we just knew, am i right mikhail? we just got along, it was a lovely evening and we knew it was in the air and the negotiations were easy. it was not hard. >> rose: how are you involved other than the fact that you are involved with the foundation, run the foundation and have a prominent role in the cultural life of the country? >> you know, just when the project of the arena just appeared and through-- you know it was a kind of challenge for me. i realized that the famous bam-- brooklyn academy of music sds a neighbor to the future of the arena and that was a great chance to unite sports and culture and i'm kuwait sure that sports is-- this is a very important part of culture and now quite a lot of people say that sports-- it's really new art. in a way i quite agree. so that's-- it was a great-- arena with bam and to create this cultural neighborhood and as i understand that was a great idea of the bam for a long time, to create this cultural center. so i'm happy to help a little bit. >> rose: what does it mean for b

was georgian president mikhail saakashvili search to step down after a goalie election outside please his party only margarines on a table vulnerable to legal action. you saw russia under around the world this is our see with me thanks for joining us it's torture violence and arrest was used by human rights activists in bahrain to describe the government's attempts to crush and to regime support in the latest incident a riot police move to disperse a funeral procession for a protester who died behind bars after he was allegedly denied proper medical treatment on his policy or has known that. the twenty two year old political activist has died while in police custody in bahrain mohammed was sentenced to seven years behind bars for participating in pro democracy rallies not that i'm saying pro-democracy rallies his family and his lawyer claimed that he was suffering from sickle cell anaemia and he died while in prison because he did not receive adequate medical treatment now thousands of people gathered on tuesday for his funeral procession but have resulted in clashes between protester

heading to the polls and what is billed as a landmark parliamentary vote for the country president mikhail saakashvili is reading policy faces a tough challenge from the united opposition with his campaign he depart on occasions of corruption and a prison abuse scandal he's an exciting russia bullets now found a nice. running in this election but the main battle is understood to be between the party of the president the ruling party of the united national movement and the businessman who's fortune makes up almost half of the country's budget mr ivanishvili has sponsored georgian dream it's actually in fact an alliance of six opposition parties on saturday the country saw the biggest political rally in its modern history with two hundred thousand people protesting in the streets and definitely this adds a lot of spice to this election the importance of this election is that. when he steps down next year the parliament of the majority parliament will be able to elect the prime minister who according to new amendments in the constitution will have almost the same powers as the president so de

bar mikhail senior researcher on middle eastern issues at the fried think tank live from madrid thank you. thank you. russia wants turkey to come clean about its claims its after a damascus bound plane was forced to stop in on car over suspicions it was carrying russian made arms to the syrian army. plus has been admits it sent the drone caught spying over israel's tightly controlled airspace experts say it signals a writing us for war details after a short break. it always amazes me the lengths that people go to for things that are pointless people camped out for a week waiting for a new i phone that will be archaic by next year when the next one comes out every black friday many thankfully not all americans celebrate this holiest of shopping days by waiting outside of a wal-mart in the early morning to fight over trendy plastic gifts for their children that they're too young to appreciate hey even i'm willing to sometimes wake up early in the morning to drive downtown and pay twenty five bucks for parking to watch a football game under cations but just imagine a world where we actua

natalia and mikhail met each other on this roof they watched many sunsets and sunrises together before finally getting married. this is the lights all know oh yes let's go and. students animal drac and shrooms can boast an even more romantic ascent. careful sit down. to the peter the great statue by. telly in moscow. they touch the flag at the very top one hundred meters up they say this is their most tremendous victory ever. yet these are the greatest. greats. today there are several hundred climbers in russia doing it on a permanent basis climbing more and more dangerous heights every time. they have their own celebrities their own parties groups and social networks and their own websites. they know each other and even if they've never met in person they will definitely recognize one another and they meet for the first time as if they have known each other for many years. this summer gave his sweetheart another room on to present a trip to st petersburg to the scarlet sails fireworks festival this was on his first visit to the city which became a place of love for them and a source i

polls against a backdrop of prison abuse, a scandal that has damaged the once-popular government of mikhail saakashvili. his name rivals -- his main rival was to move the country into russia. it is not clear when the outcome will be known. let's go live to our reporter following the ballot in georgia. some confusion about the outcome, with both major groups claiming victory. do you have any further details? >> these elections have been a close race from the beginning. what we now hear from tbilisi, is that these elections obviously have turned out to become a victory for the opposition. the opposition -- the ballots showed that -- the exit polls showed that opposition leaders -- the opposition led by the oligarch who is accompanied with the president of georgia. >> is at stake? will this determine the future of the country -- >> what is at stake? will this determine the future of the country? >> this parliament will become more powerful for next year on, so does the prime minister. they suggested that this might have been done by president saakashvili to keep his grip on power after he has

