have an operation polish troubling me next month. now in tennis maria sharapova believes things are looking good for the season ahead despite her crushing the strain open defeat to belorussian big career as a ranker. was featuring in her second grand slam final in six months and this definitely gained form after coming back from a long layoff with a shoulder injury but in melbourne she was simply outplayed and powered by as during the better russian coming from two games to live down in the first set to win that six three and then took the second to love for her first grand slam title and the women's number one spot but despite the thumping defeat sharapova says she's every reason to look forward to this season i. don't regret. going to the stage it's great for me especially not having played matches for three months. don't know what to expect from. game. to be the stages is good for me. you know looking forward to the

new year as far as she has dedicated her victory to a grandmother and said she was entirely surprised by her achievement which was the result of years of hard work. surprised and no surprise to me no was really hard going pretty well it's just you know the score doesn't really tell the story as. it was. i think really a lot of us in the first just really played well the important moments you know so i'm surprised years. a little later today it's the battle of the world's top two rank plays in the men's final reigning champion jockey up against rafael nadal the two thousand and nine when a melbourne park second holds the upper hand in the head to head meetings with win sixteen wins against york is thirteen but this has won their last six encounters.

is in the mixed doubles final at the moment within the impasse pious they are facing american bethanie matic sands and remaining in her. but are set down and i currently three down in the second set. but switch to football where liverpool have done manchester united out of the f.a. cup popping up with a late winner to give the merseyside club a two one win it and feel this is the first time the two clubs had met since liverpool's luis suarez was suspended for racially abusing united's patrice evra but both managers started the game with smiles but it was liverpool who took the lead. putting them ahead midway through the first half we suarez will be faced with that himself although united keep it here should have done better jason park did find an equaliser just before the break finishing off a sweeping move. following that there weren't too many chances in the second half

with a replay looking like a safe bet that no one told the dutchman on the andy carroll's not going to blast home with just two minutes to go to light then from the liverpool faithful to one the final score capping a fine week for them is decided to be to manage the city a couple of days before to reach the carling cup final. fantasy if the players are. good to get through in. the morning because. of the commitment. was fantastic. because it's been highly enough of a good up performances. result. what chelsea will be joining them in the next stage when matters sixty second minute penalty making all the difference against q.p.r. after daniel sturridge was judged to have been felled in the area plays did not shake hands at the start of the snatch this decision taken and i have believed defender john terry is looming court case over claims he racially. anton ferdinand

. i think it was a wise decision bearing in mind the expectancy it was. like that. or would happen in that. very moment if you will it was wise not to do it because you could have and you click on. straight after. everything was. another all premier league ties bolton came from behind to beat swanzy there two one west brom lost at home to knowledge two one also well newcastle world beaten by championship side brighton one nil or mike williamson goal putting them through also their last year's final stoke progressing after a one zero win over notts county. now later today arsenal and aston villa will play for a place in sunday's fifth round draw while sunderland take on middlesbrough in the northeast up in. tiger woods is keeping up his game that the abu dhabi golf

championship carded a flawless sixty six on saturday to take a joint lead with england's robert rock into the final round woods has yet to hit a bogey at the tournament and has a two stroke lead down with rock however it still anyone's title lead had changed hands twenty four times during the third round and just behind the usa been champion rory mcilroy it was in a chasing pack of four who were tied in third place. i was assistant to you know i didn't post all the guys i really feel like i didn't do a lot of things right a lot of things wrong. i was just kind of this kind of happy medium while over in the states stanley keeps his place at the top of the leaderboard at the farmers insurance open shooting a four under par sixty eight during his third round in california he's looking for his first p.g.a. title and he's five shots ahead of john her and john rollin. funny some

of the world's best wrestlers are inside barrier at the moment for a three day annual tournament and honor of the late two time olympic freestyle champion van yet again eleven finals have already been held since friday among koester african i bring us up to date with all the latest goings on in krasnoyarsk a voluntary concern at the board of a. series that just happens to be one of the most sought after freestyle wrestling title of this year's competition more significant since the love the summer and the pics 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 ahead of major stores like the world or european championships. but you couldn't avoid them were going though 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 a huge turnout match for the tournament itself i have to say that it continues to evolve and i'm happy to note that the organizers took my suggestions into consideration. the twenty's wealthy von yet again grand prix saw their rival often nine the olympic 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 sight c.f. lost the seventy four kilo final to a posse and denise sort of wish now it's safe to say the battle for the big ticket in this weight category will unfold between these you're reading grand prix finalist that you must want to hear them so i was we were briefed for stepping back on the mat following a three year struggle with injuries is thirty two years old now and it's very

difficult to get to some of this. age my he displayed character that he still force to be reckoned with in a boat against the two time rules. while the men's events was dominated by russian nationals it was a different story on the women's side with competitors from japan making it suit 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 irina marin any a few crane 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 science where they have the ways to sippin it promises to be quite intense and we will be here to cover it ramon koester of artsy eastern siberia that's it for me for the moment so i'm back with more sports in test. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture.

