i wasn't too nervous so just kind of just to my partner and felt good out there i mean very. good doubles players and came back in a second. but we found it out in the tigers and feels pretty good to have a tour of the. army well maria sharapova believes the signs are looking good for the season ahead despite a crushing defeat in the women's final to victoria azarenka the russian was featuring in her second grounds from final within six months and has regained her form after coming back from a long layoff due to a shoulder injury but in melbourne the twenty four year old is simply outplayed in that powered by as orica about the russian coming from two love down in the first set to win six three and then taking a second to love to claim not only her first grand slam title but also overtake caroline wozniacki to clinch the world number one spot however despite that front being defeated sure half of us say she's every reason to look forward to the season ahead. i don't regret the work that i put in at all. you know

getting to the stage is great for me especially not having played matches for three months. monsoon i know what to expect from. an game i don't know so to be the stages is good for me and that's why i'm looking forward to this new year well as far as our in case she dedicated the victory to her grandmother the twenty two year old added that she wasn't entirely surprised by her achievement which was the result of years of hard work. surprised and no surprise to me no worked really hard and i've been playing pretty well it's just you know the score doesn't really tell the story. and it was. i think really a lot of tough girls in the first just played well at them for the moments you know so i'm surprised yes in the. well meanwhile over in england russian figure skater you get a pollution go overcame and a king need to perform an unexpected quadruple jump in his routine to gain his

highest ever overall mark and win his seventh european crown the twenty nine year old seen here in training picked up just over one hundred seventy six points in the free state division his overall time to just over two hundred sixty one it was a compelling routine that had the sheffield crowd my feet and afterwards the two thousand and six and then pick champion who has eighteen major titles to his name said i'm called the king by many people and i try to live up to that name his eighteen year old training bought now are thrilled a chance to finish second in russia seven out of a possible twelve medals at the meeting in the u.k. just two years before hosting the winter games in sochi however all missed the world championships in march as he set to undergo an operation on his knee next month. moving on to football now and can't score the late winner as liverpool beat manchester united to want to sound fields to knock out their old rivals in the fourth round of the f.a. cup it is the first time the two sides have met since the match in october which

led to the reds new suarez being banned for eight games for racially abusing united's patrice evra out of assaultive the leader after twenty one minutes through daniel agger you know if you think that he could have done better but united levels just before half time through the song parks and entre second half a few chances can scratch with two minutes to go to snatch the winner results come to find week the reds you also edged lunch to city on wednesday to reach the carling cup final first because when played since one thousand nine hundred sixty. it's a fantasy effort from the players off they were good to get through in zero eight just so we can bring play again in the morning it's. because no breakthrough for. the commitment desire to get results with regards to can. we can speak highly enough of them of good up performance and result after the. and chelsea will be joining them in the fifth round one that is controversial second half penalty under the blues they want to win that west london rivals p.p.r.

after quintile was perhaps harshly judged to have dodged a bit on your storage the players did not shake hands before the start of this ranch the decision taken in light of chelsea captain john terry is looming court case of the claims to be racially abused the pianist anton ferdinand during a match at loftus road last october. i think it was a wise decision bearing in mind the expectancy that was aroused from the fact that . events could have or would happen in that. bearing that in mind if you were he was wise not to do it because you could have and you clicked on the. straight after. everything was. going to be. well in of all premier league ties bolton came from behind to be it's one thing to want west brom also lost at home to norwich two one while newcastle were beaten by championship side brighton one nil and like williams and only goal within a single straight last year's final strike stick progress on to know when darby for

me while the sunday barry robson has given championship middlesbrough a sixteen minute one nil lead its premier league sunderland in an f.a. cup north-east darby in just over an hour asked not an aston villa will kick off their quest for a place in the fifth round draw which takes place later. now elsewhere the sport of golf has a new and very young champion as lydia co has become the youngest ever player male or female to win a professional tournament at the tender age of just fourteen well she hit the five at the eighteenth hole at the new south wales open in sydney but the new zealand ally to help her nerve to try out my four shot coach could have created history at thirteen that came up just short of claiming her maiden crown at the same event last year the youngest ever male goal for now is japan's reaction coward he was fifteen when he picked up his first title but koch. the one who is now basking in the limelight. i can really think much and. for i really

knows i'm really happy and good to go for the last three days. this i'm happy and people can use. in making history is just amazing. and finally some of the world's best wrestlers are in siberia for the annual three day yvonne yet again grand prix named in honor of russia's two time olympic wrestling champion and brings us the latest. they find erica tournaments is the part of a. series that just happened to be one of the most sought after freestyle wrestling titles at this year's competition even more significant since the love 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 stars like the world or european championships. there isn't a single seat available in

a sports palace in 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 of the twenty'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 c.f. lost the seventy four killer final to a posse 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 the zero reading grand prix finalist that you want to hear them so i was we were briefed 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 the summit at this age might he displayed on 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's side with competitors from japan making it all but one. final after claiming that honors in two out of three finals on the opening day of the grand prix athletes from the land of the rising sun are wrapped up the tournaments with another it's a gold and one silver medal by the way while japan won silver in the forty eight kilo group the gold went to elliptic champion irina 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 now the three men's finals will be held on the last day of the tournaments here in cross they are ski signed for they have a ways to sippin it promises to be quite intense and we will be here to cover it for him on call sort of artsy eastern siberia. and that's all this will for now more in just under two hours please try making one. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. markets why not scandals.