were in the kontinental hockey league spot our moscow thrashed an amen for one on home ice you go mikhail of open for the muscovites in the open period the games effectively done and dusted in the second where the host added three more goals the third period was merely a formality as the men's side pulled one back a consolation for one was the final score. and the other games you layer need a shootout to beat out for three spots at moscow but no problems against another men's the red and white victory for ones you see in seven star wars one the winners are the number rigger ukrainian side donbass but yes lost their homes it is well in the late game of the day that moscow be slower than three two in slovakia. so it has been three weeks since the n.h.l. lockout was announced since then the continental hockey league has gone from strength to strength with the world's brightest stars moving across the ocean and here are some of the most spectacular moments of the k h l has produced in the last ten days. so. that is all from the world of sport for now but there's plenty more later here on r.t.

plans georgian president mikhail saakashvili is urged to step down after a grueling election upset leaves his party on the margins and him vulnerable to a legal contract. and in one use the in fifteen minutes time stay with us for the latest sporting action without injury. hello welcome to the sporting these are the headlines box barcode the muscovites lose three two to celtic in the champions league article seeding a lot. last minute goal in the russian capital. plus rallying the troops they need less he calls on his players to redefine their full as they prepare to face italian giants milan. finding talk of the possible sleeper clash between heavyweight world champion starting a cliché arm russian alex and the perfect edges closer despite differing opinions on when the back should take place. but first bottom moscow's hopes of seeing the knockout stages of the champions league this season have suffered a massive blow the red and whites beaten three two at home to sell take meaning they are without a single point after two games it was a thrill at least in a key celtic going one nil up a

and georgian president mikhail saakashvili to step down up programming election upset leaves his policy. and him vulnerable to legal action . lines now there was heartbreak for spartak moscow in the champions league last night with the details and the rest of the sport has an injury. hello there thanks for watching and these are the headlines spartak spark the muscovites lose three team to celtic in the champions league are to concede in a last minute goal in the russian capital. last rallying the troops only coach gillispie calls on his place to refinance all this day prepared giants milan. was actually from the north american star shines for service style and therefore nowhere planned. but first bought out moscow have only got themselves to blame after their three two defeat to celtic in the champions league last night that is according to red and whites midfielder demi dizzying celtic took an early lead in moscow through gary hooper before and money well in many cases already this side of the break to hand the advantage but it all went horribly wrong for the russians after that they

miles georgian president mikhail son treaties to step down after a grueling election absence and leave his party on the margins out of the bottle people and show. no need for you in fifteen minutes time get ready now for the latest sports news without injury. thanks for watching and here's what's coming up over the next few minutes. the muscovites really treated to celtic in the champions league up to conceding a last minute goal in the russian capital. part rallying the troops in the coach gillispie calls on these plays to read find their fortunes they prepared to face italian the giants milan. five feet tall the possible superclass between heavyweight world champion study creech go arm russian alexander that came closer. but first spot of moscow's hopes of reaching the knockout stages of the champions league have suffered a massive blow to the red and whites beaten three two at home to celtic meaning they are without a single point after two games it was a thriller at least in the key celtic's taking nearly lead through gary hooper before emanuel i mean he scored he decided to break

happening in more than thirty five cities around the world today and with regards to catalonia morocco mikhail a senior researcher at the european think tank fried says it's part of a bigger problem. this really reveals a kind of a kind of real crisis either in spain or in a lot also a few up in countries and obviously we can disconnect the cats are doing issue from the global financial crisis that is going on in the european union but that said when it comes to. this such reducing of a noble prize to the european union obviously it comes into contradiction with both europe. the union is doing going to europe and what. he's doing in the rest of the world so i think that's i mean the same way that we've seen at the same way that happened a few years ago when obama got the nobel prize i think that what is going on is that we can see it that the nobel peace prize is much more symbolic and stands us in what it called process or decision that has the aim of just favoring some actors in order to push them to do better than what they are doing russia has rebuffed turkish claims that a damascus sponso

russia's top male tennis star mikhail youzhny will have to wait until next year for his four hundred career victory that after losing to spain's marcel granollers in the first round of the paris mask. it was a contest that was over in just eighty eight minutes known as coming through to win six four six three after breaking news and five times usually has a career record of three hundred ninety nine wins and two hundred and eighty eight the fates another nice basketball's new n.b.a. season starts in just two days' time and there are some rockets new signing james harden will make and then mediate impact the point guard that they dismantle join the rockets he will say brought in jeremy lin and center massey hard numbers from last year's runners up oklahoma the twenty three year old signing a sixty million dollars deal over four years and is expected to make his debut against detroit wednesday used to believe they have a man who make a big difference on the court harden itself believes he will have more responsibility. i don't think that you're a dome i think he is a great great player

