our dive bringing the patriots from behind this was the patriots' seven a.f.c. championship title so once again their final match against the giants set for the fifth of february will be a repeat of the super bowl in two thousand and eight where the new yorkers came out on top and on to monday's tennis at the straight and open as you. can now quite deservingly be called the tournaments giant killer the unseated russian has already overcame the likes of an a.p. and combat veterans of all not all but she is now upset the five time champion serena williams in straight sets six two six three her quarterfinal opponents will either be maria sharapova or said this its key. elsewhere to be the a put a stop to the progress so former world number one on the evanovich the twenty one year old books this fall in the quarterfinals of his second year in a row following her six two seven six victory. at the next day she will play it out

in sorrow iranian who thrashed china's yang in straight sets six two six one and the two thousand and eight champion and four seed maria sure of all that is currently up against said been this it's good to score in that so i want to go on sets and five two in the third set. and now on to the men's matches in on monday were a four seed and murray booked a place in the quarterfinals after his opponents. retired in the third set forty nine minutes fifteen games and a place in the quarter finals of the australian open that was more than a decent day's work for murray on a very hot summer day in the melbourne six one six one one love however the scot said that it wasn't that self-esteem experiences the world number four will face we should cory in the quarterfinals. is nothing there's nothing nothing on the. you know would have been nice to come off and been let off but played unbelievable

and he stopped you know how to do nothing or sit in a ball in the core and he he you know he wasn't running he's making mistakes off first second ball the rally and. complete contrast with a lot of the other. elsewhere a sixteen song golf fared better than his opponents again she quarry in the first set of their match winning six two but he lost the second one by the same scoreline and the third six one however the frenchman levelled matters by fighting back in the fourth so it went through the decisive fifth set where nishikori was stronger taking it six three elsewhere a fifth seed of it for saul for a sharga skate winning in straight sets six four six four six one later on local former number one lleyton hewitt will enter tonight's feature match as a massive underdog against current number one in the jock itch. meanwhile over in england football premier league substitutes seti dramatically netted the injury

time penalty to ensure manchester city remain three points clear at the top of the premier league standings after a thrilling three two win at home to title rivals city took a quick to gold lead early in the second half thanks to strikes from samir nasri and liskov but all within nine minutes spurs were level through publisher jermain defoe and gareth bale thunderbolts they came on and was quickly books while avoiding a second yellow for in the parents stamp on scott barker before stepping up to net their winning spot kick and manchester united states three points behind after danny welbeck scored the late winner as their red devils one two one of arsenal and sone of unset opens in the first half injured sign before the political robin van persie leveled in the seventy second minute. so a quick look at the table confirms city's three point lead over united tottenham stay third but now eight points off the top spots and defeat for arsenal means they

trailed chelsea by five points in the battle for the final champions league place. to basketball and the n.b.a. now the new jersey nets owned by a russian billionaire mikail perle who are all fixed and that charlotte's away lou . using streak to six matches after beating michael jordan's a ball pats ninety seven eighty seven the wrong williams was unstoppable finishing the game with in one thousand points nine rebounds and ten assists scoring this long shot early in the first quarter to put the nets up thirteen eleven williams stealing the ball later in the second here give it to kris humphries who finished with an easy dunk taking the score to forty nine thirty eight in the middle of the third gerald henderson cut the deficit to just seven points after this spectacular darn it was not enough however williams turned provider again in the fourth to set up ricky marsh on brooks who didn't hesitate ninety seven eighty seven the final score and it's winning only their fifth match out of seventeen this season. would

you want to and we have a quick update where maria sharapova has set up. all russian quarter final cut serena caro outs or defeating sabine lisicki in three sets. finally on to i saw a key end with just a dozen games to go in the cage shells a regular season the last of the now regal are going to reach their fourth straight playoffs now asked their captain the most prolific latvian in n.h.l. history sunday's lynch what needs to be done to achieve that goal and perhaps culture the coveted crown as well. that's my consistency consistency around game from mine from day to day and from that world if we were able to turn that around and have that consistency till the end of the season no matter who we're playing teams there was some standings or below us and i have that mental toughness and on going on i think we'll have

