on to football and in england liverpool have joined cardiff city in the carling cup final that's after drawing their second semi final leg with manchester city and advancing on aggregate city who lost their thirst like clash at the top by a single girl needed to get the better of the return fixture and a spectacular long range shot from nigel de young levelled matters just after thirty minutes of play were pulled struck back right away with steven gerrard converting power to kick in the second half. put city in front once again the hosts determined not to miss out on their first comic opera on the parents in sixteen days greg bellamy to the equaliser to the delight of the crowd to all the final score the night on aggregate in favor of liverpool. staying with football where brazilian striker wagner laugh has returned to his homeland to sign for flamenco after eight years moscow the twenty seven

year old signed a two year deal while his former club will receive a fee of thirteen million dollars played two hundred and fifty one games for the muscovites scoring one hundred twenty times the russian premier league triumphs as well as the year for cop in two thousand and five scoring in the final in two thousand and eight the brazilian was the league's top scorer with twenty goals. to the hardwood now where it says come moscow continued their winning streak the second round of the euro league's top sixteen so you're honest because losses meant thresh on a dollar a first ninety six to six to eight in the russian capital and to claim their twelfth straight victory in the tournament this season rob two other now reports. what does it take to. today sysco wednesday's game show much more than

a fest led by the two time n.b.a. champ then saw. the other man starts ahead of their first home game in the early ixtapa sixteen or just slowest eleven wins out of eleven games in the tournament decision and the muscovites produced their victorious doesn't in style in front of a cheering home crowd in fact it was only the first quarter which saw some tough competition on the court. but as soon as the host center knew not to stitch star a dominating in the paint both scoring and rebounding the ominously began to grow. the two q. so it was far from given out that easy they were struggling and grabbing points well to scupper plate showing their class over and over again for eight three six but intermission. the game kept the same course in the second half he rests this

storm and undertaking olenka with a slam dunk and even when they arm him and missed. they still school in the end. making cisco look like a team which hardly has a weak side start saving your him against a team like us with thirty points you know. we can differ to give the thing and. sometimes rushing to our shots but this. is just. the start of so you know it's really play if someone gives the. first of all we played great defense and that is very important often facing your problems are not friends for the gave us are a huge advantage that fs held on for the first half to getting their game pretty close but we were. bricker we're all children. so the

government on the way to the euro will explain and for the durham and the last one in two thousand and eight. or t. . in the meantime says cars country men only expected to raining you really wanted to now because you know athens that result in the russian team top group g. after two games they host to the first quarter twenty two seventeen improved in the second and finishing fifth just a point behind after the big break the visitors started to dominate and radomir can't top scoring for the side with twenty points the game eventually finished. eighty nine to eighty three in favor of the russians. in women's basketball the moscow region side sparta and k. have gone top of the euro league's group c. after threshing cross basket toronto on home caught the hosts came out with a relatively disappointing start and the opening stage was won by the eighteenth

sixteen poky chapman's charges quickly got back into the game and left the italians with no chance in the second quarter the house added twenty four point one to run to only eight forty to twenty six before the big intermission swatter and they were not going to stop and kept increasing their advantage to seven to fifty three of the final score they're comfortable win by the fourth time you really have moved back into pole position in a battle with kaka for the first place in group c. . in cricket thirty seven year old ricky ponting has been turning back the clock after he and captain michael clarke had a big day for thriller in the fourth test against india each player scoring a double century in a six hundred m. four four seven effort for more as a captain pointing certainly demonstrating he's got plenty left to offer. haryono would come here and answer questions there are too many and. that was

a celebration a celebration it just made it as much under so pretty excited i haven't scored a lot of those in the us companies which are a lot about lately as well. now as it was just noise it's always north america honored and especially today when you know we didn't get off to the audience. and finally national football league 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 underdogs new york who ended the patriots' perfect season by winning the title four years ago it was a gorski now reports on how they both got to the big about. here the two thousand and seven edition of the new england patriots played 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 that the patriots ranks second from bottom and pass defense this year and it looks like the ravens

