writing from carline wozniacki. was a record herself seeing off the founding champing can clijsters of belgium also in three sets to qualify for her first major final minutes native seeing archetype six four one six six three meaning it's russia versus bellerose in sunday's winner takes all in. 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 but i just tried to start to be more aggressive in trying to play my game and 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 make a difference so that's why there was my mental. well two of the sport's greatest served up yet another classic grand slam encounter at melbourne park rafael proving

once again to have the opera roger federer when it mattered most a meeting worthy of a title at stake with federer trading sets early on for a number two rough then turned up the pressure by taking the third seven six with the third ranked federer not able to hit the heights i began to thaw in the nine champion themselves taking it in four sets six seven six two seven six six four he will not be aiming for a second destroyed you know open title on a level grand slam overall world number one and defending champion novak djokovic meets on the murray on friday and the other lost for. want of football liverpool take on cardiff city in england's carling cup final for the reds drew their second semi final leg with manchester city to apiece to advance on aggregate city who lost their first day clash at least once by a single goal thus needing to up their game in their return fixture and they started off in the right way nigel the young levelling management from. liverpool

striking back right away stephen girard the man converting from the spot here but the sky blues would again take the lead. his finish put city in the driving seat on await word but liverpool weren't to be denied craig bellamy school making it to two in the night allowing penny douglas is charges to press two for. barcelona have once again got the better of real madrid the spanish and european champions making the semifinals of the cup of the ray at the expense of lost the calls barcelona went into the game leaving one will not advantage was double two minutes from the break thanks to petru before the half time whistle had blown that was too middle of the night danielle's is letting rip with an alternate beauty from the edge of the box or rejuvenating reality to. the field in the second period goals from rinaldo on karim benzema levelling for savings but was how it would end three two in our group gets another defeat. for the joint for the year.

brings us to the hardwood. stunning run in the euro league shows no signs of slowing down the army men twelve zero thanks to victory over turks on a dual f.a. is here in the russian capital robert downey and watch the action. what does it take to. today's to scare moscow wins these games shoot much more than a first lead by the two time n.b.a. champ. the other man starts ahead of their first home game in the euro leaks top sixteen were just flawless eleven wins out of eleven games in the tournament this season 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 and not christie each star

a dominating in the paint both scoring and rebounding the armaments lead began to grill. 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 thirty six but intermission. the game kept the same course in the second half here is to score a storm and undertake it olenka with a slam dunk and even when they are women missed. they still school in the end. making to like a team which hardly has a weak side start saving you really gives the team like a false with thirty points you know. we can differ think it but there have been ongoing and. sometimes rushing to our shots but this. is

just. the start of 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 with that's what gave us a huge advantage. for the first half to get things or game pretty close but we managed to break away and it was all bullshit. so the our men looked confident on the way to the yearly spinal for the tournament the last one in two thousand and eight but for the no on our team. now things are also going to plan for us is other representatives in the euro league next the i said beating reigning champions palace and i caught on wed and stay to move to the summits of their top sixteen group and also the host though who had established a twenty two seventeen lead after the opening quarter the next seven proving their shooting in the second how i want to finish the first half just a point by. if greeks then after the big break the visitors would dominate him

dahmer can't top scoring for the winners with twenty three points the game finishing up eighty nine eighty three in favor of the russians. in women's basketball moscow region side spot on k. moved top of your league group c. after thrashing cross get toronto on home court pretty slow out of the starting blocks whoever leaving the italians sixteen to the good quarter warmed over chapman's charges quickly find their groove on towards the second quarter belonging to the moscow maybe sounding twenty four points culture onto could only manage eight forty twenty six the score at the big break. they didn't let up by their in the ensuing couple of periods seventy seven fifty three how the school board would look up to finish up a comfortable win for the four time really sued by interpol decision in their battle with compaq kruk off for first place. and

finally this ski courses which will be used for the sochi twenty fourteen winter games will get plenty of breaking in big for the main event. world cup stage in february among the event set to a lawyer gold medal hopefuls a chance to get to grips on the future slopes. who tour course will be tested by f.i.f.a. world cup competitors starting february it is youth team will be first to try the night before three outlets from the country compete in the senior section dunhill skiing and super combined on the menu at the top women stars maybe infer surprise the course director saying challenging changes being made specifically for the ladies. as far as skiing is concerned we have substantially remodeled the women's course who basically added four hundred challenging meters to the course and that's true it should really pose a lot of problems for the female skiers in their fancy downhill descent. your sport

