assimulate you know it's happens very often nothing that. and up next when a doll is big serving thomas burger king produced twenty eight aces in his brewing and ill tempered for settling for the space nichols home i wrote the check was booed after the match at the seventy refused to shake hands with his opponent but it apparently took offense after almagro returned the ball ended his head during the fourth set and wouldn't accept and we apologise. whoever played at denny's knows that the court is pretty big and you always have a some space to do to put the ball in the snow even if you if you stand each other like you're four meters close to the guy just trying to headed straight straight to your face you know i was just able to do some someone down just hit me in the arm and and there today you know i actually did just this is not the way i would do any zees well elsewhere there was a bit of heartbreak for the local crowd as home favorite in our playmakers probably

beaten by four more to go to a trademark backhand winner clinched the second set for the swiss drew the applause of white america thanks sounds better than swiftly served out the third as the world number three reached his thirty first consecutive quarter final slam events. and waiting for federer in the last eighty one martine del potro after the argentinian rolled past it call schreiber the germany. while women's defending champion kim clijsters played to an ankle injury and saved for much points to stun the french open champion li na the belgian contemplated retiring after landing or quickly at three or. maybe one take six to be in the second set tie break but a jubilant crisis fought back to take the thirty six ball. cross my mind some point you know new so i could just try to do another to mitigation. sink in or

you know if i could get through those first twenty minutes half an hour. you know i think the pain would go away a little bit and then maybe would you journal and i could just through it and. have this that i didn't then give up. and the belgian will next face top seed caroline wozniacki who held up eight seconds that fight back by serbia's yelena yankovic's the former world number one committing her fiftieth unforced error to hand wozniacki six love seven five victory the dane went out in the semifinals last year to step away from defending her ranking points while the one spot. in form by the russian victoria azarenka hit a four hundred winner brushed aside yvetot i should out of the czech republic sixty six to remember three see you enjoy yet another blistering victory. and waiting in the quarterfinals is number eight seed agnieszka the pole needed less than an hour to overpower germany as you go to six one six one twenty two year old going in

confidence after injury is three set battle in her opening match. basketball now despite resting front man and break at a lanka and medically stage discussed trounced a massive underdogs minsk by an impressive fifty point margin here in moscow to maintain the group the lead in the international d.t.b. tournament while the home side got off to a rather slow start as duane hawkins poured into travels all the bats to get the better machine visitors and early eight four lead the american would eventually top score with nineteen points but just got themselves into the driver's seat by the end of the opening quarter and never looked back sasha can lead to their charge with a team high eighteen points and some spectacular slam dunks six more players and toppled to egypt who eventually won it one hundred ten to sixty the moscow club chalking up their night's win intent games since the start of the regular season and later admitted it's more of a training session than

a match for this side. of the world is a good little world and well our opponents aren't quite at the same level as the other teams in the league what about let's do it any team can beat another team at any given time if you don't give your all up so i'm happy with the way i played. mike and over in the n.b.a. the grizzlies won their sixth straight game with a one hundred twenty eight to ninety five home way of the struggling kings late in the first quarter mike conley signed his seventh basket from seven shots at memphis thirty four twenty one out but sacramento climbed back to within eight points in the second. credits jumper took just seconds to go but then the home side pulled away after the break marc gasol and rudy gay for a stylish dunk packed with repeated the feat a perfect hour you with seventy eight sixty ahead the final quarter was all about gasol as the forces won by thirty eight points all of their players collecting

twenty or more points. finally to ice hockey and thousands of fans flooded to the latvian capital of riga on saturday to watch the east remain unbeaten against the west in the fourth k h l all star extravaganza robert fatton and reports. let in hockey fans written out for the stars on so it was their turn to meet the biggest jones your 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 there because the eastern conference and the pride of legend hockey oscillations captaining the best from the west that is why for the first time in the history of the event the arena that we don't thousands because there is work passionately behind one side the west. and also in addition to promptly to believe in the so-called super skills show which is a traditional warm up ahead of the all star games with another local idol number

reduced nicholas redlegs winning the fastest skater competition. after three more contests the western gulf burns you were still on didn't although their opponents from the east managed to steal the show. and when. was truckers oleksandr the results of producing a record breaking one hundred eighty three kilometer and no heat in the car is shot contest and sergei further up edging out sunday's oscillation in the captain's deal which saw some extra hockey skills on display from the two legends i think will like it. having. sundays like that i like that it was it was sort of very technical material so it was different it was new how the words were like it and it was it was good innovation meanwhile the most i get qantas shootouts left

many in day out if it's really possible in this world what's blooding at the center of the journey sankoh is the amazing i don't know how what does that look like the packers going now in the long side mccain back this way so i don't know if you know he's a magician. i'm a secret was that i just made a tiny hole in the park and pollution one through to you. my father told me the street has 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 briscoe we were about to witness something more than just a friendly showcase love but the real deal hockey the action 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 like it when i'm going to belts. it was the

west open the schooling and those below are why i would begin to rule the teams to turn schooling and taking the lead in the third period under way on level terms although off to the further fifteen sports. who in the world to make it will eight the old come was inevitable 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 and eyes on these and then as soon as the somebody gets ahead a little bit more the others team starts to get up and we go again we can't let it get away like that and they just get it gradually becomes a little bit. more more competitive than it was at the beginning of the still of long game nobody wants to get hurt of course and there was never a good time and enjoy themselves this time around was different from any i appear i

