points to three so joyful take out of the text is the fun boy into american having her biggest title so far to her collection of unusual outfits. i wasn't too nervous so it just kind of twisted my partner felt good very very. good doubles players and came back in a second. but we fought it out and the terrorism was pretty good to have a job. well meanwhile maria sharapova believes the signs are looking good for the season ahead despite her crushing defeat in the women's final to victoria azarenka the russian was featuring in her second grand slam final within six months and has regained her fourth after coming back from a long layoff you too a shoulder injury but in melbourne the twenty four year old was simply outplayed and out powered by as our anchor the better russian coming from to love down in the first sets to win it six three and then taking the second to love to claim not only her first grand slam title but also overtake caroline wozniacki to clinch the world number one spot for all of us by this that something to feed her up over says she's

looking forward to this since the head. i don't regret the words that open at all. you know getting to the stage is great for me especially not having played matches for three months. don't know what to expect. and game i don't know to be the stages is good for me that's why i'm looking forward to the first new year. as far as hour in case she dedicated the victory to her grandmother and the twenty two year old added that she wasn't entirely surprised by her achievement which was the result of years of hard work. being surprised and not surprised i mean no worked really hard and i've been playing pretty well or just you know the score doesn't really tell the story isn't done and it was. i think really a lot of tough battles in the first set they just really played well at the important moments you know so i'm surprised yes. hall meanwhile over in england russian

figure skater you have any pollution overcame an eighteen need to perform an unexpected quadruple jump in his routine to gain his highest ever overall walk in when his seventh european crowd the twenty nine year old seen here in training picked up just over one hundred seventy six points in the free skate to reach his overall tally to just over two hundred sixty one it was a compelling routine that had the sheffield crowd on their feet afterwards two thousand and six olympic 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 partner to get finished second russia took a seven out of a possible twelve models at the meeting in the u.k. just two years before hosting the winter games in sochi however it will miss the world championships in march he set to undergo an operation on his knee next month . moving on to football now and fraser gumbel returned from injury to score

sunderland's equaliser as the black cats drew one one with local rivals middlesborough to force an f.a. cup fourth round replay barry robson put the visitors ahead of the sixty minutes in the northeast darby box just before the hour the barrowman nice place to pass allowing james with claims of flame council to score his first goal since april two thousand and ten the replay will be at the riverside on february the seventh or eighth we want it's almost half time between austin aston villa and all premier league tie richard dunne was on target for the villains thirty three minutes then. and the new to the it is so far gone meanwhile the drop of the last sixteen in the first round has been great chelsea will play carling cup holders but i mean i'm starting travel to crawley who are currently third in england's balls clear winner of the replay between everton and blackpool host sheffield wednesday brighton's reward for beating newcastle is a trip to liverpool while poulter the go to either millwall also fountain norrish take on championship less to talk to get you through stephen into the last sixteen for the first time ensemble and all levels brought

a welcome there are still poor mr miller. there's been a surprise second time when your on the european tour as englishman robert rock edged rory mcilroy graeme mcdowell ams tiger woods to win the abu dhabi championship by one shot rock who is ranked as side the world's top one hundred share the overnight lead within four woods going into the final day and the two were neck and neck only on both. of the three opening holes but woods crumbled with two straight bogeys thirty four year old rock receiving with confidence and go goes on and off he wants to rattle around with pokies birdies coming thick and fast he still has thirteen under par over just enough to stay one stroke clear of mcelroy the u.s. open champion birdied his last hole in the back and three way tie for third daytimes real down the northern irishman putting in a strong finish thanks to a holy month on the twelfth followed by three birdies but the day.

