the man's game is through to the last four to confident victory over kadisha korea over japan this court will play the winner of today's other quarterfinal where world number one and defending champion object which plays face seed david ferrer later on. though defending champion came close to beat world number one occurring in vision not skate to reach the semifinals of the australian open despite injuring her previous match the twenty eight year old belgian overpowered the dane to win six three seven six in scorching temperatures ensuring the business world number one ranking after six to seven weeks at the top. you know it was i was happy with it and i was playing just said to try to be a lot of a more dominant again. you know she stepped her game up and started serving better in the second set. so i knew that you know i mean we both played really good and you know on first errors really went for shots and good serving and good returning

so i start laughing every time because the media sounds to me sometimes like i'm finishing my career and i only have one year left and you know time is running out but the factors are still has quite a few years in front of me and i stand and you know. a number of us are now tense in a number of years of i will dance in french open so you know i'll i'll definitely do my bastard child to child to. even more and you know the end of the day. you can just you know past. and in the semifinal claire says it will face third seed victoria azarenka who came back from behind to be. advanced six seven six six two the russian could become the new world number one if she were to win the title. i was approaching this mess you know to try to do the best i can and i was searching for it and i'm sad i'm 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. 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 over time and keep going so i think there was a different mental approach a little bit. meanwhile over in the men's draw federal probe into the semifinals with in theory straight sets victory over eleventh seemed hard martin del potro their world number three needed just under two hours to complete a six four six three six to win it also number one thousand and four but the swiss modestly downplayed this feat. it's nice to win this one you know i mean venture will forget which was what was most merchants and will remind me again but because

i do not remember my five hundred pound it was the use of. bigger measures and those ones but it's a big milestone i agree it's a lot of matches a lot of tennis and it's been around for a long time or i'm extremely fit. which very well. and will next play eternal rival. the second seemed to work much harder than the switch to be better for sixteen minutes the big serving czech won the open on a dramatic tiebreaker and the number seven seed sported a set point for it then despite having a bandaged right knee the doc came back with revenge to win the match in four sets six seven seven six six four six three so the world number two will play phedre in a rare semi final meeting for the pair as it's the first time since two thousand and five they have been drawn in the same half at a major event. when we talk about. players who are sixty

and. then lot of matches. in a very. very important moment for our careers very. very high moments. let's get over to english football now where cardiff city crystal palace on penalties to reach their first carling cup final the main hero of the first leg clash anthony gardner who scored the only goal for crystal palace became the main villain of the return match the thirty year old defend had. just seventeen minutes in making it one zero on aggregate result suit all the way through regular and extra time despite many goal scoring chances at both ends of the page with a pound two or three to say from. gate and he story three one victory

which will see them facing the city all of a pull at wembley in a month's time. in the meantime spanish giants barcelona and real madrid are preparing for their copper del ray returning quarterfinal the catalans two one victory last week leaves them with the better chance of reaching the semi's their manager pep guardiola is calling on his charges to summon up one more solid performance against jews or more in his men. if we would leave being given we already have two one lead we will be eliminated the only way to reach the semifinals get him is to play another very good game one in the standard one can play the last five or ten minutes with the school. in little first and second legs when we have always played focusing on every minute of the game and. to the hardwood now where sixto former champion more school will be looking to maintain

the perfect record in this season's euro league as they host turkish affairs in a top sixteen question on wednesday they muscovites won all their previous eleven games however the army men are also under pressure to deliver the goods in their first home game in this top sixteen stage coach illness because last rested his top men including andrei kirilenko and christie in saturday's they to be a league match and has a full fifteen strong squad at his disposal against fs are also injury free while points got on top of their shell believes you looked a scar will be hard to stop in their tracks. for that last season was one to forget for to scar after so many still in the years in the euro league probably time for you begin with a lot of you. to please the greats the holder and langdon listen no host of new and ambitious players keen to keep perfect record intact against. now russia's

