twenty eight days to see this group photo person going to spend the last hour might go to check the movie after the match the seventy refused to try and counter his opponent burdick apparently took offense at how marco returning a bow to hold his head during the fall said wouldn't accept your apology. there was a bit of heartbreak for the local crowd as home favorite bernard tomic was cleverly beaten by four time former champion roger federer waiting for the swiss master in the quarterfinals these points martin del potro the argentinian rolling past paul schreiber of germany. while defending women's champion kim clijsters played to an ankle injury and saved four match points to stunning french open champion li na price has landed awkwardly at three all in the first set which can be won before taking a sixteen second set time break but has to pull back the serve six pool. and the belgian will next face either world number one caroline wozniacki or the yankee pitcher with the top ranked danes cruising to

a six club score in the opening set. for velo russian victoria as a nifty forehand when you to go over the side you get to the left over the czech republic six two six two is the number three seed enjoyed getting over the string victory down and. next up for eight seed agnieszka that once got the pole needed less than an hour to overpower germany's union six one six one against a growing importance to set back to great. football in our bolton stunned liverpool three one of the reebok stadium on saturday to change their first points over the reds since two thousand and six a move out of the bottom three in english premier league meanwhile elsewhere blackburn grabbed a late george everything but stay in the bottom three dempsey became the first american to score a premier league patrick is full and came back to thrash newcastle five to keep it all moved out of the drop zone with a string one win over we're going to stay thought. graham dorrans stoppage time

free trade gave west brom their first win at the stake in ten games to want something and this one's a small game by big brother to real obvious king scored twice against his former club as aston villa one three two ten walls while the rich further dented chelsea's title hopes with a goalless draw as manager and i blush was defended striker and i don't charge as this goal is tracked has now extended to seventeen games. really are i think. the first movement to sharpen and effective. trying to get. schools that he wants is a major impact also in our offensive. meanwhile this sunday seems to be more crunch tries as leaders match the city close to third place top them while second place manchester united travel to ask griffiths.

in the meantime russian champions in it will face beckett stands olympic team in the final of the friendly match world cup in dubai after the ten month side edged russian premier league outfit one nil all it was a winner takes all match in the emirates after both sides had won their opening games against becks with a faster out of the box kenyatta i have studied croatia go take a closer thirteen minutes in. again it's just as fierce have a great chance to lever for our stuff just before the break but after some deft footwork and the throwing in the far post however rostock were given a huge boost say off the restart this is a stunt that sign me up right off the wall outside the area and were sent off but outnumbered the asian side held by a lackluster of our staff and one will it state your specs we now face a need in the final. basketball now despite resting frontman andrei kirilenko and then i can stitch discussed or trance massive underdogs minsk by an impressive

fifty point margin here in moscow to maintain their group the lead in the international v.t. tournament well the home side got off to a rather slow start as duane hawkins poured into troubles on the bounce to give the belorussian visitors and early eight four lead american would eventually top score with nineteen points but to stop at themselves into the driver's seat by the end there is also the back sasha can lead the charge with a team high eighteen points and some spectacular slam dunks and six more days of double digits to take invent one hundred ten to sixty chalking up their ninth win ten games since the start of the regular season and later admitted it was more special to decide. the more money for google wouldn't you well our opponents aren't quite at the same level as the other teams in the league what about all it's to any team can beat another team at any given time but if you don't give your all or some happy with the way i played. and finally to ice hockey and sirens of spectators

flooded to the latvian capital of rager on saturday to watch the east remain unbeaten against the west in the fourth k h l all star extravaganza robert but only on reports. let in hockey fans for snout for the stars. it was their turn to meet the biggest and europe strongest league has to offer at the cato all-star game twenty twelve with one of the greatest russian players of all time sergei further of living the pick of the eastern conference and the pride of legend hockey send this as a lynch captaining the best from the west that is why for the first time in the history of the event the arena that with ten thousand spectators who are passionately behind one side the west. and also mentioned cool promptly took the lead in the so-called super skills show which is a traditional warm up ahead of the all star games with another local idol number

