rafael nadal takes on so much should burdick who has dropped only two sets so far in this tournament has failed to progress past the quarterfinals at the straight and open in the last couple of years losing to lower ranks 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 syria may williams says the eliminator. in an all russian quarter final at the australian open germany's side being lifted ski became the first woman to take a set off sharapova but after dropping the opener the twenty four year old russian called her way back into the match to win it three six six two six three and return to the quarterfinals for the first time since winning the title down under four years ago. standing in the way next his left handed contacts trip in a car about who serves up the biggest upset of that sort of an so for the on scene a twenty three year old knocking out five signed what are serina williams to roll

into her made in grand slam quarter final. surprise 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 and so focused so i played my game and. i won and it's amazing you know i didn't play well and i'm not physically one hundred percent it's like you know. i can't be so angry and so even though i'm very unhappy and you know i can play a hundred times better than i do this whole tournament. elsewhere a second seed petrak needs of all survived a second set back by former world number one and a bottom of each of serbia but the wimbledon champion held on to win six two seven six and will at least emulate last year's drawing to the last eight stage. waiting for in the next round is italian surprise package irani who steamrolled the last chinese standing to go into her amazing quarterfinal at

a major event while could be to has been backed by for a compadre the martina navratilova the eighteen time major winner saying that current wimbledon champion is more deserving of the world's top ranking than karen it was not he who has yet to claim a major title. nobody feels that was and is the true number one we still have the same ranking system we're using. six years ago when they were giving bonus points for beating players do a little bit of their number one because player is the most american business he doesn't have that great a record in her career or over the last four years over the top to organise the. in the meantime defending men's champion of a joke of each overcame former finalist lately he went in four sets the australian plane in his sixteenth home grand slam was two sets and a break down in the third before reeling off 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 fourth

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 it was in the. crowd got involved in it it was great you know the moment you play tennis will be out there in those situations. and jockey which will face in the quarterfinals the spaniard as semifinalists last year was a straight set winner over france says rashard gas kate. meanwhile former a finalist. is the biggest name to fall so far in the men's draw the french sixteen going out suki nishikori after a five set twenty two year old keeping his nerve in this long final rally to become the first japanese man to reach the australian open quarterfinals in the open era

and he's not all are well into by his achievements. but he's going to be. to me a lot of history. to be number one player. but the never to such. a grueling match finish it corey and he'll next play a well rested andy murray that's why it's been fine that is booking his place the next round after a kazakhstani. down fourth seed murray spent less than fifteen minutes on this is the only hot rod laver arena. russian athletes have returned home from the inaugural youth olympic winter games in austria where the sea managed an overall fifth place in the standings the country's junior athletes were greeted by hundreds of journalists friends and relatives at moscow's adama did the airport following their performance which brought russia it's

a little of five gold for silver and seven bronze medals figure skating olympic champion and russia's hope for so much it's won t. fourteen of the big c. it is obvious that the commission says her coach helped her with confidence and that media pressure pressure didn't really bother her. and trying not to think of the pressure and just do my job by listening to my coach and i fully trust him i'm confident that he knows what he's doing so i'm absolutely clear. of football now and with a week to go in the english should transfer window. agent has finally confirmed that the russian striker has signed a one year extension with tottenham the thirty year old will remain at the white hart lane until the summer of next year despite having been recently links with a move to at least a dozen clubs both in england and in russia has fallen down manager harry redknapp spec'ing orders since arriving from sports like moscow four years ago but has scored forty one goals in one hundred eight appearances so far for the spurs

however while russian regular is a bound for home after a spell in england sports moscow have announced they've reached an agreement to sign with a bit of a dino from everton the twenty six year old is due to undergo and. it called before putting pen to paper for the red white speed at captains and other moscow side the local mall at sea before his move to the talkies back in two thousand and nine. an ice hockey they can. squash the season long ban of arguably the league's most short tempered guy jeremy not sorie aside the ties the hot headed canadian so his appeal satisfied after serving at sixteen game ban the avid mixed martial artist was handed they had a penalty in the vendor for yet another punch up on the ice but should now be available for sunday's game at champions you live as a struggling metas look at the end and eight game losing streak. and

finally to us for a rush of salt that's a bowl but perhaps not in an area he had expected over the weekend and more than a thousand swimmers braved the icy waters of the baltic sea to say ford's in the eighth when swimming world championship this hearty competitor was one of the russian team that collected thirty medals in latvia from an impressive eighty four disciplines varying from twenty five to four hundred fifty meters for those who could endure the subzero temperatures over a thousand courageous swimmers from twenty seven countries including as far away as canada are led on a straight it support and all of them look forward to a hot drink at the very end if they're not dieting every one of my school international news dot com is not the results of so it's been really really big event mr arias so i. would say the chips it will it will be and being a big thing you know the more they'll accompted but i will be back with another

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business the russian market opened lower on tuesday point one percent of my six sharing over a quarter of the sand well look we have a closer look at the stocks about twenty minutes. around the world and around the clock you're watching r t welcome to the program syria has rejected an arab league call for present assad to step down the baskets criticize the pill is an attack on its national sovereignty was summing up a month of its observer mission to the country the league said all sides of the syrian conflict must lay down arms the pan arab body wants us to hand power to a deputy and form a unity government with the opposition. after it has been extended but saudi arabia has dropped out despite in the situation in syria has improved qatar earlier calls

