losing. so many times in a row. in turn play my first in the world number two meanwhile place in the last four in the elevator of the day at the expense of a talent irani the second c. czech also won in two sets but spent almost two hours on court to claim a six four six four win so again in the repetition of last year's wimbledon final. finally of course meant to be in a semi final in our star and then. second my investors there are no grand slams it's nice and of course the. ana winds some of. my best as always and. nice mates. in the men's game and is through to the last four after a call for the victory over k.v. she corrie of japan six three six six one that finished. with

scott will play the winner of today's other quarterfinal where world number one defending. is currently playing fifth seed david ferrer of spain. defending came close to be to world number one a career vision not skied to reach the semifinals of the first grand slam of this season despite injuring her ankle in her previous match the twenty eight year old belgian overpowered the dane to win six three seven six in scorching temperatures ensuring business will lose her no one ranking to six to seven weeks at the top. you know i was i was happy with it and i was playing just started to try to be a lot of a more dominant again. you know she stepped her game up than stosur inventor in the second set. so i knew that you know i mean we've both played a really good day in the northeast. we really went for shots and good serving and

good returning so i started 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 still improve and you know i still have a number of us are a number of years off and i will dance in french open slough so you know i'll i'll definitely do my bastard child see child to win one a even more you know the end of the day. you can just do your past. in the semifinals clijsters will face third seed victoria azarenka who came back from behind to be. six seven six six to have it both russia could become the new world number one if she wins 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 just couldn't really 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 we'll see and today i really try to forget about the first set and start from zero and really. you know find hard you know really want over time and keep going so i think there was a different mental approach. let's get over to english football now where cardiff city bit crystal palace on penalties to reach their first carling cup final the main hero of the first place anthony gardner who scored the only goal for crystal palace became the main vettel of the return match the thirty year old defender had it into his own net just seven minutes in making it one of you get this result stewed all the way through regular and extra time despite many goal scoring of two entities at both ends of the page to the parents or three to safe from keeper tom

hayden gave cardiff and historic three one the victory which will see them facing either mention the city all liverpool at wembley in a month's time. and the mean time spent in barcelona and real madrid are preparing for their copper del rey returning quarterfinal the catalans two one victory last week leaves them with a chance of reaching the limits however their manager pep guardiola is calling on his chargers to someone out one more solid performance against jews amir a newsman. think of it we already have two one lead we will be eliminated the only way to reach the semifinals get in the simply another very good game and the standard one can play the last five or ten minutes with the school but in a knockout intell first and second leg when we have always played focusing on every minute of the game and. to the hardwood now where six time for my car more

score will be looking to maintain the perfect record in this season's he really is a host turkish side a face in a top sixteen place on wednesday muscovites won all their previous eleven games however are the men are also under pressure to deliver the goods in their thirst home game in this top sixteen stage coach be honest because last rested his top men including and and needed in saturday's v to be league match and has a full fifteen strong score at his disposal against fs who are also injury free point guard and tom because she believes if you look test well the hard to stop in their tracks. to go for that last season was one to forget for to scar after so many still in use in the euro league it's probably time for a new beginning with a lot of you. to please the greats the holder and langdon with him no listen no host of new and ambitious players keen to keep our perfect record intact against.

another basketball new zealand upset into joining their best start in eight seasons as their magic beat the paces on the road started well and were leading twenty nine twenty two after the first quarter along the top score of the night and how to side to improve and the teams were tired at fault for all the tough time during this second part of the game it was the visitors who dominated. straight three pointers pushed magic into a sixty three fifty six lead midway through the third period then anderson and finished things up closing with twenty four and fourteen points respectively one hundred two to eighty three it finished meaning indiana suffer their first home defeat of the season. now back here in moscow russia young athletes have returned home from the inaugural youth olympics winter games in austria where the team

finished fifth overall they can bet it is were greeted by friends and relatives and demanded the airport after bringing home five gold for silver and seven bronze medals while the russian republic of dagestan is current limiting to host either the youth summer games in two into eighteen for the winter edition in twenty twenty two rushes elizabeth at the time we should have two gold in the figure skating last week and is broke and also rushers medal hopes for dates in a games console chip 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. golf tiger woods is raring to go in what should be his first full season in a while the now former world number one is getting ready to play golf championship after ending his two year term drought with victory at last month's world challenge

event in california i'm looking 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 i demonstrate to myself what i can do with implementing it what sean wants to do in the golf swing if i'm physically fit to do it and. played really walled my last three of it saw a real look at ford of 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 today more sports news form around the globe. with my call i couldn't get by.