a good good run and boy some. every team depends how much you follow her something is there you can there's always room and only you have everything right when you have won the championship so that everything was good i mean there's but always until you do that others of my son always something to improve and that's what we want to do as a team as well to say should improve every year every season and get better. we know the other team strengths and weaknesses and that where where that is and and not so we try to see you through to you is in our is managed with the right we can find out what the weaker spots are and seen what we can do and if it's settled then we have a very good chance of winning games and i'm pretty sure the other team know they look at as they they do a very close analysis of all game and our players and they're trying to do the same

thing to us so afraid now we do respect a lot of i mean. there's every single team we have to respect them but afraid no we don't want to be afraid for games or. different no question and say that for dynamo regular for a national team there that most of the tires some. they don't get tired at at all i mean they they they're there from the first minute till the last minute of the game no matter what the score is and they're with us in a tough times and good times and all that and and for sure we were over. fortunate to play. with such a big. fan base and with the support of the whole country. will be more sports in less than a couple of hours from now meanwhile you can check out our youtube channel at our sport news at anytime where you can rate and comments on some of the stories seen right here thanks for watching.

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damascus it rejects the arab league's transition plan which includes a demand for president assad's departure calling it quote a flagrant interference in its internal affairs the e.u. is reportedly stepping up its pressure on the regime by imposing a new set of sanctions. brussels also adopted a total block wide embargo on iranian oil a move that could backfire on europe's fragile economy. russia's policy on in total migration falls into the focus of prime minister and presidential run of a lot of my putin as he presents another set of plans as part of his election

program. it's a good to have you with us on at this monday here in moscow this is the life with me receipt showing the syrian leadership has rejected the arab league's transition plan aimed at cutting violence in the country at this one according to syrian state t.v. the authorities say it doesn't reflect the will of the people and violates the country's sovereignty or further ports on what exactly the regime objects to. well the arab league cooled president bashar al assad to step down and hand his powers over to deputy and then for a national unity government to be formed that would be a previous to only parliamentary and presidential elections now this is being vividly rejected by the syrian government they could it

a flagrant it is fair in internal affairs now who really besides his friends in moscow says that the government here are working on their own reforms they want the arab league mission to focus on their job of course the problem is you've got countries in the arab league like saudi arabia like. now seeing the sense that they're preaching democracy to syria when of course they themselves don't have to go to see. that was always a problem with the arab league you know the regional body is not viewed as being particularly strong and of course what they've now called him abiola and. now i've actually spoken to the national coordinator council which is the opposition within the country they welcomed me even again reiterated their felt that as long as there is no move towards a military intervention that very pleased with the response from the arab league mission but we need to be very careful of now is the russian official statement

said from an official but we could now see if the stalemate situation happening and that would be very very detrimental to the situation in the country right now because of course he's still got observers on the ground it's expected. that the mission is actually now going to continue possibly for another month and possibly with the extension of their powers and their numbers as well of course what you don't want to see happen now is that the arab league mission which is really the only route that remains a dialogue in the country to now have blocks put in its way so the question really is how to make the mission the observer mission more effective because. as we've been witnessing in the past couple of weeks really at the moment in the country what you want to be thing is the fight of myth and not further division. not for civilization that's for. friend. to holmes the conflict has moved ever closer to the country's capital and now many damascus

suburbs are also embroiled in the conflict between government forces and the armed opposition well this is all that's left of many of the houses now inside just absolutely gutted it broken glass you've got bullet holes lining the walls you've got close around the house where people have left them behind fleeing very quickly you can really see the devastating consequences that this conflict has hurt the picking up the pieces won't prove easy amongst the opposition themselves there are a worrying divisions and as the conflicts become increasingly violent there are now areas of the country where it's unclear exactly who's in control what do the people here the image i think the syrian army having control. over this you are not. a lot of numbers but a number of secrecy you have who's in charge in south. asia the division the