the latest news and the week's top stories here in r t arab league on ice this year in fact finding mission is frozen after violence escalates triggering pressure from the e.u. and tough talks at the u.n. security council. revolutionary aftershocks deadly clashes and troop build up and we be a while and egypt hundreds of thousands stage fresh protests against their ruling military john doe. u.s. police take the gloves off approach against occupy protesters in oakland firing tear gas and flash grenades arresting hundreds in the process. this week also saw

on line anger are spilling onto the streets as internet users and cold ones bought against a new international and a piracy agreement seen a censorship of human rights abuses. and here in russia the internet has become a battlefield for pre-election campaigners with provocative viral videos and slogans used as weapons and the online battle for votes. what you coming to live from moscow eleven am here in the russian capital i'm marina joshie the arab league's monitoring mission in syria has been suspended due to a sharp rise in violence opposition activists suggest that over two hundred people have been killed in the past four days across the country syria's state t.v. has reported that damascus regrets the league's decision saying may result in more bloodshed and foreign military intervention that's as the u.n.

security council asserted. also a new resolution on syria calling for a regime change and warning of further action if damascus fails to comply. russia has opposed document saying it can be used as a basis to solve the situation on top of this the e.u. imposed yet more sanctions against syria this week to further pressure president asa decision to freeze the observer mission comes after gulf nations withdrew the arabs are worse leaving people to prepare for the worst as artists sara first now report. saying they get by and heading home they've said it's from the gulf states lethal the airport then mission in complete 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 the full story of price in the way the missions prefer problematic the opposition accuse dimona to sit being too closely aligned with the

government the government's now accused of being part of the foreign conspiracy and they will it just tickle complains to the observers seemed ill equipped on the ground and there were concerns that they were simply too few numbers to undertake such a major task but if things were bad at the beginning now they seem even worse following in saudi arabia's footsteps all the gulf states withdrew their observers off to damascus rejected their recent proposal that included president decided cede to a deputy and form a unity government was interesting that these counties is very interested in democracy and to have nothing this is the most interesting this is something funny we'll talk about. what will have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country two parties are but what about to do it. the west cannot talk about syria which would be changed and

leave saudi arabia. damascus says rejection was no surprise they sides of the conflict of shame equal a willingness to soften their stance even when the daily death toll in the country continually rising the killing of the head of the syrian arab red crescent was on the road to damascus yet another in mind the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial maybe into 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 some human rights abuses on the part of the are so very seen to then take to 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 than 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 these plants of interest on hold in fact much of the substance of the report 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 good bye that gulf state colleagues some observers remain but it's small consolation syria didn't close the doors in front of the arab league 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 arab league this could come soon it's a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreements on what action should be taken to stop the violence that's it. events of the crisis

seem to be slipping further and as a very. artsy damascus syria. well as syria simmers so too does libya months after the fall of gadhafi we're now going to enjoy a doctors without borders says it's suspending its mission to media after being made to treat torture victims who are then sent straight back for further interrogation. and the global markets are bracing themselves ahead of a crunch vote in the iranian parliament as the world's fourth largest group producer threatens to hold the oil supplies to your. u.s. police have used to tear gas and flash grenades against some two thousand occupy campaigners in oakland california around three hundred people have been arrested the crowd was trying to seize one of the city's buildings to make it their new have quarters has more. it began around saturday afternoon when roughly two hundred

fifty occupy occupy optimists in oakland california began demonstrating in the streets and hours passed the crowd grew stronger and stronger up to roughly twenty two thousand people strong ultimately what the goal was for this demonstration is for protesters to take over and abandoned building where they wanted to create their new headquarters because as our viewers may remember crossed the country in the united states just a few months ago police departments are removed activists from their camps and this was an attempt for oakland optimist to set up a new headquarters but as the crowd grew stronger and larger of then chile the police in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades at the occupy atlanta this morning to the police they say members of the crowd began throwing things at

times at the officers and that is what ultimately triggered this clash between police officers and occupy iraq to this point as as we know this is not the first time we've seen a fierce clashes between officers and activists in oakland california doc in october since late october there was a least three hundred people arrested and a former u.s. marine by the name scott olsen was left in critical condition with a head injury from being struck in the head by a police tear gas kind of canister and this is something odd that put a lot of criticism on the police department in oakland california they've been criticized for being very harsh with occupy out. and artie's been following the occupy protests in the u.s. since the very beginning so if you want to track the timeline of events simply log on to our website our team dot com. well we've been ad the epicenter of the

movement capturing shocking footage of the demonstrations that engulfed the us catch our online coverage also. a quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates then millions of middle class households. obama makes his pre-election pitch to americans in the annual state of the union address stressing jobs and equality in a bid to appease growing anti-corporate sentiment and that shortly here on our team . well this week anger over the panning ratification of act new international on line anti-piracy agreements spilled out onto the streets of poland internet users say the new law along with similar bills now suspended in the u.s. as a form of censorship and violates human rights are going to follow the outrage. at first thousands across poland directed their anger squarely at the notorious anti counterfeit trade agreement the idea of funny seeing the site for publishing the