would exploit that occulus heel in the a.f.c. decider baltimore's joe flacco time the game at ten with that second strike to denis pitt a new england secondary was torched again in the third with a rookie tory smith giving baltimore a seventeen to sixteen lead. 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 calling in a touchdown pass by backup quarterback sterling moore. the game would have gone into overtime if there wasn't for billy cundiff misfiring on a relatively easy close range kick sending 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 down on the little giants quarterback eli manning a seen his star rise to brother peyton's level after a great season for the thirty one year old finding mariel manningham late in the fourth for a seventeenth the fourth the both kickers on their game in this contest with david acre stein proceedings and seventeen of these. special teams mistakes all the forty nine er scow williams lose the ball and upon return in the ensuing over time allowing the giants to set up shop in enemy territory was. lawrence tynes short field going the extra session sending the giants to the big games 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 fans gorski archie. well that's all the sports news for the moment

i'll be back in two hours time with more weather is next stay with us. wealthy british style sign. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on r g. c of nature and discover its beauty. communicate with the wild and. test yourself and become free.

see what nature can give you.

buying for votes on line the new dynamic in russian politics says borrow videos and created web campaigning could prove pivotal in the forthcoming presidential election. call for action the u.n. faces arab pressure to adopt a resolution on syria to push president assad from power. lines to enforce an anti piracy though in poland thousands of people onto the streets and the wave of cyber attacks on government websites. and in the business bulletin it looks like it's going to be a pretty good day for the russian equity markets both m i six and the r.t.s.

are posting pretty have to gains that within the first hour of trading the details join me in twenty minutes. world news and much more twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. it's the online election battle front where nothing is off limits as russia's presidential campaign what's up political activists been away from traditional tactics bracing the internet they're promoting ideas or spreading fears web campaigning is playing a bigger part than ever before arty's a country that has a story. doesn't want is that you were right is that laws are going to look at race suits and ties and slogans cold out from the poor d m are the traditional election season fair but they're no longer considered politically. today's complaining has gone on line in

a whole new trend in russia. with programming and bloggers making fun of the opposition portraying them in prayer outside the u.s. embassy on sundays claiming they are connected to the us state department and the opposition filming funny cartoons about politicians made out of lego. getting information out there is becoming easier all the time but the internet is a very different medium to television while on t.v. it's enough to just look into the camera like this to show viewers' attention not so although that to me you are video reach millions of lines it's not a lot it just mass it also has to be provoked to brazen and sometimes project a whole different image. it's no surprise then that as

a character from harry porter became an overnight hit it's an industry doing this you will. see what i see you stuck with some could use that already but they're good though you'll make. sure that the word is work when you're put in the new. program there but it will just be them. but i don't compete it's up to you about you apart from catching images memorable catch phrases are used against those in the corridors of power opposition blogger alex enough while me was the first upload his shot which is tongues online a year ago he labeled the ruling united russia party the. and scoundrels the insulting phrase at first appeared on the net but quickly migrated to almost every magine of all media in russia and beyond a year after the party won in the parliamentary elections and reworked the catchphrase felicity's

a vote for the party of thieves and scoundrels for ten years of economic growth with the party of these in scoundrels united russia. the mastermind behind that video and state duma deputy robert proved his party can also fight its wars online broke out superballs the use of being able to my aim is to provoke supreme reality darker than that is often i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they do work. in that russia without putin would rise why not give away your country your beautiful girlfriend to some foreign guys what will happen to the caucasus nothing less just give it away to. spawning a war technically this video has made a very professional you can see that highly paid so vessels did it appeals to primitive responses but works one hundred percent first thought is that there is indeed no injury without put but videos from the opposition are just as. an

