takes on the world number eleven juan martin del potro that match got underway moments ago and a little later world number two rafael nadal takes on so much verdict has dropped on these two sets so far in this tournaments are all part has failed to progress past the quarterfinals at the struggling open in the last couple of years losing to the lower ranked players each time so he will obviously be looking to improve on that. and earlier former champion maria sharapova claimed her spot at the next stage where she will take on serena williams eliminator. in an all russian quarter final at the australian open germany's sabine lisicki became the first woman to take a set off sharapova but after dropping the over the twenty four year old russian laws are we back to what we think. makes me think of one of the first time since winning that title down under one years ago. and i think in the

way next is left handed compassionate my car of i was served up the biggest upset of the firmament so the i'm twenty three year old knocking out five time with him so you know williams the role there were made when the water finally. yeah i'm surprised because she's a great player and it's really tough to play against her. but i don't know i just feeling so good. so i played my game and then. i won and. you know i didn't play well and i'm not physically one hundred percent like you know. i can't be so angry at myself even though i'm very unhappy and you know i can play. one hundred times better than i did this whole tournament. elsewhere a second seed survived the second set back by former world number one on the bottom of each of thirty above the rim of the champions held on to win six two seven six

and will at least emulate last year's wrong so the last stage. in the next round is it sally and surprise package zahra irani who steamrolled the last. to go into her maiden final at a major event while competes of a has been backed by former compadres martina navratilova the eighteen time major winner saying the current wimbledon champion is more deserving of the world's top ranking being carried in who has yet to crane and major title. nobody feels that business is the true number one we still have the same ranking system reason. six years ago when they were giving bonus points for beating players who would have ended up their number one because she had a player. who doesn't have a great record in her career or one of the last four years over the top to the top five. well in the meantime depending on men's champion overcame former finalist

lleyton hewitt and four sets straight in playing in his sixteenth home grand slam was two sets and a breakdown in the third before reading all six straight games to become the first man to take a set off the top seed however the world number one fought back to take the four six three and reach his fifth straight quarter final in melbourne. it was playing out of his crowd and obviously he loves competing against. you know the top guys in the big stage and he proved it again it was a great atmosphere you know to lose the. crowd got involved in it it was great you know the moment you play tennis for to be out there in the situation. and will face studied for in the quarterfinals the spaniard semifinalist last year was a straight set winner over france's rashard desk a. former finalist schauble fred song is the biggest name to fall

so far in the men's draw the french succeed going out zucchini she koori after a five set thriller the twenty two year old keeping his nerve in this long final rally to become the first japanese man to reach the us put in a lot of finals in the open era and is not overwhelmed by the team and. that he's going to be. to me a lot of history. to be number one player. but that never gives me such. a grueling match finished corrie and he'll next play a well rested andy murray that's why speeds and find this book in his place in the next round asked for. a retard atsu said down fourth seed murray spent less than fifteen minutes on this is the only hot rod laver arena. so the

n.f.l. now where lawrence tynes kicked a late field goal against san francisco to send the new york giants into the super bowl where they'll meet the new england patriots who edged out baltimore now first to the n.f.c. championship game add the candlestick park where the defense is dominated however in the final period eli manning produced his second such down pass connecting with mario manningham from seventeen yards to put the giants ahead a late twenty five yard field goal by the forty nine er's david akers levelled the score at seventeen all to send the game into overtime plus an error by receiver kyle williams of the giants season possession and they ran three times to set signs up for his winning kick the giants will now look to emulate their two thousand and eight success when they deny the patriots a perfect season to miss the vince lombardi trophy. and also feel. you know this this been a long journey for. you know have

a time or even overdue. and so we were you know. were never born to go to chile all we did was go to work you do better. you know all this work there's more work with the week meanwhile in the a.f.c. belts more is billy cundiff missed a field goal with just eleven seconds remaining as the new england patriots booked their super bowl place by edging the ravens twenty three twenty tom brady scored what proved to be the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter with the swine yards i've bringing the patriots from behind but the ravens have the chance to force overtime comes if his kick to the left of the post so the patriots have the chance to avenge their two thousand and a defeat as they again face the giants in february the fifth their all fans played well our defense i thought played extremely well fancily i sure didn't love it better in the red area. certainly you know not the interceptions but we won we're

