he produced twenty eight aces in his grueling and ill tempered four sec way to the space nichols home i wrote the check was booed after the match as the seventy refused to shake hands with his opponent that it apparently took offense after almagro returned a ball and of his head during the fourth set and wouldn't accept and we apologise. who is afraid to danny's knowledge the record is pretty big and you always have a some space to put the ball in the snow even if you if you stand each other like three or four meters close to the guy just try to headed straight straight to your face you know i was just able to do some someone from down just hit me in the arm and and there to do you know i actually did you know the way i would tennessee's well elsewhere there was a bit of heartbreak for the local crowd as home favorite in our playmakers family beaten by four more to go to a trademark backhand winner clinched the second set for the swiss drew the applause

of white america. was better than swiftly served out the third as the world number three reached his thirty first consecutive quarter final slam event. and waiting for federer in the last eight is juan martin del potro after the argentinian rolled past it called shriver the 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 a three or. anyone to take six to meet in the second set tie break but jubilant price has 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 medications. sink in or you know if i could get through those first twenty minutes half an hour. you know i think the pain. it would go away

a little bit and then maybe would you journal and i could just through it and. have that i think there's a 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 the 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 forehand winner brushed aside yvetot and should out of the czech republic sixty six to remember three c's enjoyed yet another blistering victory. and waiting in the quarter finals is number eight seed agnieszka around 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 i kid olenka and not kissed each tesco store 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 dwayne hawkins poured into travels all the bats to get the better team visitors and early eight four lead the american would eventually top score with nineteen points but put themselves into the driver's seat by the end of the opening for sat and never looked back sasha can lead to their charge with a team high eighteen points and some spectacular slam dunks six more players pinched and tumbled to egypt who eventually won it one hundred ten to sixty moscow club chalking up their ninth win intend games since the start of the regular season and later admitted it's more a training session than a match to decide. on what little what 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 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 at memphis thirty four twenty one out but sacramento climbed back to within eight points in the second. project 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 meant with seventy eight sixty ahead the final quarter was more about gasol as the forces won by thirty eight points all of their players collecting twenty or more points. finally to ice hockey and fans 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 vadra and reports. lead in the hockey fans reaching 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 that because the eastern conference and the pride of legend hockey send this. captaining the best from the west that is why for the first time in the history of the event the arena that with thousands because there is work passionately behind one side the west. and also initially cool 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 to 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 drugstores 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. 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 guess in contest shootouts left many dealt if it's really possible in this world what's blooding after us into the euro sankoh is that i mean is it i don't know how does that look like the park

was going our way and then on the 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 won through did you. know most my father told me the street has to be the you know the 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 greece hope 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 guns galore while we begin to roll the. teens to join

schooling and taking the leap the third period underway on level terms although off to the further fifteen sports who are in their roles to make it twelve eight the outcome 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 canonizing these and then as soon as the somebody gets ahead a little bit more the others name starts to run out and we do again we can't let it get away like that that they've just spent 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 often so if you're in. as you're always just

a. for any all-star games but like i said we had a streak of four awful balls one line did a really good job but. we got lucky and we got. quite advantage there next year the all stars will make it to the front of the euro mountains of the eastern russian city of chile evans. but for the neon artsy lucky. i had. the world. science technology innovation called the least developed minutes from around russia we've got the future covered.

roundup of the week's top stories in today's headlines the arab league calls on syrian president bashar al assad to surrender some of his powers to his vice president and form a national unity government with the opposition this comes as the league extends its observer mission by the lack of progress in ending almost a year of violence. early results show croatia has voted in favor of joining the european union this comes as get another member of the financial stricken union remaining rises up against its government and toaster measures. and another stories that shape this week tension over iran's nuclear program reaches new highs as the

new debates an oil embargo and the u.s. ups its military presence in the region. and the power of internet action our massive on line backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship leads to the suspension of pending anti-piracy oolongs. thanks for being with us three o'clock here in moscow their arab league is demanding a series of reforms in syria to stabilize the country in the wake of almost a year of violent uprising and has called on president assad to cede some of his powers to the vice president as well as work towards a formation of a national unity government arab league officials say their monitors will continue to implement a peace plan in the country despite saudi arabia withdrawing in its contingency and

as are two sarah firth reports that there's a desperate need for mediation in the region 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 un to these officials now we've actually been following them for the past five days and was 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 being 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

a 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 is that if he remained in the country 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 because between the government forces and free syrian army so we've seen enter the city to see what's being 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 fact 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 out there to see very similar to this that. and that's with extremely concerning the people there with the living herd extremely dangerous situation it's not really clear who exactly is and shows think killing him and that makes the situation very very dangerous and this human cost of the conflict in syria has been devastatingly right at absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution that this is an ad for the invited. by the crowd. that is done there and. meanwhile the opposition a syrian national council says it plans to press the u.n. security council for intervention in the country where thousands have died in the on rust the council believes arab league observers happen useless at ending hostilities and insists that foreign involvement is the only way out but as artie's maria financial reports and there are doubts about the opposition leader's motives