now in tennis russian mikhail youzhny is out of the shanghai masters following a first round defeat to the hands of viktor troicki the brought up a six three two six six four victory meanwhile american johnnies news through to the third round he saw off kevin anderson of south africa also advancing to around three full of the straight sets win over martin fly zone into the backyard of man david asco and one monaco are about to start their second round match. and finally moscow played host to the american football finals over the weekend four teams from across russia competed as the sport tries to increase its fledgling found base in the country which about portland has more. it's a world away from the n.f.l. but the teams from moscow and juliane been schooled competing in the russian american football final this was their very own super bowl the sport is growing quickly around the country and in just two years the number of teams competing has moving tripled. good for the ceiling. has helped to coach a collegiate level in the states but still room for improvements in drawing yeah it's

now in tennis russia mikhail youzhny is out of the shanghai masters following their first round defeat at the hands of victor the serb wrapped up a six three two six six four victory meanwhile american john is not through to the third round he saw kevin anderson of south africa and chile also advance into round three following a straight sets win over martin please honest with fernando verdasco also needed just to set the progress against one monaco meanwhile the recently crowned u.s. open champion andy murray has dismissed talk he could end the season as the world's number one. it's almost impossible to finish number one i don't know why i keep getting asked about i'm about three thousand points behind novak which is the equivalent of winning here one in paris and winning in london and him losing in the first round of every turn which isn't going to happen so the number one ranking is not something i'm focusing on this and i want to try and finish the year as best as possible and. elsewhere to make a child battle between russia's brightest hockey stars pavel datsyuk and only a couple

georgian president mikhail saakashvili is urged to step down after a grueling an election upside leaves his party on the margins and him vulnerable to legal. news from russia and around the world this is our see with me our thanks for joining us after four explosions have rocked the central square of syria's largest city of aleppo reportedly killing around thirty people the blasts were thought to have been caused by car bombs and world followed by heavy gunfire that toxic place at this city's main square there is controlled by government forces and according to activists and nearby military social center may have been the targets terror bombings again security facilities have become increasingly common in syria's long lasting civil war and similar types of work carried out on a military school and army headquarters in damascus last week and some of these attacks are now joined live by. pakistan terrorism ground zero hello welcome to the program so rebel groups have claimed responsibility for the lion's share of similar bombings across syria are today's explosions just the latest in a st

secured more than half the vote despite the high poll ratings of the ruling party backed by president mikhail saakashvili. now explains what brought defeat for the president and this are lies. it was a jubilation like never before seen in billy c. it felt like georgia had won the world cup. their win was not yet been found but thousands took to the streets to celebrate supporters of it it was this in particular that in central square policing played out to the exit poll results suggest that their party could be victorious in the parliamentary elections something hardly any one of them we have expected on the job months ago last year the ruling party is rating was at seventy percent and nobody could challenge that so confident was saakashvili that he amended the constitution granting more powers to the prime minister a position many predicted he would eventually feel himself little did he know he was digging his own hole while he made this changes to the constitution it was a dream that he never see the parliament these are the majority of. it that's legal that's flare however this situation d

and in tennis russian mikhail youzhny is out of the shanghai a mess. following a first round defeat at the hands of big sur troitsky this serb wrapped up a six three two six six four victory meanwhile american dries there it is through to the third round kevin anderson of south africa mary chip it shows advance teams around straight sets win over more think lisa slovakia turn on the verge also goal so just the two sets to progress against one waterhole meanwhile the recently grabbed us open champion andy murray as it dismissed all the good it and the season as the world's number one. it's almost impossible to finish number one i don't know why i keep getting asked about about three thousand points behind novak which is the equivalent of winning here one in paris and winning in london. him losing in the first run of every tour which isn't going to happen so the number one ranking is not something i'm focusing on just want to try and finish the year as best as possible and. and finally let's get back to football in russia where the premier league is say

election is without provocations and the people who committed these crimes are punished especially mikhail saakashvili duchy was arrested by traffic police the day after we met officially for resisting orders he was given ten days in prison meanwhile to save face president saakashvili was busy sacking the police chief arresting all the officers shown in the video footage and substituting the staff in all prisons with police but both his and the ruling parties readings still dropped my newly twenty percent. allergic portion of the government supporters used to come from several servants now many of them are resigning in a crossing over to the opposition with an average salary around four hundred euros dog. poverty is another issue sparking public disapproval in shiny new buildings kind that here in georgia with a population half the size of paris change is going to happen fast the question is how bad the georgians want them to go to school of the. three members of the russian punk band pussy riot pain caught in moscow to appeal against their prison term they were sentenced to two years in j

