fortunately here in timor protests in greece thousands rally against cuts fail to be targeting the country's most vulnerable maybe even the most posterity hard incensed. and euro workers take their toll in the french with freshly elected president francois hollande watching his brains plummet blow by economic blow. it's a dead heat between the republicans and democrats in the race for the white house with both candidates looking to set apart their remarkably similar platform. plus russia turns the support of the asia pacific summit economic and political ties

with china growing ever stronger which could unnerved the u.s. and its influence in the region. but up next our exclusive interview with president vladimir putin where we discussed russia's budding partnership with china among other issues facing the country. hello are you watching r t with me kevin o. in a very pleased to say today that we're joined by the president of the russian federation of let him approaching mr president thank you very much for making the time to talk to us what i want to talk about first of all is the ongoing at the moment apec summit no way pick is primarily an economic vessel there's a lot of politics involved as well in the course of all the key players including you including america a lot of key players disagree on some very key issues and thinking about syria and thinking about missile defense thinking about iran is there a danger that the politics may stifle get in the way of the big economic deals that

the very same key players hoping to sign at this summit or at least talk about science and. that is true but in fact you just said it yourself a pick was originally conceived as a forum for discussing economic issues therefore we are planning to focus primarily on economic challenges transport global food security and the task of liberalizing the global economy as far as syria and other hotspots are concerned is using the currently in the limelight we will certainly address them in or deliberations of the forum in bilateral discussions or otherwise they wouldn't be overlooked the. problem of sr you touched on another big subject in the headlines the register vents that have been unfolding in syria over the last eighteen months now russia's position has been steadfast all the way along the line here you've said this should be no foreign intervention and it should be the syrian people who do the deciding it should be done through diplomacy however that's

a great idea but day in day out innocent lives are being lost on both sides is it time for something more than talking should russia be reassessing its position make me now from what i see it took a listen and put it to you so how come russia is the only one which is expected to revise its stance don't you think our counterparts in negotiations want to revise theirs as well as we'll. looking back at the events in the past few years we'll see that quite a few of our counterparts initiatives have not played out the way they were intended to take the examples of numerous countries riven by escalating internal conflict the u.s. and its allies went into afghanistan and now they're all thinking about how they can get out of the no you sure the situation there will be stable for decades to come and look at what's going on in the arab countries what concerns us from what i want to emphasize once again is the current hostilities in syria but at the same time we have just as concerned about the possible consequences of certain decisions should they be taken in or pinion the most important task today is ending the

violence we must all the warring parties including the government and the so-called rebels the armed opposition to sit down at the negotiating table and decide on a future that would guarantee security for all stakeholders in syria only then should they get down to any practical measures regarding the country's future government system we realize that this country needs a change but this doesn't mean the change should come with bloodshed i believe that the first thing to do is to stop shipping into the war zone which is still going on but we should stop trying to impose an acceptable solutions on either side because it is a dead end and i think that's what we should do it's that simple understood mr president other question i'd like to ask you a number of western arab nations have been covertly to start with supporting the f.s.a. the free syrian army in some of them doing it openly in a course the catch here is that the f.s.a. is suspected of hiring a known al qaeda fighters amongst their ranks so the twist in this tale is that

a lot of those countries are actually sponsoring terrorism if you like in syria countries that have suffered from terrible terrorism themselves is that a fair assessment was not to you know when someone aspires to attain and then they see is optimal any means will do as a rule they will try. and do that by hook or by crook and hardly ever think of the consequences that was the case during the war in afghanistan when the soviet union invaded in one nine hundred seventy knowing. that hasn't put the support of the rebel movement there and then basically gave rise to al qaida which later backfired on the united states itself today some want to use militants from al qaida or some other organizations with equally radical views to accomplish their goals in syria this policy is dangerous and very shortsighted let's turn over to the united states the upcoming election we're all looking forward to very much of course now the

reset button with russia was firmly pushed by barack obama over the last four years but. still that missile defense shield the headache for russia in the east of europe if obama does win a second what's going to define the next chapter of russia and america's relations and is it a chap that you can do business with. i believe the over the last four years presidents obama and medvedev have made a lot of progress in the strengthening russia u.s. relations we have saw in the new start treaty to go with them backed by the us russia has become a fully fledged member of the world trade organization there are more reasons to be optimistic about our bilateral relations with these two you mentioned the u.s. missile defense system is surely one of the key issues on today's agenda because it involves russia's vital interests scholars and experts understand that a unilateral solution will not in hearts global stability in essence the intention