. make and in two hours time we're going to have a look at the tennis semifinal be tween the talent federer much more besides rory's here and a few minutes there with all the news before the weather. you

know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. on. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images kobold has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant

corporations are old today. i i. the country signs up to a global pact to take down internet piracy the packers making their mark in the protest. people fear that these documents will give corporations too much power to take regular users offline i'll explain why in just a few moments. heavy clashes in syria as a resolution to oust president assad is laid on the un's table but russia pledges to put a stop to any possible intervention. and the battle for russia's top job goes viral

with internet campaigns and you tube videos becoming more powerful tools than conventional t.v. debates. third consecutive session of growth for the russian ruble versus the u.s. dollar yet another percent against the greenback and the markets are also very positive by now the reasons and all the latest business news and. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here. in poland right now websites are being hijacked while thousands of internet freedom supporters are marching outside in a major two pronged protest it's because the country's just signed up to a global web piracy pact covering everything from movies and music to fashion and

pharmaceuticals but its net does stretch widely. in warsaw to explain this. well this document called the courtesy trade agreement which has been signed by poland and many other countries other countries in fact including the united states . new zealand and others is the reason why tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets in poland is the reason why most of the governmental web sites in this country have been hijacked by the hacker groups including the anonymous group which is well known across the world basically this agreement is all about protecting the intellectual property including movies books pharmaceuticals designer clothes and things like that but ordinary people fear that the big corporations will use it to police the web to take regular users offline so we've seen lots of protests in poland as i mentioned in the last several days we are also seeing protests being held today in the cities of new berlin and in central poland

we are expecting more protests tomorrow on friday more so the problem about this document is not it was worked out in complete secrecy bypassing all governments and the general public had no access to it so that's why the regular users are afraid that this document would be used against them i'll just give you a simple example for instance you create a website and you put links to your favorite movies on this website and big corporations can in fact start a criminal case against you saying that you violate the agreement so nobody knows to what extent the corporations can go in using this document in fact misusing this document as the protesters here in poland and everywhere they protest against it certainly has some resemblance to the american soap bill which is also being discussed in the united states but the difference is that the bill is a moral american local thing the act is definitely international and it will

concern all countries which sign it in we are certainly in possibly for more protests across the european continent. artie's alexi your reporting right there what this act deal it does have parallels with america's anti-piracy plans they were shelved last week after a massive backlash including protests from internet giants like wikipedia which went on a twenty four hour blackout one digital freedom activist who's the founder of sweden's pirate party says that the laws show governments are deeply in the pockets of corporations i think it's an excellent example of the agreed just abuse of power by the corporate industry this legislation about putting people in jail was negotiated by corporations and our lawmakers just got it in their life that is not how our democratic society should work quite regardless of what this law says now what it does say of course it's all corporate interests so there's no hard yes

there really if you look at how the net operates there's activists all over the place that give people back their rights the corporations take away from them and they are sort of our last hope at this point regrettably. we can really influence lawmaking what people are discovering which people discovered through force with the so far in the united states was that millions of people literally millions contacted congress and said we don't want this this is not what we stand for congress heard them and realize that if they follow the corporations rather than the voters then they lose their job and that's what changes policy in the end. it watching r t it's good to have a company today syrian troops are storming a heavy populated damascus suburb where government forces pulled out earlier this week after clashes with opposition fighters the un security council could vote in

the next few days on a resolution aimed at stemming the escalating conflict the draft calls on the syrian regime to comply with an arab league proposal for president assad to leave and pave the way for a unity government russia has made it clear it will veto any u.n. resolution that allows foreign intervention or sanctions in syria itself the arab league's crucial monitoring mission has resumed for the first time in a week because of violence that's after a setback which saw six gulf countries pull out and call on the u.n. to act. as their. saying they get by and heading home service from the gulf states leave 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 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 a 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 assad cede power to a deputy and form a unity government was interesting that this conference is very interested in democracy and they have nothing and this is the most interesting this is something pani will talk about about what you will have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country multi parties was about what about to do about the west come on talk about syria which would be changed and

