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find out what's really happening to the global economy with. the no holds. headlines. the report. hello and welcome to our team karen terrill with your top stories the winner takes it all the loser standing small the russian self exiled tycoon bodies for his old seat is left empty handed after a drunken court dismisses his have to a lawsuit against billionaire but imo rich. turkey's pitch for

a syrian intervention head's a dead end at the new one leaving nato countries in the morning they might simply provide the security council. plus republican mitt romney accepts his nomination as a presidential candidate with a promise to show russia more basketball and critics snipe that's not his greatest asset. well with the two presidential runners now officially named r t's remain. talks to scholar and researcher of l. and about the race for the white house. what do you read into the g.o.p. convention. well conventions in the u.s. now are sort of beauty contests they're not they used to be in the history they used to have a lot more effect than nominees actually chosen at the conventions but now we have a party primary and caucus system which does that so it's just sort of

a coronation of the nominee of the particular party and they script them pretty heavily romney has complete control over the conference convention there observe you ron paul supporters that kicked up a little bit but largely even ron paul is playing the game inside the party so you don't see hardly any disputes or anything like that over the platform or anything else and no surprises all of the romney started at the very beginning of his campaign was very rough there was a lot of competition a lot of other candidates who basically discredit ahead and yet now at the convention it seems as the g.o.p. just wants from need to be the president yes well they've all that's the tradition in american politics usually is they have about a battle during the primaries call each other all sorts of names criticize each other's policy and then all of a sudden you see people who are criticizing him before when he gets enough

electoral i mean convention delegates they'll split up and then start supporting him so as it ran this time they think now for the u.s. well usually they're on the republican side they they nominate the person who lost last time the next in line the democrats are a little bit more if he but but i think it basically comes down to these conventions and surfer are surface phenomena at the don't really mean much people who actually study elections in the u.s. say it's not really between two candidates it's a referendum on the current administration so you know they could have almost anybody running and the economy is bad and it's going to be very close but i think some of the models predict obama still eking it out of. close victory but it's going to be close so those models could be off as well but i think obama has an intrinsic. advantage in the electoral college because in the united states you know we don't. as we saw in two thousand election we don't elect the president on the

popular vote it can sometimes be different than the electoral college so we really don't have a national election we have a state by state election and so. the candidates have to win so many states which add up to two hundred seventy electoral votes and so that can sometimes differ from the national popular vote totals so this could be another election where that happens we'll see obama as a slight edge in the electoral map and they kind of means that romney's policies are too far to the right and he seems as if he's moving even further to the right choosing paul ryan for instance a lot of people like isn't accuse him of wanting to. get to the right wing of the republican party do you think the u.s. is moving in that direction or is it just politics that brought him here well the republicans seem to think that they can energize their base more than the democratic base because the democratic base is kind of disappointed with obama in

certain respects and if they can energize their base they can win that way but i don't know that's a bit iffy i think they may have made a bad choice and paul ryan and i think that's choosing him said ok we're going to mobilize our base instead of going for independent voters because he would have picked romney would pick somebody that was like chris christie or somebody that was more moderate to go out to the center and that may have been a mistake because most of the conservatives are going to vote against obama. and so they really didn't need paul ryan they needed somebody to get people in the middle particularly. suburban women and you see these comments by the republican candidate. one of the senate candidates on abortion and rape. you know that really. disaffect women so the republicans led that's what happened leading up to the convention so they don't really want to talk about that the republicans want

to talk about the economy and they want all those social issues which are very divisive and might turn key voting blocks like suburban women against them so and in a close election they really need everybody on their side. i think he's able to move to appeal to the to the middle well not as much i guess somewhat it's hard to say where he stands on many issues he's kind of moved around enough that's believable but after you do that enough people you know stick you with the flip flopper type thing flipping back and forth between you know like john kerry was labeled with that. a while back for the demo on the democratic side you know if you're inconsistent on your and and mitt romney has been inconsistent on abortion and assault weapons ban and even on health care yes in fact obama and mitt romney have switched positions because used to be obama was against his own what became his own