that belong to iraq. just started i managed to get him. out of a failed to buy him a toy you would just use just everything you want to do is a go for you know today you know was it was a day or you know i had a chance you know robert just played real solid all day. as i said earlier he took the ball for a while they didn't do anything you know wrong today and hit a couple shots at about ninety two good looks and made up. but also has another and very young champion as lydia co has become the youngest ever player have all female team in a professional tournament at the tender age of just fourteen she hit the flag at the eighteenth hole of the new south wales in sydney last new zealand i'm going to health and have to try and buy four shots coke created history at thirteen that came up just short of training have made me proud at the same event last year all the youngest ever male gold winners japan's we have should count he was fifteen when he picked up his first title but it's coach he's now basking in the limelight

i can really think much and. i really really happy and i played good to go the last three days. i'm happy and people back in asia. and making history is just amazing. and finally some of the world's best wrestlers are in siberia for the annual three day event. named in honor of russia's to sign a big champion. was the. they 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 more significant than the of the summer and the pics are right around the corner it's the twenty third sign of the events being 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. 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 the huge turnout. 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 van 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 sight c.f. lost the seventy four killer final to a posse and denise. 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 must win 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 displayed character that he's still a 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 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 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 marinating 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 sign for the heavyweights to sippin it promises to be quite intense and we will be here to cover it ramon koester of artsy eastern siberia. and as of this post ask him.

this week's top stories on r.t. the league's a police get a mission arab nations hold their observers work in syria have reports of an upsurge in violence damascus says that could make things worse. talks between iran and u.n. nuclear inspectors resume amid international tension iran is considering stopping fuel supplies to the e.u. within days as a response to sanctions. also us a call for protests fill a full force of the law in oakland again with offices resorting to tear gas and flash grenades to disperse demonstrators and arrest hundreds. of multinational proposals to stop web piracy spog mass protests in poland activists say their government is supporting internet censorship not copyright protection our top

stories this hour. with a look back at the top stories from the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly. the arab league's observer mission in syria is halted its work saying it's concerned of reports of a rise in violence more than one hundred people are thought to have been killed in recent fighting between security forces and rebel groups there have been more clashes near the capital on sunday damascus condemned the league's decision saying . could actually result in more bloodshed and a foreign military intervention 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 massacres doesn't comply political analyst even lemon believes it's

not a coincidence that the arab league froze its mission just as western powers up the calls for foreign involvement. oh my goodness that sounds like a no fly zone to different language it was an open sesame to direct intervention meaning war the observers were sent into syria they picked the wrong man to lead the mission the sudanese general the they thought the air man in charge who with deliver the goods against the side believing him for everything going on what a general we do he said a star is cooperating it's exactly the opposite of what the last one they wanted a precarious just step up whatever they have in mind which is some kind of. the best solution is the way syria's civil it's all going to see it's usually a chicken opposition in syria syria is an authoritarian state recorder in the when they can afford it we get to go get

a national poll that apparently got some credibility said the. syrians to act as for america and britain and the arab league and theirs to get to the end in syria's three years and to have an arrogant resolution saying and all the would do would be happy in two weeks well assad absolutely should in diplomatic way which tell these people to go. around one hundred observers and still in syria waiting further instructions but gulf nations are not taking part they withdrew their monitors saying the mission had failed to hold the syrian government to its pledge to end bonnets the surface reports weakening the fact finding team leaves syrians they're preparing for the last. saying their good bye 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 monitor's 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 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 assad cede power to a deputy and form a unity government was interesting that this conference is very interested in democracy and they have nothing and this is the most interesting this is something pani will talk about about what will have

a new constitution we are going to more democratic country multi parties was about what about to do about the west come up talk about syria which would be 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 reminder of the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial maybe 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 is get enough evidence concrete evidence about human rights abuses on the part of the are so very seen to then take to the un 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 thing to know more about what's going on the ground and 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 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. waving goodbye to that gulf state colleagues some observers remain but it's small consolation syria didn't close the doors in for the arab league and 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 of bleakness good concept 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. is syria is locked in the strong opponents libya is not far behind coming up on r.t. mom saw after the fall of gadhafi respected and you doctors without borders suspends its mission to prepare after being forced to torture victims and then sent straight back for interrogation. so that's still to come for you this hour but first you and you can. back to the start of the three day mission to examine iran's atomic activities to iran says it certainly talks the first in more than three years will prove its programs purpose is purely peaceful the. visit comes at a time when tensions between iran and the west are approaching crisis level on