khaled holder 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 international community in order to reach this syrian people's freedom and although it's been run by the paris based exile. the absence he has been recognized as the country's leader de mint government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some and nato countries which has made some down to the council's innocent intentions with regards to libya the promise to 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 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 they even right 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 well 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 than 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 is now copper age and 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 to the cowsills who sees humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this is a dog is the ball carriers operation where the syrian national council is being used to activists and that generates a regular job 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 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. dr omer in assad he says one thing really observer mission to syria has accomplished is to show abuses that have been committed by both sides. 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 that 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 trillium in a report has been leaked to the media and i have i 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 you have been also using heavy gunfire against civilians it's time that the opposition shows face. shows a positive sign because it is of the interest of no one of no one's interests that need to steps in there would be destruction there will be chaos as was the case in libya and as we have seen recently in libya things are not really turning into the beautiful democracy that everybody was dreaming off and the same will happen in syria. now to developments in libya the deputy head of the country's national transitional council has announced his resignation as a series of protests against the new government continue abdel harvey's goal has been accused of being an opportunist who switched allegiances from the gadhafi regime as the uprising kicked off on saturday crowds of protesters stormed the

m.t.c. headquarters in benghazi angered by the way the council was handling the country's assets demonstrators three stones and metal bars that the building breaking windows and damaging the car of the m.t.c. head. mass rallies have been raging for weeks and ghazi considered it the cradle of the revolution that toppled colonel gadhafi. an expert on north african affairs says the council's main goal is to secure western oil interests not establish democracy. mission in libya for example. in a country libya already had the highest standard of living in all of north africa where libya does have is the largest global oil reserve and the oil reserve in africa with the national transitional council are being supported in order that they should promote wester all companies with some financial interest in libya and the people will just have to be without the people have already been killed.

veritable genocide has taken place as we've seen in iraq so in a way the same pattern is repeated over and over again there's a double standard they say that they are promoting democracy but what they are basically doing are promoting the financial and political interests of the global power elite embedded inside the united states the european union and israel. vote counting is underway in croesus historic referendum on joining the e.u. signed in the us session treaty last year and it could become the union's twentieth member by july two thousand and thirteen if all member states ratify the deal archie's time pardon is in croatia for us. come out about sixty six percent of the population who did vote voted for the four croatia to join you about thirty three percent against that's not as much as was predicted even a couple of years ago it was about seventy eight percent in favor so there has been a slide away from that but it seems most likely that the will now go ahead to join

the e.u. next july a lot of the more conservative elements of society here feel very passionately that they do not want to join another union but they see brussels is essentially another belgrade as far as they're concerned that could rule from a fun you have to bear in mind when you look when you're talking about croatia it's parsed especially in these last twenty years since the end of communism in the former yugoslavia croatia has fought very hard for the independence it has now with a group of protesters who felt extremely strongly that the that this referendum and that the e.u. accession would essentially hand away would hundred way croatia's independence to the e.u. was their central message of course there's this this is very strong debate that will go on about what the economic consequences are for joining the e.u.

for croatia a lot of strong feelings about the e.u. have been felt here in pro aisha they've also been felt in other countries just a few days ago i was in remain here this is the second poorest country tree in the moment and they have been the largest protests there since remaining the fall of communism. 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. with 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. is not just here for herself her son left romania but 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. who wants to take dissent screwed down down with disaster 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 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 this situation hadn't even profited from it had to pay for those who had profited. the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worst. let's not forget that we're in the eye of the storm of an economic europeans still 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 or more every day discourage inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania or jews used to shorten the period as much as we come on it's fast as we come by fair elections with many of them accepting there is no escape economically politics for them off as the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets. these. days or the.

stereotype. of the president about to be here and you can see what made you want to take it all down and start again. europe and the us have expressed their willingness to return to thailand with around for its nuclear program but despite that that year seems about set to approve an unprecedented embargo on iranian oil france says tougher sanctions are the only way to avoid military action the u.s. and its turn has strengthened its presence in the region by signing a second aircraft carrier to the arabian sea it's reportedly planning to sail through the strait of hormuz which iran has threatened to block in response to sanctions the seaway is a strategic passage for the majority of oil exports from the gulf to the west brian becker from the anti-war answer coalition says washington is deliberately

escalating the situation to create a pretext for regime change in iran. the united states government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis aronne is complying with the i.a.e.a. iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is not threaten its neighbors iran has not started a war with any of its neighbors israel on the other hand has hundreds of nuclear weapons and unlike the run refuses to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty does not allow. inspectors into its country so there's not really a nuclear menace or a nuclear danger from iran so what is the cause what's the cause of the crisis of the artificial crisis the real goal is the united states government has embarked on a course of extreme economic aggression against iran with the hope that by creating economic suffering economic isolation economic misery.