moving on. you know we won ten straight so if you can make it eleven. two football all the psycho variety now and with a week to go in the english transfer window room on public goes agents has finally confirmed that the russian striker has signed a one year extension with tottenham the thirty year old that will remain at white hart lane until the summer of next year despite having been recently with a move to happen doesn't clubs both in england and in russia but jenko has fallen down with manager harry redknapp speaking orders since arriving from spartak moscow four years ago but has scored forty one goals in one hundred eight appearances so far for the spurs. however one rush hour regular is bound for home after a spell in england spartak moscow have announced they've reached an agreement to sign midfielder ziada be from everts and the twenty six year old is due to undergo

a medical before putting pen to paper for the red white's captain's another mosco side looking at sea before his move to the top piece back in two thousand and nine . an ice hockey take a chill has washed the season long ban off arguably the league's most short tempered soft guy jeremy blonsky of the sorriest sides the hot headed canadian saw his appeal satisfied after serving at the team game ban the mixed martial artist was handed the heavy penalty in november for yet another punch up on the ice but should now be available for sunday's game at champions celibates you live as a sprawling. and and gain losing streak. i will be back with another update from the australian open in less than a couple of hours meanwhile you can take a look at our youtube channel at r.t. sport news where you can find some great feature stories about sports in russia and

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damascus rejects arab league calls for president assad to step down and form a new government with the opposition that ten months gone on rest in the country rages on. terror on stands defiant as the even posts its toughest sanctions yet banning oil imports from iran onto its disputed nuclear program and. to ride it for being one sided extradition law between the u.s. and the u.k. designed to help bring terror suspects to justice faces pressure calls for you if you shine give it's a one way street to american jails. world

news and much more twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. syria has rejected an arab league call for president are set to step down the baskets criticize the pill as an attack on its national sovereignty or summing up a month of its observer mission to the country that the said all sides of the syrian conflict must lay down arms the pan. or a body one hundred pounds with deputy and form a unity government with the opposition sever that has been extended but saudi arabia has dropped out despite the existing situation in syria has improved qatar has called for military intervention but it's now. the e.u. imposed a new round of sanctions on the syrian regime. it's already. counted but it's the

people who are feeling the squeeze and sara first reports now from damascus. trying to shine a light on what's happening in the country the observer mission looks set to continue now for another month but every day is proving more and more of a challenge for the people. due to the european sanctions in syria to give syria we don't have any tourist we don't have any foreigners the e.u. has no one pays its eleventh consecutive round the sanctions this time putting a travel ban on people and businesses linked with the assad regime is we've been finding out the cascade of sanctions has swamp syria's struggling economy actually they are punishing the syrian people in a way or another i mean if they have governmental sanctions to be imposed by big business with the syrian government not with the people but the power is completely outside this door in the center of damascus at the moment and this is one of the

main criticisms aimed at the economic sanctions is that this simply affecting the every day syrian people is that most businesses in this area now are dependent upon these drugs the diesel generators that are needed because power cut has become an almost daily blow people's lives where the not everyone can afford the back up at home with his wife and children and then says when the power cuts out the family simply have to make the generator is very expensive it costs like. sixty thousand three hundred pounds as i know it's not cheap and it's not just families and small businesses that are being affected oil production has fallen dramatically after an export him and the cost of raw materials here has risen as one official from the chamber of commerce tells us a plummeting currency and rising prices have pushed many businesses to take their

trade and money elsewhere in the business of money don't put all the money in the business keep somebody maybe outside maybe. this is the. market because norm or cash money for money. entry to recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out. oh. yeah. i have. but your who. stops in one. of the spy cools the dialogue has been political and economic pressure on the country that's been favored in attempting to resolve the crisis the arab league observers mission has also made little headway safe then they say they were there simply to investigate

