you want to finish the match with. with a better result. but the motions i simulate you know it's happens very often nothing that. and up next when a doll is big serving camo schroeder's produced twenty eight aces in his growing template for securing the space nicolas almagro the czech was booed off of the match as the seventy refused to shake hands with his opponent that it apparently took offense after our mark overturned a ball and of his head during the fourth set and wouldn't accept and we apologise. who are afraid to danny's knowledge the stick already is pretty big and you always have a some space to put the ball in not even if you if you stand each other like to your four metres close to the guy just try doing it street straight to your face you know i was just able to do somehow somewhere further down just hit me in the arm and hand it to do you know actually it is you know the way i would do any. well

elsewhere there was a bit of heartbreak for the local crowd as home favorites in our playmakers probably be. able to photograph a trademark back out and when that clinched the second set for the swiss drew the applause of white america. was better than swiftly sold out the third as the world number three to thirty first consecutive quarter final to slam events. and waiting for federer in the last eight is when martin del potro after the argentinian rolled past it called schreiber of 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 hundred sixty one to take six to eight in the second set tie break but a few of the crisis point back to take the thirty six ball. crossed my mind. you

know i knew if i could just try to do the kind of lead to mitigation. begin or you know if i could get through those that first twenty minutes now after. or. i think the plane would go away a little bit and then maybe would you journal and i could just unified through it and mary jane says that they're going to do this and give up. the belgian will next face top seed caroline wozniacki who held up a second set fight back by serbia's year later yankovic's the former world number one committing to her fiftieth unforced error to hand wozniacki the six seven five victory the dane went out in the semifinals last year to step away from to thank you thank you points and love the one spot was informed by the russian victoria azarenka hit a forehand winner brushed aside yvetot and shit out of the czech republic sixty six to three so you enjoyed the other listerine 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 one to two year old throwing in confidence after injuring its three set battle in her opening match. last ball now and despite resting from men under a kit olenka and i've kissed each discussed a trance to 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 bands to get the balance sheet visitors and early eight four lead the americans would eventually top score with nineteen points but just got themselves into the brightest feet by the end of the opening for to and never look back sasha can lead to their charge with a team high eighteen points and some spectacular slam dunks six more players finished in trouble digitas guy who eventually won it one hundred ten to sixty in moscow club chalking up their nights when intend games since the start of the

regular season and later it is more of a training session that this is not a. the more we think of dollars and she well our opponents aren't quite at the same level as the other teams in the league you know 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 somehow people the way i played. 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 and. third extra jumper just seconds to go but then the home side pulled away after the break marc gasol and rudy gay for a stylish dunk. repeated the feat a perfect alue but with seventy eight sixty ahead the final quarter was more about

gasol as the forces won by thirty eight points at their players collecting twenty points. finally to ice hockey and fastens 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 roberts but only on reports. let in hockey fans first note for the stars. it was their turn to meet the biggest jones europe strongest league has stalled for at the cato all star game twenty twelve with one of the greatest russian players of all time sergei further of living that because the eastern conference and the pride of legend hockey. captioning 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 what versions would behind one side the west. and

cool promptly to believe in the so-called super skills show which is a traditional warm up ahead of the all star games and another local idol. number regus miccolis world leagues winning the best the skater competition. up to three more contests the western conference two were still in britain although their opponents from the east managed still to show and win. with dropped their stomachs on the results of producing a record breaking one hundred eighty three kilometer no heat in the car is shot contest and city gate edge an old son this was arranged in the captain's deal which saw some extra hockey skills on display from the two legends i think will like it. i think. sun just like that i like that it was it was sort of very technical aerials it was different it was new the words were like it and it was it was good

