you can just do your past well in the semifinal clijsters will face third seed victoria azarenka came back from behind to beat poland's agnes got out about six seven six love six two and the better russian could become the new world number one if she were to go on and win the title. i was approaching this mass 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 close by and today i really tried to forget about the first set and start from zero and really you know find hard you know really take it one over 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 seven finals with an imperious straight sets victory over eleventh seed when martin

del potro the third seed who has yet to drop a set needed just under two hours to complete a six four six three six two with it was also a match number one thousand for federer but 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 because i do not remember my five hundred pound it was the u.s. open for you. know big matches and those ones but it's a big milestone i agree it's a lot of matches and a lot of tennis and it's been around for a long time or i'm extremely fit you decide which favorite. federal next by perennial rival rafael nadal after the second seed got the better of polish verdict after four hours and sixteen minutes the big serving czech became the first man to take a set off the spaniard at this year's tournament after a dramatic first set tie break and then the seven seas squandered

a six point four two love lead and despite having a bandage right knee in a doll came back with a vengeance to ecstatically win it in four six seven seven six six four six three a moment or two when i play federer in i read it seventy final meeting for the best it's the first time since two thousand and five i think drawn in the same half to major event. when we talk about. a player who won sixteen. i want dan and we play a lot of matches between. you know very important. very important moments for our careers. moments. when i see the special. football now and over in england tottenham hotspur manager harry redknapp has been in court in london after being charged with tax evasion the sixty four year old spurs coaches the most successful english football manager and favorite for the upcoming england job the court heard that he received

a percentage of profit from transfers from his former chairman milan rich while he was manager of portsmouth while the serbian had also opened an offshore account for him in monaco and it's alleged mr munder actually bested two hundred ninety five thousand dollars then manager which the prosecution claimed neither had any intention of declaring for tax purposes two secret payments were allegedly made between two thousand and two and two thousand and seven in the name of rosie forty seven used to read maps dog plus his year of birth both men deny charges of cheating the public revenue. staying with top literally and room on public tankers 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 half a dozen clubs both in england and russia but the chain go has fallen down harry redknapp pecking order since arriving from spartak moscow four years ago but has scored forty one goals in one hundred night appearances so far for spurs golf now

tiger woods is raring to go in what he says should be his first full season in a while now forty fifth former world number one is getting ready to play at the abu dhabi golf championship after ending his two year title track to victory at last month's world 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 last year and towards end of the year and. you know that i 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 events 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 tesco moscow will be looking to maintain their so far perfect record in this season's year only that they host turkish side essays in

a top sixteen clash on wednesday the cover the club are on an eleven game winning streak however the army men are also under pressure to deliver the goods in their first home game in its top sixteen stage coach guinness has last this rested his top men including and regular lanka and then add christie in saturday's b t b match and has a full fifteen strong squad at his disposal against f.a.'s who are also injury free point guard and plan on clash of all. of the leaves the new look taste will be hard to stop in their tracks. the. last season was one to forget for to scar after so many still in the years in the euro league but it's probably time for a new beginning with a lot of new place coming in to place the greats the holder and langdon the most and now there are a host of new and ambitious players keen to keep the cricket intact against a fierce you saw this for me while over in the n.b.a. western conference leaders oklahoma found out one their ninth game from ten outings

after thrashing the struggling detroit pistons ninety nine seventy nine the thunder took an eight two lead early in the first quarter as well so let's fix that up kevin durant who is perfect because in the back half and later in the first westbrook went from provider to score a six on a rocking stuckey put the ball off the grass to give the thunder a twenty eight ten rained out of the service on the show to great counter-attacking play as sort of a backup box at one end fourteen team got winds around the other half to give the sunday a sixty four thirty seven lead so to finish ninety nine seventy nine to inform i call home while misfiring pistons are bottom of the central division. now back here in moscow russia's young athletes have returned home from the inaugural new olympic winter games in austria where the team finished fifth overall but i bet it does were greeted by friends and relatives that were going to the airport after bringing home five gold four silver and seven bronze medals while the russian republic of dagestan is currently bidding to host either they use some games and