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week's top stories on our t.v. the league's beleaguered mission arab nations called their observers work in syria over reports of an upsurge in violence damascus says that could make things worse. talks between iran and the u.n. nuclear inspectors resume amid international tension iran is considering dumping fuel supply for the e.u. within days as a response to sanctions. although u.s. anti-corporate protest feel the full force of the law in oakland began with officers resorting to tear gas and clash grenades to disperse demonstrators and arrested hundreds. and multinational proposals to stop web piracy sparked mass

protest in poland activists say their government is supporting internet censorship not copyright protection. seven pm here in moscow welcome to the weekly here on our team this sunday many so now we begin with the arab league's observer mission in syria which has halted its work saying it's concerned over reports of a spike in violence more than one hundred people are thought to have been killed in fighting between security forces and rebel groups in the last few days alone damascus condemned the decision saying it could actually result in more bloodshed and foreign military intervention at the u.n. security council resolution on syria is under consideration russia rejected the latest draft put forward by e.u. and arab states calling for regime change in the country and allowing further action if the mask if it doesn't comply political analyst stephen leatherman

believes it's not a coincidence that the arab league froze its mission just as western powers up the pauls for foreign involvement. said it sounds like a no fly zone. different language it was an open sesame to direct intervention meeting war the observers were sent into syria they picked the wrong man to lead the mission the sudanese general the they thought they as the enemy and your eyes who would deliver the goods against the side believing him for everything going oh i'm cool what a general we do he said a star is cooperating it's exactly the opposite of what the last one they wanted a pretext to step up whatever they have in mind which is some kind of you to action based solution is the way syria's civil it's going to see it's usually chicken opposition in syria syria is that authoritarian state recorder in the when guardian

reported we get to go to a national poll that apparently go some credibility he said good of a jar really all syrians aside for america and britain and the arab league and theirs to intervene in syria used spears and to have an arrogant resolution saying and all that would do would be happy in two weeks well assad absolutely should in diplomatic way which charlie's people go to. around one hundred observers are still in theory awaiting further instructions but gulf nations are not taking part they would through their monitors saying the mission have failed to hold the ferry and government to its pledge to end violence but our teeth are furth reports weakening the fact finding team they've syrians on the ground preparing for the worst. saying they get by and heading home they've said it's from the gulf states leave the airport their mission incomplete 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 go the missions prove problematic the opposition accused the monitors of being too closely aligned with the government the government's now accused of being part of a foreign conspiracy and they will it just tickle complains to the observers seem to liquid on the ground and there are 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 assad cede power to a deputy and form a unity government was interesting that these countries is very interested in democracy and they have nothing and this is the most interesting this is something

funny we'll talk about about syria what will have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country multi-party system but what about to do about the west talk about syria which would be true changed and leave saudi arabia as it has damascus says rejection was no surprise both sides of the conflict of shame equal unwillingness 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 remind the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial they've into the country's crisis is seen as controversial the arab league essentially has no credibility on the other. st what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish he's got enough everything concrete everything about human rights abuses on the part of the are so very seen to then take to the un. the

evidence will be so strong that even russia and china would 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 wallet but for now these plans have been pissed on hold in fact much of the substance of the report that graded pieces on both sides seems to have been lost in the flurry of diplomatic activity now france and britain have joined forces at the united nations to try to end president assad's rule. waving goodbye to that gulf state colleagues some observers remain but it's small consolation syria didn't close the doors in front of the arab league i think. it's diplomacy will give

anyone to help the syrian but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not our bleakness could come so it's a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreement 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 very. artsy damascus syria. well if syria's locked in a spiral of violence libya is not far behind coming up on our team after the fall of gadhafi for second angio doctors without borders suspends its mission to libya to being forced to treat torture victims were then sent straight back for further interrogation. but first un inspectors have started a three day mission to examine iran's atomic activities to iran says it's certain the talks the first in more than three years will prove this program is purpose is purely peaceful but the i.a.e.a.

