you know just you know i i'm looking forward to the match. losing. so many times in a row so. you know. we're number two and her place in the semi is in the days early march up at the expense of italians irani the second seed czech winning in two sets but spent almost two hours on court to claim that six four six four win. against could be in the last for a repeat of last year's wimbledon final. quality of course. to be missed in. second my investors a grand slam so really it's nice yeah of course the. ana winds some of. my best as always and. nice mates.

the semifinals in the men's side of action will see the top four players in the world two powerful after andy murray and novak djokovic claim their spots on wednesday murray making it through by barely breaking a sweat against key and she corey of the twice a string open finalist wrapping things up six three six three six games to warm. the fourth seed is to make his third straight the sided die longer he's going to have to do it the hard way novak djokovic his next challenge after the world one saw david for six four seven six six one the upcoming encounter be repeats of last year's finals joker one in st. football in cardiff city are gearing up for a shot at a premier league giant after making it through to the carling cup final the world's side entered their second leg semifinal to quarterfinal time since the final time i should say needing to make up after crystal palace another second side won the

opening fixture one nil the score of that night on three gardiner going from hero to zero after heading into his own goal seven minutes and one one in the school and that was how things would stand after both regular on extra time and so the penalty you see is from goalkeeper tom heaton but help secure the heart of a star three one victory in a meeting with either munch esther city or liverpool wembley in a month's time. cart of supposed to be decided tonight's out on field liverpool who lead one nil from the first leg but city on premier league leaders for nothing else will enter the game in high spirits having been high flying spurs of the weekend rival strikers mario politics the reds war as well misting though through suspension. the biggest rivalry in world football gets another outing also tonight it is of course barcelona versus real madrid in the second leg of their comp of the recorder final

a couple and totally advantage from last week but as usual monitor pep guardiola is preaching a tuck as the best defense. think of it we already have two one lead we will be eliminated the only way to reach the semifinals get him used to play another very good game that understand that one can play the last five or ten minutes with the school. time in bill first and second legs when we have always played focusing on every minute of the game and. that brings us on to the hardwood where six time champions will be seeking german team there so far perfect record in this season's euro league tonight the russian powerhouse host turkish side f. is in the top sixteen but moscow finds very much in form having won all their previous eleven games on the continent however the army men are also under pressure to deliver the goods in their first home game in this top sixteen state head coach

. rested his main men including under. chris to church for saturday's b t v league match he's got an injury free fifteen strong squad others this today while point guard anton crush off believes the new look c.s.k. 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 it's probably time for a new beginning with a lot of new coming in to replace the greats the hold and length the no host of new and ambitious players keen to keep the cricketing firsts. ok we stay with basketball but head to the n.b.a. where indiana who are enjoying their best start in eight seasons were left to lick their wounds on tuesday after going down to orlando indiana starting the leading ridge twenty nine twenty two off the first quarter or longest tough score on the night bryant understand though came to the fore the teams went in level forty five

a piece of the big break during the second part of the game it was the visitors who dominated to go to the. straight line three pointers pushing magic into a sixty three fifty six lead midway through the water then understood and white howard finish things up in the twenty four and fourteen points respectively one zero two eighty three things ended up meaning indiana so for their first home defeat of the season. back in moscow team russia returned home from the normal youth olympics a winter games in austria where the squad finished fifth over all the competitors created by friends and relatives of domodedovo airport hurrying back five gold for silver and seven bronze medals a point of note is that the russian republic of dagestan this currently bidding to host either the youth summer games in twenty eight days or one tradition in twenty twenty two meanwhile brushes but if it took thomas who took gold in figure skating

last weekend in spring will also be eyeing up top spot the senior source winter olympic games in twenty. 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. cricket on thirty seven rolls recchi ponting has been turning back the clock as he and captain michael clarke had a huge day for a straight in the fourth test against india each player scoring a double century and a six hundred four for seven effort traits go without former all seek help and ponting making sure to take it all in. haryono would come here and answer questions there are too many. celebration and celebration it was meant as much under so pretty excited i haven't scored a lot of those in the companies which i read a lot about lately as well. so. i was it was just noise it's always north america under it and especially today when you know we didn't get off to the audience.

tiger woods is raring to go and what he says should be his first full season since two thousand and eight fully fit former world number one is getting ready to hit the greens at the gulf championship after ending his two year title drive with victory at last month's world challenge bent 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 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 in the golf swing if i'm physically fit to do it and. played really well my last three of it so i'm really looking for this year and. you know continuing building on what we're what we've done towards the end of last year for sure and finally in baseball it is the end with new york yankees legend. calling time on his illustrious career

the forty year old catcher he spent seventeen seasons in the big apple arriving at yankee stadium back in one thousand nine hundred five he won the. world series five times with the new york signed between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and nine and he is the only catcher in major league baseball history to buy a three hundred thirty or better in a single season pretty weekend purely emotional when he made the announcement of a packed media. our grew up in front of fans my teammates playing for them you're doing has been an honor i could never wear another uniform . being a part of seven world series and having five rings was something i never imagine i've been a part i was just it was just priceless i will forever be a yankee i'm not as old a sport for now whether it's coming up in just a tick here in twenty four hour party.

culture is that so much given to each musician minute to mark with egypt's unfinished business a year on the revolution that you have to be spirited appears to have stalled the military rulers who replacement. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture.

