me and i stand for and you know. number of us are no plans on a number of years off and i will dance in french open slough so you know i'll i'll definitely do my best and child to child to mars which you know the end of the day . you can just do your past well in the semi final crisis will face third seed victoria azarenka came from behind to beat poland. six seven six love six two and the better russian could become the new world number one if she were to go on with the title. 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 write we'll see what goes by and today i really try to forget about the first set and start from zero. 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. well meanwhile over in the men's draw roger federer cruised into the semifinals with an imperious straight sets victory over eleventh seed when martin del potro the third seed who is yet to drop a set needed just under two hours to complete a six four six three six to win it was also match number one thousand for federer but a modest swiss downplayed his feet. it's nice to win this one you know i mean eventually will forget which was what was most as much of the summer will remind me again but because i do not remember my five hundred pound it was the u.s. open final you. know big 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 or i'm extremely fit. which they were. well fed ex by perennial rival

rafael nadal after the second seed fought back from a set down to beat a life verdict the czech was the first player to take a set off down at this year's tournament after winning a dramatic first set tie break but despite a bandage right knee the spaniard powered his way back to win in forceps. well meanwhile on monday former champion maria sharapova claimed her spot in the last eight against arena williams conkwright you catherine and mike are about to set up an all russian quarter final germany sabine lisicki became the first woman to take a set off sharapova but after dropping the open out the twenty four year old russian quarter way back match winning three six six two six three ways to the top of the world rankings if she repeats two thousand. is the tournament. how about standing in the way next electronic about trip the car about who serves up the biggest upset of the tournament so far we'll see the twenty three year old knocked out by a time when history williams can vote and maybe plan some waterfront. 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 against syrian and that's amazing you know i didn't play well and i'm not physically one hundred percent so it's just like you know i. can't be so angry at myself even though i'm very i'm happy and you know that i can play a one hundred times better than i do this whole tournament. football now and over in england tottenham hotspur manager harry redknapp has been in court after being charged with tax evasion the sixty four year old spurs coach is the most successful english football manager and favorite for the england job the court heard that he received a percentage of profit from transfers from his former chairman milan mandrake while he was manager of portsmouth while the serbian had also opened an offshore account for him in monaco and it's alleged mr manders invested two hundred ninety five thousand dollars to his then manager which the prosecution claimed neither had any

intention of declaring for tax purposes to secret payments were allegedly made between two thousand and two and two thousand and seven in the name of rosie forty seven mr redknapp said dog plus his year of birth both men deny charges of cheating public revenue. starting with top literally and remand publishing there's agent 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 dawson half a dozen clubs both in england and russia have a change there has fallen down harry redknapp was picking orders since arriving from spartak moscow four years ago but has scored forty one goals in one hundred ninety two parents is so far for spurs however one russian regular is returning home following a spell in england spartak moscow have announced they've reached an agreement to sign would feel for the r.b.a. again off from everton the twenty six year old is due to undergo a medical before putting pen to paper for the red knights be at the north captain

and another moscow side look on t.v. for his move to the toughies back in two thousand and nine. golf now tiger woods is raring to go in what he says should be his first full season in quite a while and i fully fit former world number one is preparing to at the abu dhabi golf championship after ending his two year title drought with victory at last month's world challenge event in california. well look at fourth of this year you know that's something that i have to say because i was able to prepare and get fit enough to prepare last year and towards end of the year and you know that i demonstrate to myself what i can do you know with implementing you know what sean wants me to do on the golf swing if i'm physically fit to do it and. played really wall the last three events so i'm really looking for this year and. you know continuing building on what we're what we've done toward the end of last year for sure. to the n.b.a. now while western conference leaders oklahoma thunder when their night's game from

ten outings after thrashing the struggling detroit pistons ninety nine seventy nine was on the took an eight two lead early in the first quarter as russell but set up kevin durant with his perfect behind the back hoss i and later in the first westbrook went from provider of despair at the same spot off rodney stuckey to the ball after the loss. to go from a twenty eight ten lead and in the third the thunder showed some great counter-attacking play as serge ibaka bolts at one end before being teed up by durant the other is the thunder a sixty four thirty seven lead sorry british ninety nine seventy nine to inform oklahoma while the misfiring pistons bottom is the central division which makes you think about. that back here in moscow russia's young athletes have returned home from the inaugural news and then picked winter games in austria where the team finished fifth overall the combatants were greeted by hundreds of friends and

relatives at domodedovo airport after bringing home five gold four silver and seven bronze medals while the russian republic of dagestan is currently building host either the youth summit games and twenty eight team or the winter edition of twenty twenty two tell me more russians elizabeth that took them to gold in the biggest gating last week humans work and is also russia's medal hopes for the senior games in sochi 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 let's finish with some breathtaking winter pictures because there's been an unlikely first time winner at the latest stop on the free ride world tour in the french olympic ski resort or sharman a in fact it was a case of where there's a will there's a way on the alpine slopes some smoothly define a batch of fluid to fine you took the podium in the skiing event the news even the struggle to. qualifiers as well as injuries i thought last few seasons and smoothly

also inched ahead of the taurus most consistent rather than a bucketed from sweden while there was local joy in the men's snowboarding competition jonathan shier late go one better than his second place finish in the season's i already this month but smith is a is apparently the happiest man. don't even know it's just like a racing this is just a dream to do one hundred seventy. just you know i came here with a lot of pressure but i crashed through those dog i'm very sick because i have the full and i just felt terrible about three days and this makes it. so. i gotta believe it. and that's all sports news this palace and more into space join me again then i think.