adequate trend of this election season eavesdropping on politicians and posting recordings online or those taking part in a massive opposition rally in december were surprised to find out that one of their inspirations worrisome self described them in a phone as. their hear from each future of government property or. your property or comfort. it's naive to expect from any side when we are living in election year there are no holds barred in this war not even interfering in someone's private life but. a lack of privacy for today's politicians is already a modern day reality and with feet to. million russians going online today about forty percent of the adult population future is predicted to be on line political avatars pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders it's even a gradual than r t. well of our stories latest videos and much more available

on our website r.t. dot com here's what we think you're online right now from. the t.v. talk host wiki leaks founder julian assange on just to get his own show right here on our t.v. by the fourteen expect from the program and the worldwide reaction to the news on our web site. on a celebration of the year of the dragon in thailand went up in flames as well works exploded setting homes a blaze see how it happened at a party dot com. in syria government forces are reportedly assaulting the city of hama with dozens of people literally killed across the country over the past twenty four hours the u.n. security council is expected to vote over the next few days on

a resolution and stemming the escalating conflict the draft calls on the syrian regime to comply with an arab league proposal which would see press and cede power paving the way for a coalition government with the opposition becomes the arab league's crucial monitoring mission to syria suffered a setback after six countries pulled out one of the new went act russia has made it clear it will veto any security council resolution that would allow foreign military intervention an estimated seven and a half dozen people have been killed since the rest began ten months ago the killing civilians rebels and government forces. as the latest from damascus. saying they get by and heading home they've said it's from the gulf states lethal the airport then mission incomplete leaving behind a country in a deepening crisis is never going to be easy they want the arab league monitors to

stay i don't want to write from the word go the missions pretty problematic the opposition accused the monitors of being too closely aligned with the government the government's now accused of being part of the foreign conspiracy and they will it just tickle complains to the observers seemed ill equipped on the ground and there were concerns that they were simply too few numbers to undertake such a major task but if things were bad at the beginning now they seem even worse following in saudi arabia's footsteps all the gulf states withdrew their observers after damascus rejected their recent proposal that included presidents. to a deputy and a unity government what's interesting is that these countries is very interested in democracy and they have nothing and this is the most interesting this is something funny we'll talk about about what will have

a new constitution we are going to more democratic country two parties are but what about to do about the west's talk about syria which would be changed and leave saudi arabia as it has to marx's rejection was no surprise both sides of the conflict of shame equal unwillingness to soften their stance even when the daily death toll in that country continually rising the killing of the head of the syrian arab red crescent was on the road to damascus yet another remind the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial maybe into the country's quite serious is seen as controversial the arab league essentially has no credibility. in the arab street what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish is get enough evidence concrete everything some human rights abuses on the part of the also very team to then take to the un the evidence will be so strong that even russia and china will feel compelled to work

but as of now one month after this mission started they seem to know the monitors things and i know more about what's going on the ground than they did. at the beginning and so it all looks like you know we're going back to square one as the death toll rises the proposal being floated to increase the number of observers on the ground and provide them with u.n. training could be a life saving one but for now these plans have been pissed on hold in fact much of the substance of the report that pieces on both sides seem to have been lost in the flurry of diplomatic activity now france and britain have joined forces at the united nations to try to end president assad's rule waving goodbye to that gulf state colleagues some observers remain but it's small consolation syria didn't close the doors in for the arab league and i think. it's diplomacy would give anyone to help the syrian but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people

not in the hands not of bleakness could come soon so national dialogue through these reforms despite damascus and the mission to be extended for another month and the observers officially saying that they can continue with the task behind the scenes and the sentiment is much less optimistic. it's a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreement on what action should be taken to stop the violence it's putting an end to the crisis seem to be slipping further and further as a very. artsy damascus syria what coming your way this hour food versus fuel why america's called production has become a hot topic when ends up on people's plates or the pumps to help how the nation's cars. and activists are waiting to get their voices heard as a global decision makers gather the economic forum in davos with a new business bash. street demos and cyber attacks have been staged in poland

