quite a few years in front of me and i stand and you know. a number of us are on a number of years off and i will dance in french open slough so. i'll definitely do my best and child to child to mars and you know. you can just do it fast. and of the seventy final crisis will face a third seed victoria azarenka who came from behind to beat poland's agnieszka that six seven six six two and the belorussian could become the new world number one if she were to go on the rhetorical. i was approaching to smash you know to try to do the best i can and i was searching for it on the first time just couldn't manage to play my game and maybe two years ago i would be like ok you know it's not working today. i'm going to try to we'll see you know goes by and today i really try to forget about the first set and start from zero and really. you know find

hard you know really if you want to do time and keep going so i think there was a different mental approach. well meanwhile over in the men's draw roger federer cruised into the semifinals with an imperious straight sets victory over eleven seed juan martin del potro the third seed who's yet to drop a set needed just under two hours to complete a six four six three six two win and federal next play the winner of the quarterfinal between second seed ruff on the go and polish burdick the czech has become the first player to take a set off a doll of this year's tournament winning a dramatic tie break to take the first seven six and it's currently five games all in the second. well meanwhile on monday former champion maria sharapova trained her spot in the last eight against arena williams conquer it katherina mccarver to set up an all russian quarter final well germany's sabine lisicki became the first woman to take a set off sharapova but after dropping the opener the twenty four year old russian pulled her way back into the match to win it three six six two six two and will

rise to the top of the world rankings if she repeats has two thousand and eight feet and wins the tournament. while standing in the way next is left handed combative mccarver who served up the biggest upset of the tournament so far the unseated twenty three year old knocking out five time winner serena williams to roll into her maiden grandson quarterfinal. surprise because she is a great. blow against her. i don't know i just feeling so good i'm so focused so i play my game and. i won against syrian and that's amazing you know i didn't play well physically one hundred percent so it's like you know. i can't be so angry at myself even though i'm very unhappy and you know i can play a hundred times go there do this whole target. well house where second seed petrik bit about survived a second set fight back by former world no knowledge of serbia much the wimbledon

champion held on to a six to seventy six at least emulate last year's run in the last eight states and waiting for critics in the next round is italian surprise package sorry irani you still run of the last chinese standing to go into her maiden quarterfinal at a major event while critical has been backed by former combatants martina navratilova the eighteen time major winner saying the current wimbledon champion is more deserving of the world's top ranking than caroline wozniacki who after her defeat to compliance this is still 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 your bonus points for beating players who do a little bit of their number one because your play was the most american was no he doesn't have a great record in her career or over the last four years over the top to organize the top five well meanwhile defending men's champion over a drop of h.

overcame form of finance lleyton hewitt in four sets the australian maclean in his sixteenth grand slam was two sets and a break down in the third before reading off six straight games to become the first man to take a set off the top seed however the world number one for back to take a four six three and reach his fifth straight quarter final in melbourne. only it was playing out of his crowd and obviously he loves competing against. you know the guys in the big stage and he proved it again it was a great atmosphere you know it was the. crowd got involved in it is great you know the moment you pointed at us for us to be out there in those situations. and the joke of it will next face david ferrer in the quarterfinals the spaniard a semifinalist last year was a straight so we know the prizes were shown against a. while for the finest show wilfried songer is the biggest name to fall so far in the men's draw the french a sixth seed going out to kane is she corrie 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 strait open quarterfinals in the open era. so boring match finishing corey and your next play well rested andy murray the twice beaten finalist booking his place in the next round after kazakh mcculloch a retired at two sets down for seed murray spent less than fifteen minutes on the sizzling lee hot rod laver arena. football now and with a week to go in the english transfer window on public agent has finally confirmed that the russia striker has signed a one year extension of top of the thirty year old will remain at white hart lane until the summer of next year despite having been recently linked with a move to call for a dozen clubs both in england and russia has a foreign down manager harry redknapp pecking order since arriving from spartak moscow four years ago but as scored forty one goals in one hundred eight appearances so far for spurs. however one russian regular is bound for home after

a spell in england spartak moscow have an ant's they reached an agreement to sign me to feel that any are believe that you know from everton the twenty six year old is due to undergo a medical after quitting paul before putting pen to paper i should say for the red white dean of captains another moscow side like a mighty for his move to the trophies back in two thousand and nine. russia's young athletes have returned home from the inaugural youth and then picked winter games in austria where the team finished fifth overall. competitors were greeted by hundreds of friends and relatives what's going on with that of our airport after bringing five gold or silver and seven bronze medals it is a date that the washer took gold in the figure skating and is also russia's medal hope for the such a games in twenty four teams. 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 calm. and the next additions of the buy on your youth winter games will be held in china and no way while the bidding to host the

subsequent to events are about to get underway and us run closer after that russia's republic of dagestan is among the hopefuls with the most good with them with their big it's possible that in twenty eight the utility pick games will be held in dagestan it would be hard to accomplish to be honest but it is possible but in twenty twenty two it's quite realistic we will be ready to host the games in twenty eighteen but if not then the team will be ready for twenty twenty two even if we don't get to host the youth summer games we will still create entirely in pick infrastructure the main stadium for forty five thousand people which will be built within a framework of a new city it will be built on the coast near the airport and it will be a very beautiful city with which house roads stadiums and everything else that is needed for the junior olympics once again it doesn't matter if our bid wins or not we will build a new city in any case. to the n.b.a.