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a flat to negative no. down around. twenty minutes and business. coming to you live from the heart of moscow this is with me rory sushi in libya loyalists to the late have retaken their former stronghold of bani walid after clashes with the new government forces fighting between supporters of the new and old regime has been seen in cities all across the country north africa correspondent maria explains. 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 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 mo colonel gadhafi 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 symbolize and khadafi that office ruling 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 to have allegedly agreed to let say for the song for duffy's son to be tried in leaving and on the leave in the old though it hasn't been confirmed by the i.c.c.

itself judge ellis say that the violence and this announcement may be connected just hours later volunteer off to another part of the country in the eastern part in the town of been goes he wants known as the rebel stronghold and later on we've been hearing about the balkans around the foot in the wrong the capital they've said so several checkpoints around tripoli following the clashes reporters that but also we can see that's then to see 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 that. protest in benghazi when people have been demonstrated against. the m.d.c. just trying is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far with little success. what is american national reporting right meantime

a former member of the n t c he had warned the council that could be loyalists could return to attack but that is concerns were ignored journalist patrick hayes says the new government simply is failing in his job 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 he was very much kind of put in place and then they 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 into the pro-democracy campaign is also seeing off the. supporters as well and 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 this is 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. and that russia has long been against foreign intervention in other states such as libya later the presidential envoy to africa who's just been to that troubled country tells us here at r.t. that dialogue between opposing factions is truly the only 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 real simple and in some areas of libya the civil war is not the work in the cell for is the whole desert area as an area of the certain extent no man's land it's out of control of the new government forces it says oh no tribes zone all control 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 african union summit to my mind may play a very positive role in putting that round table in the center of tripoli or any other libyan city in order to inspire the process of national reconciliation. and about a full interview with russia's a presidential envoy to africa is coming your way in about an hour and twenty minutes right here on out. gulf nations are pulling their arab league observers out of syria even though the mission has been extended there for another month the saudi dominated gulf cooperation council also wants the un's most powerful group to put new pressure on damascus to end the ongoing blood shed syria's foreign minister

accuser some arab states have joining an international conspiracy against the country and the place to fear and some serious internal damascus insisted all continue to take all necessary steps to protect the country against chaos serious already directed arab brokered peace plan for president assad to step down while the e.u. is imposed more sanctions to further. but as i think sara for the syrian people who ultimately bear the brunt of. 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 here is proving more and more of a challenge for the people. due to the european sanctions conceded against syria we don't have any tourist we don't have any for most of the e.u. has known pays its eleventh consecutive round of 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 that their 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 law every day syria. people in that most businesses in this area now i depend upon these drugs these are generated by the media because our cars 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 two 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. the. group. but this is the. market because norm or cash money for money. and true to recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out. oh. yeah.

i have. but usually the stops. are on one or two hours of spy cools the dialogue is being 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 need doubt that they are putting pressure on an increasingly isolated government many people in the country they've also made an already desperate situation even

worse. damascus syria and britain is also encouraging the arab league to press the u.n. security council into action on syria and western states continue to accuse the regime of cracking down on peaceful demonstrators which it denies saying it's fighting insurgents funded from abroad political analyst asaram research says the opposition is 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 nation more and more especially over the last several months with a lot of weapons coming in through foreign borders to opposition that's becoming

increasingly militarized and carrying out some very devastating attacks on syrian infrastructure 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 in turkey to create these very militant very dangerous armed groups that are determined to create war and peace in syria watching are still ahead for you here in the program one sided limits. very disappointed. you still state that the banks from the june. extradition to the u.s. charges of breaching copyright it's all down to a british or american treaty that's being. on balance. iran has apparently found a way to stay in business despite

a new oil embargo acid freeze india is reportedly agreeing to pay iran in gold for its oil instead of u.s. dollars reports suggest that iran's biggest customer china could follow suit. in new delhi with. 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 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 in 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 negotiations table over its nuclear program obviously iran has consistently maintained that this is a 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 said 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 think

sions 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. and he creates the value of the u.s. dollar as the global reserve current. he's pretty sure to reporting right there will meantime a kristoff horse stall a government consultant and a political analyst in potsdam germany says that he thinks the e.u. embargo is ultimately doomed to fail. but this is not in favor of european interests what we are doing there with this stupid and senseless and also wrong embargo and what we clearly see is that this happens upon washington's wishes so we have a few countries greece in the forefront with twenty five percent of its overall oil imports in two thousand and ten coming from iran but it then we have italy with

thirteen spain with ten percent in this regard some of the europeans have problems fulfilling the embargo italy got a total exemption because they're not you know paying cash to iran but iran is paying its debts to eataly by delivering always so that will continue anyway so we do have a lot of european mostly homemade problems now in addition to that we have problems with this oil embargo iran will do quite well even under the embargo and we know that all of the present faithful customers to iran or you said like russia china india and many others to continue buying this oil and they will find a way rest assured this is the signal i get from tehran. well terrans now enjoying more support from its trading partners but what other consequences could the use of ban on iranian oil have and that is the question we're asking you right now on our

web site if you log on to r.t. dot com you can take part in our latest world wide pick of the numbers from our web site so far more than half of you believe china will buy all of iran's oil at a cheaper price a quarter thinks its europe's economy is going to suffer eighteen percent say the involved will make russia the number one or supplier to the e.u. and the minority believes it will have put iran's nuclear program did just log on to our dot com and get involved. a vigil has been held at moscow's international airport exactly a year after the deadly bombing in the arrivals hall people have been laying flowers and candles for the victims of the tragedy where a suicide bomber blew himself up killing. investigators identified the man as a twenty year old from russia's republic of trained by islamist terrorists in the north caucasus region seventeen militants linked to be a top.