the third seed belorussian seeing of defending champion came close to belgium also three so so you're up against the sorry the winner of the final will become the world number one in the w t rankings. she was really dominating she made me run so much i felt like i was you know. i was running like a marathon out there. i just tried to start to be more aggressive in trying to play my game and you know start from the beginning you know i have one myself to go i have another i don't know hour thirty minutes forty five minutes to to make a difference so that's why i was my mental. men side of the action or see the top four in the world playing in this semi a one match showed thought thursday it's rough on adult against roger federer. in action world number one and defending champion no joke which plays and on friday.

want to football and in england lupul have joined cardiff city in the carling cup final to drawing their second semi final leg with matches to city hall and advancing on aggregate city hall lost the first leg question by a single girl needed to get the better of the return fixture and a spectacular long range shot from nigel de jong levelled matters just after thirty minutes of play struck back right away with steven gerrard converting a penalty kick in the second half was then put city in front once again the hosts determined not to miss out on the first carling cup final appearance in sixteen days craig bellamy netted the equalizer to the delight of the crowd of the final score on the night three two on aggregate in favor of liverpool. staying with football where brazilian striker wagner love has returned to his homeland side

for flamengo after eight years. moscow the twenty seven year old has signed a two year deal while his former club will receive i think of thirteen million dollars played two hundred and fifty one games for the muscovites scoring one hundred twenty times there the one that russian premier league twice as well as the year for cup 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 no way it continued their winning streak for the second round of the euro league's top sixteen so your loss because loss is met thresh on a dollar ninety six to sixty eight in the russian capital and to claim their twelfth search victory in the tournament this season robert for the now reports. what does it take to. today cisco wins these games shoot much more than

a fest led by the two time n.b.a. champ then. the other man starts ahead of their first home game in the yearly ixtapa sixteen or just flow lists eleven wins out of eleven games in the tournament this season and the muscovites produced their victorious dozen 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 and not christie each start a dominating in the paint both scoring and rebounding the ominously began to grow. the turkish side was far from giving 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

here cisco storm and underage girl with a slam dunk and even when they are women missed. they still school in the end by making cisco look like a team which hardly has a weak side start saving. us with thirty points you know. we can differ with a good thing and. sometimes you're rushing to our shots but you know all. of this is total so you know it's really something. first of all we play great defensively and that is very important as we don't often face or your problems are not friends for that but that's what gave us a huge advantage. for the first half to get things again pretty close but we. all. through the government on the way to the euro least one for

durham and the last one in two thousand and eight. or. countryman only beat the reigning european champions both now of course in athens that result in the russian team top group g. after two games the host took care of the first quarter twenty two seventeen improved in the second finishing the first half just a point to hide after the big break the visitors started to dominate and it didn't work on top scoring for because one side with twenty three point 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 leagues group c. after thrashing crossed on home court the hosts came out with a roll to a disappointing start and the opening stage was won by the visitors eighteen

sixteen. chapman's charges quickly called back into the game and left the italians with no chance in the second quarter the house added twenty four points while to run to only eight forty to twenty six before the big intermission spotter and k. were not going to stop and kept increasing their advantage seven to seven two fifty three the final score there so a comfortable win by the fourth time you really champ and move back into pole position in a battle with cancer for the first place in group c. . and finally in the 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 of course can now reports on how the both got to the big event. 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 looked like the ravens would exploit that a.q. leads heel 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 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 hauling in a touchdown pass by backup quarterback sterling moore. the game would have gone

into overtime a third wasn't for billy cundiff misfiring on a relatively easy close range kick ending the patriots a fifth super bowl berth since two thousand and one. new york also involved in a close championship game over in the n.f.c. decider the san francisco forty nine er's constantly looking to vernon davis who burned the giants for two touchdowns in the forest and third quarter tut's tomb of the united giants quarterback eli manning a seen his star rise to brother peyton's level after great season for the thirty one year old finding mariel manningham late in the fourth for a seventeenth the fourth both kickers on their game in this contest with david acre stein proceedings at seventeen of these. special teams mistakes all the forty nine er scowled williams lose the ball and upon return in the ensuing overtime 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 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 bonza gorski. ok that's all from me for today you know and i will behave with all the latest from the sporting world goodbye. wealthy british style. market. 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 in to kaiser report

