sometimes to be back in a grand slam final stages before a few years ago here in it's nice to get that far again after losing a couple of years so that means a lot to me and played some. great results and has been the last couple of times and. really wanted today. as a rank to herself seeing off defending champion kim clijsters of belgium also in three sets to qualify for her first major finals the minsk native seen at the time six four one six six three meaning it's the battle of the screamers on russia versus belarus and salvage winner takes all and conquer. running like a marathon out there. i'm just trying to start to be more aggressive in trying to play my game and you know start from the beginning you know i have one more set to go i have another i don't know hour thirty minutes forty five minutes to make a difference so this was you know was my mental. two of the sports greatest served

up yet another classic grand slam encounter at melbourne park right field adult proving once again to have the opera hundred roger federer but at modern most meeting where the other finalists with the perpetrating sets early on were number two rough would turn up the pressure by taking the thirty seven six with the third reich federer not able to hit the heights again he too thought of the night shelby in the tell taking it in for six six seven six two seven six six four he'll be aiming for his second australian open title and i leaven grand slam overall while federer hers one only too much is out of ten against roughish and major events through a moment but it's friday the other. eye on the football we go where liverpool will take on cardiff city in england's carling cup final after the reds drew their second semi final leg at manchester city. a

pace to advance on our gets city the first clash distance by a single goal that's needed to up their game in the return fixture started off in the right way actually young leveling matters after all go on liverpool though striking back right away stephen girard the man converting from the spot but the sky blue is what again take the lead. finish putting city in the driving seat on the way scored but liverpool weren't to be tonight craig bellamy making it to two in the night allowing pennington believes his charges to press three to. barcelona have once again got the better of real madrid the spanish and european champions making the semifinals of the cup a dollar a at the expense of last practicals barcelona went into the game leading. from the opening leg advantage was double two minutes from the break thanks to before half time whistle blowing it was on the night. letting rip with an absolute beauty from

the edge of the box and rejuvenating ryall would take to the field in the second period goals from are now doing levelling modest but. then four three and i rate our other defeats against the old enemy from reno further joy for fifth monitor of the year. they're a very physical team and when it comes to playing two legs it makes it more difficult and we already had a good first leg result and they obviously played as if they didn't have anything to lose the most difficult thing in sports is when you defend something that you considered already won if you want i will congratulate both alona for the win of the century argo bonnabel for last weeks when they won with conviction. well to the hard to ignore assess him off those stunning run in the europa league shows no signs of slowing down the army men twelve zero thanks to victory over turks f.a.'s here in the russian capital for downing watch the action for us. what does it take

to edge of today's to scare moscow wins these games showed much more than the first lead by the two time n.b.a. champ in search of. the other man starts ahead of their first home game in the euro leeks top sixteen or just slowly us 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 cost 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 boards in the end. making like a team which hardly has a weak side start saving you really get a team like this with thirty points you know. we can differ to give but there have been ongoing and. sometimes you're rushing too much shots but you know it's just. starting so you know it's really really play excellent game. first of all we play great defensively and that is very important as we don't often face or your problems and often that's what gave us a huge advantage for seldon for the first time you can regain pretty close but then

we managed to break away and it was all. so the our men looked confident on the way to the euro leagues final for the tournament the last one in two thousand and eight robert for the known r.t. . things also going to plan for russia's other representatives in the euro league next i fit beating reigning champions paf and i called on wednesday to climb atop the summit of their top sixteen group it was the hosts though who had established a twenty two seventeen lead after the open quarter unix and proving their shooting in the second however to finish the first half just a point behind the greeks and then after the big break the visitors well they would dominate it's henry dummer can top scoring for the winners with twenty three points the game finishing up getting nine eighty three in favor of the russian gas. and women's basketball moscow region side sparta k.s. move top of your only group c. after thrashing cross basket toronto on home court the host pretty slow out of the

starting blocks whoever leaving the italians it dean sixteen to do good after quarter one more of a pokey charm and charges could be found their groove afterwards their second quarter belonging to the moscow ladies twenty four points while tronto could only manage eight forty twenty six the swore at the big break sparta and they didn't let up either in the ensuing couple here at seventy seven fifty three the school board would look to finish up a comfortable win then for the poor time your league champions who moved back into the fold decision in their battle with vista like compact truck off for first place in groups of. the ski courses which will be used for the sortie twenty fourteen winter games will soon get broken in a ski world cup stage in february among the event set to allow a gold medal hopefuls a chance to get to grips on the future olympic slopes that course will be tested by

f.i.o.s. world cup competitors starting february if. youth team will be first to try the mike before three out cleats from the country compete in the senior section dunhill skiing on super combined on the menu but top women stars may be in for a surprise the course director saying challenging amendments whomping made especially for the ladies. as far as skiing is concerned we have substantially remodeled the women's course we basically added four hundred challenging meters to the course and that's thread should really pulls a lot of problems with female skiers in their fans downhill descent. that is how your sport looks at this hour i'll see you soon but the overhead weather is just around the corner.