now a western conference leaders oklahoma thunder won the ninth game from ten outings after thrashing the struggling detroit pistons ninety nine seventy nine while the sun that's ok and eight zero eight zero early in the first quarter dressed west set up kevin brown with this perfect behind the back cost i and later in the first west point one phone provider to score a spawn off rival stockings and pull off the glass of the thunder a twenty eight ten wind. and in the search the thunder showed some great counter-attacking play as serge ibaka knocked at one end for being teed up by drowns out the other gives the thunder a sixty four thirty seven lead so it finished ninety nine seventy nine to inform oklahoma while the misfiring pistons are bottom of the central division. and finally on to ice hockey and the k h l has squashed the season long ban of all give me the leaks my short tempered tough guy general of the tory assigned a few tears well the hot headed canadian saw his appeal satisfied after serving

a fifteen game ban the avid mixed martial artist who has handed the heavy penalty in november for yet another punch up on the ice that should not be available for sunday's game of champions sell about july of struggling with chairs look to end an eight game losing streak. and that's all the sports news by phone or.

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market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our. new violence in libya gadhafi loyalists class with interim government forces in several cities across the country as fears grow of a slide back into civil war. as the u.s. and europe slap iran with tough new sanctions terror on it reportedly gets around them by ditching the dollar and its lucrative oil deals. and oil prices a stable us trade is a way the next move in the escalating dispute between iran and the west to any proposed business bulletin and twenty minutes. plus derided for being one sided

the extradition laws between the u.s. and the u.k. designed to help bring terror suspects to justice faces or fresh calls for review but british anger it's one that's one way street to american jails. worldwide news live from moscow's city center this is artsy with me rule research showing fighting has broken out in libya between supporters of former leader of more market afy and forces loyal to the new government the head of the national transitional council has warned that the country is on the verge of returning to a state of civil war parties marouf national has the latest. in the last few days the situation in libya has been very tense and very dangerous actually indeed on monday we did receive reports that khadafi loyalists actually managed to take

control over the city of bani walid southeast of the capital tripoli once known as the duffys main stronghold and did also manage to raise green flag at one of the gates of the town green flag symbol of. duffy's rule and local officials have been reporting about at least five people and to see people killed in this violence we also were receiving reports about violence around tripoli and following that the anti see checkpoints around the capital for security reasons and also three and to see people who were reputed to be killed in the city open ghazi in the eastern part of leave in ghazi the city which is known to be the stronghold of the rebels since the beginning of the uprising last february we can see that angriness among the liberal population is wrong as in over how and to see is governing. and

we know that from the local officials when the ballance erupted in bani walid local officials asked and to see to send maybe send troops to help them fight against gadhafi loyalists but the army has never been sent and we also know that following the demonstrations in bengazi when crowds of students have been protesting against low pace of reforms and lack of transparency one of the high profile members of anti c. resigned actually and this resignation was accepted by the chief of anti so so we can see that and to see is trying to. take control of this situation but with actually little success so far. but it's more of an option of reporting right there while there is a more trouble ahead for libya and only dialogue can stop the country plunging back into civil war that assessment from russia's presidential envoy to africa who's

just been to libya he gives us his inside in the next hour here on r t but for now a quick preview of what is just ahead. has to take goodwill from all the sides which were involved in a very long lasting conflict which to my personal between the real civil and in some areas of libya of the civil war is not over so in the so there is the who deserted area as an area of the sudanese the no man's land it's out of control of new government forces it's is own of tribes it's a zone of uncontrolled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time for libya will last for where the civil and if. political elite is not ready to sit at the round table.

this is r.t. live from moscow six gulf states members of the arab league say they are pulling their observers out of syria they're also calling on the u.n. security council to pressure damascus into implementing a peace deal this comes after syria rejected the league's call for president assad to step down summing up a month of its observer mission to the country the organization said all sides in the syrian conflict must lay down arms the pan arab body wants us to hand the power to a deputy and pave the way for a unity government with the opposition meanwhile the e.u. has imposed a new round of tough sanctions against the syrian regime but has international pressure piled up it's the people there who are feeling the pinch so to you sir firth reports from damascus. trying to shine a light on what's happening in the country the mission looks set to continue now for another month but every day here is proving more and more of a challenge to the people. due to the european sanctions in syria to argue studio