healthcare plan because hillary originally proposed it during the primaries and of course mitt romney was the guy who dreamed up the whole thing is governor of massachusetts and now he's against that sort of thing so you never know what's going to happen or what position they're going to take but that changing of positions don't you think it's going to weaken his campaign running this campaign especially now when you're talking health care economy. jobs well i think it does certainly when you flip around flip flop around on positions but i think really it's a referendum on obama that's what the experts say who are political science used to study these things i mean they could put anybody in the in the chair and one of the key factors but not the only factor is the economy so we'll have to see if they. g.o.p. the republicans can keep you know on the offensive on the economy and if they can do that that that highlights the problem but it's not really even the unemployment rate it's the change and really. the economy would have had to improve probably by

may to help obama out and that didn't happen so that the fundamentals of the election are are set you know months in advance so we'll just see what the what the last count is but in an election this close to you know course they're pulling everything out on both both camps to attack the other one because they need every vote they can get so then let's face the economy what are the challenges facing romney at this election's and this elections well i think the main one is getting distracted by the social issues old many people don't agree with the social issues in the public and party because they're very much to the right of the population and i think those key voting groups that would be shy about voting for romney on that so they have to kind of keep that under the table but this just sort of sprang up at this senate candidate saying these things which are really quite outrageous about rape and that sort of thing and so lots of women might but this is the south

romney completely distance and south from he did on the platform and the his vice presidential candidate both say no exceptions for rape or incest in the an anti-abortion platform so mitt romney has personally done that but he's still kind of weighted with those days and it also is just kind of a big idea now there are many women who are against abortion out there and they probably will vote of course republican but you know there are if you're trying to get votes in the middle that's a key constituency the other problem that the republicans have well they have two other problems working. union worker who a lot of times support. republicans during the reagan era that's dwindled because we've had we have fewer manufacturing jobs so there's fear of those people the other thing is the hispanic population is it has been a rage by some of the republican stances on immigration so that's the fastest

growing minority and you see a lot of western states colorado nevada which used to be solid republican are moving in the democratic camp or at least neutral and so that's where oh obama has gotten an advantage on the electoral map the state by state election which is really the key election but it's a slight edge at this point on foreign policy is it seems as if economy. jobs these are the main factors of the elections here about what about foreign policy and do you think that romney has any advantage or less rights well if anything i think he has the last advantage he's trying to make a big deal about the iran thing but you know obama killed osama bin laden and here are some of bin laden is bill and number one and you know it took them ten years and george w. bush never got them so that's a feather in his cap here in the united states i think. romney has been very

hawkish but people are tired of two wars here they want to get out of these wars so i don't think if anything that's a detriment to him that he's got all these neoconservative hawkish foreign policy advisers one policy won't traditionally hasn't provided played much in u.s. elections because it's usually domestic issues and the economy and in this case it's even more so since we've had this long recession and now a long sluggish period of recovery so i think even more so people are turning inward because they want to get rid of these wars and you know get back to what they're doing and that's why it's going to be mainly on the domestic issues so if anything i think foreign policy his views probably are handicapped form but the critique that they did. they're criticizing obama on syria as he said on iran and other issues and it seems as if he's romney is trying to win base for him by criticizing obama on this issue i think they are criticizing him but most most

american voters don't really care about that to be quite blunt and so i mean they just you know they may read the newspapers and they don't know very much about these issues foreign policy and defense stuff they don't know which what our policy should be in many of the countries because they're not even familiar much with the countries but they know their own paycheck they know the educational system they know the state of the highways they know stuff and domestically and that's why u.s. elections usually tend to focus on that unless there's a big war going on or unless there's some crisis like the iranian hostage crisis during the one nine hundred eighty four jimmy carter something like that then it becomes a bit more of an issue and less than three months left for the elections obama is still leading do you think that's going to be the case for until november sixth or do you see that he's well the polls there are about even depending on which polls but those polls don't mean anything because it's state by state and i think you have to look at the electoral map and obama does have an edge there although they

kind of his bad do you think he needs a miracle for the economy to keep that lead in the elections or is it also the fact that romney has issues with health care with the economy it's not going to help obama but he probably will he's probably benefited from those. these groups that have become disaffected with republicans like hispanics you know and that sort of thing and i think he's got an electoral edge because of that i. dreaming of a luxury used sea round trip with open their entertainments. a little bit

