flip around flip flop around on positions but i think really it's a referendum on obama that's what the experts say 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 can keep 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 of 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 that must face the economy what are the challenges facing romney at this election's and the selections 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 like this instance south romney completely distance in 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 another many women who are against abortion. they're 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 supported. 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 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 the romney has any advantage or writes 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 foreign policy won't traditionally hasn't 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 the deal is. they're criticizing obama on syria as you 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 these issues 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 for 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 d.c. 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 this 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 to. because of that.

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up. dropped captain andrea shaaban is a method from the russian squad by new manager fabio capello with two world cup qualifiers coming up next month. continental quest after a six drubbing of. find out they europa league group stage opponents are being also involved in the first round draw. chordates maria sharapova continues her quest for a second grand slam title of two thousand and twelve as she takes on wildcard mallory in the third round of the u.s. open. but first new russian manager fabio capello has named the twenty four man squad for his first competitive matches in charge there's a prize a mission with captain andre are sharp and dropped the thirty one year old has come under criticism recently after captain captaining russia during the disappointing euro two thousand and twelve campaign russia have two world cup qualifying matches next month against northern ireland israel strikers roman pavlyuchenko and pavel

pogrebnyak have also been limited goalkeeper played in a couple of places modify if they were earlier this week and out his retirement from international football. elsewhere following the draw for the champions league yesterday on friday clubs competing in the europa league found out their group stage opponents two russian clubs were in the first round draw because he thinks angie darksiders that alkmaar six no on i could get in qualifying for in group a with five time european champions liverpool italian club you days a young boy of switzerland. for rubin who qualified by virtue of winning the russian cup group h. against the tally in giant inter milan and part of the grade of serbia well nothing will become the first team ever from azerbaijan to compete in the group stages of european competition. you know when i played there with the national team it was such a long trip to get to the ground was small but there was

a really great atmosphere it will be a tough game on going to see real world back to domestic matters where game week seven of the russian premier league is underway defending champions in a fresh new voice mordovia three nil and surrounds thanks to a twenty fifth minute goal in constantine's nearly an hour and a second operation alexander persian gulf luciano's polities man are now three points clear of the top having played the game more than their nearest rival. meanwhile in monaco chelsea are present at the dreaded just kicked off the european super cup eleven club one europe's premier competition the first time in their history by. unicom penalties in athletic i mean. europa league and its goal stages. now talks have taken place in moscow aimed at trying to reduce football hooliganism with a russia the place supporters groups and the premier league will present with new legislation set to be introduced next month to try and curb the problem which i'm

portrayed as more. talking football hooliganism in russia is often discussed however every season the same all problems seem to occur of 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. 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 state duma will discuss this problem will also look to try in downhill things like clothes instead as this has a negative impact on the game. it's all too common at stadiums around the country despite heavy fines from the way for our techniques are still let off of champions league and europa league matches the clubs of ones who have to foot the bill or burrows who are guilty of bringing foreigners into the grounds often get away with

a fine of just a few euros. even courts. will be looking to liaise with clubs and fans to try and make stadiums safer places and the new legislation will be much tougher on 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 have often campaigned for stewards take the place of police in football stadiums as this became crossed. much of europe this may have some effect in reducing the problem however the only way football hooliganism can really be tackled is if the troublemakers are held accountable for their actions. but the laws and fines football hooligans for us have to be tougher if they're 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 the issue is a fine of ten euros it's nothing 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 really good news is taken however it seems very good for a cheese finally there is a problem but it's crucial that the new legislation being discussed is implemented and comes down hard on blues 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 her favorite mallory debt now there's already been a shock however came a clijsters konqueror laura robson has been tonight seemingly now in three sets becoming the first british woman into the last sixteen of a grand slam for fourteen years next up for the eighteen year old is defending champion sam stosur it american bravado in straight sets tops and victoria azarenka

faces of china. in the men's draw defending champion novak djokovic she is playing and see the brazilian roger silver on the brink of victory in straight sets their fourth of spain is through to the third round after beating the dutch from the go she's going in three two thousand and nine champion plan martin del potro leads one of the usa in the early stages of the roddick later plays australian bernard tomic shafter confirming will retire at the end of the tournament. people view it as a career of a lot less a while of some hard knocks but i got to i got to play you know and i got to. playing a crowd and playing with the finals. and be the guy on a davis cup team for a while and you know. those are protests not a lot of people get you know so i as much as i was disappointed frustrated at times i'm not sure that i ever felt sorry for myself or begrudge anybody any or any of

their success. now for me no one returns this weekend after the summer break however there was nothing season all about the weather in belgium during free practice on friday the spot trucks soaked from start to finish ahead of the weekend's action salvos kamikaze as she appeared to have done better to the conditions i was fastest spaniard fernando alonso will be looking to extend his fourteen point lead over records mark webber in the drivers' championship but his teammate felipe massa also needs a good showing with his ferrari future in doubt awful for season qualifying gets underway later on saturday. now with the paralympics taking place in london disability sport is hitting the headlines this week a new sport for good foundation project was launched by laureus here in moscow mc lyte charles explains. laureus the legendary charity foundation has been busy giving its support to a new project aimed at working with disabled young sport love was labelled the

