of last year's wimbledon for. now the semifinals in the men's side of action will see the top four players in the world do battle softer on the murray a new joke of each claim their spots on wednesday murray making it through by burley breaking a sweat against corey all she wants to find the strength of things six three six three six games. on defense fourth seed is to make his third straight the cider down under he's going down to the hard way novak djokovic his next challenge after the world number one soft for six four seven six six one the upcoming encounter will be a repeat of last year's final with joe prolonged constricts. football and cardiff city are gearing up for a shot of a premier league giant after making it through to the carling cup final the welsh side entered their second leg semifinal tiny even to make up ground after crystal palace another second tier side won the opening fixture one nil the score that

night i don't think gardner going from hero to zero after heading into his own net seven. one one the scorn i get of the things that stand out at the regular extra time that meant penalties were two saves from goalkeeper tom. horne a story that three on a meeting with either munches to city or liverpool. in the months. of supposed to be decided tonight at anfield it is liverpool who lead one nil from the first leg but city on premier league leaders for nothing else will enter the game of high spirits humming high flying spurs at the weekend rival strikers mario balotelli on the reds louis suarez though will miss the encounter through suspension. the biggest rivalry in world football gets another are doing also tonight barcelona versus real madrid in the second leg of their cup of the rich

quarter final the catalans hold the advantage from last week but as usual pep guardiola is preaching a tuck as the best defense. to play think of it we already have two one lead we will be eliminated the only way to reach the semifinals it was to play another very good game one of the standard 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. brings it to basketball in the n.b.a. were indiana who are enjoying their best start in eight seasons were left to lick their wounds on choose they will after going down to orlando indiana started the pressure reading twenty nine twenty two after the first or whatever top score on the night ryan i understand came to the fore soon afterwards as the teams went into level forty five a piece at the big breaks during the second part of the game it was the visitors who dominated. two straight three pointers pushing magic into

a sixty three fifty six lead midway through the third quarter then a mission on flight howard finished the example closing with twenty four and fourteen points respectively one zero two eighty three up the buzzer the first home defeat of the season for indiana. back in moscow team russia have returned home from the inaugural youth olympic winter games in austria where the squad lost a fifth overall finish their competitors created by friends or relatives of a report off the back five gold four silver and seven bronze medals a point of note is that the russian republic of dagestan is currently bidding to host side of the youth summer games and playing at dane or the winter edition in twenty twenty two meanwhile russia's listen to tom a shiver who took gold in figure skating last week an inscrutable also be eyeing up top spot at the senior soft winter olympic games 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. cricket thirty seven ricky ponting has been turning back the clock after he and captain michael clarke had a huge day for australia in the fourth test against india each player scoring a double century and a six hundred four for seven effort former all seek help and ponting certainly demonstrating he's got plenty left to offer there and i would come here and answer questions there don't want to. celebration a celebration it was meant as much under so pretty excited i haven't scored a lot of those in the last couple days which i read a lot about lately as well. 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. in baseball it's the end of an era with the new york yankees legend. calling time on his illustrious career the forty year old capture spent seventeen seasons in the

big apple arriving at yankee stadium back in one thousand nine hundred five he won the coveted world series five times with the new york side between one thousand and six and two thousand and nine and he's the only culture in major league baseball history to pot a three hundred thirty or better in a single season the puerto rican certainly emotional when he made the announcement on a packed media conference. i grew up in front of the fans my teammates playing for the new year donkeys 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 being a part was just it was just priceless. i will forever be a yankee. finally in the national football league of the new england patriots will meet the new york giants in the super bowl for the second time since two thousand and seven it was on the dogs new york who ended the pot's perfect season by winning the title four years ago even sikorsky reports now that both got to the big dance