diversion of the stuff arab league observers look set to remain in the country for another month trying to build the basis for multi-party elections even seen by the international community although you are you do your stories to where you are into your position you have to put in your mind that you have to work with the other side working with the other side is there a look. first with thousands killed bringing the different factions to the negotiating table is going to be a major task sara for. damascus syria. the e.u. has reportedly imposed a new set of sanctions against syria targeting officials from the assad government but some of critics say with abuses from both the syrian regime and the opposition now acknowledged to the arab league it's the best time to turn to dialogue rather than embark us. the opposition or what this so-called syrian free army or

the desert there is 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 you know some weapons that cannot usually be used in civilian areas and against civilians there is a president said also enjoys. popular support. one cannot deny this not even the institute in 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 or did a movement of president assad it's time for dialogue as i said has tried. some reforms 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 some of the forums i think that the

opposition should face because it is of the interest of no one of no one's interests that need to or steps in there will be destruction and there will be chaos as was the case in libya. with r.t. and just a little bit later in the program we look at how many libyans are now beginning to feel like the revolt was simply a mirror our country you see it's most antigovernment protests since the fall of moammar gadhafi with the unrest beginning in benghazi just as it did last year. he just part of it is holding its first post revolution session following an election that swept islamists to power but many fear that the party might just extend the ongoing military rule. the sanctions keep piling up on iran the e.u. was adopt. crippling set of new sanctions against tehran including

a block wide ban on iranian oil europe says it will be for the common good and will make terror on and rethink its nuclear program which israel and its allies see as a threat of course want to australia now has the latest on the dangers that these sanctions may bring. these sanctions on iran it is going to be unprecedented in terms of scale they would like to see a total oil embargo on iran and also possibly targeting to be iranian central bank the aim of course here is to financially and economically cripple the iranian economy over its controversial nuclear program which western leaders have long insisted in arguing that is on a dangerous path towards acquiring nuclear weapons which of course consistently deny now the e.u. embargo follows the stringent new us sanctions on iran is signed into law by president barack obama in january and as far as the european union is concerned they're expected to formally implement these sanctions in about six months time and that is in july this is unprecedented not just in terms of its impact on iran or at

the suppose a desired results on iran but also on president that in terms of the potential economic impact on the e.u. itself especially since it is still trying to deal with the sovereign debt crisis and all in all totally the e.u. imports about twenty percent of iranian oil it is the second largest buyers and the biggest buyers within the e.u. are italy spain and greece which are of course the three countries which are very much in debt and trying to get out of this debt crisis that's greece for instance is it's one third of its oil imports it makes one third of its total oil imports and it's also rely on terror watch for easier credit so definitely it will have to find alternatives and this is something they are going to be talking to they are already talking about because proviso is that they will have to find in order for these countries to deal with the potential economic impact also there are doubts of whether these will actually have the desired effect because china is the biggest firing an oil at it so far it has not agreed to the e.u.

or us sanctions and if the e.u. and us don't want to or china may well just step in and buy the oil of iran and so there's a question of whether this will actually be effective and also oil markets have already reacted that we're going to see if the sanctions are implemented will be more than. two million barrels of oil off of international markets it means prices will go up and it means prices of goods will go up and the straits of hormuz again there is a potential for conflict there iran has threatened to block that and that's where twenty percent of the world's oil tankers pass through and the u.s. already has aircraft carriers there monitoring the situation so it does increase the possibility of conflict. now ten minutes past the hour here in moscow that was artie's test are still air reporting croatia is set to become the twenty eighth country to join the european union after the proposal was approved in a national referendum the country's accession now has to be ratified by old current member nations but almost all ballots counted two thirds of voters expressed

a desire to join the bloc despite the e.u. was ongoing debt crisis that turned out however just forty four percent point is to apathy among many towards the issue the build up to the referendum was marred by clashes t.e.u. protesters staged demonstrations right up to the vote and authorities tomba reports opposition to joining the european union isn't likely to end. with. violent scenes in the croatian capital it's the country's e.u. referendum but setting. this to be made behind me the police turn to the protesters away as they take and protest his way the situation immensely tense here in the creation capital and fighting has been going on well now police want to take people away in vans in protest is trying to stop.