young athletes have returned home from the inaugural youth olympic winter games in austria where the team finished faith over all they compared to days who were greeted by friends and relatives and demanded an airport after bringing home five gold for silver and seven bronze medals while the republic of dagestan is currently bidding to host either youth summer games into eighteen or they went edition in twenty twenty two rushes in is over at the. but we're sure to gold in the figure skating last week and is broke and is also russia's medal hopes for the sydney 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 finally a goal for tiger woods is raring to go in what he says should be his first full season in

a while they now are fully fit former world no one is getting ready to play golf but chip after two year title drought with victory at last month's world challenge event in california look at for this year you know that's something 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 demonstrate to myself what i can do with implementing what shannon wants me 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 looking for this year and. you know continuing building on what we're what we've done tours in the last year for sure. ok up to date now i'll be back in two hours time with more sports news form around the globe see then.

culture is that so much a given to you each musician the person trying to hide from the marquesas egypt's unfinished business a year on the revolution that you have to be spirited appears to have stalled the military rulers who replaced with. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style sun. sometimes the title of.

markets why not come to find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our.

with the u.s. economy still on the ropes president obama pledges another program for change during his annual state of the union address. in libya gadhafi loyalists claim they're in control of the town of bani walid as the country's interim brutus struggle to keep the peace. and coming full circle in tahrir square thousands of egyptian protesters angry at the slow pace of reform are expected in central cairo as a country marks the first anniversary of its popular uprising. there

you're watching here a very warm welcome to you as the u.s. presidential race picks up pace head of november's vote rucka banner is trying to ratchet up support for reelection he's delivered his annual state of the union address making you promises of change ahead what is going to church you can was listening in. his goal was to highlight his achievements and lay out new promises as far as the message policies he speech was full of heartfelt success stories about the economy and jobs creation but there is a lot of skepticism among americans social inequality in america is now at a level unseen since the great depression the top one percent of wealthiest in the country are making a killing while the middle class is shrinking dramatically and that gap is getting wider american jobs are being outsourced to other countries president obama's state of the union speech sounded motivational full of good intentions but the fact that

almost all. all his major economic initiatives got bogged down in congress like the jobs act that he put forward last year is giving a sense to many that he might be saying all the right words but they may not be necessarily followed by demons on the foreign policy front he ran on promises to end wars but while he pull troops out of iraq and started winding down the war in afghanistan with a pledge to bring all troops home by two thousand and fourteen america's wars didn't stop president obama bombed levy last year to the tune of bringing about democracy also the u.s. may now be on the verge of an all out confrontation with iran and in the speech he once again said all options are on the table washington is now actively building up its military presence in the persian gulf region a new u.s. drone bases are popping up in the arabian peninsula so we see that while president obama went through with the promises to scale back on the record of ghana's that he's been actively building up a platform for possibly new wars president obama certainly prides himself on his

role in killing osama bin laden and a number of other terrorists but the means by which the u.s. is going about the task of chasing down terrorists raises a lot of red flags so some experts argue that what washington is doing is fighting terror and provoking terror at the same time but in president obama's presentation everything sounds just great on the war on terror front. but president obama reiterated his commitment to cutting down on military spending and trimming the armed forces for us professor paul sheldon foote says his pledge is that all of this with washington's foreign policy goals. he used that you. were going to have an enduring relationship. which means we're going to have bases in the country and stay there for ever whether they want to serve. likewise he said we kill gadhafi syria's next day and if iran doesn't behave there there after that so. it is totally contradictory to say that he's going to be able to pay down the

american debt and expand government spending programs domestically with savings from bringing soldiers older mors what in fact he has plans to expand what he didn't mention trying to find any also said that we have a pacific strategy and the world will know that we are number one. and that was a thinly veiled threat against china even i mean how insane can you baby china is holding more than a trillion dollars of our debt we've got tens of thousands of factories there we're highly coordinated doing depended upon them though and he's threatening them to. here without still to come on the program a meeting of money tree minds the business in banking elite send on davos for the world economic forum find out how much focus will fall on reforming the global financial system. searching for a fair salary why