and to reports there have been numerous calls for even more observers to be allowed into the country i think the real issue is that the syrians need to allow in a much much more neutral a much more wide ranging a much more forceful international observer mission if they've got nothing to hide if it's if they're generally not killing innocent people one of the go to the the sanctions impact is heavily contested there's no doubt that they are putting pressure on an increasingly isolated government many people in the country it will say made an already desperate situation even worse. damascus syria where u.s. and its allies accuse the syrian regime of cracking down on peaceful protesters but the massacres claims it's fighting a foreign funded insurgency political analyst. says the opposition is receiving weapons from abroad and becoming increasingly violent. of course there are certain

parts of the opposition that should share the responsibility for the there are a good amount of syrians who are dedicated to peaceful demonstrations who have been showing up on the streets and have been you know resisting calls to violence but then there are also many dangerous segments of the opposition who have used violence we see this as more and more especially over the last several months with a lot of weapons coming in through foreign borders to the opposition that's becoming increasingly militarized and carrying out some very devastating attacks on syrian infrastructure syrian government institutions the police and also innocent civilians are getting killed in syria and so really the violence now is a two way street. for more on the arab world coming up in the program with renewed violence breaking out in libya you refer to my latest point is when gadhafi loyalists and interim government forces as fears grow that the country's descending into civil war. and when fear of lawsuits comes at the cost of human life

rescue services in the u.s. of criticize after a number of cases it looked the other way during emergencies. iran says an oil embargo imposed by the european union is doomed to fail under the e.u. delivered on its threat to ban the import of crude from the islamic state in response to its nuclear program the latest round of sanctions prohibits any new oil contracts but allows for existing deals to run into july the e.u. buys around eighteen percent of all iranian crude tehran has been told the ban may be lifted to return to talks of its nuclear agenda which the west suspects is aimed at developing a nuclear bomb russia has dismissed the new sanctions on iran is counterproductive around the area threaten to block a vital oil supply route in the persian gulf and the embargo comes into force the u.s. navy is poised to reopen the strait of hormuz by force if necessary columnist and

asia times correspondent asked about says iran is unlikely to back down. the p five plus one as it's called the five permanent members of the security council plus germany dish should sit down theoretically by the end of this month with iran in this whole thing is brokered by turkey to start talking again about the iranian nuclear program but i wonder if iran has any incentive at the moment any fact the hard line there is interest say exactly that. after the sanctions are fully implemented on july first we're going to close down the street of hormuz as a reaction this is something that they need to see terms of their internal public opinion because they are being pressured all the time by the europeans the americans and europeans any really an eighty million iranians are asking themselves what is our government doing to defend it in effect that we have the right to develop a peaceful nuclear program and there is no if it is

a new we're glad you eat by national intelligence estimates in the united states that they are developing a nuclear weapon. turkey has a valid to retaliate after the french senate approved the bill making it a crime to deny the massacre of means by the ottoman empire nine hundred fifteen was genocide and has already suspended but it political and economic times with paris were both houses of the french parliament passed the bill and still has to be signed off by. proposing this to make the technology genocide war crimes recognized by french nor punishable by up to a year in prison denies the massacre that's considered by many in the twentieth centuries first genocide executive director of the armenian national committee of america. says the national forced to admit to the atrocities. so many countries around the world russia canada france of course it will be sweden

switched on and others recognize this crime so we think it's a step toward mounting pressure increasing pressure on turkey to finally come to terms with your imminent genocide both truthfully and justly i think of the support for the measure in from across the political spectrum in france as it has in so many countries everywhere around the world that there's been a vote the voters almost universally been to this crime recognize that the sole center of the aisle is opera i think there's. an inclination among turkish politicians to play to the lowest common denominator there is a very hardline element of in turkey that abuse this is a matter of national pride there are others who see that turkey made may need to pay for its crime and they're fearful of that but it's certainly the lowest common denominator and it's taken turkish politics hostage and sadly taken american politics hostage is what president obama promised as a candidate as a senator to recognize you're going genocide and he immediately after getting

elected it brought back so we hope that this reminds the president was obligation to his own commitments and also reminds them of that he needs to do the right thing and the congress should do the same. for british students fate hangs in the balance as he faces extradition to the u.s. it's to to the controversial agreement between the and in washington the house of america to divonne anyone be handed over to its justice system on the grounds of reasonable suspicion alone on his own t.'s i bet it now reports a treaty which we designed to deal with terror suspects now appears to have gone far beyond its initial remit. from running a website in his bedroom with links to pirated movies to up to ten years in a u.s. federal prison richard o'dwyer is the latest victim of the u.k.'s controversial extradition treaty with america his actions aren't even a crime in britain but counters copyright infringement in the u.s.