is to upset the strategic balance which is a very dangerous thing to do as any involved party would always strive to maintain its defensive capabilities and the entire thing could simply trigger off a race is it possible to find a solution to the problem if president obama is reelected for a second term principle yes it is. but this isn't just about president obama for all i know his desire to work out a solution is quite sincere but almost before my feeling is that he is a sincere man and that he sincerely wants to implement positive change but can he do it will they let him do it i mean that there is also the military lobby and the department of state which is quite conservative let's imagine for a second we have all the solution the means from now on we jointly assess missile threats and control this defense system together this is a highly sensitive area of national defense and i am not sure that our partners are ready for this kind of cooperation got the international community so we think you

can work with barack obama if you get in one of what if mitt romney gets in a quote here from just a month or two ago this is the man that if he makes it to the white russia is without question our number one geopolitical foe they fight every cause for the world's worst actors he went on to say russia or is not a friendly character on the world stage could you work with him said. fortune yes we can we work with whichever president is elected by the american people but our effort will only be as efficient as our partners allow it to be as for mr romney's position we understand that this is to a certain extent motivated by election campaign rhetoric but i also think that he was always just clear wrong because such behavior in the international arena is the same as using nationalism and segregation as a tools of us domestic policy its effect in the international arena is the same when a politician a person who aspires to lead a nation especially

a great country like the us declares someone to be enemy a priore and by the way this brings something else to mind when we talk about the missile defense system or american partners keep telling us this is not directed against you but what happens if mr romney and believes us to be america's number one which is elected this president of the united states in that case the missile defense system will definitely be directed against russia as it is technologically configured exactly for this purpose i'd like to talk about the trial and jailing of pussy riot punk group and there's been much criticism of the sentence handed down was too strong was too much and the whole case was just made to big a deal of fat actually backfire that's brought all people to their cause with a publicist with hindsight it was a beautiful thing but with hindsight you think the case could have been handled differently i have always felt the punishment should be proportionate to the offense no i am not in the position now and would not like in any way to comment on

the decision of a russian court but i would rather talk about the moral side of the story. first in case you've never heard of it a couple of years ago one of the bands members put up three effigies in one of moscow's big supermarkets with a sign saying that jews gays and migrant workers should be driven out of moscow i think your thirty's should have looked into their activities back then. after that they staged an orgy in a public place of course people are allowed to do what ever they want to do as long as it's legal for this kind of conduct in a public place should not go unnoticed by the or thirty's then they are loaded video on the internet then they turned up at your lock of a cathedral here in moscow causing unholy mayhem and then went to another cathedral and caused mayhem there too you know russians still have painful memories of the early years of soviet rule when thousands of orthodox muslim as well as the clergy

from other religions were persecuted and so in general i think the state has to protect the feelings of believers or if you are will not comment on whether the verdict is well grounded in the sentence proportionate to the offense in which these girls must have lawyers who defend their interests in court they have the right to file an appeal and demand a new hearing they say it's up to them it is just a legal issue we've got you with us let's get your thoughts on the ongoing julian assange case in britain i'm sure you've been watching it is a legal battle with britain and with a number of other countries as well but equally his attempts to get asylum in ecuador is no god he's holed up in the ecuadorian embassy what's your opinion about britain at one point he was talking about. revoking the embassies diplomatic immunity if they could actually go in and get him that kind of sounds a bit odd when of course you think as well that russia has a number of suspects that russia wants to talk to britain is a kind of topsy turvy situation isn't it but they're given safe harbor in britain.