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uprisings first anniversary. worldwide news live from moscow's city center this is are with me wrong. and we are getting a new talk show and the world media is already in a spin over its host it's the man who's exposed to wrongs at the highest level of government and the military the wiki leaks founder julian assange let's get more now from our london correspondent laura smith standing by here on r.t. laura many would say two thousand and eleven was the year all the songs this really sounds like it's going to be the show to watch how did this come about. but we certainly believe it is my my producers and directors worked tirelessly to bring this about to bring to us on this show to r.t.

view is basically we knew that our son's wanted to wanted to write and host his own into the show and we made it happen this is going to be broadcast exclusively on r t it's going to focus of course on our songes favorite topic control to see you say two thousand and eleven was absolutely zero and undoubtedly was his name became one of the most famous in the world and indeed it became a byword for for exclusive control to see when he released the biggest ever set of u.s. secret documents by his website wiki leaks he's going to be interviewing a series of what he called a visionary and power insiders and he's going to talk about how to shape the vision of a brighter and better tomorrow that as i say is going to be pulled off the exclusively on our t.v. and we are hoping that it will be as explosive as the release of those documents was when he leaks we can't see any reason why it wouldn't be. lower certainly the

international news networks and basic small town news outlets around the world are certainly putting forth regarding this already we're getting a lot of reaction to julian songe coming to see but still still weeks away i believe it's going to be march this program goes to a. hundreds of articles from all around the world local newspapers international newspapers everybody seems to be talking about this particularly this morning of course the twitter sphere is a lot with with rumors about the show's speculation about who might be interviewed by julian ourselves and of course he is a massive name but that's not the only reason why this show will be fascinating it's going to be filmed where a song has been subject to strict bail conditions things like signing him to the police station every day being essentially under house arrest under these conditions for the last four hundred fourteen days even though no charges have been filed the first episode is also going to be short

a week before his supremes court hearing to fight against his extradition to sweden for questioning on a leg sexual assault charges so as i say rumors about what's going to go on he is going to be a new type of television of course he's no stranger to being on the other side of the interview table i've interviewed him myself but if you want to find out exactly what's going on you're going to have to stay here on r.t. my lips are sealed so for all the details of the guests we can't reveal at the moment that's all a secret but we will be having exclusive trailers and previews here on r.t.c. watch this space all right on to laura smith live in london thanks very much. and our news executive. held talks with the songs to secure this program our new host is full of fresh ideas. there were quite interesting discussions we said in our office after christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibilities and obviously it would be and it channels you right now to get our science but i think

it's quite natural that israel will be on r.t. i mean r.t. always tries to go beyond that to see other sides of any news story and sure the real reasons behind the news that you would see on mainstream science when we talked to them was very calm and relaxed which you would expect of course from someone who's been under house arrest for more than four hundred days he was very full of ideas and some of them were born as we talked so i think this will be a very hard hitting show. here with r.t. live from moscow and still to come your way in the program a meeting of mana tree mines and the business and banking elite descend on doubles for the world economic forum and find out how much focus will actually fall on reforming the global financial system. five minutes past the hour here in moscow as the u.s. presidential race picks up pace ahead of november's vote barack obama is trying to ratchet up support for reelection he's delivered his annual state of the union

address making new promises of change in the future are to use a gun a chicken was listening at. 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 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 iraq 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. he's got an extra count reporting i found when i mean time president obama reiterated his commitment to cutting down on military spending and trimming the armed forces by u.s. professor poll sheldon foote to send his pledges and all gods 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 us. likewise he said regional gadhafi syria's next day and if iran doesn't behave they're 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 in