a legal loophole in india has left many without permanent jobs or a stable income. there's a confusion over benson and they've been town of bani walid after market don't feed the list seize the city on monday killing five people injuring twenty five in clashes with government forces but libya's interior minister said it's actually not clear who controls the city became clashes erupted you two internal problems between rival militias well meanwhile elders in the town said they are now appoint their own local representatives ject and interference the interim authorities writers for the national transitional council now set up checkpoints outside money when it comes as the m.d.c. has been struggling to unify its armed forces and protests in several cities across the country and prompted the council's chairman to one of possible civil war investigative journalist sign a letter says many libyans you are not getting for. 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 rising for the victims themselves you know the victims the new victims the old supporters 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 how can i put it has made people very very unhappy it seems there's a reintroduction of tribalism and patronage networks and so on and so you know. that there is a lot of this quiet 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. and so you can imagine. nato we don't need to imagine nato really pushed the other and they broke the resolution they were there to defend civilians that was the mandate and they were essentially became the rebel rebels air force and so they were attacking in the or

you know almost total annihilation of very messy very brutal and i think there's quite a lot of acts of revenge taking place as well. that we have more news and stories on our website r.t. dot com here's a look at what you can find there right now trading real gold for black gold iran will reportedly bypass the latest round of western sanctions by accepting the precious metal as payment for its oil exports also. from one online source to another the founder of russia's most popular social networking site has donated a million dollars to wikipedia find out why at r.t. dot com. egypt's military ruler has announced that the country's

a decade's long stated emergency will be partially lifted on wednesday it's one of the key demands of thousands of protesters who are marking the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled president mubarak but for many who continue to demand that the army steps down it's still not enough we have financial reports now from current. a year after its historic revolution in egypt is far from calm protests have become part of everyday life and no longer an event while the revolution is a significant achievement. we could never believe we would come out and speak out like. that there are several reasons for egypt's people to take out to the streets following the uprising that ousted mubarak last february. the country's economy is struggling unemployment is at its highest in decades and while the movie and marketed islam is dominated parliament debate the country's future resentment rose against military rule and the feeling they hijacked the revolution was administered

we want them to do what military should do to protect its citizens and not rule the country. while no one really want to be sure that there will not destroy our dilutions achievements they betrayed us the military dominated egypt's politics since the fall of the monarchy sixty years ago some skeptics say the twenty eleven revolution did little to change this trend. where mubarak toppled down people welcome to the supreme council of the armed forces to lead the transition but the nissho euphoria began to fade when the military council was still in place six months later after one bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters after another claiming at least eighteen lives of tober there isn't any doubt left here scaf should go i believe that they're there i mean our life i believe that we don't want them anywhere here in this chair that's what i believe in words and that's what

most of what all i you know believe and we will work in whatever happens as these are works week and discard are scared because a boon arabic for army lawyers contain they worked through really armies wrongdoings between a female activists attacking field hospitals and conspiracy theories under the military council twelve thousand people have been brought to military trials that are against less than two thousand and mubarak's thirty years scaf claim it's only when the new president is elected in june but if you believe the promises that once were broken so easily some also fear that the generals may stay all behind the scenes reluctance to relinquish their. they've had for decades with protests passion had to leave one thing is clear the fight is not yet over grief notion r.t. cairo. well egypt now has a newly elected parliament with the muslim brotherhood holding the majority of

seats the army said it would give up power once a new president is sworn in art in june poll in a cross-talk program later this hour people of ellen his guests debate the country's future here's a preview. if the united states wants to ingratiate themselves with the egyptian people what they've got to do is we've got to offer humanitarian aid we've got to offer loans and services to the egyptian people and not so much you know i've got the government but i very much you take it on their side and we wish nothing but the best for you know but well i don't i think most egyptians don't believe that ok after thirty years it's hard for them to believe that the last twelve months hasn't changed and i think that's why we've got a lot of work to do you know a lot of. these real intentions if you just leave egypt alone completely and let them decide for themselves let them decide their own foreign policy if they want to tear up the peace treaty with israel. i mean if you're saying there is an object ourselves it should be there is politics but there's