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thousands rally in poland and cyber attacks take main sites offline in. the country signing up to a secretive anti piracy deal which it's feared will strangle web users freedom. a call for action the u.n. faces our pressure to adopt a resolution on syria to push president assad from power. plants vying for votes online a new dynamic in russian politics as viral videos and creative web campaigning could prove pivotal in the forthcoming presidential election.

it is just after three pm here in moscow this is our city with me rule received shy there's swelling anger in poland over the country signing up with others to a global and t. piracy pact with thousands marching and hackers taking down key websites critics say the deal is as bad if not worse than america's planned law which were show when that web johns like wikipedia and google went on a protest blackout. in warsaw that's where the fear is that big corporations now have the power to take individual internet users offline and when. since tuesday more than ten thousand people all in all have hit the streets along. in cities across the country in warsaw in love and other cities in towns protesting against this new document. the end to counter-sue trade agreement which was signed today by

poland the people who are protesting there were holding banners down with the censorship and the internet believing that this agreement could in fact serious censorship on the internet and that many polish websites would be banned blocked they also had to say glued to their mouths symbolizing this way that their mouths will be shot by this new agreement and we also know of several very harsh hacker attacks on polish governmental websites including prime ministers website including the digital and cultural ministry's websites the attacks were as far as we know performed by the anonymous hacker group very well known in the hacker world and they also published a very stern statement in fact saying that they had very sensitive information about the authorities in poland and that they would definitely publish this information if that paper is signed so now it's signed we are waiting for more

reaction from these protesters in seoul there are several more european states which are waiting to sign this document some experts in fact. expected that the european union would avert signing this document giving all the criticism the only stamp which is left this is the return. of this document by the country's parliaments and we are expecting that certainly it will be ratified in poland given that the ruling party the party of the current prime minister is also ruling in the parliament has a majority there's a very slim chance that this document would not be ratified in the post parliament this whole situation here in poland comes just several days after this similar situations in the united states with hacker attacks of the anonymous group on got. mental web sites with. major websites like wikipedia and google partially obscured and blocking their websites in protest to the. document we could be seeing

the same situation here in the in europe the same which is happening in the united states. but who selects yourself the reporting right there let's turn our attention to syria now where government forces are reportedly stepping up their assault on the opposition but u.n. security council is expected to vote over the next few days on a resolution aimed at stemming the conflict the draft calls on the syrian regime to comply with an arab league proposal which would see president assad cede power paving the way for a coalition government with the opposition but russia has made it clear it will veto any security council resolution that would target the regime or allow for retreat intervention all this comes as the arab league's crucial monitoring mission to syria suffered a setback after six countries pulled out calling on the u.n. to act forty surface house more from damascus. saying they get by and heading home they've said it's from the gulf states leave the airport their mission incomplete

leaving behind a country in a deepening crisis is never going to be easy so you want the arab league monitors to stay. i don't want right from the word go the missions prove 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 president this seat to a deputy and form a unity government was interesting that these countries is very interested in democracy and they have nothing and this is the most interesting this is something

funny we will talk about. well we'll have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country multi-party system but what about to do about the west's talk about syria which would be changed and leave saudi arabia as it has damascus is rejection was no surprise those sides of the conflict of shame equal willingness to soften their stance even when the daily death toll in the country continually rising the killing of the head of the syrian arab red crescent was on the road to damascus yet another in mind the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a creature of a bid to the country's crisis is seen as clinching the arab league essentially has no credibility on the arab street what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish is get enough evidence concrete everything about human rights abuses on

the part of the are so very seem to think so the u.n. and the evidence will be so strong that even russia and china who 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 and 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 would but for now those plans have been pissed on hold in fact much of the substance of the report that graded pieces on both sides seems 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 front of the arab league and i think. it's diplomacy well. give anyone to help the syrian but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not the obliqueness good council 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 that 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 and putting an end to the crisis seem to be slipping further and further as a very. artsy damascus syria and i still to come on the program here on our we are in the power brokers playground in switzerland to see whether davos falls on deaf ears. activists way to get their voices heard as global leaders meet for the world economic forum here in davos for their annual business bash i'm lauren listserv

we'll have more coming up. it's the online election battle front where nothing is off limits that's russia's presidential campaign hot political activists are moving away from traditional tactics and embracing the internet whether promoting ideas or spreading fear webcam painting is playing a bigger part than ever before. perhaps the story. but why does it want is that you were right is that laws are going to look at the way 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 campaigning has gone online in a whole new trend in russia. with program and bloggers making fun of the opposition portraying them in prayer outside the u.s. embassy on sundays claiming they are connected to the u.s.

