a number of us are friends and a number of years i think i will dance in french opens laughs you know how i'll definitely do my best and child to child to even more. of the day. you can just do your past. seven finals classes will face third seed victoria azarenka who came from behind to beat palin's. six seven six six two and a better russian could become the new overboard if she were to go on i think that's what i thought. 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 and today i really try to forget about the first set and start from zero and really you know find hard you know really take it

one of a time and keep going so i think there was a different mental approach a little bit. over in the men's draw roger federer cruised into the semifinals that imperious straight sets victory over eleventh seed. the sudsy who is yet to drop a sets needed just under two hours to complete a six four six three six to win it was also federer's one far as it's not actually but then what a swiss down played his feet. it's nice to win this one you know i mean eventually we'll forget which was what was most match and then someone will remind me again but because i do not remember my five hundred pound it was the u.s. open final you. know bigger matches and those ones but it's a big milestone. a lot of matches a lot of tennis and it's been around for a long time where i'm extremely fit. which is very rare. bedroom next play the winner of the quarter final between second seed ruff on and on and punish burdick's

the czech became the first player to take a set alternate all of this year's tournament winning a dramatic tie break to take the first set seven six but now don has found his way back in leading fighting sets to on. me one on monday former champion maria sharapova claimed her spot in the last eight against arena williams conqueror you got that in a car of a set up at all russian quarter final at the australian open well germany some in the city became the first woman to take a set off shore up over but after dropping the open over twenty four year old russian quarter way back into the match to win it three six six two six three go right to the top of the world rankings if he repeats so two thousand and eight feet and that is the tournament. and standing in the way next though is left handed combatant mccarver who served up the biggest upset of the tournament so far the n.c.v.s. twenty three year old knocking out five time winner serina williams to roll in her late grand slam to find a. surprise because she's a great player it's really fast to blow against her. i don't know i

just feeling so good i'm so focused so i played my game and. i won against syrian and that's amazing you know i didn't play well and i'm not physically one hundred percent so it's like you know i. can't be so angry at myself even though i'm very happy and you know i can play a hundred times go there do this whole turn of it well meanwhile defending men's champion novak djokovic overcame form a finalist lleyton hewitt in four sets the australian playing in his sixteenth home grand slam was to set the breakdown for reading off six great 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 week this spate quarterfinal thing album. for play 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 the. force that the crowd got involved in and it was great you know the moment you play tennis for to be out there in those situations. now over in england tottenham manager harry redknapp has been in court after being accused of receiving secret payments from his former chairman milan none that age while he was manager of portsmouth the court heard that the sixty four year old spurs coach who is the most successful english manager and favorite for the england job received a percentage of profit from transfers during his time at the club while the chairman had opened an offshore account for him in monaco it's alleged mr mander actually invested and alleged two hundred ninety five thousand dollars but he's going to manager which the prosecution claimed neither had any intention of retiring for tax purposes secret payments were allegedly made in the name of rosie forty seven mr redknapp dog plus his year of first both men deny charges of cheating the public revenue. well meanwhile staying on top of that

a lot of public has confirmed that the russian striker has signed a one year extension with the north london club 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 half a dozen clubs both in england and russia has fallen down harry redknapp pecking order since arriving from spartak moscow four years ago but has scored forty one goals in one hundred nights appearances so far for spurs. however one of russia's regular is banned hot for home after a spell in england sponsored moscow have announced they reached an agreement to sign with feel that they are being at the end of the rabbits and the twenty six year old is due to undergo a medical putting pen to paper for the red white north canton another moscow side lot of want to be for his move to the top east in two thousand and nine. and meantime russia's young athletes have returned home from the inaugural use a limp in winter games in austria where the team finished fifth slover all the competitors were greeted by hundreds of friends and relatives at moscow's double

that of the airport after bringing home five gold or silver and seven bronze medals it is about the gold in the figure skating and is also russia's medal hope for the such a games in twenty fourteen. i'm 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 editions of the bio on your youth winter games will be held in china along the way while the bidding to host the subsequent to events are about to get on the way and those from uncle sam have discovered russia's republic of dagestan is among the hopefuls with the most good with the bitter because it's possible that in twenty eight the youthful and pick games will be held in dagestan it would be hard to accomplish to be honest but it is possible that but in twenty twenty two it's quite realistic we will be ready to host the games in twenty eight but if not then the team will be ready for twenty