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 would. that it 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 though and he's threatening them to. we have more u.s. news and stories for you on our website arts he taught com for example including striking back at the hackers while america defends itself against cyber terror one former spy chief says the country is actually worst sponsible for attacks on other regions find out all the details online poll so. real gold for black gold iran will reportedly bypass the latest round of western sanctions by accepting

the pressure some metal as payment for its oil exports that full story twenty four seventh's waiting for you at r.t. dot com. now ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital thousands of egyptians are gathering to mark a year since the uprising that toppled president mubarak but it's also a landmark day in the country as almost thirty years of emergency rule is partially lifted although some keep police powers will remain but ending the draconian laws being one of the protesters key demands our correspondent and he said always standing by for us in the central cairo and he said we are seeing thousands of people in tahrir square but are we talking more frustration well more celebration.

but that's the thing activists here actually warning people that have come out not to let those turn into a celebration because according to them not very much has changed within the last twelve months in fact many of them say that they feel that their revolution has been hijacked that the military is still in power like you said thousands if not tens of thousands of people on talk clear just as there was exactly a year ago when this revolution began and we're expecting more people to come through out the day because what's happening is marches are gathering around the city car of course an enormous city millions of people and they're expected to all make their way to tough here by this evening and really what i'm hearing i've been here a lot this year is a lot more anger today than i've heard at any of the other posts so-called protests which we have seen very often on the streets of cairo and throughout egypt since the fall of mubarak people here saying that their initial goal was to have the regime fall and that is still their goal because the army is still in power my

colleague reeva notion has been talking to people and taking a closer look at why people feel the revolution is still very much alive. even off to to recruit pollution egypt he's far from calm protests have become part of every t.v. life and event right there on the chance and see what you. could never believe would come out and. speak out like. 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 interacted islam is dominated tolerant 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 neutral the country. in want to be

sure that they will not destroy our lucian's 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 they 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 claim 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 all i know milly and the work

whatever happens as these are works week and discard are scared because a boon arabic for army lawyers contain they work to reveal the army's 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 in the dark thirty years. claim it and leave when the new president is elected in june but a few billion. the promise is that once we're broke so easily some also fear that a dangerous may steal and behind the scenes reluctance to relinquish the power they've had for decades. titian had to leave one thing is clear the fight is not chance over. hearty. just one in quarter past the hour here in the russian capital there's confusion over events in the libyan town of bani walid after moammar gadhafi loyalists seized the city on monday killing five and injuring

twenty five in clashes with government forces but libya's interior minister says it's not clear who actually controls the city now and claims that clashes erupted due to internal disagreements between rival militias meanwhile elders in the town say they'll appoint their own local representatives and reject any interference from the interim authorities fighters for the national transitional council have now set up checkpoints outside bani walid it comes as the n.c.c. has been struggling to unify its armed forces violent protests in several cities across the country prompted the council's chairman to warn of a possible looming civil war investigative journalist simon ourself says many libyans feel they're not getting what they fought for. the thing about revolutions is they're not simply passive events there is a whole awakening of the 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 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. going to put it has made people very very unhappy it seems there is a reintroduction of tribalism and action is 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 but i 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 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. but watching the outgoing russian president is not ruling out running for the country's top post again in the future

to retreatment here says he'll stay in politics regardless of the outcome of the presidential election in march which he's not contesting let's get more now from our he's pretty on the story peter hello to you so what else are has made you have to say about his future on the political scene. well president made yet it was the dressing journalism students at a university here in moscow and he said that he would remain in politics after the election in march regardless of the outcome of that election he he also hinted at a possible return to running for a top level politics sometime in the future he said that he wouldn't rule that out right now he's only forty six years old relatively young and political terms and it would be it would be too soon for him to say ok after i leave office as president that's be done with it now let me a putin is running for president in march and.