ten points to three meanwhile operation wrap over but these things are looking good for the season ahead despite her crushing defeat in the women's final to victoria as a ranker she was featuring in her second grand slam final in six months and has definitely regained form after coming back from a long layoff with a shoulder injury but in melbourne she was simply outplayed and powered by as a rank of a belorussian coming from two games to love down the first to win that six three and then took the second set 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 the season ahead i don't regret the world. you know getting to the stage it's great for me especially not having played matches for three months. don't know what to expect from. game he's done or said to be the stages is good for me. you know looking forward to

the us new year. as a raincoat she's dedicated her victory to a grandmother and says she wasn't entirely surprised by her achievement which was the result of years of hard work. surprised and most surprised me no was really hard as i've been playing 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 at the important moments you know so i'm surprised years. now despite an aching the russian figure skating schenker has won a seventh european figure skating crown throwing in an unexpected quadruple jump in a routine they gave him his highest ever overall mark the twenty nine year old seen here in training picked up just over one hundred seventy six points in the free skate to boost his overall tally to just over two hundred sixty one it was a compelling routine that had the sheffield crowd on their feet and afterwards the

former olympic champion who has eighteen major titles to his name said i'm called to king by many people and try to live up to that name is eighteen year old part training partner. finish second meaning russia grabs seven out of a possible twelve medals at the meeting in the u.k. just two years before hosting the sochi winter games appreciate that i will miss the world championships in march will have an operation on is troubling me next month. let's switch to football where liverpool have done munched united out of the f.a. cup popping up with a late winner to give them the side club a two one win it and field this is the first time the two clubs had met since liverpool's luis suarez was suspended for racially abusing united's patrice evra both managers started the game and smiles but it was liverpool really daniel agger putting them ahead midway through the first half who suarez would have been played to about himself. and although united keeper david should have done better jason

park did find in equalized just before the break finishing off a sweeping move there weren't too many clear cut chances after that in the second half with the replay looking like a safe bet but no one told the count that the dutchman latching on to andy carroll on blast home with just two minutes to go to light them for the little two one the final score capping a fine week for them is the side you see also being in the city a couple of days before to reach the carling cup final. of the us here for a good players off they were good to go through is a major so we can buy. the mortgage because. the commitment to get results was fantastic and. we can speak highly enough of them after our performance the result we have today. and chelsea will be joining them in the next stage one matters sixty second minute penalty making all the difference

against q.p.r. after daniel sturridge was a judge to been felled in the area players did not shake hands at the start of this match the decision taken in light of blues defended john terry's 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. bearing that in mind if you will it was wise not to do it because you could have an influence on. you everything was. going to be good jobs in other all the premier league ties bolton came from behind to beat swanzy they see one west brom lost at home to norwich by the same scoreline while newcastle were beaten by championship side brighton one nil mike williamson and then go from him putting them through also their last year's final stoke

progressing after to know when over darby. well later today arsenal and aston villa will play for a place in sunday's fifth round draw while sunderland take on middlesbrough and in northeast darby. let's turn to gulf where tiger woods has handed robert rock an unexpected two shot lead it today's final round at the abu dhabi championship from woods on the fourth and fifth holes has put the englishman in front meanwhile in the states carl stanley is the man to catch the farmers insurance apron shooting a four under par sixty eight during his round in california he's looking for his first p.g.a. title and it's five shots ahead of john who and john roland it's. finally some of the world's best wrestlers are in siberia at the moment for a three day annual tournament and on of the lights a time in pick freestyle champion event yet again eleven finals have already been held since friday i'm roman cos fred can i bring us up to date with all the latest

goings on in crash. they find arrogant tournaments in the part of a. series that just happen to be one of the most sought after freestyle wrestling the title of this year's competition more significant than the all of the summer and the picks 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 noblesville and that's a good number of 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 as 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. but once it's wealthy van yet again grand prix saw the arrival of

nine the limbic champions among nearly three hundred athletes from twenty countries . the main event 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 of a loss the seventy four kilo final two up hi-z. and denise sort of wish now it's safe to say the battle for in the olympic 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 the summit at this age might he did. character is still force to be reckoned with in it boded gives 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 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 gold and won a silver medal by the way while japan won silver in the forty eight kilo group the gold went to olympic champion marinating off ukraine 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 science where they have the ways to sippin it promises to be quite intense and we will be here to cover it from on cost of artsy eastern siberia. time to tell you. five games to three up against rafael