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on t. dot com. the world's top whistle blower to get others to spill the beans on television. interview should stand by so where to watch. president obama kicks off his campaign to stay in the white house using the state of the union address to pledge saving the economy and creating jobs. where thousands of egyptians gather to mark a year since the uprising but it's frustration along with celebration because of driving reforms. and in business while most of global markets are on the decline

and oil also dropping in value russia is showing good performance in both stocks and the national currency more on this in twenty it's. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here. i'm rover suv shy he exposed some of the world's darkest secrets. soon you'll get the chance to find out even more when the world famous whistleblower launches a talk show here on our two julie massages exclusive series will premiere here in march and the world's media is already a buzz about who the wiki leaks founder will interview london correspondent laura smith. basically we knew that i wanted to wanted to write and host his own interview show and we made it happen this is going to be broadcast exclusively on

our screen it's going to focus of course on us ologies favorite topic control fifty two thousand and eleven was a solid as his name became one of the most famous in the world and indeed it became a byword for for explosive control to see when he released the biggest ever set of us the script documents by his website wiki leaks he's going to be interviewing a series of what he called iconoclasts visionaries and power inside 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 a caucus exclusively on r.t. and we are hoping that it will be as explosive as the release of those documents was via wiki leaks we can't see any reason why it wouldn't 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 there is a light with with rumors about the show speculating 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 will be fascinating it's going to be films where assaultive been subject to strict bail conditions things like signing in 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 shot a week before his supremes court hearing to. fight against his extradition to sweden for questioning on a leg sexual assault charge so as i say it's of rumors about what's going to go on he says going to be a new type of television of course he's no stranger to being on the other side of the interview as 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 detail 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 correspondent laura smith reporting right there will meantime our t.v. news executive nicholai a book a chicken describes how the network signed up with julian assigned jim britton there were quite interesting discussions in our office after christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibility is and obviously it would be an eternal view right now to get our son but i think it's quite natural that his show will be on our t.v. i mean he always tries to go beyond that to see other sides of any new story and shoulder real reasons behind the news that you would see on mainstream china when we talk. you know 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. all right over to you now to tell us what topics you

would like to see julian astonished tackled and exposed in his new t.v. series on c beginning in march i hear the numbers from our website artie dot com the votes are fairly divided this hour just over a third believe he should focus on who really rules the mainstream media twenty seven percent think the serious serious focus on the nato war machine agenda percent of quarter would like to receive julian expose how banks rule the world while seventeen percent want him to expose who controls the worldwide internet do tell us what you want to see make your choice now that r.t. dot com. millions of new jobs manufacturing back on track war in iraq gone bin ladin gone as well bomber has set out his stall for reelection and using the annual state of the union address to do it but if not he's gone a can reports from washington the upbeat tone doesn't quite reflect reality.

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 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 going to have to kind

of porting there from washington d.c. ok let's look at obama's speech in a bit more detail discussing his words certainly about syria we talk to ali mohammed the editor in chief of the website syria tribune standing by for us in dubai thank you for coming on our team today obama said the assad regime or soon discover that the forces of change referring to the arab spring cannot be reversed it sounds like the things that. will definitely be toppled do you think that's the case. i don't really think so he didn't sound so. convinced to me let's remember that not five months or actually more than five months ago he asked. to step down directly but now he did not he was also expected to to adopt the arab league plan for syria he also did not he instead he used wider terms and he did not make any he did not hint on what the u.s.

could do to make sure this will happen the fact that he said the the forces of change irreversible is just a wide assumption because every syrian knows that. the country will never go back to how it was one year ago or ten months ago but at the same time the change will be decided by the syrian people. by the syrian people not by the u.s. and not by anybody else and it will it is not guaranteed that it will come the way obama as you say as you say there when it comes to change that's up to the syrian people but during his state of the union obama also said that america has huge stake in the outcome of the syrian conflict what are what stake is that do you think. i think this take his or failing to is clear a few months ago or maybe two months ago the head of the syrian national council talked about