innovation meanwhile the moved by getting qantas shoot outs left many if it's really possible in this world what's bugging the press into the air saying go is the reason i don't know how those they look like the park was going our way and then all the sudden it came back this way so i don't know if he 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. almost my father told me the street to be a video on no three previous occasions take a chill star game so the team from least claimed victory over the peak of the west so this time around chris hope we were about to witness something more than just a friendly showcase love but the real deal of hockey the action started with no goals in the first ten minutes of the match proving that 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 who. the schooling and the lower violence against little the teens to churn schooling taking the lead in a third period underway on level terms although off to the further fifteen sports in the world to make it will take the old film was inevitable the team from the east remains unbidden at the cage will also games fifteen eleven the final score i think it begins as a friendly. friendly game plan and eyes in these and then as soon as the somebody gets ahead a little bit more the other steam starts to. hit where you again we can't let it get away like that then the just stand gradually becomes a little bit better more of more competitive than it was at the beginning but it's still a long game nobody wants to get hurt of course that. was 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 if areas. as there were just a. for any all-star games. like i said we have a streak of falls one line do that through a really good job but. we got lucky and we got. quite advantage there next year they gave all stars to make it to the full of the usual mountains of the eastern russian city of chile evans. a bit further than your own r.c. lucky. and also. by hand was.

thank you. our of league of officials say that there observer mission in syria will be extended for an extra month despite criticism from the syrian opposition which wants to see the u.n. step in. croatia is voting on whether the country should join the e.u. the issue already sparking protests and violent clashes that's the book that continues to be shaken by and see austerity rallies with people now in romania rising up against their government. in other stories that shaped the week here with tensions around to ron's nuclear program stood by to impose an embargo on iranian

oil on the u.s. building it's a warship presence in the region. on the power of the internet in action a massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand a web censorship leads to the suspension of pending anti-piracy bills. with the top headlines of the week and today this is the weekly with me rule re sushi and let's start first now with syria it's a way arab league officials have decided that team of monitors will continue to help settle the crisis there the observers mission has been extended now. for another month than it flaring the violence in the country we will be joined live by our correspondent in damascus sara further in just a few moments to stay with us for that meanwhile the opposition syrian national

council says it plans to press the u.n. security council for intervention in the country ripped apart by an arrest the council believes arab league observers have been useless at ending the crisis and insists that foreign involvement is the only way out but it's not he's morea for national reports so there are doubts about the opposition leaders true motives. 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 essence he was created for our main goal is to help the syrian people there present them and their to national community in order to reach this syrian people freedom although it's been run by the paris based exile but 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 brokering 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 labor's national transitional council and the syrian national council and it's not just their names they haven't come and 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 huts courters are not in damascus but here in istanbul we are not talking about democratic regime if i go to syria i know 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 but how is another matter claiming they're only going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to it. is now copper age in with the free syrian army fighters who have defected from assad's military in was a clear shift from the essences initial entirely known 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 a top is the ball carriers operation where this year that the gas has been used to at versailles jeddah they need to work at that because they don't want they want to

destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of nato at least lead to enable the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint after his sooner or later will force president assad out while his attorneys 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 or if an ocean r.t. turkey and crocker the director of the conflicts forum in beirut and form a new middle east mediator they told me earlier here on r.t. that despite the syrian opposition is efforts by anything western and affair and so could ultimately end in disaster. 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 inside syria most of whom are not going to see go even though they are very much in favor of reforms and demanding reforms that 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. and news out of tripoli now the deputy leader of libya's ruling national transitional council says he's resigning after a series of protests against the country's new rulers on saturday crowds stormed the council's headquarters in the city of benghazi 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 at the center of last year's revolution against

colonel gadhafi they accuse the leadership of blocking transparency i want to know how libya's assets are being used radio host and author steven london believes the protests will continue against the new government but crowd would see the simply puppets of the west. i think the government is taking orders from the government watching and that's the way it's been all and very. real seeing in washington using their proxies sitting in. tripoli make it all more rebel fighters take a plane you know privately treated probably. what i would drop out of people who are problem is it would stay in these people who have no say whatsoever everything is been secretly in d.c. government let's face it is a bit worse in the. west an interest absolutely no