twenty eight teams or the winter edition in twenty twenty two. rushes and if they thought the most of us took gold in the figure skating last week it is work and there's also russia's little hope 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 pitches because there's been unlikely first time winner of the latest stop on the freeride world. in the french olympic ski resort of sharm an a in fact it was a case of whether as a will there's a weight on the alpine slopes some say the defining bout of flu to finally top podium skiing event after the new zealand a struggle three qualifiers as well as injuries i think the last few seasons and smee the also inched ahead of the tours most consistent right or wrong about it from sweden while there was local joy in the men's snowboarding competition jonathan shole

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gadhafi loyalists retake a former stronghold amid clashes across the country as the new leadership struggles to stamp out support for the ouster aging. gulf states pull the observers out of syria even though the arab league would give the green light stay on while the e.u. slaps new sanctions now in damascus. and india reportedly could be paying for iran's black gold with its own yellow kind despite the e.u. and pargo china may be next in line.

here in moscow you're watching r t with me kevin i know in our top story them for you in libya loyalists to the late one look at the afi have retaken their former stronghold of bani walid after clashes with the new government forces fighting between supporters of the new and old regimes has been seen in cities too across the country as our north africa correspondent rifs national explains. and 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 most of all and the most deadly incident happened in the town of bani walid. southeast of the capital tripoli once known as the duffys 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 the facilities far as the local officials happen recluses 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 footage we know that the same day the libyan justice minister announced that the international criminal court of hard allegedly agreed to let say for the song for duffy song to be tried in leaving and under leave in new 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 violence erupted in another part of the country in the eastern part in the town of an goes he wants known as the rebel stronghold and later on

we've been hearing of all the bowls around me from the wrong capital they've said so several checkpoints around tripoli following the clashes reporters there but also we can see that the m.t.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 call them to escalate further. we've seen that fall mean. proteus to invent guys when people have been demonstrating against in t c e n t c this trial is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far with little success. gulf nations are pulling their arab league observers from syria even though the mission's been extended for another month the saudi dominated gulf cooperation council also wants the un's most powerful group the security council to put pressure on damascus to end the bloodshed syria's foreign minister accuses some

arab states of joining an international conspiracy against the country out of a blatant interference a series of term refers to ask us for its part insists it will continue to take all necessary steps to protect the country against what it calls payoffs 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 results he sarah first reports next tonight it's the syrian people themselves who are 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 for the people. due to the european sanctions conceiving argued syria we don't have any tourist 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 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 by big business with the syrian government not with the people but the power is completely out of this door in the center of 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 are dependent upon these drugs the diesel generators that are needed because power cars have become an almost daily blow people's lives where the not everyone can afford the backup at home with his wife and children and then says when the power cuts out the family simply have to make do 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. how do. you go over to the. or i'm harvey. but your who.

stops in the old one two hours after the 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 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 generally 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 that the many people in the country it will say made an already desperate situation

even worse. damascus syria so had you on r t one sided limits. very disappointed in fact disgusted i go back to the june. u.k. student faces extradition to the us on charges of breaching copyright knows all down the british american treaty that's being slammed there's. got more about that coming. next so iran's apparently found a way to stay in business despite a new e.u. oil embargo an asset freeze in the is now reportedly agreed to pay around in gold for its oil instead the us dollars ports are just around the biggest customer china could follow suit running all the prostrate issues in new delhi for us tonight. 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 iran using domestic car and seize 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 said 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 an oil embargo on iran and iran has said that it's going to shut the strait of hormuz which is actually worth 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 and decrease the value of the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency. prostrated the reporting from new delhi for us is get more insight on the iranian crisis and talk to survive so for the root of the pen research here and joining us on the line from california very good to see