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the arab league is deciding the future of its. mission in syria i made calls. to help to quell the violence and criticism from the syrian opposition u.n. involvement. croatia is voting on whether the country should join the e.u. he she will ready sparking protests and clashes. continue to be shaken by the rally with people now in romania rising up against their government. and other stories that shaped this week tensions around to iran's nuclear program.

and the u.s. building up its a warship in the region. and the power of the internet. a massive backlash over u.s. plans to expand the web censorship at least to the suspension of pending anti-piracy laws. this is the week. featuring the top story. today i will start with syria where the arab league is now deciding if it's team of monitors will continue its work to help settle the crisis there or the month long mission expired this week but violence is still flaring up in the country in one of the latest outbreak fourteen were killed when a police car transporting prisoners was bushed in the north west. the situation at

another site which saw some of the fiercest battles between security forces and opposition groups. well the arab league observers delegation is in cairo at the moment presenting findings that despite the arab league 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 i speak of camera when i asked 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 the so-called free syrian army take control of and in the past few days a temporary ceasefire between the government forces and free syrian army sweeping into the city to see what's been happening. it's an area divided

a one side you've got the government in control the other side the free syrian army the arab league observers have been meeting some of the government officials here. to try and establish 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 that's being. done. in this day was extremely concerning the people who are still living heard extremely dangerous situation it's not really clear who exactly is in charge being killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous and the shimon cost of the conflict in syria has been devastatingly high and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution. to the fighting. that is done. time now for more on the situation or also relates to what i was to

a crook former middle east mediator the recto conflicts forum in beirut thank you for joining us on our to today we are just hearing over the pa. asked one and a half minutes to the arab league has just now it decided to extend its observer mission in syria where the opposition has been stepping up calls for foreign intervention saying the violence continues unabated just how critical do you think the situation is at present. when i think this decision is very important in fact because i think it reflects to an extent growing isolation. which has been the presidency of the arab really and which is being arguing quite strongly for syria to be taken to the u.n. security council but it think recently isolated i believe in the arab league people all skeptical about the value of doing this and this decision to expand it has quite strategic importance because effectively by march the president free of the

arab league forces to iraq and iraq has a very different view of what's happening in syria to that of the gulf cooperation council so it's a very important element that this will continue and it seems that it's quite unlikely given the timing that they will go to the u.n. security council as a few of the opposition by no means all the opposition many of the internal opposition absolutely against any referral to u.n. security council external involvement in syria when you when you talk about certain elements of the opposition approaching the u.n. for help with this ongoing crisis you mentioned moments ago that of the further isolation of president assad just just who are the groups that are isolating the president is it the opposition the protesters or is it perhaps the regional powers the western powers is it perhaps a global media networks who's to blame for all of this. no in fact what i was

saying was that it's actually got thought that is being increasingly the state. that is speaking creasing the isolated within the arab league and i think that president assad is not being isolated as the west expected and thought would happen and the arab league divided i think syria and saudi arabia and got are increasingly on and i think what we saw with president assad's speech and his inner damascus which tens of thousands came shows that he has popular support and that's reflected in polls through a recent pew poll showed a majority of syrians supporting president. so i don't think he's particularly isolated but what we see in terms of the syrian national council the exile opposition group which is really only an umbrella or a very diverse group itself is in favor of external intervention intervention but

then it was set up for that very purpose by the french and by external bodies but most of the internal parties the coordination committees the internal political groups salute lee after what they've seen in libya what they saw in iraq they have no desire to see external intervention in syria carried perhaps into the sectarian war so there's a big divide the opposition is very divided and it's really only a minority who really believe in external intervention and of course they're being pushed along and financed from outside was interesting how you say that is a minority that looks forward to or hopes that is for external intervention is also as you mentioned about comparisons being made between what happened with libya and iraq but the president excuse me the opposition groups are insisting that assad must go but do you see a way out of the current crisis without him actually being forced out because as

