phones are. just you know i i'm looking forward to the match up and i don't like losing. so many times in a row so i'll certainly you know be going out there and trying to turn to plan my first. world number two meanwhile and hope place in the last four in that other match of the day at the expense of the talents are ironically the second sink track also won in two sets but spent almost two hours in court to claim a six four six four win so soft against pretty much in the lead difficult last year's wimbledon final. thought it was going. to be in a semi final in our star and then the. second my investors there are no grand slam so really it's nice and yeah of course that. when the semifinals to say my best as always and have a nice mate. in the men's game and through to the last four after

a confident victory over k. we should call them six three six three six one that. this court will play the winner of today's other quarterfinal where world number one defending champion of job which is currently playing fifth seed david ferrer. and earlier defending champion came close to being its world number one of her live is not scared to reach the semifinals of the first grand slam of the season despite injuring her in co in her previous match the twenty eight year old belgian overpowered the day to win six three seven six in scorching temperatures ensuring it was not. number one ranking sixty seven weeks at the top. you know it was i was happy with it and i was playing just hard to try to be a lot of a more dominant again. you know she stepped her game up and started serving better

in that second set. so i knew that you know i mean we both played really good i mean or first. really went for shots and good serving and good returning so i started laughing every time because the media talk 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 still improve and you know. a number of us are no plans on a number of years off and i will dance in french open so you know i'll i'll definitely do my bastard child see child to win one i even more and you know the end of the day. you can just do your past. and in the semifinals will face third seed victories who came back from behind to be poland. six seven six six two russia could become the new world number one if she wins the title.

i was approaching this match you know to try to do the best i can and i was searching for another sad time just couldn't manage to 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 see her 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. let's go over to english football now where cardiff city beat crystal palace on penalties to reach their first carling cup final that made here a bit. of a god who scored the only goal for crystal palace became the main villain of the return match the thirty year old defender headed into just seventeen minutes in making it one on aggregate this results to all the way through regular and extra

time despite many pouring opportunities both answer the page with a palatable trait to say for people to be a part of the story three one victory which will see them facing the most the city for liverpool at the month's time i in the meantime spanish giants barcelona and real madrid are preparing for their copa del rey returning quarterfinal the catalans to one victory last week leaves them with the better chance of reaching that samaras however their manager pat guardiola is calling on his chargers to summon up one more solid performance against them or in his men. if we leave think of it we already have two one lead we will be eliminated the only way to reach the semifinals get it was to play another very good game one of the standard one can play the last five or ten minutes with the school but in local time in little first and second legs when we have always played

focusing on every minute of the game and. to the hardwood now where six time former champion more school will be looking to maintain their so far perfect record in this season's euro league as a host. in a top sixteen question on wednesday the muscovites want all their previous eleven games. and then are under pressure to deliver the goods in their first home game in this top sixteen stage of poke your nose because last person arrested comment including. can stitch in saturday's going to be a league match and has a full fifteen strong score at his disposal against the. interests three point guard on top because she believes the. will be hard to stop in their tracks. last season was one to forget for to scar after so many still in use in the euro

league but it's probably time for you beginning with a lot of new players coming in to please the greats the holder and langdon in the snow the host of new and ambitious players keen to keep a perfect record intact against first. another possible news upset who are enjoying their best start in eight seasons as their magic bates the pace is on the road one hundred eighty three and i started well and were leading twenty nine twenty two after the first quarter along stopped for a good night one anderson helped her side to improve and the teams were tied at forty five all at half time. during this second part of the game it was the visitors who dominated for. two straight three pointers pushed magic into a sixty three fifty six lead weights was in that period there anderson and dwight howard finished things up closing with twenty four fourteen points respectably

hundred led to a to freeze finish meeting suffered their first defeat of the season. back here in moscow russia's young athletes have returned home from the inaugural youth olympic winter games in austria where the team finished fifth overall they competitors were greeted by friends and relatives and demanded an airport after bringing home five gold silver and seven bronze medals while the russian republic of dagestan is down to the bidding to host either the youth summit games in twenty eighteen for the winter edition in twenty twenty two rushes is that at the time we should have two gold in the figure skating last week in inspiration and also russia's medal hope for the senate gates is forty 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. i'm confident that he knows what he's doing so i'm absolutely calm. and fun the gulf

where tiger woods is raring to go in what he says should be his first full season in a while the former world number one is getting ready to play at the golf championship after ending drought with a victory at last month's challenge of and in california look at for 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 toward the end of the year and you know that i demonstrate to myself what i can do with implementing what sean wants me to do on the golf swing if i'm physically fit to do it and. played really well my last three events so i'm relook at four this year and. you know continuing building on what we're what we've done tours in the last year for sure. ok that's all from me for the moment more sports news for more on the globe. don't miss it so that.

sure is that so much for you to be sitting on the mark with egypt on business a year on the revolution that used to be spirit it appears to have stalled the military rulers who replaced me.

you know 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 realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. issues. couldn't take three. four judges three. three. three stooges three.