for military intervention but is now ruling that out. as the new round of sanctions on the syrian regime. on monday it's already under a set of heavy penalties but it's the people who are feeling the squeeze so our 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 argue syria we don't have any tourists we don't have any foreigners the pace is eleven consecutive round the sanctions this time putting a travel ban on people and businesses linked with the assad regime this we've been finding out the cascaded sanctions this woman 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 that they're 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 this that this simply affecting the way so every day syrian people in fact most businesses in this area now depended upon these type of diesel generators that are needed because power that i cannot make daily at people's lives where the not everyone can afford the backup at home with his wife and children and then says when the power cuts out the family simply have to make do generator 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 in by ok 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 money for. and true to recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out. oh. yeah. i have. but your who. stops in our old one. spy cools that it's been political and economic pressure on the country that's been

favored in attempting to resolve the. 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 this need 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. the 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's receiving weapons from abroad and becoming increasingly violent. of course there are certain parts of the opposition that should share in 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 coalition more and more especially over the last several months with a lot of weapons coming in through foreign borders to opposition and that's becoming increasingly militarized and carrying out some very devastating attacks on syrian embassy structure 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 but we've got more and events in the middle east coming up in the

stands defiant union owes its toughest sanctions yet burning oil imports for iran responds to disputed nuclear program there with the latest. us when we're of the door suits comes at the cost of human life rescue services in the u.s. or criticised for the cases where they looked the other way during emergencies. in libya least five people have been killed and twenty others wounded supporters of former leader moammar gadhafi seized control of the town of bani walid after clashes with a group loyal to the new government earlier the national transitional council's leader warned that the country was on the verge of civil war the n.t. seen it's already been struggling with protests stronghold of gaza which forced its second most senior official to resign the demonstrators many of whom helped overthrow the previous regime by the slow pace of reform and

a lack of transparency the handling of the country's assets patrick hayes a reporter for the online magazine spiked says the warring events are not surprising. no i find that very interesting actually because well what's in 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 helicopter didn't get their feet was gotten rid of so the thing i find very striking here actually is that the n t c isn't doing itself any favors into the pro-democracy campaign is also seeing off the. supporters as well 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 off the uprising here and the entity did nothing about it they were warned now bani walid has been taken so it's not surprising and it does seem like the m.t.c. is impotence and it's reflecting the needs and desires of anyone in libya at the

moments there was a lot of congratulates three talk by cameron sarkozy who kept a bit of a distance but was still involved after the fall of gadhafi i think they're going to be very reluctant to admit that what they didn't do was bring about democracy in the country. russia's a presidential envoy to africa has recently visited libya he says that all sides have to sit down for talks to bring order to the country and avoid civil war you can watch the full interview next hour here's a preview for you. has the goodwill from all the sides which were involved in a very long lasting conflict which to my personal the people of the real city and in some areas of libya of the civil war is not over in the south there is the whole desert area as an area of the certain extent no man's land it's out of control of

new government forces it's tribes it's a zone of uncontrolled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time for libya will last for quite a significant period of time if libyan political elite is not ready to sit at the round table. turkey has vowed to retaliate after the french senate approved a bill making it a crime to deny the massacre of armenians by the ottoman empire nine hundred fifteen was genocide and has already suspended military political and economic ties of paris where both houses of the french parlance have passed the bill still has to be signed off by personal uneasy you want it you know that but i want to pose this to make the denial of genocide and war crimes recognized by french law punishable by up to year in prison turkey denies the massacre that's considered by many to be the twentieth century's first genocide executive director of the armenian national

committee of america. says the measure move to admit to the chances. so many countries around the world russia canada france of course italy sweden switzerland others have recognized this crime so we think it's a step toward mounting pressure increasing pressure on turkey to finally come to terms with their many genocide both truthfully and justly but think of the support for the measure came from across the political spectrum in france as it has in so many countries everywhere around the world that that there's been a vote the vote is almost universally been to see this prime 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 they've taken turkish politics hostage and sadly taken american politics hostages while president obama promised as a candidate as a senator to recognize your new genocide he immediately after getting elected abroad so we hope that this reminds the president was obligation to his own commitments and also reminds him of that he needs to do the right thing and the congress should do the same. the british students of fate hangs in the balance basics traditions of the u.s. it's due to the controversial agreement between london and washington but allows america to demand anyone behind the day with its justice system on the grounds of reasonable suspicion and then there's artie's on the ballot reports treaty original design to deal with terror suspects now appears to have gone far beyond its initial remit. from running a web site 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 us for the judge that was enough for richards mother it was devastating. very very. much comforted i know that you brigid site t.v. shack 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 a direct consequence is there to be treated unfairly slightly. here because he was just pro extradition well i've heard all about but i'm just going to go with the other side anyway so. all that work that we.

deal with there when you i'm not sure if you were there last time before he said it a good strong argument that all went out the window completely. you know giving him no no we can't go. to. the u.k. u.s. extradition treaty was signed in two thousand and three. that lead 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 for 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 impounds 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 that 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 as 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 either bennett london.

well remember there's always more news on our website r.t. dot com let's take a look at to the more offbeat stories getting attention this hour a case of mistaken identity to find out how a botched russian police operation so officers break up a local fun run thinking it was an unauthorized gay pride parade also online. some candidates in the south carolina primary ever see the support of almost a thousand dead voters details and much more on our website party dot com. iran says an oil embargo imposed by the european union is doomed to fail on monday 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 to july the e.u. buys around eighteen percent of all iranian crude tehran has been told about maybe

drifted if it returns to talks have its nuclear agenda which the west suspects is developing nuclear bomb russia has dismissed the new sanctions on iran is counterproductive and around that area threaten to block a vital oil supply route in the persian gulf when the embargo comes into force the u.s. navy is poised to reopen the strait by force if necessary economist and asia times correspondent. says iran is unlikely to back down. the five plus one as it's called the five permanent members of the security council plus germany dish should sit down three or actively by the end of this month. in this whole series brokered by turkish to start talking again about the iranian nuclear program but i wonder if iran has any incentive the moment any friendly hard liners in there are say exactly that. after the censors.