for the judge that was enough for richard's mother it was devastating. perry's going to impact the gulf there i know the fact that you and richard citv shank was seized by u.s. authorities last year this is what you see on the home page now he didn't host any illegal videos itself but posted links to where users could find them u.s. prosecutors claim richard banked two hundred thirty thousand dollars in advertising revenue from the site although he's never been to america they claim his actions had direct consequences there to be treated unfairly slightly. here because he was just pro extradition for well after it all about but i'm just going to go with the other side anyway so. all that work that we put in. and all but you were there when you i'm not sure if you were there last time before when you said made a good strong argument but all went out the window completely. you know giving up

no no we can't give up. the u.k. u.s. extradition treaty was signed in two thousand and three supposedly to bring international terrorists to justice but many feel it's unfair to british citizens it makes it far easier for america to extradite someone from the u.k. than the other way around so far extraditions of five to two in america's favor veteran british m.p. simming campbell's leading a review of the treaty by his party the smaller partner in the governing coalition . what i argue for is that the position of a british citizen should be no worse than that of an american to and at the moment you think it's flickering i'm in no doubt that it's out of bounds richard dryers are innocently caught up in something which was never intended to deal with people like him gary mckinnon case is another that's left british m.p.'s crying out for

change the asperger's sufferer has been fighting extradition for seven years he's wanted for hacking into pentagon files but he claims he was searching for evidence of u.f.o.'s a recent parliamentary debate on the treaty was so one sided in favor of changing it that a vote wasn't even needed but what's happening in there is still not enough to stop richard o'dwyer is pending extradition his case is certainly highlighted the need for something to be done but any changes could be too late for him his case is now in the hands of home secretary theresa may who has been accused of abandoning plans to change the treaty richard and his family will get the chance to appeal the decision at a higher court but their options are rapidly running out after bennett r.t. london a trial date has been set for an american woman who shipped her adopted russian son to moscow with no more than

a note saying she didn't want to many more torry hansen placed the seven year old on a transatlantic flight to russia by himself any had psychological problems and some is being sued for child support and world association for children and parents with a trial set for the end of march the boy remains in russia where he's receiving professional care at a special children's village distance sparked outrage and led to new adoption rules between the u.s. and russia. remember there's always more news on our website r.t. dot com here's a look at two more off beat stories getting attention this hour a case of mistaken identity find out how a botched russian police operation saw officers break up a local fun run thinking it was an unauthorized gay pride parade also online. then how some candidates in the south carolina primary have received the support of almost a thousand dead voters more details and much more web site. in

libya four people have been killed and twenty others wounded by supporters of former leader moammar gadhafi seize control of the town of bani walid after clashes with the group of the world to the new government earlier the national transitional council's leader warned that the country was on the verge of civil war in d.c. has already been struggling with violent protests stronghold of benghazi which forced its second most senior official to resign demonstrators many of whom held overthrow the previous regime. by the slow pace of reform and the lack of transparency and the country's assets patrick a reporter for the online magazine spiked says the boring events and not surprising

. now i find that very interesting actually because well what i mean the national transitional council itself was very much something that was already chosen by the west not something that was chosen by the libyan people it was very much kind of put in place and then they were kind of helicoptered in where you get afi was gotten rid of so the thing i find very striking here actually is that the a.t.c. isn't doing itself any favors into the pro-democracy campaign is also seeing off the. supporters as well though warnings for a long time that this could happen in bani walid people are saying very least two months we may get a pro get afy uprising here and the entity did nothing about it they were warned and now bani walid has been taken so it's not surprising and it does seem like the n.t. is impotence and it's reflecting the needs and desires of anyone in libya at the moment there was a lot of congratulates three talked by cameron.