said knowing that a world number one ranking was also on the line as a rank as bad can volley for a five for you the seemingly demoralizing sure up of a with the opening set eventually going against your six three but you expected the breakdown there was to follow in the second the rushing conceding breaks left and right and really having little rhythm to our game as azarenka continued the onslaught. the second said one sharapova would want to forget in a hurry as azarenka wrap things up and make six love. clearly not the outing that the soon to be world number three needed in a quest for a first major title. as hard as it is in the us as much as you want to be the champion. and there's only one that's what is. so special when you do that and that's why the work is so hard and extreme and. the pleasure that you get in the excitement this is what you work for because you know how special is still

plenty of us so great for new rule number one as a ring an inaugural major title in the bag and the respect that goes with it the russian tennis fans will now get to celebrate the first grand slam singles champion in their country's history happy doing the dance of course our team. starts one singles title but a potentially african country lies ahead on sunday it's the battle of the world's top ranked players in the men's final reaming champion novak djokovic off against rafael nadal the two thousand and nine winner at melbourne park second rogne who's the upper hand and head to head meetings with sixteen wins. thirteen but the last six times that have met the serve has seen off the spot. brings us to football where a couple of tasty ties were served up in england's f.a. cup on saturday chelsea visited fellow top tier side queens park rangers while

liverpool among chester united renewed old acquaintances failed lothar encounter a real end to end affair liverpool getting things going twenty minutes in. rising highest to not home the corner but really questions have to be. done with positioning you know what is the level of moderation half a dozen minutes from the break g song park the score after good work done the win from raw fail the silver. not too many clear cut chances in the second period with a replay looking like to see if bad books no one told. the dutchman locking on to on the corals not going to blast home with just two minutes to go to daylight for the liverpool fearful to watch the final. while chelsea will be joining them in the next stage one mob a sixty second minute penalty making all the difference against q.p.r. after daniel sturridge was adjudged have been felled in the area the blues thus

keeping well on track for a third f.a. cup triumph in four years taking a little pressure off the under fire manager under the last ball watch but i'm. now on sunday are still william to join fellow heavyweights chelsea and liverpool in the fifth round of the cup when they take on us than villa and former governor captain c'est farmer gas well he's now hitting the heights of barcelona but he believes victory in that game could be the jolt needed to kick start the london squad season. we've been very unlucky for the. four or five years always injured player. has been injured. in. it's a shame position because it was the company they can fight for for for anything to enter one votes what c.s.k. moscow as president is proposing to do to russian basketball the vaulted western

european league would combine the best of the best from the. divisions and take away the confusion that currently reigns. much too much we were taking on spawn tax in petersburg about two weeks ago when a group of fans approached me and asked what tournament we're planning until i was unable to answer that question right away so we decided then we must try and create one beautiful new competition we have to have all the preliminary planning done by march or april this year and move swiftly the entire basketball community schools officials and the russian government are on the same page with us when it comes to this initiative. and finally some of the world's best wrestlers are in siberia for a three day i knew all tournaments and on or off the lake two time olympic freestyle champion. eleven finals have already been held since friday either among . bring us up to date with all the latest goings on and cross. the border

of a. series that just happened to be one of the most sought after freestyle wrestling title of this year's competition. since the love the summer olympics are right around the corner it's the twenty third time the event's been held and as always it's right at the start of the new year giving various national coaches enough time to test their athletes head of major stores like the world or european championships. there isn't a single seat available in the sports palace and the opening ceremony was very beautiful with today's final in the seventy four kilogram division is probably the main reason for such which is a huge turnout. for the tournament itself and i have to say that it continues to evolve and i'm happy to note that the world. just took my suggestions into consideration. but once it's wealthy von yet again grand prix saw the arrival of nine million pick champions among nearly three hundred athletes from twenty countries. the main events of the opening day marked the return of the two thousand

the limbic champion. now despite the support of his brother three time olympic champion believe us out of. a loss the seventy four kilo final two up hi-z. and denise. now it's safe to say the battle for the big ticket in this weight category will unfold between the zero reading grand prix finalist that you must want to hear them so i was brief for stepping back on the mat following a three year struggle with injuries he's thirty two years old now and it's very difficult to get to some of this age but he displayed character that he's still a force to be reckoned with in a blowout against the two time rules. while the men's events was dominated by russian nationals it was a different story on the women sides with competitors from japan making it all but one final after claiming the top honors in two out of three finals on the opening

day of the grand prix athletes from the land of the rising sun wrapped up the tournaments with another it's a gold and won a silver medal by the way while japan won silver in the forty eight kilo group the gold went to elliptic champion. a few crain who made a triumphant return to the sport after giving birth to her second child nevertheless it was evident that japan ruled the other weight classes and it became clear why japanese women's wrestling is considered to be among some of the best in the world and the other three men's finals will be held on the last day of the tournaments here in cross they are ski psion for they have a ways to step in it promises to be quite intense and we will be here to cover it ramon koester of artsy eastern siberia. that is all your sports know i'll see you soon but world weather is just around the corner here in twenty four hour r.t. .