nadal in the men's final. set down ten a down so next like eight could go on for some time this match will have the latest step in and exploit it in time. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

the latest news in the week's top stories arab league on ice the syrian fact finding mission is frozen after a violent that's glades triggering pressure from the e.u. and tough talks at the u.n. security council. u.s. police take a gloves off approach against occupy protesters in oakland firing tear gas and flash grenades arresting hundreds in the process. this week also saw online anger spilling onto the streets as internet users in poland fought against a new international anti piracy agreement seen as censorship and a human rights abuse. but here in russia the internet has become a battlefield for pre-election campaigners with provocative viral videos and

slogans used as weapons in the online battle for votes. it's three pm here in moscow you're watching the weekly here in r.t. this sunday with me and he said no way we begin with the arab league and their monitoring mission in syria which 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 the state t.v. has reported that damascus regrets the league's decision saying it may result in more bloodshed and foreign military intervention meanwhile an arab european draft resolution on syria which drew russian scribus ism is being revised as the un security council or the initial attacks was calling for regime change and war. bring on further action if to mascaras why with it on top of this the e.u.

imposed yet more sanctions against syria this week to further pressure president assad the decision to freeze the fact finding mission comes after gulf nations withdrew barabara vers leaving people to prepare for the worst as artists are a further report. saying they get by and heading home they've said it's from the gulf states leave 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 right from the word gay the missions prefer problematic the opposition accuse the monitors it 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 complaints to the observer seemed ill equipped on the ground and there were concerns that they were simply too few numbers to undertake such a major task but if things were bad at the beginning now they seem even worse

following in saudi arabia's footsteps all the gulf states withdrew their observers after damascus rejected their recent proposal that included president says that 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 will talk about. what will have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country multi-party is about what about to do about the west cannot talk about syria which would be changed and leave saudi arabia to mask says rejection was no surprise those sides of the conflict of shame equal unwillingness to soften their stance even though it's been the daily death toll in the. tree continually rising the killing of the head of the

syrian arab red crescent was on the way to damascus yes you know the remind the spiraling situation. of such a creature who invaded to the country's crisis is seen as clinching 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 also very keen to then take to the un 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 would but for now these plans have been pissed on hold in fact much

of the substance of the report that they agreed to 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 to that goal state colleagues some observers remain but it's small consolation syria didn't close the doors in for the arab league i think. it's diplomacy would give anyone to help but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not arab league this could go on so it's a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreements on what action should be taken to stop the violence and putting an end to the crisis seem to be slipping further and further as a rate so r.t. damascus syria where syria simmers so to. does libya months after the fall of gadhafi renowned angio doctors without borders says it's spending its mission to

libya after being made to treat torture victims were then sent straight back for further interrogation. and the global markets are bracing themselves ahead of a crime she wrote in the iranian parliament as the world's fourth largest crude producer brands to halt oil supplies to europe. but first u.s. police have used tear gas and flash grenades against some two thousand occupy campaigners in oakland california from three hundred people have been arrested as the crowds trying to seize one of the city's buildings before later marching through the downtown area. has more. it began around saturday afternoon when roughly two hundred fifty. occupy optimists in oakland california began demonstrating in the streets and hours past 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 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 they actually the police in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades at the occupy up to this morning to the police they say members of the crowd began throwing things at not the officers and that is what ultimately triggered this clash between police officers and occupy iraq to this but. as we know this is not the first time we've seen

a fierce clash between officers and activists in oakland california got in october since late october there was 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 police tear gas canister canister and this is something that put a lot of criticism on the police department in oakland california they've been criticized for being very harsh with occupy activists. who are just been following the occupy protests in the u.s. since the very beginning so if you want to track the timeline of events you can simply log onto our web site r t v dot com we've been at the epicenter of the movement capturing shocking footage of the demonstrations but in goal for us to catch all of our coverage online also. 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 but shortly here on r t. but this week anger over the pending ratification of act new international online anti-piracy agreement spilled out onto the streets of poland internet users say the new law along with similar bills now suspended in the u.s. is a form of censorship and violates human rights are things like sirus have to follow the out right. at first thousands across poland directed their anger squarely at the tories and i counter fee trade agreement the idea of funding. for publishing the droid marked material. is somehow illogical to me it's like punishing the corporation not for this is not. being used to kill somebody like that will be used to monitor our internet activity i believe that