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 viewers' attention not so although that to me you are police 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 putin 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 something yes that got it but not going to . make. sure that the work is work when you're getting it would you.

prefer got 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 shop which is tongues online a year ago he labeled the ruling united russia party these. and scoundrels. brazen first appeared on the net but quickly migrated to almost every magical media in russia and beyond a year after party won in the parliamentary elections and reworked the catchphrase philistinism vote for the party of fees and scoundrels for ten years of economic growth but 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 worst

online broke out super powers the use of being able to my aim was 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 guy what will happen to the caucasus nothing less just give it away to you responding or technical this video has made a very professional you can see that a highly paid special is did it all when it appeals to primitive responses but works one hundred percent first thought is that there is indeed no intro without put but videos from the opposition are just as. an added whole a 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 maurice himself described them in

a phone as. hear from each future of government property or for your corporate comfort or. it's naive to expect from any side when we are living in an election year there are no holds barred in this war not even interfering in someone's private life were but. a lack of privacy for today's politicians is already a modern day reality and with feet to me. in russians going online today about forty percent of the adult population. is predicted to be shooting them online. pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders exceeding the grandchildren r t. all of our stories our latest videos are much more always available on our website arts he taught by here's what else is waiting for you online right now from our web whistleblower to t.v. talk show host wiki leaks founder julian assange gets his own program and will be

right here on our to find out what to expect and find out about the worldwide reaction to the news that's on our web site. and a celebration of the year of the dragon in thailand went up in flames as fireworks exists but loaded setting homes a blaze see how it all happened at r.t. dot com. for it it's an hour quarter past the hour here in moscow it is day two davos as political and business power brokers at the world economic forum look to restore confidence to the economy and to capitalism itself for some the current downturn isn't the fault of the system while others argue that radical reform is urgently needed artie's lauren lyster has the latest from us. so far we've heard

a lot of debate about capitalism and just in various sessions of issues a lot of talking but not necessarily solutions being put forward yet one thing interesting today although this is the world economic forum politics is on the agenda and a number of world leaders heads of state bureaucrats are here today some of that attention turns to the arab spring people here at the forum try to weigh the economic implications are reports are coming that that investors at davos are stumped over the arab spring and what that means for investment in countries like egypt that have seen their borrowing costs or and you still see protests on the street as we've seen a year after that uprising so for the business community the investment community that is was really looking for merkel pledged more money they certainly didn't get what they wanted she pledged instead that that the solution a euro zone leaders have to have come to that she's kind of led the charge on for fiscal integration and structural reforms that that is what she can offer at this

point along with a plea for more patience so not sure that that's what investors want to hear that wanted more bailout money pledged the irony of course is that in a year where we've seen occupy movements really grow and really take the major news they've made it onto the agenda of the world economic forum and a number of participants are talking about inequality yet the occupy protesters that are here are by no means invited they're not having their voices heard within the forum there and stead relegated of course to outside where you would typically expect activists to be limited to. he's long list of course russian representatives at the forum that have also have something else to offer let's cross over to natasha now at auntie's business starts for. that's right in the business bulletin last year merging markets suffered from the biggest capital outflow since

two thousand and eight and russia of course was no exception but speaking in davos the head of the direct investment fund told business r.t. that negative trend could reverse starting in april why find out in ten minutes. also ahead of you in the program why america's corn production is fueling the fire of debate whether it ends up on people's plates or at the pumps to help power the nation's cars. more people are expected to protest in the egyptian capital with to rear square already full once again it's a year after the ousting of hosni mubarak thousands of protesters are desperate for the interim military government to immediately relinquish power dozens have been killed in recent months as troops come down several demonstrations. mubarak is currently on trial but activists are angry that some of his key allies are still pulling the strings a new parliament has been elected destroying our constitution.