you can just do your past. in the semifinal prices will face a surge seed victoria azarenka who came from behind to beat poland's i guess got out of bounds got six seven six love six two and the by the russian could become the new world number one if she were to go on and win 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 fight back 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 i cruised into the semifinals with an imperious straight sets victory over eleventh seed juan martinez the search

seed who is yet to drop a set needed just under two hours to complete a six four six three when it was also a match number one thousand for federer the swiss modestly downplayed this feat it's nice to win this one you know i mean eventually we'll forget which one but it was my thousands match and then someone will remind me again but. 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 great lot of matches a lot of tears and it's a long time or a. favorite. federal next play perennial rival rafael adult the second seed was up against a mash wordage and the big serving czech became the first man to take a set off in a dark this year's tournament by gaining the upper hand in a dramatic first time great don't have a bandage on his right knee but came back with

a vengeance wreaking havoc all over the court to win it in four six seven seven six six four six three spaniard was ecstatic and will play federer in a resume final meeting for the two as it's the first time since two thousand and five and on ephedra being drawn in the same half at a major event. football now and over in england tottenham hotspur manager harry redknapp has been in court after britain 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 man that each while he was manager of portsmouth while the serbian had also opened an offshore account for him in monaco and its alleged mystery man that invested two hundred ninety five thousand dollars for his then manager which the prosecution flame 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 was to read maps dog plus each year of birth both men deny

charges of cheating the public revenue. and staying the talk of literally and the demand of agendas agent has confirmed that the russian striker has signed a one year extension with a 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 speaking order since arriving from spartak moscow four years ago but has scored forty one goals in one hundred eight appearances so far for spurs. how about one of russia's regular is returning home following this spell in england spartak moscow have announced they've reached an agreement to sign me to feel that video would be at the north from everton trying to see. always due to undergo a medical bill but intend to fight the red lights begin again are kept and another moscow side looking one hundred before his return to the toughies back in two thousand and nine. golf now and tiger woods is raring to go in what he says should be his first full season in

a while and i fully fit former world number one is getting ready to play at the abu dhabi golf championship after ending his two year title drought with victory at last month's well challenge event in california. look at for this year you know that sort of that. because i was able to prepare and get fit enough to prepare lasher and towards end of the year and you know that demonstrate to myself what i can do with implementing what the child wants to do on the golf swing if i'm physically fit to do it. played really well my last three efforts so i'm 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. basketball now and six time former champions that go moscow will be looking to maintain their so far perfect record in the season generally as they host turkish side f a's in the top sixteen clash on wednesday the capital club are an eleven game winning streak however the army men

are also under pressure to deliver the goods in their first home game this top sixteen clash coach in a scuffle ask us rest of his top men including andre to get a lanka and that christie chin saturday's v t v league match and has a full fifteen strong squad at his disposal against the face who are also injury free while god and on believes the new tesco will be hard to stop in their tracks. it is going across the world bills last season was one to forget for to scar after so many still in the years in the euro league again it's probably time for a new beginning with a lot of new players coming in to replace the greats the holder and langdon in the us now the host of new and ambitious players keen to keep the gregg it intact against if you saw this i mean what i really envy a western called the seed is oklahoma thunder one the ninth game from ten outings after thrashing the starting ritual the stones ninety nine seventy nine the son that's ok age to lead early in the first quarter is wrestled with set up kevin

durant's with his perfect behind the back pass and later in the first westbrook went from provider just for us as he spun off what the stuckey and poor little love to dance to the found a twenty eight ten lead in the search for the fun the shows are great counter-attacking play a surgeon back up got to one end before being teed up right around at the other to give the fund a sixty four thirty seven lead. finish ninety nine seventy nine to inform oklahoma misfiring pistons all bottom of the central division. now back here in moscow russia's young athletes have returned home from the inaugural you celebrate winter games in austria where the team finished fifth overall but i bet it does were greeted by hundreds of friends and relatives at the end of that airport after bringing home five gold for silver and seven bronze. meddles all the russian republic of dagestan is currently bidding to host either the youth summit games in twenty eighteen or the winter edition in twenty twenty two for nations in the day for the promotion that took gold in figure skating last week in innsbruck and is almost at. hand 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 call. now and let's finish with some rest taking winter pictures because there's been an unlikely first time when i have the latest stop on the free ride while touring the french olympic ski resort of sharm benet in fact it was a case of whether is a will there's a way on the point slopes some seriously trying a bout of flu to finally took the podium in the skiing event after the new zealander struggles to qualify as well as injuries over the last few seasons and smoothly also into the head of the tours most consistent rider line a barcoded from sweden that was local joy in the men's snowboarding competition jonathan chalet going one better than his second place finish in the season's i earlier this month but strangely it was apparently the happiest. day i don't even know it's just like a racing is just

a dream to do it and seventy but. just you know i came here with a lot of pressure i crashed the rebels dug i'm very sticky is what i have the will but i just felt terrible about three days and this makes it. so that i got leave. and that's all from sports desk i'll be back again in just under two hours with a day's round up approach on me again. we

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gadhafi loyalists retake a former stronghold of maids clashes across the country as the new leadership struggles to stomp out of support. the ousted bridgette. gulf states pull their observers out of syria even though the arab league was given the green light to stay on while the e.u. slaps new sanctions on damascus. and india reportedly could be paying for iran's black gold with its own yellow card despite the e.u. and bargo china may be next in line. for. the ruble and. twenty twelve high but analysts tell business r.t.