twenty two even if we don't get to host the huge summer games we will still create the entire limping 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 its house roads and stadiums and everything else that is needed for the junior lympics because once again it doesn't matter if our bit wins or not we will build a new city in any case. and in the meantime my healthy golfing legend tiger woods is raring to kickstart what he says should be his first full season in a while as the former well the one who has to play at the abu dhabi golf championship after ending his two year titled out with a win at the world challenge event in california in december i'm looking for this year you know that's up about the say because i was able to prepare and get fit enough to prepare last year and toward the end of the year and. you know that i

demonstrate to myself what i can do with. it what shall i want to be doing the golf swing if i'm physically fit to do it. played really well my last three votes so really good for this year and. you know continuing building on what we're what we've done towards the end of last year for sure. to the n.b.a. now where western conference leaders oklahoma thunder won their ninth game from ten outings after thrashing the struggling detroit pistons ninety nine seventy nine the thunder eighty lead early in the first quarter as russell westbrook set up second round with this perfect in the back pass. and later in the first thank you vida just for us as he spun off rodney stuckey pulled the boy off the grass of the thunder a twenty eight ten least. one of the third the thunder showed some great counter-attacking play as serge ibaka looked at one and will be until that point around the other is

a fund sixty four thirty seven lead so if it is nineteen i seventy nine that's oregon 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 call ghibli the league's most short tempered tough guy jeremy yavlinsky of notorious side which is well the hot headed canadian saw his appeal satisfied after serving a fifteen going than the average of mixed martial artist was one of the heavy penalty in november for yet another punch up on the ice which would not be available for sunday's game champion sullivan to live and struggling with years to end and a game using st. and that's always watching news. the

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video. with the palm of your. fresh rounds of violent attacks in libya gadhafi loyalists retake a former stronghold with warnings that a new civil war is on the cards. gulf states withdraw their observers from syria and the e.u. slaps fresh sanctions on the troubled country. and paying for black gold with the yellow one india reportedly finds a way to buy iran's oil despite the. russian stock song recovering slightly as unemployment in russia comes in much better than expected in

the month of december more on the markets and later. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow rover six siang in libya loyalists to the late moammar gadhafi have retaken the former stronghold of bani walid after clashes with the new government forces violence between supporters of the new and old regimes has been seen in cities all across the country and as our north africa correspondent. i reports there is much to be held when it comes to pace. in the last few days the situation has been very tense and dangerous and with . the number of anti government protests and clashes between the pro-government forces and the forces loyal to the ousted leader more money could be taken place in

different towns all across the risks are indeed very high that the country may fall into civil war the most of all and the most deadly incident happened in the town of bani walid. southeast of the capital tripoli once known as duffy's main stronghold forces loyal to the full mcconnell khadafi managed to take control over the city and did manage actually to raise the green flag at one of the city's gates the green flag symbolizing khadafi the facility as far as the local officials have been reports at least five national transitional council people have been killed we can say for sure what was the reason behind this follows in front of all the what we know that the same day the libyan justice minister announced that the international criminal court the hard allegedly agreed to let say for the song for duffy song to

be tried in leaving and on the leave in war although it hasn't been confirmed by the i.c.c. itself judge ellis a that the violence and this announcement may be connected just hours later at all and set off to another part of the country in the eastern part in the town of and goes he wants known as the rebel stronghold and later on we've been hearing about the balkans around see for their own capital they've said so several checkpoints around tripoli following the clashes reporters there but also we can see that the n.c.c. a warning that the country may fall into civil war it's the situation very dangerous trying to calm down fatah says and trying to take control over the tensions and not to hold them to escalate further. we've seen it all the way. through times. when people have been demonstrating against. them to see this trial is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far with little

success. or his mirth notion of reporting right former member of the end to see says that he had warned the council that could add fuel oil ists could return to work but that his concerns were ignored journalist patrick says the new government ultimately is failing in its job the national transitional council itself was very much something that was orange and chosen by the west not something that was chosen by the libyan people he was very much kind of put in place and then there were kind of helicopters in when gadhafi 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 in terms of 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 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

