rafael nadal he waits on sunday on the way for a major must go on for a brain. now there's been good news for russia on the date and under with atlanta kuznetsova and various vulnerable clinching the women's doubles title that perforce to come from behind against the telly and you sir around the. five seven six four six ways you see the governor's office twice major champion there's been a second doubles title resume as those were the seven. that brings us to football where a big weekend of f.a. cup action kicks off later on friday with two evening games and event tottenham manager harry the visit to championship side watford the spike being on trial for tax evasion big for the press and i one was full of the team but not talking about the cup last year travel to goodison park to take on everton to cover all previous

f.a. cup ties between the two sides. now tell you what i looked it up earlier on the word barn spark ability well it is actually a word on it demonstrates perfectly what he did in the continental hockey league last night the why didn't blues have been thrashed earlier in the week by scout but recovered perfectly with a comprehensive win over blunt constantine to top off reports had suffered forced three defeats and said if in the western conference eight points behind third place dinara both sides had been thrashed in their previous encounters and were eager to bounce back in front of russia head coach. who attended the clash it was that very lack of defense if we were in this that allowed didn't i want to score carbon copy goals late in the first period and they blew and why it's never looked back first collected it to zoom past to get one on one and the jump bus to russia's international constantin but all in. and just eighteen seconds after the

restorative the host doubled their lead this time grigori shift you goon broke away leaving the goaltender guessing to nothing after the opener five minutes into the second and the home team earn the penalty shot by rune and turned away a short by the numbers new forward mikaela needs him to keep up wanting the game and the frame and it's corliss in the final period dinner were attacking but the twenty seven year old goalie denied all their efforts however even the best russian minor was helpless when the blue and white scored an empty net in the dying seconds of the game nice in sealed a final score at three to nothing with his first goal for the nama your. preparations for the playoffs are already underway tension and pressure is piling up in every game our team provided to be invited tonight was a well deserved when. we didn't start the season. in the middle

of the season some good games. and i hope this. can last a long you know about many games to have to recover after find our game and start preparing for. this loss learn suffered a fifth consecutive defeat well do not seem to book the third place in the western conference with damages to go before the playoffs start concern about out of archie . gold and silver medalist if any place shank surely gotten a chill to of motivation after being done by his young training partner at the european figure skating championships author kaczynski i scoring fishtank in the event short program to take the lead for the thing you will simply not expect to get up to the man regarded as russia's pond for a pint top figure skater. who are pushing about zero point zero nine points calling it his best career i think to date twenty nine. not performing

a quadruple jump two to nailing the which probably cost him the lead. with the opportunity to secure gold in sheffield with a solid outing in the men's free skate on saturday. the los angeles clippers helping the surprise package of the n.b.a. season thus far the california fed remaining top of the pacific division following victory over memphis on thursday the host jumping to a twenty nine seventeen lead after the first quarter but the grizzlies opened the second with a fourteen zero run of their own cutting the difference to just one point by half time it was then to and fro until the final few minutes the first bench one more williams the most interim mentally don't knock off nine of his eighteen points in the final quarter his partner in crime blake griffin didn't onto his tally during the last dozen minutes but was a top scorer for l.a. with twenty one truthful nine hundred ninety one clipper shot finished the winners moved to nine wins two losses at home. over in european action turkish side

gala tusker i have claimed the narrow victory against olympiacos in the euro league meaning russian side remain the only on beaten side in the group e. olympiakos taking advantage of a slow start by khalid tosh drive but at the end of the first quarter the game was tied fifteen piece the turkish fisheries would then find the rhythm moving fourteen points ahead by time. still not giving up the final cost the stupas but the shot of the t. here his three pointer sending the game into overtime and it was in the extra period that the hosts finally managed to take care of their gritty greeks edging perceiving seventy eight seventy seven. barcelona who pulls the best defensive record in tournaments travel to market be the visitors i played in the opening quarter time but well in the second with the game tied at twenty nine each half way through the initiative and swinging in the couple on giant. favor resentment

getting points in forty from. making the differences boss a target seventy one fifty seven the result is on top of debates with two wins in the state. or the goal for the american jew of spencer levine and kyle stanley share the lead after the first round of the farmers open in california that west coast per finishing the opening day on ten on our stanley hundred nine birdies post the final hole on the twenty four we were. training this nice approach into an eagle on the eighteenth levine also a model of consistency on the day he needed a late birdie for a share of the lead the twenty seven hitting a great approach on the par five final hole on the relatively simple put meant he finished tied for the lead with a score of sixty two the joint lowest of his career. now the rugby world is gearing up for another series of six nations bottle starting next month plenty of eyes will