this year. here the two thousand and seven edition of the new england patriots play like an unstoppable juggernaut in the playoffs before reaching the big dance this year's team however has been able to advance to the postseason despite glaring weaknesses the patriots ranks second from bottom and pass defense this year and it looks like the ravens would exploit that acutely steel in the a.f.c. decider baltimore's joe flacco time the game at ten with that second strike to dennis pitta new england secondary was torched again in the third with a rookie tory smith giving baltimore a seventeen to sixteen leave. and when the chips were down for the home team quarterback tom brady yet again showed plenty of physical and mental toughness despite having a poor day passing the ball the thirty four year old taking a huge hit on a quarterback sneak but still made the score twenty three to twenty new england that will prove the final score as the pats defense fared better than expected late

on the ravens lee evans stopped just short of hauling in a touchdown pass by backup cornerback sterling moore. the game would have gone into overtime if it wasn't for billy cundiff misfiring on a relatively easy close range kick and in the patriots a fifth super bowl berth since two thousand and one the new york also involved in a close championship game over in the n.f.c. decider the san francisco forty nine ers constantly looking to vernon davis who burned the giants for two touchdowns in the forest and third quarter cuts to the little giants quarterback eli manning a seen his star rise to brother peyton's level after a great season with a thirty one year old finding mariel manningham late in the fourth for a seventeen to fourteen lead both kickers on their game in this contest with david acre stein proceedings at seventeen of these. a special teams mistakes all the forty nine or scowl williams lose the ball in upon return in the ensuing over time

allowing the giants to set up shop in enemy territory was. lawrence tynes short field goal in the extra session sending the giants to the big dance so a rematch of epic proportions is brewing as both the patriots and the giants have eight players on the roster who still remember that two thousand and seven super bowl battle bonza gorski r.t. . should be quite an encounter with. world weather is next season. question is that so much given to you each musician minute mark with egypt's unfinished business a year on the revolution that you have to dispirited appears to install 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 realize that everything is ok you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. markets. 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.

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. clear. 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 in the world. is to get others to spill the beans on t.v. . interview show stand by. also straight to live pictures right here we're back on tahrir square once again tens of thousands of egyptians gathering to since the uprising but it's. along with celebration because of dragging reforms live pictures right there on the. u.s.

markets open down europe is trading lower but russian stocks are strong along with the russian national currency more on this in twenty minutes on business so it's. a very warm welcome for you this is a lie from moscow. millions of new jobs manufacturing back on track war in iraq bin laden gone broke obama has set out his stall for reelection and using the annual state of the union address to do it details now live to washington d.c. for molecules that loosened up enough to see you do see the speech was a full of upbeat rhetoric promising some big changes for the better and for the american people can you just somewhat up for us. good morning there well yes obama took on sort of a new populist tone something we haven't seen in quite

a while promising a new resurgence for the american people in terms of job growth bringing back manufacturing to the country bringing back high skilled worker jobs training workers for better sorts of employment and competing with the world in the sense of economic manufacturing he also talked about ensuring better protections for the people a situation where the american dream so to speak will be brought back where people will be able to sort of more for for their livelihood and be able to save and be able to actually survive and that kind of money of course over the past few years we've seen this whole notion of the american dream essentially collapse this is something that has been really pushed for and highlighted by the occupy wall street movement that has talked about be uncanny connections between wall street and washington president obama did pick up on some of those undertones he brought that up in fact he said that corporations and companies those who are making more than

two hundred fifty thousand dollars a year millionaires will have to pay a fair share of taxes a lot of lofty sort of optimistic promises but whether or not this will translate into an actual policy agenda remains to be seen this is of course president obama's last state of the union address of this term and if he doesn't win a second term in office it's very unclear whether he's going to be able to push through any of these priorities and in fact many political analysts said that this was sounded much more like a campaign speech where he outlined ideas that most everywhere everyone all of the lawmakers in that room you were dead on arrival this is not a congress that is ready to work together to pass any sort of legislation we've been we've seen these folks at a deadlock and a standstill over the past year if not more so it's very unclear that any of these sort of vague ideas push push forward by the president would actually be carried out much more. the fighting stance setting the tone for his campaign and of course the president did take off his campaign for starting today now lucio also during