this is a local temporary event and it will weaken further on more on this in twenty minutes . hello and welcome it's nine pm now here in moscow you're watching r.t. with me kevin now in our top story in libya loyalists to the late one the gadhafi have retaken their former stronghold of bani walid after clashes with the new government forces fighting between supporters of the new and the old regime has been seen in cities across the south east north africa correspondent. in the last few days the situation has been very tense and dangerous and with a 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 symbolize in 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 had allegedly agreed to let say for the stronger duffy's son to be tried in leaving and on the leave in although 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 at all and set 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 volunteers around people there on the capital they've said so several checkpoints around tripoli following the clashes reporters that but also we can see that 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. which seems only. protest in benghazi when people have been demonstrating against. the m.d.c. just trying is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far with little success. last week human rights groups in the middle east presented

extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in libya by allied forces during last year's war investigative journalist saima suff told me that many libyans feel the revolution was hijacked and they disappointed but it's. the thing about revolutions is they're not simply passive events there is a whole awakening of a population in the middle east but also in libya and people saying well this is not what we have not prizing for and the victims themselves you know the victims the new victims you also part of the old regime saying well you talk about democracy where is our inclusion in this so you get the sense there is this fracturing the new electoral law is very. going to put it has made people very very unhappy it seems there is a reintroduction of tribalism and touching as networks and so on and so you know. that there is a lot of disquiet in every corner of libya at the moment it's a truism that there's no such thing as a clean war and civil war is the most brutal affairs and so you so you you can imagine. nato but i don't need to imagine nato really pushed the envelope and they

broke the resolution they were there to defend civilians that was the mandate and they were they essentially became the rebel rebels air force and so they were attacking in the the or you know almost total annihilation of a very messy very brutal and i think there's quite a lot of acts of revenge taking place as well. gulf nations are pulling their arab league observers from syria and even though the mission's been extended for another month the saudi dominated gulf cooperation council also wants the us 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 of a blatant interference in syria's internal affairs damascus insists or to continue to take all necessary steps to protect the country against chaos syria's already rejected an arab brokered peace plan calling for president assad to step down while the e.u. is impose more sanctions to further squeeze the regime result to syria first reports next it's the syrian people killed 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 here is proving more and more of a challenge to the people. due to the european sanctions in syria to argue 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 putting a travel ban on people and businesses linked with the assad regime is we've been finding out the cascaded sanctions this won't 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 low every day syrian people is that most businesses in this area now are dependent upon these types of diesel generators that are needed because power that has 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 a 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 exports in buy 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. bad in the market because no more cash money for money. and treat a recent form halfway through our entity the lights go out. how. did this happen. i hardly a. building but your who. stops in around one two hours after more spike cools the dialogue it's been political and each. tempting to result the place. the arab league observers in mission has all say 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 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 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. to damascus syria. coming out of the program one r t one sided limits. very disappointed in fact disgusted i took the fact that you are you create student faces extradition takes on charges of breaching copyright and so burned to a british or american treaty that being slanderous on balance live coming on board coming up shortly. next the rams apparently found

a way to stay in business despite the new e.u. all embargo an asset freeze india is reportedly now agreed to pay around in gold for its oil instead of u.s. dollars reports suggest iran's biggest customer china could follow suit there's a new delhi with the latest. 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 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 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 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. decrease the value of the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency is. reporting for us the last vote in the all part of coney's from the independent indian think tank believing that america's domestic policies are the driving force behind the pressure being applied on iran right now. iran has been one of the key foreign policy issues in the republican debate in the united states and as a result there's been a lot of pressure from these interests within the u.s. to sort of ramp up pressure. against iran and i think that's that's why we're seeing a lot of this action and talk over the last couple weeks for years now the u.s.

has been trying to include other countries in its attempts to isolate iran and then for a while it was actually working because of it strange that countries like the like india for example were unable to invest in iran because the companies that did would have been penalized by being shut out of american markets certain countries like india turkey china and even russia are now looking for other creative ways to engage with iran while insulating themselves from punitive action by the united states and some of these actions and it was just before paying in gold and dollars and also building new independent entities that don't even participate in western markets so that they would be insulated from many many penalties. so sort of nailed kone from the independent indian think tank called the institution talk to me a bit earlier on from new york. vigils being held at moscow's double dead of international airport exactly a year after the deadly bombing in the arrivals hall there people lay flowers on

the lit candles for the victims of the tragedy but a suicide bomber blew himself up killing thirty seven investigators identified the man as a twenty year old from russia. trained ways with mr terrorists in the north caucasus region seventeen militants linked to the attack were killed in special operations last year four others have been detained there about to be charged but one of the world's most wanted terrorist doc morrow who claims he must abandon the bombing is still a lot. more news review wanted online on our web site called. new guidelines in the u.k. you could see drug smugglers and street dealers have. voiding prison even if they caught with heroin or cocaine war explained online for most of the night. and were about to feel the brunt of it tomorrow the largest solar radiation outburst in six years hits the earth threatening communication and power blackouts how bad could it be we let you know. u.k.

student faces extradition to the united states for setting up a website giving people free access to movies online that's not a crime in britain america he could get prison it's because of a controversial trip the originally intended to extradite terrorist suspects presided over bennett found that the deal is putting many british citizens in an extremely vulnerable position. from running a website in his bedroom with links to pirated movies to up to ten years in a u.s. federal prison richard it is the late ukase controversial. 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 richard's mother it was dave. barry going to impact the gulf states i don't think 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 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 he's i'm not sure if you were there last time before when he said made a good strong argument but all went out of the window completely. you know giving him no no we can't be held. accountable. the u.k. u.s. extradition treaty was signed in two thousand and three supposedly to bring international terrorists to justice but many fear fair to british citizens it makes

it if for america to extradite someone from the u.k. and 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's out of balance i think richard was innocent they caught up in something which was never intended to deal with people like 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.