finalist italy five mill in moscow only to lose out to the czech republic in the final on home soil so who's been sober and co are under no illusion that the serbs will give them a good fight i think and then your belief in that. we've never been to the final pool that's a big thing wanted to do with both parties additional motivation and they'll be trying really hard to achieve. while some spent the time diplomatically talking up each other's chances others raise the issue of the ports quality built in a short time frame and over in

a high street from ls they have been claims that the freshly leave clay is lumpy and is causing holes i hope real good. for this match. because you know it like you know the court it's not so good in this moment but really they're doing everything to prepare the court for the victim now it's not entirely clear whether or not current boyfriend alexander ovechkin was consulted over how to play on ice but world number twenty one maria kirilenko seemed calm but the status quo is something different and i never heard the rhythm of a victim with quicker than i was so it's ok i'll just finish with this. it'll be a case of experience versus determination when these two teams meet on saturday and sunday and despite hundreds favoring russia to win service plays a game to prove otherwise might have changed r.t. moscow. golfing history has been created in china as

a local paper has become the youngest ever player to tee off at an event on the european tour and one down the line is just thirteen years and a hundred and seventy three days old he started playing the sport that he was for i was crowned world champion for his age group last year his opening round at the inaugural china was a little less spectacular as a teenager could only manage a five of a possibly so but still not a bad up at. england's matthew bolton leads the way by one stroke and seven under the twenty six year old is also in his working on that so well the biggest thing that peter has that is six shots bass quite a whole chapter this week he finished third to last us a fortnight ago. while less than one hundred days to go before the london olympics russia are targeting at least the place and the overall battles tumble the country's top athletes coaches and sports officials gathered together in moscow to discuss their preparations for the games the national olympic committee has yet to announce their overall medal targets those sports federations are aiming high and

hoping to produce a combined total of thirty dogs however possible champions or worry of any untimely injuries that could spoil their plans. for his you've got it right here is our basketball team here's what some would say keep player stranger is some of the hardest part you know preparation sister trying to find new leaders but probably the young grandson a step up for the girl that the previous picks are such an important tournament and you have to be one hundred percent ready and i like individual sports is a team sport so every single player in cloud is of value so first of all must try to avoid injuries because there were too many of those at the recent will come out even though we won it but it looks like it doesn't i'm not practicing any new technical elements instead i'll be refining my old program because the european championships come before their lympics and only after their tournament i may make some changes. and while london is making its final preparations for the summer olympics the black sea resort of sochi will pick up the baton for the winter games

in two years' time the british ambassador to russia tim barrow visited the southern city and said he was pleased with the progress there in british design stadium and other facilities what's right along the only games. and the legacy was central to. it when we actually won the game and we were discussing. how various buildings would be used after the sochi games for instance the stadium used for football in the future so similar challenges for anyone who doubts it would be games and that's why we think it will be very useful. to talk to each other just before and after the game. well or a sport be on the olympics and an athletics team comes lavish praise on moscow's preparations for next year's world championships that is making sport complex will host the event off also staging athletic competitions at the nine hundred eighty summer olympics but it needs to be refurbished for future events for the stadium

the renovations will be starting i think very very shortly and this is really good for having laying down the new track and having everything the state of the art. transportation plan. is being looked to ensure that. in moscow where some part of the traffic can be on the high end everything will be seamless what we are facing and i think very soon the public will be discovering the prices for tickets the ticket program. and that's all the sport for this thursday and they will be waving to kick off fridays bulletins from a spot in. the

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