you tonight thanks for being with us and there's a lot of tough talk we've been reporting on it so much over the last weeks months and tough action indeed against iran by the u.s. and its allies the e.u. is that any way connected simple question but without a cause being election year in the states any coincidence there. and i'm just at least i think domestic politics always do america's foreign policy and of course this is an election year and everybody is vying for competition how to best be to iran and iran is this. i mean on the one hour we've got the u.s. threatening military action if iran crosses red lines all the other we've got washington trying to dissuade israel for a magazine on its own it was what at one point it would be it would do something without telling america what's behind america's policy if you think. i don't believe that america would ever risk attacking iran it's simply not in

a position to whine does imagine that one of course america does have a much more powerful military the navy is far more powerful but let us not forget that geography is on the side if you want me ns and the strait of hormuz at its narrowest point is only fifty four kilometers wide and only ninety feet deep night's meeting is me and some have called it a bath tub. do you want america and is it possible for america to be able to swim in a basket with its. a huge navy or is it easy for iran to counter any attack. eventually iran might be defeated but not before it really harms american interests and western ally interests matt its real mad that's to imply that in america with attack iran it cannot it can't afford it what about israel its recently said has made the decision to strike iran's nuclear sites was quote very far off but iran says iran the us of a where you know over more in iran we witness

these reports of nuclear scientists being killed for example is not really likely to be the case a war going on inside iran's borders. well the covert war has been going on for thirty two years and america and israel have unleashed the terrorists in iraq and they've been taking out people they're killing them and sanctions are warfare there's no doubt about it so this is nothing new and they will continue to do that but i think iran has become well experienced in being able to fight off its wars and covert action and america and israel the western allies now europeans are only harming themselves iran i am confident iran will eventually sit by and again so i go back to the motivation for all this and i recently just last week both israel and the us before that admitted recently that. building nuclear weapons of the moment the didn't present any prove either that iran's nuclear program has got

a military slant so why does the u.s. keep pushing and ramping up the pressure on iran this. i think it's very clear for anybody who's been studying the region and the history of the united states that america is pushing for regime change in iran and america needs a compliant iran just to t.j. clee iran is very important is resource rich and it really has helped russia and china buffer against western imperialism so it is important to washington to take out the regime in iran and install a puppet the side in this american power structure and american ambitions in the region is that nothing to do with the nuclear issue and we both interviewed president. face to face me just a couple of months ago you back in twenty ten after which you said you firmly believed he was misrepresented by the corporate media could it be the case that the

country itself on the whole nuclear issue yes absolutely i think his misrepresented and married at this time to a person who fly its foreign policy it's very easy for america to pick one person says that there was a demon in the closet. cut all made sense and set a poor independent research and right to there in california we've got a problem with skype ok let's move on a big chill has been held at moscow's domodedovo international airport exactly a year after the deadly bombing in the arrivals hall people laid flowers in that candle for the victims of the tragedy were a suicide bomber blew himself up killing thirty seven investigators identified the man as a twenty year old from russia's republican english trained by islamist terrorists in the north caucasus region seventeen minutes in length and the attack 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 or morrow who claims he must

abandon the bombing is still at large. we got more details about how the attack was planned and carried out than a web site r.t. dot com if you're interested also plenty of other news there as well in fact these right now guidelines in the u.k. could see drug smugglers and street dealers avoiding prison even if they caught heroin or cocaine on them to find out more about that's on line and monday june the hitter's they say the inverted commas tomorrow the largest outburst of radiation from the sun and some of the worst in six years hits the earth threatening communication and blackouts gone got the latest on that as well on our web site. u.k. student faces extradition to the u.s. for setting up a website giving people free access to movies online it's not a crime in britain but in america he could get up to ten years in prison it's because of a controversial treaty between the two countries originally intended to extradite terrorist suspects result is over bennett found out the deals 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 o'dwyer is the latest victim of the u.k.'s controversial extradition treaty with america his actions aren't even a crime in britain but counters copyright infringement in the u.s. for the judge that was enough for richard's mother it was devastating. very telling . you about it and moment with richard sipe 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.