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i mean i asked. the country's global to take down internet piracy but hackers 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. syria has a resolution. laid on the u.s. table of russia to put a stop to any possible. in the battle for russia's

goes viral with internet campaign you tube video is becoming more powerful than conventional t.v. but. in business i'll see the bulls dominate the markets and the rush is no exception with the ruble and stocks gaining around one point seven percent at the close. of business twenty minutes. just after seven pm on thursday here in moscow. with me. received showing the websites are being hijacked and it's on a day that thousands of internet freedom supporters are marching outside a major two prong to protest it because the country has 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 for us. 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 hacker 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 and 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 postmen

in central poland we are expecting more protests tomorrow on friday more so the problem about this document is that 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 fear 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. are now let's talk to many of its rights activists and member of a foundation to protect people's privacy against modern technology and surveillance thanks for joining us on our to today we are already seeing to face extradition to the united states for illegal file swapping under current laws what difference my the act to a deal make to such a rescue think. behind act is certainly to increase the possibilities for enforcement internationally the main aim to get behind proposal and create stronger bonds among countries that never corporator it closely. foresman so in my opinion this trend would definitely be worse if gets adopted by all. parties but other critics say that actor is worse than america's notorious and

privacy bills are what is the problem in your ear. well i do believe it's the same exactly the same tendency we see in both in the internal anti piracy laws that were attempted to reign in the us and the knock time and that the main problem is that we see a complete ignorance for the real problem of piracy online if politicians and volumes talking about reforming intellectual property or are they avoid the very concept that something might be wrong with the law as it stands now but they choose instead to choose to strengthen the enforcement measures which means that we basically create more pressure where there is already out of picture and this is why we see this process this does this very few people to express their opposition to this political trend we've mentioned that the major backlash in the united states which saw lawmakers shelved their plans are if the multinational act to trade deal is

worse then why is only poland getting angry whereas the mass protests do you think . i do think in the other countries we have seen a lot of anger maybe towards industries but it was definitely to be seen online as in the us and in the process of imposing web sites in poland so so much where it is in a sense are so much better if you like because there was not have a debate and on the act and people when they identified get for it it was extremely late so we all thought excluded from the debate the old phone excluded from that conversation how to deal with privacy and piracy and a whole problem with your life so therefore the poles in. argentina say something to the representative. now of great goods stolen movies music understand these cost billions in lost revenue here and i know there are these firms on particularly

poor but that shouldn't really condone how would you how would you go about stopping it. i would start with reforming the lot i do think that if we if we see finally a complex deep reform of intellectual property law in the whole of the european union and beyond we might see that the problem of piracy the problem of copying a good illegally comes to yet because this is the reaction to a very unclear a legal landscape and a very unfair situation that existed both in general and in certain commercial goes on like if we took on the problem comprehensively we might be able to solve if we vowed strong passion and if we felt going for enforcement the only response that when it comes to an issue like this the act movement here the actor documents you think the average internet user is actually going to understand the implications here i mean it does seem to have some fairly murky details

a lot of people might just not understand it and then i suppose it could be subject to problems here that is definitely a problem we see all kinds of meats around. going on in published media and police internet i think it's a general problem of contemporary polity that many issues are too complex for ordinary people or users to grasp so they have to rely on experts we as sort of social experts trying to provide this expertize these answers so people know what's going on but that's very rare that you have several experts working for free to help you understand normally you have to rely on the felicia's who are not very very pretty much prepared to fall into it's dangerous idea so that's a real big problem of democracy and we really have a challenge of education or a human rights activist look at those you know so many of which thank you for joining us on our team today thank you. syrian troops have stormed a heavily populated damascus suburb where government forces pulled out earlier this

week after clashes with opposition fighters the u.n. security council could vote in the next few days on a resolution aimed at stemming the escalate. violence and the draft call 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 that it will veto any u.n. resolution that allows for foreign intervention or sanctions in syria itself the arab league monitoring mission has to resume for the first time in a week because of the violence that's after the source of the country's pullout former u.n. . is there a report for us now. saying they get by and heading home they've said it's from the gulf states leave for the airport their mission in complete 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 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 girl stays with through 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 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 syria who will have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country multi-party system but

what about to do it and the west cannot talk about syria which would be true changed and. leave saudi arabia as it is damascus says rejection was no surprise they 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 yes and no there were mind spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial mavin to the country's crisis is seen as clinching show the arab league essentially has no credibility on the arab street what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish is good 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 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 word 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 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 all believe this could come soon so national dialogue through

these reforms despite damascus and the mission to be extended for another month and . is officially saying that they can continue with the towed behind the scenes and the sentiment is much less optimistic. it's a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreements or 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 he is coming to you live from moscow and on the way in just a few minutes here versus the crisis. mobile political and economic leaders meet here at the world economic forum to tackle the eurozone crisis and also the arab spring meanwhile those who protested 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 by taking some cargo that the crew can't live without. the top job in the world's largest country is a highly prized position so beating the other contenders requires some creative thinking those up for the russian presidency are using every avenue available to get the message out there. i think our show has been looking at the campaign as a vote attracting tactics. but it was the others that were right is a closer look at the grey suits and ties and slogans cold out from the poor d m r the traditional election season fair but they're no longer considered politically invoke. today's complaining has gone online in a hot 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 viewers' attention not so although that to me you are police video reach millions of lines it's not a lot it just. it also has to be razor 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 entity doing the symbol . of i don't see what i see you have lost the stick with something yes they got it but they're going to. make it and you're sure that the quickest when you're going

to. propaganda but it was us beat them. but i don't convert it's up to you about you apart from catching images memorable catchphrases are used against those in the corridors of power opposition blogger alex in the valley was the first upload his shop which is tongue online a year ago he labeled the ruling united russia party of the apes 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 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 superpowers the use of being able to my aim was to provoke to preen reality darker than that is often i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they do work and i see disputing 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 the videos made a very professional you can see that a highly paid specialist did it 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 are just as blatant. and other horror 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.