would say dr mark material. is somehow illogical to me it's like let's say punishing the corporation for this is knife for. being used to kill somebody like that will be used to monitor our internet activity i believe that talking through the internet email jotting forums are a form of self-expression but with every passing rally the protests grew more political the crowds put prime minister government on the fire for signing the agreement on thursday most governmental websites were hijacked by the anonymous hacker group i think they were trying to mesmerize us with. the promise is that there would be a sudden closer touch to the documents that says that we have rights. to the rights for our own interpretation of the can but that's not possible in those laws. from our government technically act it should be. a good thing protecting intellectual

property ranging from music to design your bags but the global online community fears corporations will use it to police the web and take regular users offline for harmless internet behavior it even includes a criminal charge for posting certain links when you have a copyright industry that's talking about extraditing a person who has done nothing but linking to t.v. shows extradition does something useful murder and genocide does this is such an abuse of power. think its time is more than ripe for a serious review of what we want with copyright law and it's certainly not calling out just terrorists it certainly has a striking resemblance to the much debated sopa bill in the united states which sent even online giants like google and wikipedia to take direct action but the law was only meant to work locally across the atlantic while act would be applied more

globally the act a treaty is not. made by racial groups and in some countries it needs to be ratified by parliament but not in every country so we have another option so it's open people faired but actor is still an option for many many countries it was too much for one french e.u. deputy he quit calling actor ash a raid then came the twitter twist the micro-blogging site saying it can now censor tweets country by country pride is active protests in war so we're expected to gather up to forty thousand people but a sudden big freeze kept many away never the less they intends to rally for several more weeks hoping to urge warsaw's ruling circles to take a step back twenty one other member states along with poland signed actor but it's only here that the decision has caused so much controversy and public dissent the document is yet to be. defied by the country spar limits which certainly leaves the

possibility of more protests everywhere across the european continent let's. see reporting from poland. that in our website r t dot com you can trace a wave of public anger over attempts to police the internet from mass demonstrations to hacker warfare. well the need for more jobs more equality while giving praise for america's military for ease abroad the some of president obama's pre-election state of the union speech much of the focus in this year's address was devoted to konami car chips in america the president played on dissatisfaction over wealth disparity embodied by the occupy movement and cold for the rich to pay equal taxes obama also

touted military success in iraq and afghanistan and the cessation of osama bin laden the speech is widely seen as a three election opportunity for obama to sell his campaign to the public caleb moppin for the international action center tells us that america's double standards on wealth disparity was there for all to see obama speech one of them present well the speech that was given made a lot of references to the united states is just one country we're all together we're all pulling together and we're all sharing the sacrifice but in reality there are people all across the united states laid off unemployed food stamps are being cut homes are being foreclosed and the only sacrifice the rich are even being possibly threatened with is the possibility that they might have their taxes go up well i don't see this country is as one nation of all of us pulling together i see this is a country with two classes in it there's one class a small ruling elite that owns the banks the factories the oil wells and then there's the rest of us who have to sell our labor to the small ruling elite and i

think any any push for a national unity is going to be sadly one sided. well and in russia the build up to the presidential election is seeing new campaign tactics emerge candidates supporters and opponents go viral using flashy and provocative messages on the internet where anything goes in a fight for votes. putting a revolutionary stamina to the test this week hundreds of thousands of egyptians poor back to tough we are square the iconic birthplace of the country's uprising but a year on the mood is somber and many egyptians disenchanted the day they are demanding the dissolution of the military council which and harried absolute power from deposed president hosni mubarak this as a gyptian today vote on the upper house of parliament following lower house elections that saw the dramatic rise of islamic members the new government is also busy putting together the country's constitution ahmed the dalai executive director

of the transform even political sandra says the military knows it it's time its time is running out most egyptians are still weary. of the supreme council of the armed forces. who don't choose to be. symbols of the old regime. and that is the general. feeling of frustration over the smooth change lose from the from the old regime and some members of the supreme council of the armed forces. who just. opposition. people just have a general lack of trust. i believe that the sooner. the better for them you know. and so far. has been to the letter. and the only liberated back in trouble doctors without

borders announced its suspending its mission to levy over concerns that it's being made to treat interrogation of victims allegedly tortured by anti say forces and with thousands of cut off your loyalist still behind bars there is growing concern over the intentions of a nato bad government artist maria fish and now reports. doctors without borders known for going do their job in the most dangerous and notorious places around the globe but in n t c iran libya the group has encountered a formidable obstacle they couldn't overcome burns from electric shocks and cigarettes heavy bruising and renal failure all these evidence of the continued to churn of prisoners say the doctors and now off the two inmates died from beatings the international group has stopped its mission in protest patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care in order to make them fit for further into.