be on reigning champions england to have a new coach and a plethora of new faces in the roster following a world cup exit last year in the quarter finals the reigning champions kick off their twelve campaign on favorite against scotland in edinburgh are then to italy wales and france of course also vying to take the crown from the english scottish head coach andy robinson has already been making headlines stating they are against during the world cup in contra against the scots new english coach yesterday though his eyes firmly on the future. there's no room for me as a determination and desire to win a desire to be competitive i like to think i'll be reflected. really comment too much on what went on in the game i was always stood in the songs with. sixty thousand people. you know from our point of view you know we want to be known as normal so we were going to stick and play hard for england brings us finally to

athletics were two of the world's top runners a soft power and campbell brown simply can't wait until the twenty twelve london olympic games the goal of course for the jamaican sprinter to continue their gold medal winning exploits. olympic year because the majors move those for me. to put in the x. or you know. to run indoors you know working on the star. is fifty meters was the number and certainly the other time but i didn't stop at the finish of the other three meter i am blessed to one. hundred meter i will be twice and to think of becoming the first one in history to do it three times it's great and it's in the back of my head not working hard because i'm not on the team yet still have the trials in june and so the objective is to alfie kohn to train hard and hopefully make the team in both events in then take it from there

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video. feed with the palm of your. i. pod. syrian opposition fighters tighten control there damascus just fifteen minutes now from the center as the u.n. prepares closed door talks on how to try to end the conflict. libya's new leaders face accusations of torture as doctors without borders pull out of a key city saying the same patients keep returning but with interrogation injuries . and developing story live event this is what's happening right now outside the polish presidential palace where crowds are taking their anger to the top over the online piracy pact which threatens regular internet users will live in. this hour.

and business markets are on the decline as the gross domestic product in the u.s. grows two point eight percent falling short of expectations on this. twenty minutes . good evening from moscow my name's kevin only watching r.t. live from the capital it's now nine pm and our top story the syrian opposition fighters are encroaching towards the capital of an already seized control of a town on the outskirts some suburbs of c. nearly two dozen killed in the past two days and buildings heavily shelled to sara furthur correspondents there. when we got there we were met by the free syrian army now have control of the area and they showed us around they took us into the center

there was absolutely massive anti-government demonstration going on there's a funeral procession going on at the same time as well so we were able to speak to the people who were living in this area to speak to some of the free syrian army members as well because of course a very little is known about who exactly these people are really have made it very very clear to us just how divided the country is now becoming whilst we were there there was sort of a moment of confusion we did hear gunshots in the background some of the crowd got nervous and started running which for we we were all sort of told to it was it was safer to leave and we then left that area a very tense situation certainly a very dangerous situation for the civilians in this area as well you gave these suburbs you can see bullet holes in the walls it's not really clarence so much of the country now who exactly has control of the fact that this is now happening in a suburb just fifteen minutes will say from the city center here in damascus where

he goes to show you just how much the situation here is now deteriorating or russia has made its position extremely clear that they're not going to back the western resolution whilst it doesn't rule out of the sanctions the military intervention they've put their own proposal forward and you've had this sort of back and forth with neither sides really being able to come to some form of agreement i mean the big sticking point here really is the military intervention because so many different factions in the country it is even more still here in the country very very hard to really understand who exactly is in charge where he was the voice of the people because this is a originally a peaceful protest movement even now got increasingly armed opposition groups and there's reports today that saudi arabia that could tar have said that they're going to be backing up. is ition in providing funding and arms as well as the last thing anyone wants to see here in the name is that this conflicts that become even more

and even more violent because the daily death toll is you know just devastatingly high at the moment talking to the people in this suburb today they were extremely emotional you know the people here in this country have lost all sense of safety all sense of security let's get some insight now from jonathan steele foreign correspondent also is with britain's guardian newspaper he's joining us on the line of london mr steele we just heard from our correspondent in that report from syria how frightening the situation is but of course beyond the physical violence we're also witnessing the worsening economic situation too as a result of international sanctions what do you think is the solution. well i think the solution hopefully would be dialogue between the government opposition forces although as your correspondent pointed out it's hard to know who the opposition is it's not very fragmented and spread around different parts of the country but i think the arab league plan of this week mark two steps forward one step back two