this certainly is an unsettling factor in our relations with the u.k. i used to tell my previous counterparts and friends in the british government not those holding office at the moment the britain happens to be harboring certain individuals who have blood on their hands having waged a real war on russian territory and slaughtered people you know what i was told in response should compare that's exactly why. the soviet union used to do aiding people like that first of all i'm a former soviet secret service operative myself but i don't know whether the u.s.s.r. used a this sort of people or not simply because i never had anything to do with it but even if we assume it did that was back in the cold war era you know there has been a cardinal change in the settings the soviet union is history and what we have today is a new russia how can we allow ourselves to be dominated by our old phobias and outdated perceptions of international relations and the kind of relations between

our nations it's time to let them go but if we are constantly lectured about how independent britain's judiciary is it makes its own decisions and no one can influence it one about julian a song they ruled him to be extradited what is that if it's not a self evident example of a double standard i won't make a definitive statement but as far as i know ecuador has requested guarantees from the swedish government the sweden wouldn't hand a soldier over to the united states through no guarantees of being forthcoming at the very least this suggests that we are looking at a politically motivated trial that. they were young and high flying. their careers were on takeoff.

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and i thank you for joining me for the sports update and here are the top stories. from my town is lewis hamilton holds all sergio perez to win his first ever italian wrong plain wrong paul go second in the overall standings. one song with the wind u.s. open champion another job resumes his delayed sunday final against david barrett to decide who plays monday's final. and a cut above heavyweight champion to tonic which post-ops manuel cha in the fourth round to retain his w.b.c. crown here in moscow. but first of all we know on where mclaren's lewis hamilton has won the italian grand prix for the first time from pole to clinch his twentieth career victory and to go second in the overall standings this was

a dominant performance from the briton who held off the threat of sergio perez late on the mexican also enjoying a brilliant race for his way up from twelfth on the grid to pick up his third podium finish of the season for samba however the two had to share much of the spotlight with fernando alonso as his fine is stayed his ferrari to third place at their home race and now he's the championship by thirty eight points ahead of hamilton shot with seven races to go surely returning can be right can i is a point further back after coming in fifth while other title contenders hopes took a blow to including the red bull of sebastian vettel and mark webber who failed to finish along with jenson button oh i do too or it's been fantastic to win here but the fans crowd and they're just so happy for my team it's really a fantastic day was and i know it's a two to one town and it's incredible the area over. and on to tennis now andy murray is waiting to find out whom he'll face in the decider of the u.s. open as holder novak djokovic has resumed his delayed semifinal against spain's

davidge farah was postponed tornado warning box when play started again the spanish fourth seed serves out the opener six two however just which pulled back with a vengeance to take the second set in six one however the third set is looking and much tighter it's my job of each of them i'm going to fight for it and waiting in the final is andy murray the briton came from a set down to knock out big serving thomas burdick the sixth seed who beat roger federer in the last eight to the first set seven five but then murray found his rhythm and won the next six two to level the match and took the out right lead after cruising through the third six one but it did show some resistance in the fourth i was five two up in the tie break but murray he won olympic gold last month stormed back to win it nine seven and take victory in three hours and fifty eight minutes and twenty five year old will also replace rough on the dollars one of the

three when the latest rankings are published on monday. it's been growing. you know all this getting if this is true as well actually play a group that's so. so it just you know something about is just the way to get through. to be in the photo and get the chance to. grow. you know that you know. this is you know probably less. like a thought i mean of course right now it's it's set of course i don't like so i don't like to lose the match and not some of them actually. in the same ways which which i thought that i had a i had a pretty good chance but you know i would say that the first order the wind blew it away from me. in the meantime heavyweight boxing champion vitaly klitschko has successfully defended his w.b.c. crown here in moscow after the korean stopped germany's money in the fourth round

at the olympic skier enough don't stop the fight after a klitschko punch opened up a cut above his opponent's ali well klitschko clearly won all four rounds of the contest but afterwards just said he felt he could have carried on and won and then oscar rematch he was told to bite. my mum i have great respect and i want you to give me in there a jones i'm sure fans in moscow germany and all with the world would like to see one more fight between me and you and i'm sure you will accept my challenge. when you were my understand your great motivation to fight me once again the problem is you're not the only one who wants it there's a lot of worthy contenders who are waiting for their turn to get a title shown you've already had your chance tonight you've proved to have a great heart and fighting spirit but you need to be patient. talented football and they fully fit russians scored have held a training session here in moscow before flying to tel aviv for their second well

cup qualifier against israel however the twenty three players spent less than an hour on the pitch after the session was cut short by writing well fabio capello's men act last northern ireland to know the locomotive stadium on friday and the top of group best ahead of portugal on goal difference but star striker alexander goth who assisted in one of russia's goals hit the post in their opener believes she's days match will be a lot tougher. when a team is playing at home always more difficult to play against i'm sure when we have to play northern ireland and bell first will find life much tougher we understand of the game against israel will be very difficult for us but we'll be going there to win and get all the points while ours where scotland and serbia opens their bids to qualify for the world cup with a goalless draw in goals go alex on the color of went close for the visitors early on that robert snodgrass had a chance for scotland midway through the first toff. it's the best opportunity of the game fell to his teammate steven naismith but is that danced past the post.