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hello live from moscow one am this is r t with me kevin now in our top story the arab league has frozen its monitoring mission in syria because of the escalation of violence there more than one hundred people are thought to have been killed now in clashes between syrian security forces and opposition groups in the past two days only the un security council remains split on how to end the crisis russia has given resoundingly no to a new resolution on syria drafted by the u.n. arab states the owners of further action if damascus fails to comply the text called for president assad to transfer power to a deputy moscow says the resolution should not contain any threat or sanctions or imply any outside intervention political analyst steve amendment believes it's not by chance the arab league's hold to its mission right now just as western powers are in open conflict. oh my goodness it sounds like a no fly zone

a different way in which it was an open sesame to do me do you observe. it is serial. the wrong man to lead the mission the sudanese general. these are the emir in charge always deliver the goods against bashar i believe me here for everything going oh i don't know what age we do these terrorists are just cooperating. it's exactly the opposite of what the last one they wanted a pretext to step up whatever they have in my which is some kind of. the best solution is the way syria's civil it's only to see it's usually chicken opposition in syria syria is an authoritarian state recorder in the when guardian reported we get to go to a national poll that apparently go some credibility says the. syrians. for

america and britain and the arab league and theirs to intervene in syria used and to have an arrogant resolution saying and although we do it yet beauty in two weeks well absolutely should in diplomatic way which total these people go to. the mid intensifying fighting between the syrian army and opposition groups taunting sarah firth spring to the area near the capital which was recently taken over by rebel fighters and she reports although the opposition's united against the regime there polls apart on my methods. a clear message from the protesters in this suburb of damascus as a funeral takes place. without war. we don't want to. see . children killing we don't read them we don't we we. live. here i mean this this is going to all come to us for now they feel safety is

being provided by the free syrian army the guerrilla body made up of many army defectors who say its presence here has enabled protests like these to go ahead. ever since the military cannot come in anymore because the free syrian army is protecting us we support the free syrian army and we support. the former army colonel heads the f.s.a. from abroad he's been steadfast from the start and his calls the foreign military intervention of his safe are void of partnerships with any other opposition elements he sees different significantly inside the country and the national khuda nation council one of the leading opposition groups remains adamant that foreign military intervention would make an already to tear eating situation even worse while the security position has caused some areas to get out of control of seems that there is a war between two groups on the outside the country and it's the syrian national

council pitching itself as the main opposition but it too has failed to unify the many different opposition factions and this lack of unity has hampered the quoting cause for direct u.n. involvement russia and china remain firmly opposed to a resolution that would leave the door open to foreign military intervention and a far cry from previous calls the dialogue qatar and saudi arabia now talk to the opposition i mean this could cost even more lives say many nice lead to find. rebel groups who have to work with the other side working with the other side. of. the f.s.a. say they have little choice but to use weaponry to protect civilians. who have this mean square here in town with people who come out in protest even the security forces try to come in but we protect them but this is what's happening here that it remains a precarious situation in

a moment of confusion the crowd gets nervous and starts to run at one point gunshots still says where they come from. oh you can't believe it that a lot of confusion here on this day save the reading in a different direction just not exactly sure what's going on at all that the you know a safe situation today right now and all of this happening just fifteen minutes from the city center is just a day before it's a government demonstrations so position can show continues to gain ground the divisions within the country have never been clearer. i got i did. was sort of people to blog updated r.t. dot com where she's posting extensively on the situation in syria there you will find images of various parts of the country that have made it to where including latest pictures showing people running around there in the mask. down the official location. i pod touch from the.

video. feeds now in the palm of your. dot com. polish protesters refused to give up the fight over the web piracy part of the country signed up to more demos a planned again start to the multinational deal forged in secrecy the say that activists will go on to say allows firms to censor the internet the e.u. officials already resigned over it which was signed as well but twenty two european countries earlier this week let's hear a jet ski reports from warsaw. a passer by from england confused scenes on friday in central warsaw with the filming of a sequel for the hollywood movie. judging from the number of masked men and cameras

such resemblance was tangible the film character forceful revolution these people are also standing for change to stop the anti counterfeit trade agreement act from becoming law in poland minus fifteen degrees centigrade is definitely not an excuse for thousands who gathered in central warsaw friday common it's a week of numerous mass rallies across the world with people protesting against the internet censorship act in may have a positive aim to protect intellectual property but these protesters fear it will be used to police the web and take harmless websites offline. engineer martin says he's working under threat because of actors obscurity with the international pact worked out in complete secrecy issues with. legally censoring information the government. is very unclear the negotiations have

lost since two thousand and four but it's been anything unlike the week's massive anti active protests in poland friday's showdown had clear political overtones while the majority of the crowd was voicing no to the treaty a large chunk was directing their anger at the government and experts say the scale of public dissent has managed to make war soldiers ruling elite nervous the government was promoting itself as being modern. people probably internet and people trying to keep them accountable so when they discover that the government is supporting something without it was purely political no we don't believe you anymore this practice considers the harm governments are putting it in the steadily . the point of your day tactic and the n.r.a. may not ratify act and they will have a second fault so after a week of ignorance i think suddenly they realize that the protests are much deeper

