only on the face came back from a set down against the bethany matic sounds of the usa and remaining as a whole the attack out but then the last one a championship decided tie break ten points to three so enjoy the can't miss a flamboyant american i think her biggest title so far to hook auctions of unusual outfits. i wasn't too nervous saying just kind of just to my partner and felt good out there i mean very. good doubles players they came back in a second. but we fought it out and the terrorism was pretty good to have a chance. 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 four after coming back from a long layoff due to a shoulder injury bites in melbourne the twenty four year old was simply outplayed and outpowered by as our anchor the better russian coming from two love down in the

first set to win it six three and then taking the second to love to claim not only her first round song title also overtake caroline wozniacki to clinch the world number one spot however despite that from being defeated sharapova says she has every reason to look forward to the season ahead. i don't regret the work that i put in at all i was going to the stages is great for me especially not having played matches for three months. i. don't know what to expect from. an game i do just don't know to be at the stages is good for me that's why i'm looking forward to this new year. as far as our in case she dedicated the victory so you have a grandmother on the twenty two year old added that she wasn't entirely surprised to have achieved that which was themselves appears appalled was. surprised and not surprised i mean no words really hard and i've been playing pretty well it's 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 and important moments you know so i'm surprised he has. moving on to football now and robin van persie scored two quick penalties as arsenal came back from two goals down to knock out aston villa three two in the fourth round of the f.a. cup richard dunne and darren bent given villa a two nil halftime lead but three goals in seven minutes gave the gunners victory theo walcott's fifty seventh minute strike for sandwich between phantasy spot kicks as arsenal completed a stunning comeback and earlier the returning fraser campbell scored sunderland's equaliser as the black cats true one one in the northeast darby with middlesbrough barry robson at the visitors ahead after sixty minutes but just before the out of the bar a man misplaced a pass allowing james became to play in campbell to score his first goal since april two thousand and ten the replay will be at the riverside on february the

seventh or eighth and arsenal will travel to either sunderland or middlesbrough in the fifth round after the last sixteen draw was also made on sunday elsewhere chelsea will play calling cup holders birmingham travel to crawley who are currently third in england's fourth tier the winner of the replay between everton and blackpool will host sheffield wednesday brighton's reward for beating newcastle is a trip to liverpool while bolton will go to either millwall also fountain norrish take on championship leicester and talk and go to thirtieth steven age or in the last sixteen for the first time. now and there's been a surprise second time winner on the european tour as english men robert rock edged rory mcilroy graeme mcdowell and tiger woods to win the abu dhabi championship by one shot rock who is ranked outside the world's top one hundred share the overnight lead with in four words going into the final day and the two were neck and neck early on with both birdie in two of the opening three holes but woods then crumbled

with two straight bogeys while thirty four year old rock proceeded with confidence though he had an off and on round with bogey and birdies coming thick and fast he still finished there to. just enough to stay one stroke of mcelroy us open champion birdied his last words and it out in a three way tie for third thomas bjorn and mcdowell the northern irishman putting in a strong finish thanks to a holy month on the twelfth followed by three birdies but the day that belonged to rock. just started shooting. it all you would just use just everything you want to do it was a goal for. 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 kept the ball for a while it didn't do anything you know wrong today and hit

a couple of shots at about nine to get myself to good looks and. golf as an hour and very young champion as lydia code became the youngest ever player male or female to a professional tournament at the tender age of just fourteen when she hit the flag at the eighteenth hole at the new south wales open in sydney but the new zealand amateur held her to triumph by four shots that could have created history when she was just thirteen and sure to thank me later granted the same event last year the youngest ever male golf when. he was fifteen when he picked up his first title but it's coach who's now basking in the limelight. i can really think much and. for i really knows i'm really happy and i played good goal for the last three days . i'm happy and people can use. in making history is just amazing. and finally rushes wrestlers have dominated at the evaluating grand

prix in siberia the annual event is named after the two time olympic champion has been a promising test for the russian team with just six months to go before the start of the london olympics as my costs are up reports. the three day event wraps up with the most captivating of ballots in the men's heavyweight division and once again wrestlers from russia have made it into all of the finals with only one american wrestler making it through the all of them a stage in the one hundred and twenty kilograms of vision the most prestigious weight class so a battle between olympic silver medalist russia's medal and four time all american wrestler serve the lot and have the first period ended in a draw but the russian managed to win the clinch despite losing the disc toss. the benefit period a little more convincing in the second period and scored blog net by soup lines to one and claimed gold despite failing to reach the top of the podium at the manja

region gold in grand prix the united states team did finish in third place with one silver and three bronze medals those are certainly some of our best rustlers you talk about the lack of jake barra both medalled at the world championships and certainly have a good chance of meddling at the olympic games so now we have some of our best guys here we've got some work to do the final in the eighty four k. division was a crowd pleaser with the local two time european champion and sort of stepping out on the mat against last year's world championships runner up your heat or by of the match had to be decided in an additional third round with a cross they are sick native getting the upper hand over his opponents from north to set top honors in the ninety six k. division could only go to one place and that's russia's republic of dagestan both wrestlers are represented in the city of much both up. and. have recorded the world cup series in twenty eight cents and were evenly matched up here as well however it was the twenty three year old who outsmarted his club mate and claimed

