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 oh my god the checkers booed after the match at the seventh he refused to shake hands with his opponent but it apparently took offense after almagro returned a ball and it is head to toe in the fourth set and wouldn't accept and we apologise . who is afraid to dennys know that the cord is pretty big and you always have a some space to put the ball in it's not even new for you if you stand each other like your four meters close to the guy just try to hit it straight straight to your face you know i was just able to do some somewhere further down just hit me in the arm and and there to do you know i actually did use these know the way i would to any z's well elsewhere there was a bit of heartbreak for the local crowd as home favorite in our climate was probably beaten by mortified us a trademark backhand winner clinched the second set for the swiss drew the applause

of white america. 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 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 slaved for much points to stun the french open champion li na the belgian contemplated retiring after landing or quickly at three or. maybe one time to take six to meet in the second set tie break but jubilant prices for back to take the thirty six ball. crossed my mind. you know news i could just try to do another to medications. sink in or you know if i could get through those first twenty minutes to 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 think doesn't 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 one hundred points while the one spot. in form by the russian victoria azarenka hit a four hundred winner brushed aside yvetot ashes out of the czech republic sixty six to three so you enjoy it so well that blistering victory. and waiting in the quarter finals is number eight seed agnieszka advantage 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 and despite resting from man and break at a lanka and medically stage tesco still trounced a massive underdogs minsk by an impressive fifty point margin here in moscow to maintain the group the lead in the international b t b tournament while the home side got off to a rather slow start as dwayne hawkins poured into travels all the bats to get the better she visited an early age for lead the american would eventually top score with nineteen points but chase got themselves into the try to speed by the end of the opening quarter and never looked back sasha can lead to that charge with a team high eighteen points and some spectacular slam dunks six more players finished double digits we eventually won it one hundred ten to sixty moscow club chalking up their night's win intend games since the start of the regular season and later admitted it's more a training session than a match because some of. the most basic little wardens 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 but if you don't give your all 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 but memphis thirty four twenty one out but sacramento climbed back to within eight points in the second after 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 are you but memphis seventy eight sixty ahead the final quarter was all about gasol as the forces won by thirty eight points at their players collecting twenty or more 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 robert fatton and reports. lead when hockey fans written out for the stars on so 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 there because the eastern conference and the pride of legend hockey. captaining the best from the west that is why for the first time in the history of the event the arena that with thousands betrayers work passionately behind one side the west. and also mentioned 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 nicolas redlegs winning the first the skater competition. after three more contests the western conference two were still on bitten although their opponents from the east managed to still the show and win. with truckers oleksandr results of producing a record breaking one hundred eighty three kilometer no heat in the current 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. sun just 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 guess in contest shootouts left many dealt if it's really possible in this world what's blooding address into

the various sankoh is the amazing i don't know how what does that look like the puck was going our way in the wrong side mccain back this way so i don't know if you know he's a magician. the secret was that i just made a tiny hole in the park and pollution won through did you. know most my father told me the street she did the job 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 offered by the real deal hockey 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 like it when i'm going to belts. it was the

west open the schooling and bills galore while it begins to roll. teens to join schooling and taking the lead but if their period underway on level terms although off to the further fifteen scored four in their oath to make it twelve eight the outcome was inevitable the team from the east remains unbidden at the cage of all star 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 i will but more the others name starts to. get where you are again we can't let it get away like that that they'd just stand up gradually becomes a little bit. more more competitive than it was in the beginning but 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 think it was. twenty interesting combinations i think guys basically try boy off

and so if you're in. as you're always just. before any all-star games but like i said we had a streak of four awful balls one line didn't really really good job but. we got lucky and we got. quite advantage there next year the all stars will make it to the fall of the euro mountains of the eastern russian city of chile evans. but for the neon artsy blocking. by hand. wealthy british style seinfeld's sometimes. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global

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arab league officials say their observer mission in syria will be extended for another month just spite criticism from the syrian opposition which wants to see the un step in. voting happens in croatia on whether the country should join the new would be shoe already sparking protests and some by clashes as the bloc continues to be shaken by anti austerity rallies with people in romania now rising up against their government. turning to some other stories shaping this week tensions around tehran's nuclear program stirred further by new plans to impose an iranian oil embargo and the us building its warship presence in the gulf.

and the power of the internet in action a massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship need to this is spend up to pending anti-piracy bill . it's eleven pm in moscow i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t arab league officials say the group has decided its team of monitors will carry on helping subtle a crisis in syria saudi arabia says it will withdraw its monitors from the extended mission because it failed to end the bloodshed as artists our fourth reports there is a desperate need for professional mediators in the raging conflict. crucially was also expected to happen is that they are going to be bolstering this mission by increasing the numbers and also by providing training by the u.n.

to these officials now we've actually been following them for the past five days and what's become extremely clear is that certainly what is needed now it is more facilitation of dialogue between all these different groups that you see now in the country between the opposition between the government one of the major questions that's 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 this does need that's where the u.n. training is going to come and play a very pivotal role because what's desperately needed in the country right now are people who are very experienced conflict resolution to stop promoting genuine dialogue now between all the many different sides nuclear really was the need to bridge these widening gaps than in the town of zabadani we actually visited there yesterday with the if that is he remained in the country this is the area that you

see in the so-called free syrian army take control of and in the past few days a temporary ceasefire because between the government forces and free syrian army so we've seen enter 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 an actual fight 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 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 been going on our series of. this that. i have done nicely i think st louis consigning the people who if they're living heretics seemly dangerous situation it's not really clear who exactly is in charge he's being killing hate and that makes the