monday e.u. nations adopted an unprecedented set of sanctions against the islamic republic which included completing bargo on oil supplies from iran professor marandi from the university of tehran says the fact the ban was approved just before the i.a.e.a. visit shows that talks are unlikely to change the west's approach to iran. the a currently has full time monitors in iran and this is something that we rarely hear in the western media and we have cameras in all of iran installations so therefore there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program is anything but peaceful and. has no evidence on this the iranians are not very optimistic about the 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 hasn't hasn't been supporting. meanwhile to iran is preparing a response to the embargo iranian lawmakers are considering an immediate halt of oil sales to europe should ensure find activists from the campaign against sanctions and military intervention and iran says the measure shows to iran is powerful enough not to succumb to economic pressure the grace period that they had envisioned for six months for it is going to take place may actually not be that wasteful so iran is taking matters into his own hands and now they see is that it

shows the complex city of feeling in the midst of politics and the power that the iranian parliament holds and that is accountable to its people and it's not going to just sit back and watch what's going to happen to the national sovereignty are far fewer are. really an excuse for the deepening confrontation between iran and the list i see as the same time that is imposing does involve those on iran if you see that some european countries are selling more arms to the countries the arab countries of the persian gulf so they are benefiting from the iran the phobia vistar creating in the region so why solve the problem with negotiators some countries are cashing in. while we're keeping a close eye on the iranian oil and nuclear sagar on air and online and you can head to our website or to dot com for more analysis updates on the latest developments.

and you were talking point movement protesters once again turned violent an oakland california police fired tear gas at some two thousand demonstrators several hundred were arrested as they attempt to talk a part of vacant convention center before storming into city hall marine important . it began around saturday afternoon when roughly two hundred fifty occupy occupy optimists in oakland california began demonstrating in the streets and it was our first 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 optimist to set up a new headquarters but as the crowd grew stronger and larger and then chilly the police in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades at the occupy activists 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 came to occupy an optimist but as guys you 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 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. live from moscow your with our t.v. with twenty four hours a day we've got much more coming up for you later in the program pre-election agitation grips russia we take a look at our politicians are making a push for power on the internet. a person's been a turbulent week for poland which or thousands of people protesting against the anti web piracy pact their countries signed up to 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 and reports from warsaw. at first thousands across poland directed their anger squarely at the notorious anti counterfeit trade agreement the idea of funding. for publishing the

. material is somehow illogical to me it's like punishing the corporation that produces knifes for. being used to kill somebody 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 are trying to mask. the promises that the closer touch the documents. that we have right. to. the right for our own interpretation of the talking but that's not possible knows a lot from our government technically actors 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 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 are not. making racial groups and in some countries it needs to be ratified by parliament but not in every country so we have another. source 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 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 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 spahr laments which certainly leaves the possibility of more protests everywhere across the european continent let's. see reporting from poland. one of our correspondents in the microblogging firm twitter is in a flap over censorship scandal of its own we've got more analysis on that on our web site. including one suggestion that the move will ultimately back governments. said that make it very clear that their users your government is censoring you and i think that will be a huge step in pressuring people to share the stuff that was censored but also pressuring governments to change their policies. what's the full conversation with internet liberty campaign aaron swartz on our t.v. dot com also online of the moment. the internet's most famous whistleblower is

getting ready to reveal even more on t.v. in the sound is not his own talk show here on our t.v. all the details of that and i website. deadly clashes between fighters belonging to libya's interim government and soldiers loyal to the slain colonel gadhafi in bani walid this week sparked fears of a new civil war the national transitional council reportedly began amassing forces including truck mounted anti aircraft cannons near the former stronghold of the gadhafi regime the build up came after government troops were forced out of the restive town the unrest mirrors the growing frustration in libya many people accuse the n t c of incompetence amid violent.