a lot of humanitarian relief that we can help and that's the kind of work we should be doing. the so-called one percent the global this is really have to send it on diverse in switzerland to see who could have deals and search for the salvation of capitalism itself that means it's time for the world economic forum which kicks off today perhaps unsurprisingly the ninety nine percent who've been worst hit by the financial crisis have been locked out there too from the outside nazis are honest reports. all right i'm here i've made it to davos i'm at the world economic forum my first time i'm not alone though it turns out morgan stanley's c.e.o. says first time which shows the caliber of the people that are here ok these are much of the corporate elite much of the global elite when it comes to wealth power all of that so they're all gathered here the question is what is davos man got on

his agenda this year now of course the unofficial business is what davos has really become known for in many respects that's what you hear about that makes it worth all of the money that some of these corporations shell out to be here is the networking and the deals that are done in private parties. you know off the record in hallways in the lobbies so this is where a lot of the global one percent or some of them at least a presumably are doing business according to past reports ironically on the actual official agenda this year is that they topic of capitalism and if it is for on billing what its future is and what the solutions to its problems are so schwab the founder of the world economic forum has said that we can't think of this is business as usual anymore that capitalism in its current form has no place in the world around us talking about much of the of the discontent we've seen over in quality that we've seen with the occupy wall street movement which is on the agenda when some of these sessions are talking about remodelling capitalism occupy is one

of the things that they're talking about interesting lee though none of those activists are invited to the forum to have that discussion but they are here really highlighting the difference separating everybody else from the elites that are meeting here they have the igloo encampment which many people are talking about but they're very much here now as far as what exactly is going to go on i'll do my best to show you but the more i'm looking at these reports of what the press is going to be able to do it looks like i'm not going to be able to see a film or go a lot of the places that i would want to go except for maybe in thirty minute increments what's a day hopefully as supported by someone from the world. economic forum for me to lock down some of these. business leaders and heads of state and central bankers exactly what they're talking about these sessions i may not be privy to but that is what i'm going to try and do i'm going to do my best for you all of that and i will be your intrepid reporter until the. well while business heavyweights in switzerland discuss ways to patch up the global economy emerging markets

continue to make their mark on that from our business now. well in business entrepreneurs are thirteen around the world but finding show of russia is lagging behind not only the brics peers but also the majority of countries will find out why you know there's of course. some international news in brief now syria has agreed to extend the mandate of the arab league observer mission by a month mission was set up at the end of last year to monitor the regime's compliance of the league's plan to end the violence there basis reports claim sixty people were killed in antigovernment protests across syria on tuesday and the u.n. says more people died last ten months of the rest of the country. nigerian forces have arrested scores of suspected members of an islamist group during raids in the country's northern city of qana boko haram sect said it carried out a series of bombings in the city on friday which at least one hundred eighty five

people. was considered the most violent radical organization in nigeria responsible for nearly a thousand deaths last year. hundreds of demonstrators in argentina were met by riot police they protested in front of the british embassy and borders are is over the disputed for can darden's protesters demanded britain hand the territories over to argentina but has refused plans to send more military support to the area tension between the two countries has since ordered to invade the falklands and 1980's insisting it had. prior claims on the territory. and rescue teams are searching for seventeen people still unaccounted for after crews that are capsized off the italian coast new footage has emerged showing images of floating debris inside the vessel divers filmy terril the ship party using explosives to blast into more areas sixteen bodies have been recovered since

the ship ran aground twelve days ago. one of the later this hour we'll hear from the surprise candidate in russia's upcoming presidential election because there's one of russia's richest men is considered a dark horse in the race for the kremlin has an interview coming next hour. i make decisions quickly and i guess the first develop within me over a long period of time and then one with additions or right i get a kind of signal that it's time for a change so when i realized that i had to change something i turned to politics back in april when i just joined the right cause i knew there would be a release on blog this. week that's why i went into politics what do you mean you knew nobody i got the signal this happens to me as was no see i foresaw the crisis and i sold my acids in advance and this time it was the same.