young old free broadcast morning video for your media project a free media r t v dot com. for the u.s. economy still on the ropes president obama is 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. the country's interim leader struggle to keep the peace. and coming full circle thousands of egyptians angry at slow reforms gather in central cairo as a country marks the uprisings first anniversary. this

is r.t. good to have you with us today straight to our top story now as the u.s. presidential race picks up pace ahead of november's vote for a car bomb or is trying to ratchet up support for reelection he's delivered his annual state of the union address and making new promises of change ahead. 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 the wealthiest in the country are making a killing while the middle class is shrinking dramatically and that 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 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 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 again is 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. present obama reiterated his commitment to cutting down on mitchie spending and training the armed forces u.s. professor paul sheldon foote says he's panties all ends with washington's foreign policy goals he used the cute little code phrase that we're going to have an enduring relationship with death in a stand which means we're going to have bases in that country and stay there for ever whether they want to serve. likewise he said regional gadhafi syria's next day and if iran doesn't behave there the 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 moore's what in fact he has plans to expand what he didn't mention try 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 be china's holding more than a trillion dollars of our debt we've got tens of thousands of factories there we're highly coordinated doing depended on them now and he's threatening them to. it was r.t.m. still to come on the program a meeting of monetary minds the business and banking of the senate on davos for the world economic forum find out much of this will fall on the reform and global financial system. are searching for a salary while

a legal loophole in india has left many without jobs or a stable income. there is confusion over events in the libyan town of bani walid out of market daffing loyalists seize the city on monday killing five people and injuring twenty five in clashes with government forces but libya's interior minister says it's not clear who actually controls the city and claims clashes erupted you two internal disagreements between rival militias while elders in the town say their point their own local representatives and reject any interference from the interim authorities fighters for the national transitional council of now set up checkpoints outside running well here it comes as the m.d.c. has been struggling to unify its armed forces violent protests in several cities across the country have prompted the council's chairman to warn of possible civil war investigative journalist someone else says many libyans feel they're not getting what they want 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 and 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 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 wars are the most brutal. and so you. so 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 essentially became the rebel rebels air force and so they were attacking in the all

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 but we have more news and stories for you on our website r.t. dot com here's a look at what you can find from the web whistleblower to t.v. talk show host the internet's most controversial activist here in the sun which is to become a star of the small screen with his own program exclusively here on r.t. to find out more details. also online 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 own exports to store it ultimately.

thousands of egyptians are gathering in cairo's tahrir square marking a year since the uprising that toppled president barack but it's not a sort of broken they're still angry at the slow pace of reforms it's also a landmark day in the country's almost thirty years in which it's been partially lifted her some key police powers will remain ending the draconian no one has been one of the protesters killed in mons but there is too many for him it's not enough they won't rest until the army steps down as maria for national reports now from cairo. a year after its historic revolution egypt is far from calm protests have become a part of everyday life and no longer an event one of the revolutions and significant achievements i. could never believe would come out and speak out like this 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 newly elected islam is dominated parliament debate the country's future resentment rose against military rule and the feeling they hijacked the revolution this ability we want them to do what military should do to protect its citizens and not rule the country people. really want to be sure that there will not destroy our solutions 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. when mubarak toppled down people welcomed 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 the words and that's what most of what i all i know believe and we will work in whatever happens as these are works with and discard are scared because the boon arabic for army lawyers campaign they worked through really armies wrongdoings between our female activists attacking field hospitals and conspiracy theories under the military council twelve thousand people have been brought to mentor trials that are against less than two thousand in mubarak's thirty years. claim it and leave 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 the power

they've had for decades with protests pushing them to leave though one thing is clear the fight is not yet over brief an option r t cairo. well egypt now has a newly elected parliament with them was a little brotherhood holding a majority of seats the army has pledged to give up power when a new president is sworn in with an election expected to be held in june and are crosstalk program later people develop his guests to debate the country's future here's a preview for you. 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 that 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 now 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 are all 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 should be a very i mean you're saying there is in effect 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 business elite have descended on divorce switzerland to see lucrative deals and so to 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 left to look on from the outside aunties learn this to 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 is 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 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 the topic of capitalism and if it is for ambling what its future is and what the solutions to its problems are so i wish one of 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 remodeling 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 that 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 the 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 from some of these big business leaders and the heads of state and

central bankers exactly what they're talking about me sessions that i may not be privy to but that is what i'm going to try and do i'm going to do my best to bring all of that and i will be here your intrepid reporter until then back to. well while business heavyweights in switzerland discuss ways to patch up the global economy emerging markets continue to make them up more on that from a business that. will look at the doors that are surging around the world the findings show that russia is lagging behind not only its brics peers but also the majority of countries joining for more and other stories of britain. look at some other international headlines now syria has agreed to extend the arab league observers mission by a month it was set up in last one of the regime's compliance with the leaks plan to end the violence then it is reports claim sixty people were killed in antigovernment protests across syria queues the. u.n.

says more than five thousand people have died in the last ten months of unrest. nigerian forces have arrested scores of suspected members of an islamist group during raids in the northern city of kano book around sect said it carried out a series of bombings in the city on friday in which at least one hundred eighty four died the group is considered the most violent radical organization in like you're responsible for many thousand deaths nastia. hundreds of demonstrators in argentina were met with right police as a protest in front of the british embassy in disputed four thousand dollars protest has demanded britain hand the territories over to argentina britain has refused and plans to send more military support to the area tension between the two countries salutes intermittent for clinton one thousand nine hundred insisting it had prior claims on the territory. and rescue teams are searching for seventeen

people still unaccounted for in the cruise line which capsized off italian coast new footage has emerged showing images of floating debris inside the vessel divers feel. the interior of the ship after using explosives to blast into more areas sixteen bodies have been recovered since the ship ran aground twelve days ago. that later next hour we hear from the surprise candidate in russia's upcoming presidential election because the program is one of russia's richest people and it's considered a dog of course in the race for the kremlin is what's ahead. i make decisions quickly i guess the first develop within me over a long period of time and then when conditions are 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.