russia's top tennis star mikhail youzhny will have to wait until next year for his four hundred career victory that after losing to spain's marcel granollers and the first round of the paris masters it was a contest that was over in just eighty eight minutes granolas coming through to win six four six three after breaking news in the five times usually has a career record of three hundred ninety nine wins and two hundred eighty eight defeats. possible new n.b.a. season starts in just two days' time in history rockets new signing james harden will make an immediate impact to the point guard the latest man to join the rockets we've also brought in jeremy lin and center seek hard and was brought from last year's runners up oklahoma the twenty three year old signing a fifty five million dollars deal over four years and he's expected to make his debut against detroit on wednesday who still believe they have a man will make a big difference on court will harden himself believes he'll have more responsibility. i don't think that you're a dome i think is a great great player. playing on an all

the results are putting the opposition a little over fifty percent with the you and them party of mikhail saakashvili trailing at around forty percent but the biggest concern which is growing now is why this is taking so long because two million people in georgia have cast their ballots and the central election commission actually promised that most of the words should be should have been counted by morning on tuesday and so far it's only been a quarter of the votes which is causing some concerns among the opposition that the pro-government forces may be stalling the vote count and maybe stalling the opposition's victory and indeed these concerns are backed up by one incident which was recorded by n.g.o.s called international transparency also causing some worries in the city of freshly armed men a masked man presumably a spec ops of the government troops entered the polling station after it was closed and at the end of this company the international transparency reports that after they left all the results of this particular polling station were changed so there are certain indications t

election is without provocations and the people who committed these crimes are punished especially mikhail saakashvili duchy was arrested by traffic police the day after we met officially for resisting orders he was given ten days in prison meanwhile to save face president saakashvili was busy sacking the police chief arresting all the officers shown in the video footage and substituting the staff in all prisons with police but both his and the ruling parties readings still dropped when you. twenty percent. urge portion of the government supporters used to come from civil servants now many of them are resigning in a crossing over to the opposition. the average salary or room four hundred u.s. dollars per month globally is another issue sparking public disapproved it in shiny new buildings that. change is going to happen first the question is how did georgians want them to go to school all of these. cranes highest court has rejected appeals by nine medics who are who were handed prison terms for their alleged role in the pro-democracy uprising the original case drew criticism from the un an

different sorts of bloody cold it dos and forceful change of governments in the outgoing president mikhail saakashvili came to power as a result of the revolution so this may well become the first days in this country's history of a peaceful transition of power. r.t. reporting from billy c. in georgia and a few minutes to major has this hour's business update. culture is the same on the taxpayers' money i mean when i see him a real craziness. calling austerity reeling from one crisis to another the western world the rescue of the banking and financial sectors the. good news a secret laboratory to mccurdy was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans in. this is why you should care only on the dot com. mission free clinic asian free transfer judges free arrangement free. free. to tide free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media don carty dot com. such. i don't welcome to the business updates on our team let's move straight

movement won in recent elections stood up in front of the georgian parliament under tact his opponent mikhail saakashvili and his party for provoking the two thousand and eight war over south ossetia calling it a grand provocation he addressed directly saakashvili m p's saying you are to blame for the current damaged relations with russia and that the americans and europeans recognize this. he went on to say that he does consider south asserted to be part of georgian territory but he's also hopeful for the future that maybe not tomorrow maybe not the day after but eventually these states or sisters of south are certain and also are scars yes that you another territory which was contested which can be agreed with russia and relations could then improve. the casualty figures for the five day war which started in august two thousand and eight range from the hundreds to over a thousand it started when georgian troops attacked the territory of south or setia russia then responded to protect its citizens living there and pushed the georgians out shortly afterwards russia recognize the independence

clean sweep through parliament and top of its wish list is getting the country's lame duck leader mikhail saakashvili to step aside the president's near decade of undisputed rain hit the buffers when the opposition blocked sealed victory in the parliamentary election from tbilisi here's an exit. it felt as if georgia had won the world cup in the streets celebrated the surprising win by the opposition and despite fears the ruling regime may somehow hambre destroy so. soon their worries were swept aside by the president himself. it is evident that the georgian dream coalition has secured a majority this means this parliamentary majority has to form the next government for us at least for me the views of this coalition were fundamentally unacceptable and still remain so. just six months ago in opposition when it was deemed impossible the ruling party's rating was at seventy percent and nobody could challenge that confidence saakashvili was that he amended the constitution granting more powers to the prime minister at position many predicted he would eventually feel himself little did he know