rigorous miccolis redlegs winning the fastest skater competition. after three more contests the western conference team were still on britain although their opponents from the east managed to still show and win. with truck tourists alexander results of producing a record breaking one hundred eighty three kilometer and there were heat in the heart is shot contest and sergei third of edging out sunday's in the captain's deal which saw some extra how his skills on display from the two legends i think. having. some dislike like it was it was sort of very technical material so it was different it was new. it was going in a very meanwhile the most i can contest shoot outs left many in doubt if it's really possible in this world what's what i'm after

a center did serious and go with the misery i don't know how the park was going our way in the long side became back this way so i don't know if you know he's a magician. it was that i just made a tiny hole in the park and pollution learned through it. my father taught me the street to be a video on no three previous occasions take a chill star game so the team from the east claimed victory over the peak of the west so this time around christmas help we were about to witness something more than just a friendly showcase above but the real deal not a they actually started with no goals in the first ten minutes of the match proving the teams were not just having fun on ice just as they promised before the game we had a winning streak on so. i think. it might be up for grabs today as above the players on both sides i think are going to try a lot harder to do one of the sides they get when i'm going to belts. it was the

west hope and the scoring and those below are while begin to roll the teams took turns scoring and taking the lead with the third period underway on level terms although after the further fifteen scored four in their oath to make it twelve eight the outcome was never double the team from the east remains unbidden at the cage all star games fifteen eleven the final score i think it begins as a friendly. friendly game plan a nice and easy and then as soon as the somebody gets ahead a little bit more the others name starts to. get where you again get what you get away like that just standing gradually becomes a little bit. more more competitive than it was in the beginning but still a long game nobody wants to get heard of course and. so have a good time and enjoy themselves this time around was different from any i appear i think there was. twenty interesting combinations i think guys basically try boy off

and so a very. has here which is. for anyone else or yeah. like i said we have. streak of four walls one line to the roof really good job. we got lucky and we got. what advantage there next year the cape all stars will make it to the full of the ural mountains at the eastern russian city of chile evans. robert for the neon r t v. that's often a small stack. of. world . science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

the arab league is set to decide whether to give the go ahead to another month of the mission inside syria while the opposition wants the u.n. security council to get involved. pushed to the edge of the internet since plans to expand online censorship striking back with web wide blackouts and massive packing attacks. israel in the us talk tactics over a possible conflict in the gulf but they got the forces that iran. the e.u. prepares its oil embargo over its iran's alleged nuclear ambitions. and in romania

spills over hundreds arrested dozens injured as police violence amid a massive ongoing antigovernment protests. and watching the weekly here on r t with me rule received we're featuring the top stories of the week and today's main headlines we'll start with syria where the arab league fact finding mission there is waiting for the green light to continue its monitoring activities for yet another month the decision is due to come later on sunday as the observers report comes under scrutiny at the leaks catherine. in cairo it's all about harsh criticism from opposition groups which say the observer mission has failed to curb bloodshed in the latest flare up at least fourteen

people have reportedly been killed in a roadside bomb attack on of carrying prisoners in the northwest of the country sara firth joined the observers as they visited a town near the syrian capital damascus that is now controlled by opposition forces . well the arab league observers delegation is in car at the moment presenting their findings that despite the arab league observers mission mandate having finished you can see they continue to travel around the country to look at what's going on been seen as further evidence by some people that this mission is to continue possibly for another month one of the observers that i spoke to earlier of camera when i asked them whether they would be staying here longer whether the mission would be extended he said it looked like it would be this is the area that you see in the so-called free syrian army take control of and in the last few days a temporary cease fire because between the government forces and free syrian army sweeping into the city to see what's been happening certainly it's an area