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which brightened a few moments from funniest impressions. princetown totty don't. get fixed from. fs. first. the winner takes it all the losers standing small play russian self exiled bodies but left empty burned after a london court dismisses his head to the wall suit against a billionaire and. turkey's pitch for a syrian intervention hits a dead end at the un leaving nato countries warning they might simply bypass the security council. plus republican mitt romney accepts his nomination as

presidential candidate with a promise to show russia more backbone but critics night that's not his greatest. all right let's check out the latest sports news with paul. thank you very much carol and welcome along with to the sports headlines here's what we've got coming up continental quests six nil aggregate drubbing of oz and g find out the euro police group stage opponents rubino also involved in the first round draw. the beautiful games ugly side national fourteen's again come together in an attempt to crackdown on the ever present issue of hooliganism in football. between a rock and a hard place our team mates the world's leading competitors in the sport of

bouldering rock climbing without a safety harness board run. but let's start with football and following the draw for the champions league yesterday on friday clubs competing in the europa league found out their group stage opponents to a russian club were in the first round of those two things and jake who thrashed upside also out now six no not good in qualifying or in group a with five time european champions liverpool italian club even a z our young boys of switzerland. while reading and qualified by virtue of winning the russian cup play group make sure games italian giants into milan and partisans all great. while not seeing world economies cross to team effort from azerbaijan to compete in the group stages of european competition. it's back to domestic matters were getting week seven of the russians premier league gets underway and so on its plate on friday you boys mordovia post defending champions an eight a victory for luciano as for that his men would temporarily at least move them

three points clear at the top. meanwhile in monaco and chelsea and i found it athletico madrid go head to head in the european super cup in london for one year of the premier competition for the first time in the history. content of his in a. while working for you in the europa league healthy strike of. his former club. now talks have taken place in moscow aimed at trying to reduce football hooliganism in russia the police supporters' groups and the premier league were all present with new legislation set to be introduced next month to try and curb the problem which had been portrayed as more. tackling football hooliganism in russia is often discussed however every season the same all problems seem to occur with rival supporters clashing both inside and outside stadiums across the country part of the problem is very is no effective legislation in place to tackle the problem and this

is something we're forty's and looking to change. we're looking to bring in legislation to try and combat football hooliganism unfortunately there are no universal laws in place at the moment to deal with this problem in the autumn the duma will discuss this problem will also look to try intangible things like plays instead as this has a negative impact on the game fires are all too common at stadiums around the country despite heavy fines from the way for pyrotechnics are still let off the champions league and europa league matches but clubs are the ones who have to foot the bill or both are guilty of bringing foreigners into the grounds often get away with a fine of just a few euros bats a buried in courts. who will be looking to liaise with clubs and fans to try and make stadiums safer places and the new legislation will be much tougher than those who want to break the law we're looking at how the authorities in england and

germany have managed to deal with hooliganism they have dealt with the problem very well and will be looking to try and bring in similar laws into russia to overcome this problem. supporters groups of often campaign for sewage take the place of police in football stadiums as is book case across much of europe this may have some effect and reducing the problem however the only way football hooliganism can really be tackled is if the troublemakers are held accountable for their actions. the laws and fines football hooligans face have to be tough for if they are shown on t.v. or displayed in newspapers for what they have done then i think they'll think twice about doing it again if they choose a fine of ten euros that's nothing and to keep on causing trouble the police and the clubs need to work together to try and tackle this problem it's high time that a proper stance against hooligans is taken however it seems very good for a t's finally accept there is