moment there was a lot of congratulates three talk by cameron sarkozy and a bomber 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 they just basically puts the struggle of the libyan people on hold while they were getting rid of gadhafi. russia has long been against foreign interventions into other states such as libya the presidential envoy to africa who is just being it to the troubled country tells us here at r.t. that dialogue between opposing factions is the only true way forward. it has to take goodwill from all the sides which were involved in a very long lasting conflict which to my personal opinion the real civil and in some areas of libya the civil war is not the work 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 governmental forces it's zone of tribes it's zone all of them controlled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time fully b.-a will last for quite a significant period of time if libyan political elite is not ready to sit at the round table african union summit to my mind may play a very positive role in putting that roundtable in the center of tripoli or any other libyan city in order to inspire the process of national reconciliation. but full interview with russia as a presidential envoy to africa is coming your way in just over an hour's time here on out say. gulf nations are pulling their arab league observers out from syria even though the mission's been extended for another month but saudi dominated the gulf cooperation council also wants the un's most powerful group to put new

pressure on damascus to end the bloodshed syria's foreign minister accuses some arab states of joining an international conspiracy against the country and a blatant interference in syria's and time in the past damascus insists it will continue to take all necessary steps to protect the country against. syria has already rejected an arab brokered peace plan calling for president assad to step down while the e.u. is in post fresh sanctions to further squeeze the regime but its author uses sara furthur portraits the syrian people who ultimately end up bearing the brunt. 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 around the sanctions this time getting

a travel ban on people and this is linked with the essential genie this we've been finding out the cascaded sanctions this won't syria's struggling economy actually they're not going to see 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 every day syrian people if i may. businesses in this area now i depend upon these drugs these are generated by the media because our guys have 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 do 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 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 for money. entry to recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out.

oh. yeah. i have. but usually stops in one. spy cool's that 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 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 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 genuinely not killing innocent people then one of the 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. and britain is calling on the arab league to press the u.n. security council into action on syria western states continue to accuse the regime of cracking down on peaceful demonstrators which it denies saying it's fighting insurgents funded from a broader political analyst. so the opposition is becoming increasingly violent. of course there are certain parts of the opposition that should share the responsibility for the unrest 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 embassy structure syrian government institutions the police so really right now we're seeing i think many western powers interested in fomenting unrest and syria and so they'll turn a blind eye to extreme weapons coming in through borders like lebanon and turkey to create the very militant very dangerous armed groups that are determined to create war and not peace in syria. and meantime russia insists its shipments to syria illegal it's amid reports suggesting moscow will supply new combat training jets and follows a shipload of military cargo which came on a question from other countries for a minute or so to get off that shipment checked all the boxes under international law. 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 certainly sanctions that have been adopted unilaterally and imposed by the us you and some european countries cannot be viewed as legitimate for russia's actions generally unilateral sanctions always undermine the collective with regards to iran and syria or any other situations. this is r t live from moscow and still ahead for you in the one sided limits. very disappointing in fact discuss state of mexico from the june or u.k. student faces extradition to the u.s. on charges of breaching copyright it's all down to a british or american treaty that's being slammed as unbalanced. iran has apparently found a way to stay in business despite a new oil embargo and

a freeze on his bank assets announced by the e.u. india has reportedly agreed to pay iran in gold for its oil instead of u.s. dollars reports suggest iran's biggest customer china could also follow suit he's now reports from new delhi. 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 chill

live 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 said 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 all these pretty shrewd are reporting that well india's been quick to take advantage but what other consequences could be used on iranian oil have the question we're asking you on our web site right now log on to argue dot com you can take part in our latest online poll this bring up the numbers here so far more than one half of you believe china will buy all of iran's oil at a much cheaper price less than a quarter think it's europe's economy that's going to suffer eighteen percent say the involved it will make russia the number one oil supplier to the e.u. and the minority believes it all how iran's nuclear program do you go online to see

dot com and have your say. a vigil is being held at moscow's international airport exactly a year after the deadly bombing in the arrivals hall people are bringing flowers and lighting candles for the victims of the tragedy a suicide bomber blew himself up killing thirty seven people investigators i don't identify the man as a twenty year old from russia's republic of being trained by islamist terrorists in the north caucasus region seventeen militants linked to the attack were killed in special operations last year four others have been detained and investigators are about to charge them but one of the world's most wanted terrorists daku models who claim responsibility for the bombing is still on the run. when more news whenever you want it at r.t. dot com here are some of the items are standing by for you there right now how the trial date is set for an american woman who put her adopted russians.