these anti protesters say the government is trying to suppress the dissenting voices they are joining with surrender croatia's independence to brussels. in another street nearby the foreign minister is trying to convince people that accession is vital for the current economy take to leave the stability. of the creative trading of creation. that is translated into membership of the union gracious budget would be in serious trouble. everywhere you turn in croatia the e.u. is being discussed but whereas most of the political class no longer question the europhiles stance public views differ widely you should know that italians will come into our sea and catch all our fish and that's our biggest trouble you know if

you know they're fairly thorough but they told us we have to obey the e.u. is regulations those that don't want to obey must stop trading believe it could just as it would a small family business in the european commission's everything toward big shopping center and some in mind that it is not such a three man fast enough we have two sons hire an employee and maybe because of that i would be prying a secret to most of the sim was worth it although legitimate worries about solvency local industry and it can omit well being a former student and there are still some voices in parliament that think the benefits of what joining it were the costs that we were not going with our heads high up we're going on our knees because our economy. non-existing our exporting is pretty bad our b.b.b. is very low so we don't really have anything to offer. even at the local theatre the subject is croatia's relationship all right with

those on the stage and to infuse scottish or they draw the poke fun at it once it's irritating the soul for example on facebook it's just pro or goal for e.u. and it's getting a bit absurd because. there's no real quality debate strategy was back out on the streets the arguments quality not continue with ferocity with such strong emotions it seems unlikely this referendum result the nation's division over european and. tom bottom. in about ten minutes time is the business news here on r.t. but for now russia's policy on migration has come under scrutiny from its prime minister and presidential hopeful of let him have protests in a second major newspaper article as part of his election campaign put in a set out his position on a range of key challengers as r.t.

spinner all of our reports. talking on multiculturalism a migration vladimir putin praised what he sees as russia's long history as a multicultural nation a history he says goes back to the days of the russian empire it said that there have been some very serious problems though when it comes to migration and integration of migrants in russia that these problems over the last twenty years since the collapse of the soviet union were very serious indeed in our problems that russia is still struggling to to deal with today speaking about what the results can be of migration going wrong he warned of the rise of nationalism the rise of xenophobia these type of issues that we saw acted out in real life eight in moscow in two thousand and ten with ethnic clashes taking place and you know square right next to the kremlin in the heart of the russian capital he hit out at those they. see nationalism right he hit out at those who have used slogans such as stop feeding and stop funding the caucuses saying well the caucuses are

a part of russia talking of multiculturalism he said that russia had a very unique system of multiculturalism something very different to say what happens in europe where he said basically multiculturalism had failed and that russia's system was something that has reviewed every different manner over to me and said that there's no way that you can completely get rid of all illegal immigration into russia but if he's elected president in the elections in march city hopes to be able to to make significant cuts to the amount of people that are arriving in russia illegally you know he wants to do this by toughening the laws to try and deter people from entering the country illegally he also wants to see a system. put in place not just to monitor foreign immigrants coming into russia but also to monitor internal migrants also if by twenty thirty he wants to see an exam put in place to those wanting to come been settled and live and work in russia but they have to be able to pass the russian language exam also an exam on russian culture russian history so those are the things that he wants to put in place to

tackle the issue of migration and multiculturalism in russia. more reports and analysis on the upcoming presidential election in russia to be found of course twenty four hours a day on our website artsy dot com or you can look out to find out why the list of candidates for the country's top job may turn out to be shorter than initially expected also online. risking death to provide a lifeline the story of a palestinian tunnel digger whose work helps support his family and the flow of vital supplies into gaza all in defiance of the israeli blockade. the newly elected parliament in egypt has started.