you mentioned moments ago we saw him addressing supporters in the main capital square the other day like tens of thousands were out there to support him. but i again i repeat that i think that you'll find that the opposition is is deeply divided the syrian national council which was set up to model the libyan benghazi transitional council does not reflect the pinion inside syria and it's very clear and by that i mean opposition opinion in side syria most of whom on not anxious to see assad go even though they are very much in favor of reforms and demanding reforms should take place they fear that external intervention certainly anything on the libyan model would be a disaster internally and would carry the state towards either sectarian civil war so within syria itself as opposed to the exile groups the derived sided there's a very strong support both for. both for settling syrians problems

internally through negotiation and not through external intervention. or the director of the conflicts forum in beirut and former middle east mediator i thank you for coming on our team today. thank you very much. libya's a ruling a national transitional council has seen a public fury in the city of benghazi the epicenter of last year's revolution against colonel gadhafi crowds stormed the council's headquarters angry at the slow pace of democratic change protesters threw stones and metal bars at the building in the first acts of violence against libya's interim leaders demonstrators have been rallying for weeks in benghazi they accuse the leadership of blocking transparency and want to know how libya's assets are being used radio host and author stephen leatherman the believes that protests will continue against the government the crowd see as puppets of the west. i think the government is taking orders from the

government in washington and that's the way it's been on. the move you toward the real want to be seen here in washington using their proxies sitting in the big guys secretly. want us all more rebel fighters to complain you know giving aid privately they're not even treated properly you were watching while i was withdrawn i think the people who were promised they would say to me people that have no say whatsoever everything is in secret you in the end you see get in that space this is a country western illness serving western interests absolutely having no interest in ordinary libyans the tribes of libya a united in a resistance against nato in the sea m.t.c. government they want the country i expect the track to violence

a very anything can happen. you with r.t. live from moscow and are still ahead for you on the program a country trying to rise from revolution egypt now faces the consequences of a democracy they fought so hard for as islamists sweep the elections. plus it took the u.k. six years but it's finally coming clean after russia uncovered the secret of britain's spying done. reaches a boiling point in romania which soars worst violence in years as the austerity protesters clashed with police for the second week running people have been demanding that the president and government step down that's against a backdrop of wage cuts and tax increases and the second poorest country is struggling to meet the demands of its international creditors parties tom barton now reports and book a rest. 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. our youth has no future they have no jobs. no water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in book you read but now she's forced to pay social security out of her small pension. they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're boring the money because they don't have it . or is not just here for herself her son left her name here to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of that around the president. protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. on steep descent down down with the.

parents left us with a heritage and we're leaving our children just different. 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 steered 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 there and even profited from it played on those who had profited. the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worst feelings 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 consequences that inevitably affect us to just not

good enough said the opposition who argue of course that they could do better than once every day discouraged inefficient government stays in power is a day lost 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 here these are. the foundation to build on. there was territory much of. the president about to there be here and you can see why when many want to tear it all down and start again from boston i remain. and it is decision day in croatia for people who are now voting on e.u. accession and the outcome is hard to predict as recent surveys show the issue has

split the country right down the middle on saturday police clashed with protesters attempting to call down an e.u. flag ahead of their referendum if there was all to say yes vote croatia will join the block by july next year but only if its membership is approved by all twenty seven states investment adviser patrick young says it's easy to understand those opposing the move because croats see how the euro neighbors have been facing tough times. the key consideration here is that when we look at the croatian referendum there's been barely one and p. in the entire parliament she's actually been turning round the publicly saying anything. it's the e.u. itself so the fact that we have this amazing groundswell of support at something like forty percent easing credible it demonstrates the fact that the political classes are completely and utterly touch with what the people are thinking and what the people are thinking is quite simple they've seen neighbors they've seen similar

who are emerging european countries such as themselves people like slovakia slovenia is stony up all coming into the europe european union they join the euro zone and they find the worst choice and chalice imaginable because slovakia nurses pensioners are not getting paid a third of what they would get paid if they were working in greece and to add insult to injury they're actually paying money to the greeks in order to support their euro zone bailout so they see neighboring countries such as hungary i mean the government of hungry for the past two weeks have been vilified by the european union i'm not going to get into the argument to find out whether or not the prime minister is right or wrong there but certainly people get very very and feel very very uneasy about things that are being said. patrick young right there talking about the new pressure on hungary and on saturday crowds of more than a hundred thousand protesters took to the streets in the cattle budapest they were supporting their government which recently came under fire from the e.u.

for passing what brussels considered to be anti democratic law but also stalled bailout talks with the i.m.f. prompting threats of court action just this week the prime minister backed down in the hour saying the legislation will be checked. well geez tom boston is in the region following developments for us so you can check out our twitter feed as well as a personal one for the latest on hungary's dispute as well as croatia's referendum latest updates online for you right now. watching r.t. europe and the u.s. have expressed a willingness to return to talks with iran over its controversial nuclear program but despite that the e.u. is seemingly still set to approve an embargo want to iranian oil france even says the time to avoid a military action is running out that's where the u.s. this week it strengthened its presence in the region by sending a second.