a new series that will not support the resistance forces against israel and will not be an ally to iran that the stakes obama is referring to i think. are and if i may if i may just for a minute i would here because i hate to keep drawing on his state of the union but a couple of things did sound rather contradictory in obama's words quote it's up to the people to decide their fate and quote america will support policies that lead to strong and stable democracies or possibly implying some sort of intervention i mean do you interpret that as such. of course obama did not only talk about democracy he also he also talked about open markets how come you want the people to decide for themselves and yet you want to support an open market how do you know it's what the people want. the same time the democracy is talking about. has not proven to be a good one so far let's let's talk about iraq with hundreds of thousands of people

since the intervention let's talk about libya with tens of thousands of. people since the intervention not to mention the destruction and everything so he is trying to portray a democracy that is. really for the good of the people but the american actions and the actions by their allies don't prove that well it's interesting you bring in america you bring in the allies you know right now the security council resolution being worked on by the u.s. by the u.s. or europe in the arab league calling requiring assad to go and hand over power to a new government syria rejects us where do you see this all heading what's the end game here there are many that are drawing a libya comparison to this. i don't think i mean we're still not talking about. security council resolution we still need to wait and see how it goes because as it appears the russians are still resisting such

a resolution at the same time the proposal the arab league proposed two days ago is. the sort of proposal they know syria will reject because syria has always been proud of its independent independent. decisions and syria will never they know that for a fact that syria will never agree to to to submit to what arab league the u.s. the security council or whatever decides for how it is going to rule itself so i think they propose this so the syrians can reject it and after. the they have some sort of an excuse to escape late at least on the diplomatic side dr ali mohamed the editor in chief of the website tribune live in dubai thank you for coming on r.t. today. russia says that one sided resolutions of foreign intervention won't solve syria foreign minister sergei lavrov wants all sides in the conflict to engage in

talks with no preconditions his message comes on the back of the arab league's call for president assad to step down. we do this. because we fully support the immediate halting of violence in the country no matter where it comes from that by the way is the position also put forward by the arab league we're also calling for the peaceful regulation of syria's political situation because we believe that all sides involved in the conflict should support similar measures and were also against any military interference from outside we believe that our approach is balanced and just as opposed to the method of accepting the biased resolutions which condemn only one side provoking the other to build up to a confrontation. and in syria itself security forces are trying to storm parts of the city of hama reports say the troops are trying to reclaim the areas controlled by the opposition after observer mediated talks to persuade the militants to lay

down arms failed syria agreed to extend the arab league mission by a month it was set up to monitor the regime's compliance with the league's plan to end the violence there the u.n. estimates that the number of killed in the past ten months is over five thousand. and our correspondent sara firth is in syria she's been posting updates on the situation in her blog on dot com for you to keep track of the latest and still to come here on keeping track of the business world's top tier they're all meeting in davos switzerland the world's economic elite all getting their choppers and private jets on issues to tackle the eurozone recession forced to make some profit along the way while those worst hit by financial troubles find themselves locked out of the for. thousands of egyptians are in cairo's now iconic to

rear square to mark a year since the uprising that toppled president mubarak but there is another reason it's a landmark day as almost thirty years of emergency rule is partially lifted although some key police powers will remain on he said he said oh your study by a cairo for us a nice ohio we're seeing thousands of people in tahrir square an impressive backdrop there behind you we're hearing that the the whole assembly there it's more out of frustration than celebration is that how you interpret it. that's right and that's exactly what activists are warning and asking these protesters not to do not to let this turn into a celebration because according to them there's a whole lot of work that still needs to be done a year after the revolution began right here on top here i think it's fair to say just to give you a closer look tens of thousands of poor. people have gathered we're hearing that hundreds of thousands more are making their way to talk or what we're seeing in twitter and facebook is people saying that's it it's official this is bigger than the twenty eighth which was just to remind you the biggest day of protests was last

year the twenty fifth is when it all began of course and people sat in on top here basically not leaving for eighteen days until hosni mubarak finally stepped down but the people here it's certainly clear this time there's still a lot of anger a lot of frustration and you can hear it in their slogans this time they're chanting about the army about the field-marshal tongue toey so they've basically took mubarak out of that equation and now he's put these officials that are leading the country they say they're making concessions but according to these people there's a lot more work to be done and in fact my colleague maria for notion has been talking to people and taking a closer look at why the revolution lives on. a year off to its historic revolution in egypt is far from calm protests have become a part of everyday life and no longer an event one of the revolutions and a significant achievement. we could never believe would come out and speak out like

this but there are several reasons for egypt's people to take out to the streets following the prize in the house of mubarak last february the country's economy is struggling unemployment at its highest in decades and while the newly elected islam is dominated parliament debate the country's future resentment grows against men to rule and the feeling they hijacked the revolution is obvious that we want them to do what the military should do it protect its citizens and neutral the country. well you know what political in want to be sure 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 vulcan to the supreme council of the armed forces.