extremely divided on one side you've got the government in control on the other side the free syrian army the arab league observers have been meeting some of the government officials here in downtown suburbs on the china start to see exactly what it is has been happening in the city where the children have been showing us some of the bullet casings that they've found around the area all the houses in this part you can see the destruction from the fighting this be going on. in this very nice was extremely concerning the people who are still living her to extremely dangerous situation is not really clear who exactly is in charge being killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous indeed this is the remains of one of the houses that civilians say thank you were targeted by security forces people careless faces haven't done a chance saying a cooling phrase or fish even close to the conflict in syria has been devastatingly

hide and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution the prison and the mind is like a. mummy that is done here. no opposition activists from syria's national council have formally asked the arab league to refer the crisis to the u.n. security council because autism or if a national reports there are doubts over whether it's peace there actually after. howlett hold jeff from the syrian national council the country's main official opposition body says making the people's voice louder and bring in an end to the violence is what the s. and c. was created for our main goal is to help the syrian people there present them and their two national community in order to reach this syrian people freedom although it's been run by paris based exile that hamdani in the absence he has been

recognized as the country's legitimate government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some and nato countries which has made some doubt the council's innocent intentions with regards to libya the promise that nato made to the national transitional council perspective leaders was that they be given a major seat at the table in a new libya so there is power broking going on behind the scenes and i absolutely wager that the same thing is happening with syria they've either been bought off financially or they've been promised a major role in a new syrian regime libya's national transitional council and the syrian national council well it's not just their names they have in common supported and sponsored from abroad i think he likes opposition forces and their major goal is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences headquarters are not in damascus but here in istanbul

we are not talking about democratic regime if i go to syria now we have. you know we have to be executed there howlett says he spent fifteen years in jail in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's just because his father supported the opposition he claims nothing has changed since then and the oppression has to stop the town is another matter claiming they're only going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to it. now carburetor in with the free syrian army fighters who defected from a star's military in was a clear shift from the essences initial entirely nor armed peaceful stance. the council also sees humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this isn't legal if the ball carriers operation were to syria that the gas was being used to

activism that generator they need to look at that because they don't want they want to destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of nato or at least lead to maybe the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint after his sooner or later it will force president assad out while he's returning to stay but the question remains exactly how long should these people have to wait for the bloodshed to stop and how many of them will actually see the end of it here if an ocean r.t. turkey. and are coming up here just a little bit later in the program here on r t when the rose tinted glasses of the revolution give way to a crystal clear view of reality frustrated five years out from the libyan that were involved turned their backs on the country's new rulers they say are failing to implement a promised change. you can also check out our website r t v dot com for more first hand reports from countries where arab spring phoria quickly gave way to

disillusionment and outright pessimism. r.t. is coming to you live from moscow this week saw more clouds are gathering over the standoff surrounding iran u.s. and israeli officials held closed talks on for. regarding the tense situation bubbling in the potion gulf while the exact contents were not disclosed the us was expected to have urged israel not to rush an attack on iran and washington tries to go in a global support against tehran before that israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu the e.u. to embargo iranian oil as quickly as possible of its iran's alleged nuclear weapons program meanwhile iran has been threatening to block

a key trade route out of the potion gulf if sanctions are imposed on its own exports the u.s. has been amassing forces in the region with thousands of troops sent to israel for war games and two warships join groups arriving in the arabian sea philip from the council for national interest in washington says that while the main danger is a spike in all prices the standoff could escalate to something much much more serious. if iran even makes an attempt to block the straits of hormuz oil prices will probably double or treble this saying is that the real danger here is that it could produce a shooting war if the united states does follow through on its resolve to keep the straits open which will be that easy and i think that it virtually guarantees that iranian naval forces and u.s. naval forces would come into conflict with a worst case scenario is world war three i'm afraid the problem is that iran is is surrounded by a number of countries that are essentially hostile to it and some of them are

nuclear armed and this is a perfect cauldron for for starting something with a very minor relatively minor incident that escalates and escalates and escalates and winds up as a as a major war and with regional tensions simmering people are on edge but not only in iran but also in israel and southeast reports many they are expecting award at any moment and some experts say that war is already well underway. from this rather spartan recording studio in jerusalem one israeli jew has been reaching out to people in iran for fifty two years ties between tel aviv and tehran off a bit in but it's never stopped menasha from reading the news in farsi every night and hosting a weekly show for listeners in the persian world to share the views he thinks around a million rain ians tune in and the topic they most want to talk about the possibility of a foreign attack on iran and they are very much afraid that the iranian nuclear installations