steps forward in that it did push for a political as opposed to a military solution to push for dialogue which means the opposition also has to take part in dialogue because you can score one side dialogue i think where it fell down was an. addicting not the solution or prescribing what the solution should be just simply saying assad should go and create a government of national unity under the vice president i think it's much better to have an opening to dialogue rather than tell people what the result is going to be before those story is interesting you say you're too so forward this is going on for so long are we any closer to dialogue to people getting around the table and talking really though as we head into a new year. well we'll it's interesting to see what the u.n. security council will do obviously russia is pushing very much for dialogue because the western powers are pushing much more for a move of the have been doing for several months and they've been very resistant to the idea of dialogue so whether a compromise can be found in which the west do it does accept to put some pressure

on the opposition for dialogue. is the open question i don't have much faith that they will do that i think there will be a standoff at the u.n. and the military situation will continue to deteriorate repeatedly written your column that you think the west should support the call for dialogue before it becomes too late too late and shouldn't take sides do you think they're still taking sides yes they are because as i say the arab league plan which was a saudi initiative but i'm pretty sure it was coordinated with western governments in advance still calls on our side to go but politically they just say he should resign handed over to the vice president and the government of national unity so they're still insisting over personalizing the situation and saying you know this one man it's much more complicated than just saying one man this go there has to be a massive political reform has to be a good deal of economic reform that includes well has to be fight against corruption etc and we have to know much more clearly what the opposition is

proposing just very valse of just been hiding behind this line of assad must go without really putting forward a. plan that would satisfy the whole large number of people in silent majority who worried about civil war and worried about revenge from the opposition because they may be perceived as having been. in the good years jonathan syria of course not trusting the arab league saying they are oblique as far as it sees it is trying to prepare the ground for foreign intervention in syria and those fears justified. well i mean the foreign intervention it was qatar who said that there should be arab troops going in but that really was a script nobody really took that up i think the the arab league thinking about more and more about foreign intervention are still hoping for the west to be true to the people who do it but they're still not really coming out one hundred percent talking more about sanctions and this political pressure on assad to resign

jonathan steele thanks ever so much for your thoughts foreign correspondent and columnist with britain's guardian newspaper thank you. polish protesters ago in front of the presidential palace in warsaw reese part of a week of rallies after the government signed up to a notorious international web piracy pact earlier and pages they donned the anonymous hacker group masks to show their contempt. following what's happening for us in warsaw say again today alexy as people taking their grievances to the top though today had determined are they to stop acting. well there looking very determined here in central warsaw despite that it's absolutely freezing out here it's more almost minus fifteen degrees centigrade there are several thousand people here already and we are expecting more because people are coming in basically every every minute they are here to protest the protest against act the anti cons of the trade agreement which poland signed on thursday along with twenty one other

european member states european union member states and it is here in poland in fact the only country in the e.u. where protests have been having very strong movement here in fact tens of thousands of people have been protesting over the past three or four days everywhere across poland we went to a little town of lubin on thursday and even there where the population of roughly exceeds one hundred thousand people almost three thousand of three or four thousand people hit the streets in protest against act clearly people in poland are unhappy with the fact that their government signed this document they believe that it would be used against regular internet users to police the web to block websites for harmless actions and their message the only the clear message that these people are having here in the crowd is no internet censorship they get the rally here this particular rally is now slowly have starting to have some political overtones with

some of the people here protesting against the current government but still the majority of the people are against acts like so they say don't worry that. the people behind you that this legislation's been secretly in the works for a number of years now why we only seeing protests about it though in poland do you think it is not just poland that signed up to it it is. certainly as i said it's twenty one member states which signed for it the the document will become effective in all the countries once their parliaments ratified and the european parliament something something this these people here are hoping for because even the polish authorities have now taken a step back and they say that they were to will not necessarily happen as it had been predicted by many experts and the european in fact there's been a scandal in the european parliament already where the french deputy in the european parliament already resigning because of actors saying that this was all a buffer made and the very un serious document essentially act is about protecting