a problem but it's crucial that the new legislation being discussed is implemented and comes down hard on those intent on causing trouble which you've been brutally dancey. now to the hard courts of the u.s. open tennis where maria sharapova is in third round action on day five of the competition the third seeded russian will play home favorite lottery bad debt trap of his compadres trover takes on the action so far so part of the czech republic also in action on friday defending champion sound stosur is up against american. top seeing as a banker faces of china in the men's draw defending champion novak djokovic faces and say the brazilian were a silver dollar for the space dutchman gore since may two thousand and nine champion plan martin del potro takes on ryan harrison of the usa and andy roddick will take an australian final tomic shelter confirming he'll retire at the end of the tournament. people view it as

a career of you know a lot less though of some hard knocks but i got to i got to play you know when i got to play in a crowd and playing wimbledon finals and and and be the guy on a davis cup team for a while and you know. those are between is not a lot of people get you know so i as much as i was disappointed and frustrated at times i'm not sure that i ever felt sorry for myself or begrudge anybody any or any of their success. now with the paralympics taking place in london disability sports is hitting the headlines on this week a new sport for good foundation project was launched by laureus here in moscow nicholas childs explains. laureus the legendary charity foundation has been busy giving its support to a new project aimed at working with disabled young sport lowers labor the unified sports program the plan is done in conjunction with the special olympics the global

games which raise awareness about talented young people with intellectual disabilities a group that is often marginalized segregated and vulnerable within russia detains to create a new world of inclusion and community through sport as. part of my goal as a representative of laureus is to spark children's interest in sport who travel across the globe and hold master classes for kids to show everyone the sport has the power to change the world and unite people in a way that little else carol because that's the way these four time olympic gold medalist i like seeing him of quick to get involved with the young people in a variety of sports includes in basketball football and floorball there was also a special treat for everyone as he was joined by three members of the recently crowd olympic synchronized swimming team that is horrible and julie could see mine in and doing beautifully. giving that up and comers the chance to see this building

models up close and personal anything that's because it it it was the politics that are this it was a laureus support the unified sports program in russia is sure to continue to grow and develop helping to educate the general public on the inclusion of the intellectually disabled. athletes every possibility of maybe one day competing for their own and in big lorry nucular chose team or school. now finally it takes a bold competitor to reach the summit in the sport of bouldering it's rock climbing without a safety right to break your fall and as a russian has reached the pain of the sports rebel thought that he and his more. no equipment at all. just a man with bare hands. here is the proof that is all it takes to climb broke. or a boulder as they call these massive artificial stones bouldering stirred as

a method of training for climbers back in the nineteenth century nowadays it is sports but those using their body as the ultimate to. strength exterior and even the mental skill of problem solving all put to the test in this short routes to the top this year the world cup series reached its pinnacle in munich germany with two kleinberg sharing the overall lead going into the final stage of the two thousand and nine world cup champion russians who stand game enough. and the five time top the winner. yeah there was that it was i've been in the sport for quite a long time and know killian fish hooper well he's got fantastic technique and outstanding skills when he's focused it's nearly impossible to beat him but sometimes he feels to perform at his best usually i can focus on climbing really well said just think

about climbing just about bells and the ball there so i have a strong head that are struggling so much however this time around the great australian was far from his best to rising with failing to qualify for the semifinals. did with his final touch bringing him the twenty twelve balder ruled cup although the completion was far from over with the battle for stage victory still ahead in the end game and finished the stage fourth with his compared to it neatly short of food enough proving the best in munich. and i knew i had already won three big car and it was hard to compose myself once again for the finals i tried to stay focused but it still feel different my body and my mind just refused to act with full capacity but there is no doubt the day belonged to get enough. r.t. . and that is all from the world of sport for now but there's plenty more later here

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