uniform sports program the plan is done in conjunction with the special lympics global games which raise awareness about talented young people with intellectual disabilities a group that is often marginalized sigel gated and formidable within russian teams to create a new world of inclusion and community through sport. of my goal is a representative 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. middle east i like seeing him of quick to get involved with the young people in a variety of sports including basketball football and floorball there was also a special treat for everyone as he was joined by three members of the recently crowd olympic synchronised swimming team that is horrible angelica to mine in the

ending beautifully channel giving their up and comers the chance to see this building tardos up close and personal to me was the cat. and it was our sex that for this was a laureus support the unified sports program in russia is sure to continue to grow and develop helping to educate the general public and the inclusion of the intellectually disabled. athletes every possibility of maybe one day competing for their own and imploring nucular chose our team or school. and finally talking of the paralympics and oscar pistorius is preparing to defend his one hundred two hundred and four hundred meter titles blade runner as he's known reached the semifinals of the four hundred meter a limping competition earlier this month but the twenty five year old south african is playing down his chances of another hat trick of golds. i just think of a really moved away from the hundred i ran my first race in the hundred meters last

weekend in sixteen months and i run an eleven point one into quite a strong headwind so i feel like i'm in good shape to see to be a feature in that race but you know that for some of the top cause of slow running quicker than i am and that's the focus will be rested for the hundred of the some of the guys on trial and running the two hundred either. but my focus is really on trying to defend my totals and then i have to be realistic and say you know the two hundred in the four hundred or probably thirty fence that i'm paid to see today. that is pretty much all from the world of sport for now but before i go i've just got time to tell you that madrid have scored against chelsea very early on in the final of the european super cup in monaco colombian striker falcao with a goal after the seven minutes i was just in to out the tenth minute that but athletic made in one that is all from the world of sport for now but there are plenty more like to here and i'll say the wild weather is next.

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moscow the russian billionaire roman abramovich has come out on top of a high profile call jule with a london based compatriot and one of the most expensive cases in british legal history the judge dismissed the multi-billion dollar challenge from controversial tycoon. in a trial which offered a rare glimpse into the lives of the super rich more in the case now for marty's laura smith in london. the final verdict in this case found against bodies which means that he won't receive a cent of the more than five point six billion dollars that he was asking for. but i want to promote it should not in court this morning. was he a dr looking very upbeat saying he had full confidence in the british legal system what was the verdict was being read he held his head in his hands and as he was leaving he appeared to have lost confidence in the british legal system now this is a case that has opened up for the viewing of the general public the murky world of

russia's maker rich and what they got up to back in the ninety's. ninety's the wild east as we called it back then we're talking about sums of money off shore bank accounts elicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash or of kools five star hotels ski resorts and enormous business deals done only on the strength of a handshake with no documentation which of course has made this case a very difficult one to judge it's brought to london to school building billion that along with their own megger expensive lawyers and walked around this court area in their shades in a menacing way but he says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that i'm over it intimidated him into selling shares in russian metals and oil companies for a fraction of what they were but abramovich says that in fact him but his own skin

whenever business partners that he was making payments to but it's all scheme but they were only for political protection. roof in russian which has become a common hollins in the legal circles here in london as a result of this case is that he did make regular payments to put his. full of political protection but he says that they weren't anything to do with the partnership they were often made in huge cash sums up to five million dollars hundred different cash and totaling several hundred million dollars he says that he paid to travel in a private jet that he bought him a french chateau and he also bought him jewelry for his girlfriend but as he wanted five point six billion dollars on top of the one point two billion that he received back in two thousand and two from which this is being one of the biggest civil trials ever held in british legal history it's been hundreds of hours and resulted in millions of dollars worth of legal fees so we've heard the results of this case

. when for. this time around we may see more cases of this nature here in london. the timeline and all the claims and counterclaims in this multibillion dollar wrangle or i want to dot com and get more insight into what went right inside the courtroom earlier today by checking our london bureau twitter feed the latest tweets say the verdict caught by surprise and he's considering an appeal was described by the judge as deluded in some of his testimony and his evidence was. weak. britain and france are warning they might bypass the u.n. altogether after turkey's push for a no fly zone over syria but strong criticism at the security council demanding

sweeping powers to protect refugees fleeing war and a move that would amount to military intervention but international reaction has been cool with strong reservations about militarizing the humanitarian effort report has this report for us now from new york all the security council remains very much divided over how to deal with the syrian crisis the high level meeting that was taking place in new york focused on the humanitarian circumstances in syria right now and how they continue to exacerbate according to u.n. officials at least two hundred twenty nine thousand syrians have fled the country in the past eighteen months spilling over to neighboring countries turkey was asked the security council to consider setting up refugee camps inside of syria that outside countries would safeguard if this is a suggestion that the syrian government say they are very much against russia and china also opposed it saying that it could only create more conflict and violence but we did hear all western countries address the security council their

representatives calling one sick. and for syrian president bashar al assad to step down britain and france the foreign ministers of those countries today made a new call encouraging for more defections within the syrian government and the syrian military the russian ambassador to deny nations vitaly churkin i did address the security council and raised the issue of the fact that the unilateral sanctions that western countries including the us britain france those sanctions that they've placed on syria are only hurting the syrians that there was up on the stool the sink is imposed by passing the u.n. security council have nothing to do with actual efforts to settle the syrian crisis they complicate the lives of average citizens and do not allow them to meet their elementary needs or fully enjoy basic human rights this is not only our conclusion but also that of an independent commission in syria we call upon nations who.