political level i'm on a grass roots level which is upsetting people but only in north africa expert mikhail says people in egypt are driven to the streets by the fact that the new government brought the change they expected. there has been a growing frustration when it comes to evaluating the policies of the government and the actual president which means that i mean you just have to look at the different demands of the people that are into and that are on the square today to just understand that what they were expecting was much more respect for human rights much more accountability for the people that have been responsible for death when it comes when it came to the to the revolution they call it in the beginning of two thousand and eleven they also asked for better process prospects when it comes to economic perspectives when it comes to two to having a power of power of perseus and so on and this is why we can see that this is the first accountability that they're asking for since people don't really feel the difference between what the curate under former president hosni mubarak. meter

election is without provocations and the people who committed these crimes are punished especially mikhail saakashvili duchy was arrested by trying to kill me. the day after we met officially. he was given in prison meanwhile to see fees president saakashvili was busy sacking the police chief arresting all the officers shown in the video footage and substituting the stuff in all prisons with the police but both his ruling parties readings still dropped when you reach twenty percent. of lurch portion of the government supporters used to come from civil servants many of them resigning and crossing over to the opposition with an average salary around four hundred dollars a month is another issue sparking public disapproval in shiny new buildings can't hide that. georgia with a population half the size of paris changes. the question is how the georgians want them to skin of. the sea and coming up later this hour calling for an end to the rule of brasil thousands more crowded to the streets of paris to demand an end to tough austerity that plagues the people. later prepares to leave afghanistan

let's cross to say at a show in tbilisi for more on the announcement i would say what exactly did mikhail saakashvili have to say. really a statement is as sensational as the outcome of this vote you may eventually become he already said despite the voting both still continuing that he spoke to a. defeat and now will work in opposition but despite that statement there are still growing concerns among the opposition members that the governing forces may still be stalling the outcome of this vote the vote count is going very slowly it's less than three million votes to be counted but ever since the polling stations closed last night less than thirty percent of the votes have been counted so far and also the international ngo called international transparency in georgia reported a very serious violation we received a footage of mosques to men entering a polling station in georgia taking everybody out from the polling stations and the that n.-g. o. claims that the result at this particular polling station was altered in the favor of the ruling party the u.n. am despite that still the vote cou

towards glazing for nothing support for the move in berlin is shrinking says journalist and writer mikhail those deficit targets are impossible to meet everybody knows that so the government is counting on the e.u. to ease those targets now the problem is that isn't it targets doesn't mean that the government is going to ease it so said it's the policy is in fact the e.u. has quite an extraordinary said that spain is doing too much is doing more than the specter so let's say that we have in spain. a very a very much of an activist prime minister who volunteers more austerity than it's needed by the creditors quite an extraordinary thing i believe now there's something new and is that germany is not keen on spain asking for the bailout because that would open the way for what is known as mr druggists ice cream that is a schema by the european central bank to buy and unlimited quantities of bonds from the spanish debt the germans doesn't want that they don't want that and so they want to block the only way to block that he says spain not asking for the bailout so unless all these things are

election is without provocations and the people who committed these crimes are punished especially mikhail saakashvili duchy was arrested by traffic police the day after we met. surely for resisting years he was given ten days in prison meanwhile to save face president saakashvili was busy sacking the police chief arresting all the officers shown in the video footage and substituting the staff in all prisons with the police but both his and the ruling parties readings still dropped when you reach twenty percent. of a large portion of the government supporters used to come from civil servants many of them resigning and crossing over to the opposition with an average salary around four hundred us dollars a month poverty is another issue sparking public disapproval in shiny new buildings can't hide the. change is going to happen fast the question is how bad the georgians want them to scan of the. london plans to set up a new system of secret courts has been rejected by one passing the coalition the liberal democrats but it might still see the light of day of day i should say documents show th

happening in military five cities around the world today but with regards to catalonia mikhail seeing a recession had to go in think tank right that's part of a big problem. this really reveals a kind of a kind of freedom crisis either in spain or in a lot also a few countries and obviously we can disconnect the cats are doing you know issue from the global financial crisis that is going on in the european union but that said when it comes to this this attribution of a noble prize to the european union obviously it comes into contradiction with boasts what the european union is doing on the european level and what the european union is doing in. the rest of the world so i think that i mean the same way that's we've seen the same way that happened a few years ago when obama got the nobel peace prize i think that what is going on is that we can see that the nobel peace prize use much more a symbolical stance or symbolical process or decision that has the aim of just favoring some actors in order to push them to do better than what they are doing. russia has rebuffed turkish planes that