. to become law in poland act and needs the approval of both the polish and european parliament nobody knows for sure how long this might take but protesters say they will continue piling the pressure on the authorities to stop this happening and i think it came as a complete shock nobody expected nobody expected. to. do this kind of thing i think there will be a lot more. last for at least two weeks i think because. i think it was so long that will take to actually pass the regulations of prime minister to been adamant war so would not give in to and blackmail in the street but what was initially acquired social protest has become politically broader with every rally as collating in both the numbers present and the level of aggression alexi russia. reporting from warsaw in poland. now to this in a flap over

a censorship scandal after the microblogging firm said it can now remove tweets country by country if they flout the local laws needless to say uses a furious at the potential free speech purge nobody campaign aaron schwartz told r.t. that countries that censor twitter could expect this to backfire. the important thing to understand about twitter's policy though is that it's reactive if they get it in response to government order or court order and what's nice about twitter is because it's a real time service the government is going to be slower than twitter almost always you know by the time you get a court order asking someone to take down a tweet and by the time twitter reviews it and it goes through all the policies will probably be passed and everyone on twitter will have read it already it'll have been retreated hundreds of times twitter has been especially admirable in how they deal with this in that they are particularly highlighting tweets that have been censored by the government so there's no none of this disguise that goes on with some of the other major companies where things just suddenly disappear and you don't know why twitter has said that make it very clear that their users your government is censoring you and i think that'll be

a huge step in pressuring both people to share the stuff that was censored but also pressuring governments to change their policies we've seen this incredible uprising all around the world against censorship in various forms whether it was so in the u.s. or act in europe and i think it's just going to build people realize they have this power now they can when changes not just from companies but from governments and the more people realize that the more people are going to get involved and participate and the more that happens the harder time everyone's going to have censoring people. this is r t just ahead however the wind chills don't stop global warming getting people hot under the collar. would you be willing to blow dryer here any more than i'd be willing to you willing to dry your clothes on the line and never use to drag machine i don't know about that. president those people in new york they would sacrifice to save the planet. also coming up we're screwed that will just stop sheer scale has put the slope through the paces for first time before they welcome the winter olympics by necessity to. iran is banning sales of

oil to the european union in a retaliatory move after the e.u. banned oil from iran lawmakers into rana finalize a draft bill to be discussed on sunday immediately hole to include all sales in response to an e.u. embargo on radion fuel to begin the summer runs also to restart talks on sunday with u.n. nuclear inspectors into rabid first such discussions in over three years the country's nuclear program which the iranians and sisters peaceful is the source of rising tension with the west which fears it for military reasons planning to ban oil exports by july but to rally is going to make the first move its by cutting supplies earlier possibly next week laura smith's in london where antiwar protesters are fearing the worst in the continuing standoff. the people here are saying that this is just the first step in st many again that calling a possible war with iran that got here outside the u.s. embassy in london and that message is very clear you can see on the banners all

around me saying don't attack iran they're calling on people to stand up and be counted and oppose a possible war with iran which these they say is becoming more and more likely as sanctions or even recently by the e.u. both on oil exports and on financial assets and of course that also citing the recent killing of any rainy and nuclear scientists which they say was carried out by israel or the u.s. they saying that there are growing threats against iran and they're here to show you that there is very little public support in this country anyway for a war with iran people have seen in this country the tools in the last ten years they know. they've been extremely cold spring financially in terms of human life and people feel there's a war on iran is not justified it's brutal by the side of the laws was a big a very skeptical about this being held to the location here in london outside the

u.s. embassy to protest against what these people are calling this u.s. imperialism they say in the government and the mainstream media in this country is building on something and they'll be coming out on the streets repeatedly to protest against. the writings for writing the blows on the beleaguered euro zone now fictious downgraded five countries they include spain and italy which are the big worries because of the size of they fall here leaders in key finance is struggling to try to find a remedy to the debt crisis of the animal world economic forum reports from davos. we've seen leaders not only from the eurozone but from other countries financial and political leaders also continuing to fight and to argue over the proper solutions for the eurozone crisis and at the center of it is a lot of people pushing for a larger bailout fund for a for a secure fire wall the irony is that as they're talking about this we hear that

germany wants greece to hand over control of its fiscal budget as a condition for the next bailout package well the further irony is that we've seen capitalism really be one of the topics one of the issues here at this davos questioning of capitalism in its current form is still serving the global and these western nations and i just heard david cameron and his remarks at davos asked about this and he said you know despite the problems i still believe that the capitalism in its current form and in western democracies is the best first serving freedom and democracy at the same time that we see not only technocrats managing it to push through very difficult budgetary reforms in italy and greece these are people that were not democratically elected now to go a step further we have germany wanting greece we're going to hand over control over its budget entirely this is offered over its fiscal matters.

find out about those who headed for the world economic forum not wearing a business suit just three activists from the family group stage a topless protest against the economic elite get the right again pretty cold to also. this is a great thing visitors at the australian natural history museum but the kids clearly want the history of it for them to death we've got the prehistoric. online just this for second lesson right ok more of that article coming. wealthy british science sunday. night my. height.