situation very very dangerous and the seeming cost of the conflict in syria has been devastatingly high and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution that this is an end to the invited by the ira. money that is done a lot area. meanwhile the opposition syrian national council says it plans to press the u.n. security council for intervention in the country torn apart by an arrest the council thinks the arab league observers have been useless in ending the crisis and insists that foreign involvement is the only way out sorties maria notion reports there are those some doubts about the opposition leader's 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 two national committee in order to reach this syrian people freedom although it's been run by 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 prospective 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 libya's national transitional council and the syrian national council and 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 huts courters 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 but how is another matter claiming they're only going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to it. now cop rating 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. because you also seize humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to

protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this isn't nato is the all paris operation where the syrian national council is being used to activists and jeddah and 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 at least lead to label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint after his sooner or later will force president assad out his attorney and 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 notion r.t. turkey. from our reaction on the situation around syria were dry led by dr omar and a shot by a political analyst and journalist thanks for your time so the arab league wants its monitors to stay on in syria saudi arabia though calling for all possible

international pressure to be put on the country why do you think the saudis are breaking away from the group at this point. well this is a political position that has been declared by the saudi arabian kingdom long before the trouble started in the position of saudi arabia. is a position that is calling for. this whoosh an offer the push mom between the city and iran and they are trying to pressure the syrian government to break its ties with iran because of the tensions that have been rising between saudi arabia and iran that is a traditional position however i think it's time in syria for dialogue and the president president assad has created the platform for such dialogue in the same time. the arab league has declared an extension for the monitors mission the other monitors mission in syria the arab monitors mission is as your report just stated

a few minutes ago that it's lacking manpower it's lacking equipment it's lacking training it needs more time to actually build a comprehensive report on what's there however the first report the preliminary report has been leaked to the media and i have have had access to parts of this report this report shows that the there are some grave violations on both sides. the opposition or what the so-called syrian free army or these are desert areas from the syrian army have been also using heavy gunfire against civilians they have been using explosives apparently they have been using and the armored. rockets and some you know some weapons that cannot usually be used in civilian areas and against civilians there is president said also enjoys. popular support

in the city one cannot deny this not even the institute and qatar denied this when they. did the research last month and they found that fifty five percent of the city and population oppose the downfall and or did a movement of president assad it's time for dialogue a pleasant side has has tried to make somebody form some democratic reforms there is a constitutional council now in syria trying to rewrite the constitution there will be elections in the coming months there are so many forums i think it's time that the opposition shows good faith. shows a positive sign because if these interests you know one of no one's interests that need two steps they would be destruction and they would be chaos as was the case. and as we have seen recently in libya things are not read the turning into the beautiful democracy that everybody was dreaming off. saying what will happen in

syria sorry to interrupt you russia says that there are some countries outside of syria that are arming the syrian extremists the opposition there given that there are some western nations advocating regime change in the country how big a part might they be playing in the rest. i think that turkey and the european union and the nato countries and the united states and some countries that are. supporting. the western agenda in syria are playing a negative role they are interfering in in turn and city and business i think it's up to the syrian people to decide. on their future to decide on democratic reforms to decide where they want to go with this we can see. but this cannot be done through violence this would have to actually we would need a political solution people would have to sit on a round table and discuss what is for the better of all city and and so that they

don't get into the libyan libyan model or they don't reach the destruction that took place in iraq and the city and know very well what happened in iraq so there are some reforms that should be done president assad himself as recognize this everybody recognizes that there are some democratic reforms that are necessary how does this how can you actually implement these reforms how can you reach a solution this is the only way for this is through debate and dialogue and i think the city and the monitors mission will continue even if saudi arabia is out and it will be extended for another month however it will need more equipment it would need help perhaps it would need technical assistance by some international organizations however these organizations should not interfere in a city in politics it should be up to the syrian people all right thanks for your

time dr ornish a political analyst and journalist joining us from beirut. the deputy leader of libya's ruling national transitional council says he's stepping down 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 and demanding the government's resignation 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 the epicenter of last year's revolution against the gadhafi regime the leadership of lacking transparency and want to know how libya's assets are being used adrian salvucci expert on north african affairs an international consultant doesn't think the non-elected government is actually pursuing the people's interests. the mission in libya for example is not to improve life in the country libya already had the highest standard of living in all of north africa where libya does have is the

largest more global oil reserve and the oil reserve in africa and that is what the national transitional council are being supported for in order that they should promote western oil companies with some financial interests in libya and the people will just have to be rid of the people have already been killed and a little genocide has taken place as we've seen in iraq so in a way the same pattern is repeated over and over again where there's a double standard they say that they are promoting democracy but what they are basically doing is promoting the financial and political interests of the global power elite embedded inside the united states the european union and israel. still ahead of r.t. another country trying to rise from revolution in egypt now facing the consequences of a democracy so hard for islam it sweep the board in the recent election. but first it's has voted in favor of joining the e.u. the results announced by the state referendum commission on saturday police clashed

with protesters who tried to pull down a new flag ahead of the referendum. half the population oppose the move according to surveys just before the vote will join the block by july next year if its membership is approved by all twenty seven member states. meanwhile anger is reaching a boiling point in romania which saw its worst violence in years as anti austerity protesters clashed with police for the second week running people have been demanding the president and government step down this against the backdrop of wage cuts and tax hikes in the second poorest country which is struggling to meet the demands of international creditors artie's tabard and has more from bucharest. night and day they come to scream defiance by single sterritt see into feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. our youth has no future they have no jobs. motive water is sixty she's worked all

her life in a textile factory in bucharest but now she is forced to pay for her social security out of her small pension when 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 romania put it to me to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped into directing most of that around the president. protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. we want to take recess crew down down with the sas crew as 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 this 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 consequences that inevitably affect us too it's not good enough said the opposition who argue of course that they could do better or more every day discouraged inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania or judy is to shorten the period as much as we can and.