we don't have any tourists we don't have any for most of the e.u. has no one pays its eleventh consecutive round of sanctions this time putting a travel ban on people and businesses linked with the assad regime it says we've been finding out the cascade of sanctions just won't syria's struggling economy actually they are going to see the syrian people in a way or another i mean if they have governmental sanctions to be imposed that their business with the syrian government not with the people but the power is completely out of this door in the central damascus at the moment and this is one of the main criticisms aimed at the economic sanctions is that this simply affecting the way so every day syrian people in fact most businesses in this area now i depended upon these types of diesel generators that are needed because our cars have become an almost daily part of 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 do generators very expensive 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 involved 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. and treat a recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out. oh. yeah. i have. but your who. stops in. spike cools the dialogue it's 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 say for that and 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 and much more forceful international observer mission if they've got nothing to hide if it's if they're genuinely not killing innocent

people then one of the go to the the sanctions impact is heavily contested is this new 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 screws tighten on the syrian regime russia insists its shipments are legal and some reports suggesting that russia will supply damascus with new combat training jets and follows a shipload of military cargo which came under question from other countries foreign minister sergei lavrov says the shipment checked all the boxes on the international . when you're pretty we believe we don't have to explain or justify ourselves as we're not breaking any international agreements or any un security council resolutions the only items we sell to syria are those not prohibited by international law you certainly sanctions that have been adopted unilaterally and

imposed by the us e.u. and some european countries cannot be viewed by us as legitimate for russia's actions generally unilateral sanctions always undermine the collective that with regards to iran syria or any other situations. you without a lot from moscow are still to come for you this hour in the program when fear of lawsuits comes at the cost of human life but how rescue services in the u.s. coming under fire after a number of cases where they looked the other way during emergencies. the e.u. has banned the import of crude oil from iran in response to its nuclear program the latest round of sanctions prohibits any new oil contracts while allowing for existing deals to run until july but iran is apparently finding ways to keep business pumping report says iran will keep supplying one of its biggest customers that of india but will get payment in gold instead of dollars that is pretty short

of reports from utero. india actually has already bought iranian oil using gold instead of u.s. dollars and this is extremely significant because every year india actually spends twelve billion u.s. dollars on iranian oil and now actually beijing is also saying that it might want to jump on board with the new delhi and also look into some sort of agreement with iran to continue to get oil new delhi and beijing actually account for forty percent of the imports of iranian oil the e.u. only counts for twenty percent obviously we've been talking about all week about this oil embargo that the e.u. announced on monday that they're hoping to roll out and put into place by chalabi first and obviously if new delhi and beijing find a way to continue trading with iran using gold instead of u.s. dollars this would severely hurt what the european union and washington is trying

to do russia has also said that it wants to continue trading with the run using domestic currencies instead of u.s. dollars obviously the point of the e.u. oil embargo would be to bring iran back to the negotiation table over its nuclear program obviously iran has consistently maintained that this is the peaceful nuclear program the west believes that they are potentially developing nuclear weapons so in response to the was announcement on monday that it will place in oil embargo on iran and iran has that that it's going to shut the strait of hormuz which is actually where twenty to thirty percent of the world's oil supply shuttles through in the united states is that it will absolutely not allow that to happen even sort of alluding to the fact that it could potentially use military force to make sure that that strait stays open moscow has also said that sanctions are an obsolete form of sort of punishing a country and that it's actually going to be counterproductive and another interesting thing to note here is that if beijing and new delhi continue to trade

with iran with gold it's actually going to increase the value of gold. decrease the value of the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency. artie's pretty shrewd reporting right when we're always interested in your opinion today we're asking you about the e.u. ban on iran's oil if you log on to r.t. top com you can take part in our latest global web poll let's look at the numbers here they come from our web site so far over half of you believe it will give china all of iran's oil and much much cheaper than a quarter thinks it will bring the europe's economy to a halt around nineteen percent say it will make russia the number one oil supplier to the e u and as we can see here a minority believe it will actually have a iran's nuclear program to go online have your say while you're there on the web site have a look at some other stories we have for you there right now is such a big trouble for big ben russian developers could be called in to help stop london's iconic parliament buildings from sinking. and learn how some

candidates in the south carolina primary have received the support of almost a thousand dead voters all the details and much more at r.t. dot com. in about ten minutes time it's the business here on r t but for now british students fate hangs in the balance as he faces extradition to the u.s. it's due to the controversial agreement between london and washington that allows america to demand anyone be handed over to its justice system simply on the grounds of reasonable suspicion and as artie's i've attended reports treaty originally designed to deal with terrorists suspects now appears to have gone far beyond its initial it. 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 that counters copyright infringement in the u.s. for the judge that was enough for richard's mother it was devastating. very telling . you about the gulf states and the fact 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 for well after it all about but i'm just going to go with the other side anyway so. all that work that we. are as. he would there when he's i'm not sure if you were there last time before when he said with a good strong argument that all went out the window completely clean or giving him no no we can't give up the time for. 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 in bonds i'm in no doubt that it. was richard pryor's an innocent they caught up in something which was never intended to deal with people like him gary mckinnon is 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 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 plan .