just like a blog and nothing has separate denmark and the czech republic and the only other qualifying match on saturday close to our outside of the top two in group where all the surprise leaders had a hero twenty twelve runners up. now at the paralympics three gold medals on saturday have helped to guarantee russia will finish second in the medal table with the closing ceremony now just hours away while china all way out in front with an unprecedented ninety five goals before relating to the nobody in the women's one hundred meters gold in the pool from tidal power and recalls in russia take second spot with thirty six goals almost double the number of goals by one in beijing so i successful games for the country will now focus on their own winter olympics in sochi not that i want. you expected them to triumph in such fashion but with the whole winter games in sochi looming it seems only natural that russia

had no option but to storm the paralympic gold you credit i'm doing my best to visit kids with disabilities to speak to their parents because you should never give up in any case you can bring your kid to the swimming pool or any other type of sport the main thing is not to give up have a go and go for it and you will definitely reach the london games have revealed that like many other nations britain also needed a push towards greater acceptance of people with disabilities and the local spectators demonstrated just that by buying up almost all the tickets available that prompted a question to the international paralympic committee whether similar exposure could be achieved come the next winter games in sochi i'm confident that we will achieve similar levels of. both by your spectators and also a presence of media. i mean as you said the winter sports is not as extended like

summer one and consequently we need to compare to who easing who could be interested but there is no question in my mind that all the big countries that you have here have winter sports on all of them out of going to also have a lot of infinities because. we have had here has been very important multiple paralympic medalist the get out there will be travelling home with a gold silver and bronze is also the ambassador for the twenty fourteen winter games in russia's black sea resort city of sochi so it's probably safe to say that for her the work is far from over as she is about to switch and that leads to being the country symbol of you don't think you understand who feel all the stadiums because the paralympic games are not only the greatest event for people with disabilities but also an example will. people not only in sparta and after london games i think the interest in paralympics force will increase. but.

the closing ceremony will be a landmark for the global paralympic movement and tsotsi which is the next capital of the winter games is ready to pick up where london left off and that's continuing to promote limited mobility and universal acceptance for people with disabilities calls for a for it see you from the headquarters of such it's one of the fourteen here in london. the gulf now and phil mickelson signed ten burtis to take a one shot joint lead with b.j. saying into the final day of the b.m.w. championship in indiana the california left on the car did a sixty forty challenge at the leaderboard and will start the final day on sixteen on the par along with saying well the fijian found himself in trouble on occasions but got out of it in style here at the par five fifteenth and went round in sixty nine when world number one warrior mcelroy is one strike further back on fifteen and that along with lee westwood who chipped in for birdie here at the tenth while

tiger woods is three shots off the pace after the world number three turned around i saw the start to finish with a one under par seventy one. i played well today i mean i had a lot of good shots i was really pleased with the way the round where i was it felt great to make some parts and see the ball rolling and i played very similarly yesterday but a lot of parts went up to the lip and just didn't quite ball whereas today they seem to go in. and finally to a story that proves that you should never give up or celebrate before crossing the finishing line as the moscow international peace marson ended in a dramatic draw of the sunday after running neck and neck for the whole race as the rain pelted down in central moscow russia's shoot off all the way from compatriot the cult hundred the finishing line in sight raised his arms in some abrasion only full tilt of to burst through to clinch a photo finish with a shared gold medal while the thundering rain didn't deter thousands of runners from taking part that might have prevented shootouts appearing here why was

approach we believe that there's a scene you despise. but i think having the reindeer in the marathon only helped us and thanks to you hey you know we work together and we got a great result you know and i'm very pleased with today's race. and that's often a sports ask bison.