president obama's state of the union address he said quote america remains the one indispensable nation in world affairs are we looking at some big plans for his foreign policy do you think. according to the political hacks parts that i've talked to this was much more of a sort of attempts to paint the picture in a rosy and positive way than an actual reflection of changes in policy it appears that the president was more highlighting some of the some of the accomplishments that he has been able to put forward as he mentioned bringing troops out of afghanistan out of iraq what he did not mention is the thousands of contractors your contractors who remain in iraq he talked about a defeated taliban well that's not exactly the case in fact the new york times even issued a fact check disputing that claim he also talked rather surprisingly about an america that is that is more respected across the globe for its successes in iraq

this is sort of strange coming from a president who had in fact campaigned on on the issue highlighting the issue that the u.s. has lost influence across the globe because of its wars and the wars of course the did not make it into the state of the union address the drone warfare that the u.s. has been engaging in yemen in somalia in pakistan and other countries these kinds of conflicts do continue and so while the president didn't directly mention any of those we can probably just expect a lot more of the same in that regard the other interesting thing to point out was this sort of statement that he made about anyone who thinks that the u.s. is waning in its influence across the globe doesn't really know the situation hasn't really been paying attention well that's a white sands and quite stark contrast to what we've heard from many political analysts many lawmakers and politicians and even president obama himself when he had campaigned for office so it does not seem like there's going to be any new

foreign policy agenda issues being introduced by this white house and even if they are as we've seen with many of the sort of covert conflicts that have been playing out here they don't really need much approval from congress. in washington d.c. thank you. well let's discuss the obama's address and more detail now with dr james lovelock a professor at the university of virginia and former chairman of the libertarian party. but a lot of thank you for coming on our team today kept referring in it in a state of the union address to america's military and calling on people to act together as soldiers do in battle what do you make of that comparison and what does it mean well president obama as with many american presidents seems to have this notion of how the american people should perform and behave as if we should essentially march with a common purpose which is very nice if you actually believe that the common purpose

is to promote peace and understanding with other people unfortunately president obama seems to have an opinion that the united states should be much more active in terms of interfering in the affairs of other countries than most libertarians would find congenial now regarding influence in other countries and that a foreign policy obama did say that world opinion of america is the highest in years and old alliances are even stronger but also that america will retain the finest military in the world if everybody is so happy with america then why does it be the finest military. well i think that the i think most americans in fact most citizens of the world would would agree that if government has any purpose at all it's to provide protection of the rights of its citizens and i support a very strong military for the purpose of protecting the lives and property of americans in america however the united states is not the world's policeman and

should not serve as the world's policeman we neither have the moral charge nor the technical competence to serve in such a role and people of libertarian disposition i have the honor of being involved with the libertarian party we believe that the american military should be for the purpose of protecting the life liberty and property of americans in america that we should not be involved basically as serving as a world policeman are now aside from the the global aspect here and as you say being the world's policeman let's bring it down to the dock on the ground level he kept saying in his state of the union obama saying that quote send me a bail and i'll thawing it by implying he is ready to take action to make people's lives better do you think that will convince voters who have struggled during his term. well as a president obama is pretty good at soaring rhetoric and he very well may believe that the actions of the federal government that he and his colleagues in the federal government can make the lives of citizens better and in some cases they can

but basically it's by getting government back to its appropriate functions which is the protection of our rights unfortunately governments and all of it in the united states but particularly at the federal level are too big intrusive and expensive and i doubt that president obama and the united states congress are going to be able to do an all full law at least over the short term that's going to do a lot to help the lives of americans they will unfortunately i suspect make the lives of americans much more expensive through additional taxation and regulation you bring up the issue of money you mention the government it's too big and choose even expensive one of the points president obama makes and it's state of the union he promised to an end to what he called quote the corrosive influence of money in politics is he referring to wall street there or is he referring perhaps to the law some analysts have said that lobbyists when they take in these huge amounts of money donations to campaigns for example at the end of the day they just translate to bribes. well in