against the government's decision to sign an international pact forces into the actual property rights was or is expected to join the us canada japan and others in agreement similar to america's stop online piracy act which led to wikipedia as temperate protest blackout last week. has more. the decision of the polish government to join in with the internet anti-piracy treaty known as the a.c.t.a. has already caused some dissent in the central european state several thousand people have gathered she was the evening in front of the presidential palace here in warsaw to protest against what they believe could lead to serious censorship on the internet now the protesters held banners saying down with the censorship and also had their mouths shut with sticking tape as of symbolizing their protest against what they believe could be in fact the biggest censorship polish websites in this country but this is not the only step which the protesters took against the

signing of this treaty we understand that the hacker group anonymous also hacked several governmental websites including the prime minister website and digital and cultural ministries. along with a dozen other governmental websites which were also hacked by the group they also published a very stern warning a message saying that they have some very sensitive information about the polish authorities and should they continue with the signing of this treaty the information would then may be published. this far as wonderstone according to many experts there's no turning back and the agreement will be signed the poland will join the streets you understand that this will happen during thursday in japan. more people are expected to protest in the egyptian capital square already full once again a year after the ousting of hosni mubarak thousands of protesters are desperate for the interim military government to mediately relinquish power but dozens have been

killed in recent months as troops camped out on several demonstrations barack is currently on trial today surrendering that some of these key allies are stupid and strains in parliament has been elected and has joined the constitution by the military still reign supreme the mubarak era state of emergency law has finally been lifted gyptian author and filmmaker for the risk says that change is little. i don't see it as being that big of a shift i mean we lived under military rule for thirty years and that gave the government their storage had to do just about what they wanted today we live under military rule so to me it's just a formal matter and that they they lift emergency law while we live under the rule of a military dreamt up since the military took over general twenty eight's over fifteen thousand civilians that we know of have faced military courts and have received trials of anywhere between six months to fifteen years and

a formal matter like lifting emergency law means absolutely nothing when we have a newly elected parliament that is still under the thumb of the military they've tasted power they have massive economic interests in the country again everything that's happened in egypt really needs to be looked at from an economic perspective in that there's a group of cronies of one box and his government that were in power they've been moved out of power and there's a new group of cronies that are in place and central to that group of power hungry rulers today are the military generals and they will not just let go and hand over power like that without having guarantees that their interests will be secured. the world's business of the searching for ways to reform the current state of capitalism as those most affected by the financial turmoil shone through to the sidelines the world economic forum the swiss resort of the voices of stores for secondary debates. there is an official agenda at davos and then there is an

unofficial agenda at davos which is one that you also hear about and also that you see when you're on the sidelines and not in all of these sessions that are kind of the official program we heard on this day some concerns about capitalism some criticism about capitalism also we heard some defenses because of course at davos there are plenty of people to defend the current system of capitalism which they have benefited from dr warning and the c.e.o. of bank america of america is one who was saying you know the western capitalism is subject to boom and bust this is part of it but come on there are so many people that we talked to an interview on our show that talked about how long and how painful the costs are of this bust that is it here by accident and has a lot to do with maybe some of the bailouts that his bank has benefited from and the boom years of easy money that they did as well so there obviously are plenty of defenders and we'll have to see if anything really comes out of that conversation i've seen some reports of billionaires defending are concerned about inequality and

having concerns about capitalism in that regard we'll have to see if it just amounts to some talk because i'm seeing a lot a little business action go along on the sidelines with participants who are bringing up inequality in this issue of inequality i did talk to them and their concerns were some of the concerns that have been concerns from outside of davos over the years that these are a bunch of elite getting together to talk about solving the world's problems in a way that's not democratic as if they have actual implications and they do turn into policy in some way shape or form there's a lot of people locked out of that conversation but there is an occupy tinge to it and definitely a world economic forum focus so let's just hear from from their words what one of them had to say to me but overall they're saying them. in the state of the world and to me that's a fairly arrogant and hubris stick to take and it shows that their decisions and all the networking they're doing and what they're discussing is going to have global ramifications that are going to affect the entire seven billion people on this planet there is a big line at star con a mess all this.