will be bombed by foreign powers where they're israel or the united states or any other country but it's not only be rainy and who are suspicious of israel or america taking action people here in israel sense something's in the air you can see signs of wink and nod from israeli officials when talking about it israel is signaling to the world. if the world doesn't do anything if the wall doesn't call for more fierce actions for more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel would take the initiative and strike along some wonder if israel hasn't already declared an unofficial war on terror ran but suspicions raised further after the assassination of another iranian nuclear scientist earlier this month while on his way to work putting everything together it is clear that whoever it is but it's someone or somebody or some agency is very successful

in infiltrating understanding and last subaltern the iranian nuclear project. the attack is the latest in a series of mysterious accidents linked to iran's nuclear program two aircraft accidents in the space of three years scientists disappearing equipment damaged and computer viruses unleashed and the fingers pointing at israel. and the united states this is a very. respectable regrown the nation but. iran has many enemies. there's a good in mind it's not beyond imagination adding fuel to the fire the plan for israel and the united states to conduct their biggest joint military drill before the end of the year it would see thousands of american troops deployed in israel for a ran it's the most blatant sign that an attacks coming but no one in israel will

come on record and say there is a covert war on iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the air waves policy r.t. jerusalem. and as if sanctions are sabotaging a military build up near its borders wide enough yet another front has opened up for the embattled islamic republic of iran's english language news channel gets the boot from british airwaves as patience with its alternative stance runs there are those details coming up next hour here on our survey. this week romania had some of its biggest protests in years outrage with pay cuts and corruption people gathered in the streets of book arrest to call on the country's president to step down on friday hundreds were arrested dozens injured as police used tear gas to disperse the crowds from book arrest artist tom barton reports. night and day they come to scream their defiance biting austerity and the feeling the

government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence in the memory of our youth has no future they have no jobs. motor water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in book arrest but now she is forced to pay for her social security out of her small pension. they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're borrowing the money because they don't have it. or is not just here for herself her son left romania but it's illegal to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of their anger at the president try and assess coup protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. who wants to descend down down with disaster as our parents left us with a heritage and we are leaving our children with just debt an international monetary

fund loan in two thousand and nine came with tough conditions the remaining in government has tried to force its financial house into water budget and benefit cuts slashed pay pension freezes falling living standards but some say it's the people who are now being forced to pay for the mistakes of the few who stayed the country to economic disaster. this was done at the expense of there are many in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for their situation they didn't even profited from it had to pay for those who had profited. the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worse let's not forget that we're in the eye of a storm of an economic european storm all around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequence is that inevitably affect us to just not good enough so the opposition who argue of course that they could do better every

day discourage inefficient government stays in power is a day last for rumania or jews used to shorten the period as much as we can once fast as we can by fair elections with many of them accepting there is no escape economically politics for them offers the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets. these. days are. stereotypic much of. the president about to be here and you could. want to tear it all down and start again. and not just romania there were similar scenes of violence in croatia as opposed to vote in a referendum people there are right now the polls are voting on whether the country should join or think you are paying union and earlier survey suggested over forty

percent of the population are against the move on saturday police clashed with anti e.u. protesters in the country's capital at least three were arrested and there were many reports of injuries as well scuffle started when demonstrators tried to remove an e.u. flag from the center of the city. and artist tom barton is on croatia now he's following the referendum and gauging the public mood you can check out our teams at the twitter feed as well as tom's personal one does have some rather skeptical comments about membership coming from people in the street. while politicians say the population just isn't informed enough about the opportunities the union offers you can get the latest updates on line. watching artsy from an organized internet wide blackout to some of the biggest ever accurate tax on top media and us government websites this week saw and i.