a sense that's true one can one can make the point i feel that most legislators basically their product is selling services to favored constituents it should not surprise anyone that people whose lives are going to be heavily regulated whose businesses are going to be perhaps advanced or destroyed by virtue of government regulation are going to be keenly involved in what actually happens and so the sort of lobbying that we see is a result of the fact that federal government has so much power to influence people's lives if you reduce the government's role in people's lives to that of its proper function which is protection of rights the degree of lobbying you would see would be greatly reduced. the university of virginia former chairman of the libertarian party which we have more time but we thank you for coming on thank you thank you well still to come here in the program on keeping the business world's top taking a look at the world economic elite set out to tackle the eurozone recession make

some profit along the way while those worst hit by financial troubles find themselves locked down. now ten minutes past the hour here in moscow he exposed some of the world's darkest secrets soon you'll get the chance to find out even more when the world's most famous whistle blower launches his own talk show on. joining us on his exclusive series will permit here in march and the world's media is already a buzz about who the wiki leaks founder interview london correspondent laura smith reports. basically we knew that as and wanted to wanted to write and host his own interview show and we made it happen the show is going to be broadcast on t.v. 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 became a byword for for explosive control to see when he released the biggest ever set of

us the documents by his web site wiki leaks he's going to be interviewing a series of what he called iconoclasts visionaries and power inside the 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 focused 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 be hundreds of articles from all around the world local newspapers international newspapers everybody seems to be talking about it cause to twitter there is a light with rumors about the show. about who might be interviewed by julian ourselves and of course he is a massive name but that's not the only reason why there will be a fascinating it's going to be filmed where a song has been subject to strict bail conditions things like signing in to the

police station every day being essentially under house arrest under the spell 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 actual decision to sweden for questioning on a leg sexual assault charges so as i say no use 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 is 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. while it's a sealed stay for all the details and the guests we can't reveal at the moment that the secret but we will be having exclusive trailers and previews here on r.t.c. watch this space. correspondent laura smith right there well i mean time on news executive nicholai book of chicken describes how the network what about signing up julian assange britney. there were quite interesting discussions in our office

after christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibilities and obviously it would be and it channels real right now to get our signage but i think it's quite natural that his show will be on r t 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 channels when we talk to julian was very calm and relaxed which you wouldn't 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. and over to you now to tell us what topics you would like to see julian assange tackle and expose in his new t.v. series on r t beginning in march bringing out the numbers from r.t. dot com this hour the votes are almost evenly split at this point a third believe he should focus on who really rules the mainstream media thirty

percent think the series we should focus on the nato war machine agenda and as you can see here the same number would like to see julian expose how banks rule the world there are many ten percent want him to expose who controls the internet how do you tell us what you think and what you want to see make a choice right now at r.t. dot com. quarter past the hour here in moscow thousands of egyptians are back in cairo's now iconic square to mark a year since the uprising that toppled president mubarak but there's another reason it's a landmark day as almost thirty years of emergency rule is partially lifted although some police powers will stay in place artes and he said he was in cairo says see the anger is causing concerns about allowing post revolution celebrations to go a few steps too far. 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 people have gathered we're hearing that hundreds of thousands more are making their way to top here 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 griffin ocean has been talking

to people and taking a closer look at why the revolution lives on. a year off to its historic revolution egypt he spoke from calm protests have become a part of everyday life and no longer an event one of the revolutionists most significant achievements. we could never believe who would come out and speak out like this there are all 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 debates the country's future resentment grows against michiru and the feeling they hijacked the revolution because of the news that we want them to do what the military should do to protect its citizens and the country. well that no one wants.