gold you know should go you know we had hoped for three gold medals a few civilians and the dog just on the wrist was to quote will the witness will soon compete at the european championships well soon and groans medalists two world cup event was there but john. as for those of those who didn't truly impressed here they'll have another chance to prove their worth at the russian nationals since the russian wrestlers claimed overall first place in the banya region golding drumcree with eight gold and eight silver medals the japanese women helped their side finish second and then there can skate third the olympics are coming up fast and most of the wrestlers will meet each other again soon in various qualification tournaments around the world that's all from cross they are i'm on call for the reporting for r.t.e. in eastern siberia. and that's all by phone so. the

issue is that so much definitely there when you visited to find the mark with crude blockade and the turning off of the times as the united states maybe you again sanction iran iran is also threatening to impose.

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china corporations are old today. this week's top stories are the league's mission arab nations hold their observers work in syria reports of an upsurge in violence russia says that could make things worse. talks between iran and u.n. nuclear inspectors resume amid international tension tehran is considering stopping fuel supplies to the e.u. within days as a response to sanctions. so u.s. corporate protests feel the full force of the law in oakland again with officers resorting to tear gas and flash grenades to disperse demonstrators and arrest hundreds of. multinational proposals to stop piracy spark mass protests in poland they 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 t.v. the arab league's observer mission in syria has halted its work saying it's concerned over reports of a rise in violence more than a hundred people are thought to have been killed in fighting between security forces and rebel groups in the last few days alone russia has criticized the league's decision to end what it described as a useful instrument and called for more monitors in syria sarah ferguson latest for us now from the syrian capital damascus. the sense really from moscow that this decision to hold the mission was going to inflame an already very volatile situation and unfortunately as seems to be exactly what we've seen happening here

now foreign minister sergei lavrov was speaking today on his tour of the asia pacific countries and he said that he didn't understand why such a useful tool had been treated in this way we've seen the observer mission start and eventually grounds to hold they never really recovered after that decision last week so the goal stays when they withdrew their monitors now their decision they said was because they felt the mission had failed to hold the syrian government to its pledge and the violence and it was a surprising decision that's how the foreign minister described it because at exactly the same time that the gulf states made that decision the decision would also be made to extend the mission so just that a very very crucial time with the situation in the country rather than making this mission stronger rather than trying to make it more effective if you have the goal states withdrawing them on it is now he said that that aroused questions we've got the meeting coming up on cheese day where the arab league against very presenting.

findings essentially briefing the u.n. and most gays maimed remains very very adamant that is not going to back any plan that's going to leave the door open to foreign military intervention in fact again their response to western cool's now that has said that it's impossible to hold dialogue with the regime here the foreign minister called very irresponsible and indeed unforgivable as i think there's a real sense that this arab league with the want to put unity ready to pursue the resolution to dialogue and to try and calm it's extremely volatile situation it's shocking really to see how much the situation is escalating day by day when a you've really seen this conflict creeping towards the capital people in damascus who weighed. not to the sound of gunfire fans i bet this arab league mission essentially has turned out to be a dance club and there's a little people here saying what was the point and having that manifest place if

they were going to be made strengthened if they were going to trial was. always essentially we're going to lead to un action anyway well political analyst steven lemon believes it's not a coincidence that the arab league froze its mission just as western powers up the calls for foreign involvement well my goodness that sounds like a no fly zone a different language it was an open sesame to direct intervention and meeting war the observers who were sitting into syria you know they picked the wrong man to lead the mission sudanese general. they thought they had the air man in charge who would deliver the goods against the side believing him for everything going oh i'm cool what did general he do who he said was sorry is cooperating it's exactly the opposite of what the u.s. want to do you may want to prepare to step up whatever they have in mind which is

some kind of you to action the best solution is the worst syria's civil it's only a theory and here is a legitimate opposition in syria syria is that authoritarian a reporter in the when the guardian reported we get to go to a national poll that apparently go some credibility so good i'm going giorgio syrians. for america and britain and the arab league and theirs to intervene in syria use of smears and to have an arrogant resolution saying and all that i would do would be happy in two weeks where assad absolutely should in diplomatic way which total these people to to go. well if syria is locked in a spiral of violence libya isn't far behind coming up on r.t. a little later months after the fall of gadhafi respected ngo doctors without borders suspends its mission to libya after being forced to treat the torture victims then sent straight back for further interrogation more on that a little later here on r.t. . u.n.