interest in ordinary libyans the tribes live in a united in a resistance against needle in the sea in t.c. government they want the country i expect retracted violence avery anything can happen. or let's get back to one of our main topic stories here on the issue of the arab league observer mission to be extended for one extra month in syria to see if it can help in any way to quell the ongoing violence there the sara further is now standing by for us to give us a more details are from the street level there mixed reactions to the mission's president so why are they deciding now to to stay on an extra month in the country . well really at the moment this remains the only path open at the moment and so of course they're going to want to perceive this now that the decision to extend the

mission came as no surprise to anybody really that was already expected indeed while the observer's delegation has been meeting in cairo here in syria the observers who remained in the country have continued their visits around now what's really crucial about the meeting today is the decision to kind of bolster this arab league observers mission now they're going to increase the number of observers on the ground and they're also going to receive training from the u.n. now that's very very important because one of the major questions has been raised at the end of this particular mandate was just how successful the mission had been in sort of advancing the situation here in the country certainly a very mixed reaction on how much they've been able to achieve and said this is where the u.n. training is going to prove very very important because some of the people we've been speaking to the people who have been protesting are the people on the ground and some of the conflict areas have been saying to us you know really what they

wanted with action not people simply turning up and taking photographs they needed more to be done so certainly this sort of increase in the powers of this arab league mission going to be very very important indeed we've been following the observers for the last five days and what was very very clear was what's desperately needed in the country right now are genuine peacekeepers people who are very experienced conflict resolution because of course in syria at the moment you've got very different narratives it depends on he speaks where you go in the country is very very hard to get a grasp on exactly what is happening. that is going to prevent equally sure that they're going to be able to get people in now to train me of service to be able to start building structures from the ground up with these people to stop promoting genuine. dialogue now between all the many different sides because of course the longer it takes to reach a political solution here in the country we seem the conflict becoming increasingly

armed and these divisions just keep on widening it. clear really was the need to bridge these widening gaps than in the town of the dunny where you see in every conflict between the free syrian army and the government over recent days the moment they've managed to reach a sort of uneasy cease fire we actually visited there yesterday with the of service he remained in the country. this is the area that you seen the so-called free syrian army take control of and in the last few days a temporary ceasefire between the government forces and free syrian army so we've seen inside 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 but it's actually in actual five very very difficult to know exactly who is in charge here the people's houses that we were showing in the city center had been absolutely devastated by the fighting with the children who have been

showing us some of the bullet casings that they found around the area at all the houses in this part you can see the destruction from the fighting this being going on there to see areas to manage to live in this area and that's was extremely concerning the people who is still living her to extremely dangerous situation it's not really clear who exactly is in charge she's being killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous and the human cost of the conflict in syria has been devastating me hide and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution that this is an end to the might is. very sad but money that is done in the area. and still ahead for you in the program here and another country trying to rise from the ashes of revolution egypt now faces the consequences of the democracy had for so hard for as islam ists sweep the board in

the recent elections. reaches boiling point in romania which stores worst of on it saying yes to your sturdy protesters clashed with police for the second week running now people have been demanding that the president on government both step down against a backdrop of wage cuts and tax increases and the e.u. second poorest country struggling to meet the demands of its international creditors. reports from bucharest. 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. of our youth has no future they have no jobs. motive 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 for italy 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. we want to take dissent screwed down down with the sask who our parents left us with a heritage and we're 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 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 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 consequences that inevitably affect us to just not good enough say the opposition who argue of course that they could do better than what is every day discouraged inefficient government stays in power is a day last for rumania or judy used to shorten the period as much as we can and 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 and. was terror to. the president about to be here and you can see why remain you want to tear it all down and start again. artie is coming to you live from moscow 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 the protesters attempting to pull down an e.u. flag just ahead of the referendum if there is old is a yes vote croatia will join the block by july next year but only if its membership is approved by all twenty seven e.u. states investment advisor patrick young says it's easy to understand those opposing

the move because croats have been seeing their euro neighbors facing a tough present and past. the key consideration here is that when we look at the croatian referendum there's been barely one m.p. in the entire parliament who's actually been turning round of publicly saying anything against 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 eyed of 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 as stony are all coming into the europe european union they join the euro zone and they find it the worst poisoned chalice imaginable because slovakia nurses and pensioners are not getting paid a third of what they would get.