visit comes at a time when tensions between iran and the west are approaching crisis level on monday even nations adopted an unprecedented set of sanctions against the islamic republic which include a complete embargo on oil supplies from iran that's meant to come into effect in july but iran is considering an immediate halt of oil sales to the to europe in retaliation but let's discuss these latest developments around the arena and crisis with the same hommage marandi who's a professor at the university of tehran and now joins us live from beirut thanks for being with both how significant could the outcome of this i.e. aid mission be and to what extent it might influence the situation surrounding iran's nuclear program. the iranians basically are trying to show again to the international community. the nuclear program unease in iran is peaceful and of course when when i say the international

community i mean that i mean the non-western world because usually the west considers itself to be international community on its own. the reality though is that. the i.a.e.a. currently has full time monitors in iran in this is something that we rarely hear in the western media and we have cameras in all of iran's installations so therefore there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program is anything but peaceful and a has no evidence on this the iranians are not very optimistic about the i.a.e.a. because it is heavily influenced by western countries it's not a democratic body most of the members on the board are european and north american they don't represent the international community at all and the head of the i.a.e.a. is he owes his job to the united states if you look at the wiki leaks documents but again the iranians are attempting to resolve the issue despite the fact that in the

past when the iranians had attempted to put. the issue front to negotiate and resolve the americans blocked it such as the tehran declaration between brazil iran and turkey and more recently the russians step by step proposal that the west has and. hasn't been supporting why do you think the e.u. adopted this embargo on iranian oil without waiting to see what this latest mission actually finds. well the united states and the europeans are basically engaging in acts of war against the iranian people as ron paul the us presidential candidate said himself. i think most iranians believe that the united states and the europeans are losing ground in the middle east and throughout the world and this is an attempt to to seriously hurt iran. at this juncture the united sates the economy of western european and north american countries in

comparison to their rivals on the divine and no the only thing that they have going for them one is a very powerful military which the united states has control of almost all the oil wealth in other words arab regimes dictatorships in the rich region are all aligned to the united states and independent countries except for russia really don't have all that many choices for oil so china for example depends on oil from own from countries that are aligned to the united states and iran since it's an independent country if the united states was able to bring about a change in the stomach republican overthrow the political order there obviously that would put china in a very difficult position so the iranians believe that the real issue is not the nuclear program it is iran independence and sovereignty iran has proposed postponed i should say for now a bill that would cut all oil supplies to europe within days and seen as a reaction to the embargo the idea is there do you think they'll actually go ahead

with it. well that this is just not clear but many iranians are very angry towards europeans and americans and this is an extraordinary extra it's very extraordinary how europeans and americans misread iranian society if they wanted to create anger among iranians towards themselves they couldn't have done a better job in general the iranians do wish to move away from europe in the united states and they they believe that it's really of no use talking to these countries anymore so the europeans want to punish iranians iranians say well that's punish them for us but i don't know where the iranian parliament is going to take this issue but just briefly now that about tehran's promise earlier to block the strait of hormuz is that still a prospect i mean is that on the table and also do you think iran will come back to the negotiating table. well iran has always been at the negotiating table that has

talked with the russians the new proposal they. tried to resolve in the previous issue on with regard to the production of uranium enriched uranium at twenty percent with the brazilians a very good web site on the iranian nuclear issue is a race for iran dot com people can look at in it's a very well documented tale the whole program the whole issue but in general the mood in iran is that it is the west that is that is promoting tension after all the iranians have not threatened to block the strait of homos on their own or just in some vacuum western countries have threatened iran constantly with war you have military drones flying over iranian airspace you have western intelligence organizations murdering iranian scientists and scholars such as one of my own colleagues at the university of tehran and you have western organizations funding

terrorist organizations in their capitals against iranians so it is basically western countries that are promoting tension the iranians say that if you block us in trying to make ordinary iranians suffer through sanctions then if the iranian nation is being strangled the iranians will retaliate otherwise iran wants peace and stability in the persian gulf region all right thank you for your thoughts professor sayed mohammad marandi from the university of tehran on the line from beirut. we continue to keep a close eye on the iranian oil and nuclear saga on air and online for you you can head to our web site art you don't compromise or analysis and updates on the latest developments. for us occupy movement protests once again turned violent in oakland california

police fired tear gas and bean backgrounds of some two thousand demonstrators several hundred were arrested as they attempted to occupy a vacant convention center before storming city hall marches were an important has more. it began around saturday afternoon when roughly two hundred fifty occupy occupy optimists in oakland california began demonstrating in the streets and it was 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 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 optimiser to set up

a new headquarters but as the crowd grew stronger and larger and then chile the police in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades at the occupy activists warning 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 optimist but as far 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 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 star struck in the head by a police tear gas can 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. well those occupy protests in

america come against the background of the race for the white house military my or something with a price i know why president obama administration is putting top of it to do this our expert evaluate the leader's state of the union speech. well it's been a turbulent week for poland which saw thousands of people protesting against the anti web piracy pact their countries signed up to that along with twenty one other european states activists say the multinational deal which still needs to be ratified by the european parliament allows firms to censor the internet like there is have ski reports from warsaw. at first thousands across poland directed their anger squarely at the tory is anti counterfeit trade agreement the idea of funny seem to be for publishing the droid marked material is somehow illogical to me it's like a funny.