nuclear inspectors have started a three day mission to examine iran's atomic activities tehran says the talks with the international atomic energy agency the first of more than three years will prove its nuclear program is purely peaceful the i.a.e.a. visit comes as tensions between iran and the west are near a crisis level on monday adopted an unprecedented set of sanctions against the islamic republic be included a complete embargo on oil supplies from iran and are expected to come into force in july well for more let's let's go now to michel chossudovsky is the author the book towards a world war three scenario the dangers of nuclear war michelle just how effective can a three day union inspect u.n. inspectors visit be in verifying what exactly is going on with iran's nuclear program. well i don't want to comment on the. mission of the vote because it impacts it's it's the biggest which preceded it which i think of course

a loophole if we go back a few a couple of weeks back leon panetta the defense secretary and i was states said quite categorically hostile to c.n.n. for so. called stupid threats so they have nuclear weapons and he has also was a categorical no he said no they don't and they don't constitute a threat they would by iraq. war less the same mind made a single state but the fact that he didn't consider that of all it was a threat to israeli security and. who had capabilities. and then subsequently then on the monday we see that the european union with the with a sanctions regime which is direct it also gives the central bank freezing its assets as well as going all out to several financial institutions all of this lawmaker public again we have to also what is what was the peacock's the justification of

a lot of these policy cheap political statements and i think what we are witnessing here is is a build up towards the ability to really call for and station these sanctions. constitute in some regards the staging of all of a military agenda and i should mention that we have a massive reply because of u.s. military hardware troops going into israel to be stationed at israel also going to put weights. you know naval naval forces in the. gulf in the arabian sea. and it also was i thinking. what you know is states was out doing its allies. which will give us the ball but won't all that be scuppered iran has said that it will prove that its nuclear

development is for peaceful purposes only it's simply got to corporate on this three day visit has just answer all the questions and that will undermine all those intentions you've just been talking about that the west has. well i think that all of this is playing to the magic carpet. made up of inspectors that not necessarily control politically but i think what the united states walls is some kind of a state but you know which they use in a balanced on a balanced way to to sort of leads to the next stage and what we're talking about is escalation that was already started there's there's all the role of the. special forces inside iran there's no there's no i well i would describe as by the actual wall. if we owe it to evaluate. nuclear threats we have to we call it like i will say that. israel has nuclear threats you know its

status as a nuclear threat from those of nuclear threat but there are other countries which we never mention belgian all and it's only one job of you know nuclear states which have us they don't think about because that was think of bill clinton is a respected military bases. and they're talking to the republic of all of iran so that. the issue of nuclear weapons. of iran's nuclear weapons is a red herring but it is a red herring which could lead to a well what we said are you right so you paint a very very pessimistic complete picture of the consequences of what could happen so let me bearing in mind the instability we're seeing in syria now you're talking about potential conflict against iran i mean you really absolutely serious that the world would let this happen that there we could actually see a world war three scenario. well watts i think we have to understand that first of

all this the feet build up has the place for the last six or seven years since about two thousand fly. the planes to wage a wall of iran. egypt lee in the wake of the two thousand and three invasion and occupation of iraq in fact they were conducting war games that what the exhibit called iran that was that was back in two thousand and three that would build this it already knows. what i could say is that this is being on the military agenda. starting on the fly all according to the classified u.s. central command documents that be they're building up that military capabilities that you can see if the comic sanctions and there's something rational this is a very very briefly we're out of time just very briefly wellbore three scenarios

what's the outcome who benefits from all of that what's the often off just briefly well outcome is on its own think of all the it's it's a war which it extends sort of the eastern mediterranean right to the chinese call it could possibly have all the countries including russia and china they have the world well at least in our view of it being. you know they'd be preparing it but i don't think suggesting that it. was the moment but think it is so in full and so we write this ability you know we could fact find ourselves in a very critical crossroads ok michel ok well anybody anybody would like to pursue the reasonings behind your theory here of course can pick up your book towards a world war three scenario the dangers of nuclear conflict you know of nuclear war that's a touch of your book so many people will probably be very interested to hear what

you have to say and find out more about your thought. behind the scenario thanks very much indeed for your thoughts for the moment here on r.t. . of the program thank you but we're keeping a close eye on the iranian oil and nuclear side go on air and online for the moment you can head to our website r.t. dot com for more analysis and updates on the latest developments. the u.s. occupy movement protesters once again turned violent in oakland california police fired tear gas and some two thousand demonstrators several hundred were arrested as attempted to occupy a vacant convention center before storming into city hall parties report not. 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 crosley twenty two thousand people strong culture milling what the goal was for this demonstration is for protesters to take over an empty 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 thankfully the police in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades was 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 carry him to occupy an optimist but as you guys 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 struck in the had by police tear gas canister 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. despite the increasing violence and arrests sara flounders from the international action center told me little early hearing on the future of the occupy movement is still very bright. it's very much achieving its goals in terms of waking up the youth in the us waking up working people in the us to the reality the reality that poor and working people

are losing more and more and that one percent actually one thousands of one percent is gaining a normal new wealth so that they are very successful in drawing attention to that despite a shutdown by the media and by the police and that movement is very determined to continue and to find new tactics. well those occupy protests america come against a background of the race for the white house we've brought prism to do list as it seeks reelection that's coming from an examiner to find out the key details of the state of the union speech with our expert analysis. it's been a turbulent week for poland which saw thousands of people protesting against the piracy pact 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. reports from warsaw.

at first thousands across poland directed their anger squarely at the notorious anti counterfeit trade agreement the idea of punishing the site for publishing the trite marked 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 documents. that we have right. to. the right for our own interpretation of the can but that's not possible knows a lot from our government technically active should be a good thing protecting.