intellectual property from music and books to different designer clothes and pharmaceuticals but the people here protesting in poland they are afraid that big corporations would be able to close down websites for let's say harmless links to videos or t.v. shows or movies or something which most of the users in the internet do on every day basis so they think that this document will be misused by big corporations and by the authorities and the whole already have been several examples of that this document act has a striking resemblance to the sopa bill in the united states which caused several online giants like we kill leagues and google to have their own form of protest so clearly the warsaw protests are the only ones in europe so far but we could be seeing more more rallies and more protest actions across europe as the parliament's face the rich occasion of act in the new era several weeks lectures are scary so europe correspondent thanks have so much for bringing us up to date. a few minutes

from now the euro undergoes financial forensics in switzerland. the housing have not gather in this without that a diverse world economic forum to friday sort out the highs and lows of the global economy deeply in trouble and if you are of the euro zone we'll have more coming up . we will have more florida just a bit next though around could cut off its oil supplies to europe as early as next week but the radio employees signaled the when they could flip the switch was part of it now preparing to debate it on sunday it's to preempt the e.u. embargoed set to start in july which is designed to force around into talks over its nuclear work repeatedly of course said in recent weeks that it is ready to do just that but the u.s. now says it first wants around to prove it's a tonic program is peaceful nuclear inspectors to do there in the coming days try and work that out no way to talk to us in new york assassin gorani from the s.t.h. macro advisors which is a global policy and economic consultancy sussan good to see you tonight where

should we start the iran is trying to take the bull by the whole looks like doesn't it but can it afford at the end of the day really to lose six months oil revenue from europe. yeah hi kevin thank you very much for having me back on i think that's exactly. the question here and the calculus from iran's perspective is going to be if they by cutting exports before the july first date that has set for cutting the exports and iran principally because it's you know three four hundred thousand barrels worth exports to the e.u. will it be able to drive prices up enough by doing that to offset for that and so there is a chance that they might make that calculus and they may decide to do that anyways i would not rule it out because you know right now what is going on with iran is that they there is an existential threat to the government given everything that's

happening in the local iranian economy and they are very desperate right now so you think they'll fight to corner ok i'm going to run say europe has more to lose from the old in boggo than a rod do you see it that way. well you know ultimately iran has clearly has more to lose by the by not just the european oil embargo but even more importantly the embargo on the financial institutions and the central bank which is really started here in washington in the u.s. and has really really hampered iran's ability to conduct financial transactions they have managed to work around that with china and with india right now but that has made a huge huge dent it's caused a massive panic in the iranian economy fishel rate for the currency is down you know they just revalue devalued by eight percent but it's dropped forty percent in

the last month and this is before the sanctions have even come in so what is happening in iran is a fundamental threat and exit existential threat to the regime to the republic regime and quite frankly from the u.s. perspective i don't think there's a lot of hope that these sanctions will actually get iran to stop its nuclear program i think the real unwritten objective here is quite frankly and call it by different name but it's regime change ultimately they want to put in as much pressure that as they can on on this government if this did all kick off one country course looking very closely is israel recently israeli intelligence reports saying that iran's threats of attack retaliate are a bluff so the consequences wouldn't be as catastrophic as widely believed what you think israel saying that. well it's very much in israel's interest to you know play the bad cop there you know they call this the good cop

bad cop act between the u.s. and israel then israel obviously has a lot more to lose than the u.s. and so it does feel much more cornered so there is a very real threat i'm not diminishing their very real desire to rattle the cage and scare the iranians as much as they can but part of this is also in order to keep the heat on the iranians as much as they can and say look we're not we're not scared and that the actually the military strike by israel is something that you should take seriously and should not take off the table hence come to the negotiating negotiating table quite frankly as far as israel's military capabilities there is an active debate. on how much damage take they could do at this point especially given that iran has put some of enrichment facilities deep underground for no facility is is is is very deep underground and so the israel israel increasingly needs the u.s.

on its side and of from a military perspective but i just want to program tonight. revises live from new york appreciated. we keep an eye on developments around iraq and the other world flashpoints of course with our t. dot com many other stories there as well for you russia's political playing field we're talking about online tonight the election boss refuting claims of parliamentary poll violations while the short list is announced as to who's running for president of course all the latest developments in the build up to it of course in our politics section of our dot com plan them when you saw the. very pleased yourself if you did the nature. nature giving norway a night at those pictures aurora borealis sit back enjoy the show with the most spectacular northern lights displays in a long time it's because of that burst from the sun earlier on in the week started dot com when are you tube channel two great pictures there.