talking through the internet email chatting forums form of self-expression but with every passing rally the protest grew more political the crowds put prime minister government under fire for signing the agreement on thursday most governmental websites were hijacked by the anonymous hacker group i think they were trying to maximize 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 king but that's not possible knows a lot from our government technically active should be a good thing protecting intellectual property ranging from music to design your banks 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 they act. out. groups and in some countries it needs to be ratified by. but not in every country so we have another option so it's open people are fair but actor is still an option

for many many countries it was too much for one french e.u. deputy he quit calling active charade then game the twitter twist the micro-blogging site saying it can now censor tweets country by country pride is active protests in warsaw were expected to gather up to forty thousand people but a sudden big freeze kept many away nevertheless the intends to rally for several more weeks hoping to urge warsaw's ruling circles to take a step back twenty one other e.u. member states along with poland signed an actor but it's only here that the decision has caused so much controversy and public dissent the document is yet to be ratified by the country's bar limits which certainly leaves the possibility of more protests everywhere across the european continent let's see russia r.t. reporting from poland. but pro internet freedom activists across europe believe that bills like actor call for intolerable levels of intrusion into web users

private affairs this is part of a line along a long line of attacks on civil liberties and internet freedom the actor agreement is just that there's going to be an acceptable level of surveillance on all of our internet connection is essentially what this agreement turns your internet service provider into a kind of police officer and that's really one of the problems about the changes that this agreement brings about it makes a copyright infringement a criminal offense which is in fact entirely new move well on our website our to dot com you can trace the wave of public anger over attempts to police the internet for mass demonstrations to hacker warfare.

well the need for more jobs more equality while giving praise for america's military phrase abroad that's the some of president obama's pre-election state of the union speech much of the focus in this here is a draft was devoted to economic hardships in america the president played on dissatisfaction over wealth parity and body by the occupy movement and called for the rich to pay equal taxes obama also treated military success in iraq and afghanistan and the assassination of osama bin ladin that free speech is widely seen as a pale action opportunity for obama to tell us campaign to the public but jerome white a former presidential candidate for the socialist equality party thinks that no actual change is possible in the u.s. for about forty nine percent of congressmen are multimillionaires the average net worth of a senator is two point five six million dollars and the obama administration since

coming in continuing that bailout of wall street cutting the wages of workers is done everything on behalf of wall street and they've ruled warded him by making sure that his campaign has received millions and millions of dollars of his top officials have been drawn directly from wall street including his last three chief of staff to the white house so this again is a is an indication that this entire political structure it's not just the democrats democrats and republicans alike are thoroughly impervious to the needs of the population they are in the pockets of the wealthiest one percent and no fundamental change is possible in america and outside of a political movement of the working class from below it's in opposition to this entire pollute. an economic order. 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 for anything goes in the fight for votes. putting revolutionary stamina to the task this week hundreds of thousands of egyptians poured back to talk or square the iconic birthplace of the country's uprising i was there and indeed a year on the mood is somber and many egyptians are disenchanted today they're demanding the dissolution of the military council which inherited absolute power from topos president hosni mubarak and this has you today a vote on the upper house of parliament following lower house elections that saw the dramatic rise of instrument members the new government is also busy putting together the country's constitution the ruling council have also promised concessions including the lifting of the mubarak era state of emergency law but injection author and filmmaker phillip risk says little will change. i don't see it as being that big of a shift i mean we lived under military rule for thirty years and that gave the

government the authority to do just about what they wanted to me it's just a formal matter and that they live to emergency law while we live under the rule of a military drum took since the military took over general twenty eight's over fifteen thousand civilians that we know of have faced military courts and have received trials of anywhere between six months to fifteen years and they've tasted power they have massive economic interests in the country again everything that's happened in egypt really needs to be looked at from an economic perspective in that there's a group of cronies of robotics and his government that were in power they've been moved out of power and there's a new group of cronies that are in place and they will not just let go and hand over power like that without having guarantees that their interests will be secured . meanwhile in libya the national transitional council has reportedly begun amassing forces including truck mounted anti aircraft cannon near the rest of town of by.