leave saudi arabia as it has damascus says rejection was no surprise both sides of the conflict of shame equal unwillingness 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 remind of the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial mavin to the country's crisis is seen as controversial the arab league essentially has no credibility on. arab street what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish he's got enough evidence concrete everything about human rights abuses on the part of the are so very seen to then take to the u.n. 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 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 one but for now these plants of interest 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 goal 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 will 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 and putting an end to the crisis seem to be slipping further and further as a very. artsy damascus syria. our time is part of the hour here in moscow still to come your way in the program dog or supporters of the crisis. well political and economic leaders meet here at the world economic forum to tackle the eurozone crisis and also the arab spring meanwhile those who protest good activists that want their voices heard remain locked out of. food fuel and a few surprises as a russian rocket heads to the international space station for the first time this year taking some vital cargo that the crew cannot do without.

the top job in the world's largest a country is a highly prized position so beating your contenders requires some creative thinking those up for the russian presidency are using every avenue available to get the message out that party is you're going to regret rove has been looking at the campaigns are voter attracting tactics by some are just the others that you were right just like ones that are going to look at the race suits and ties and slogans called out from the poor d m r the traditional election season fair but they're no longer considered illegal. today's complaining has gone online 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 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 show viewers' attention not so on the to me you are police video reach millions of lines it's not a lot it just mass which 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 puta became an overnight hit it's an industry doing the symbol. of i don't see what i see you have left the stock with something yes they go to the caribbean they're going to go you'll make it and you're sure that the quickest when you're going to go when you. got there but it will just be them so

that they do but i don't confirm 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 wiley was the first upload his sharp wit to tongue online a year ago he labeled the ruling united russia party of the eaves and scoundrels the insulting phrase it 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 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 her to preen reality darker than that is often i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they do work but i see disputing 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. you spawning a war technically the video is made of there it professionally you can see that a highly paid specialist it appeals to primitive responses but works one hundred percent first thought is that there is indeed no future without put but videos from the opposition there. just as. an audible 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 boris himself described them in a phone as. they are here from each other

a problem of. your comfort or. 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 or. a lack of privacy for today's politicians is already a modern day reality and with fifty million russians going online today about forty percent of the adult population she's the future is predicted to be filled with them online political other towers pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders exceeding the gretsch of on our t.v. . and another election battlefront has opened up in the us and our web site r t dot com is the place to find the updates and opinions on that online for you right now union interests date promises of prosperity and equality fail to fight off the disillusionment with obama's first term felt by many americans that's

the one opinion that's voiced online. also threaten us with an oil embargo if you want to but we'll turn off the tap first iran is considering a plan that would leave europe high and dry even before the new e.u. sanctions come into force all that and much more of your fingertips that are to dot com. is the second day for business decision makers and top brass politicians in switzerland efforts to keep global finance afloat not forgetting to make a profit along the way of course fallout from the arab uprisings is major concern at the world economic forum and so is finding ways to breathe life back into the struggling eurozone lauren lyster reports from davus. today we heard from david cameron u.k. prime minister who had quite a different message than what we heard from angela merkel yesterday when she opened up davos so david cameron came out and said that number of things that he believes

the euro zone needs he said they need a quick speedy resolution to greet debt issuance is and fiscal transfers and order to deal with imbalances so sounds to me like he's calling for some kind of euro bond said that there needs to be a firewall big enough and said you know really right now the euro zone has none of these things now this is in contrast to angela merkel yesterday who said we're not going to pledge more bailout money even though maybe the investment community wants it we're promising you that that we believe this fiscal integration will solve the problem along with structural reforms geared towards things like creating jobs so different message from u.k. prime minister today but a couple things i thought were really interesting so he was asked about what all this means for the future of free market capitalism which is a debate going on here at davos and the emergence and rise of state capitalism and david cameron continue to tout free market capitalism and the european model as the best for freedom and democracy but one thing that came to mind is.