meanwhile the lack of a budget the uk is on the verge of signing for english premier league side fallen from that got before this tuesday's midnight deadline the twenty eight year old has scored only fifteen goals for the just think a side in sixty eight appearances and netted just once this season but is undergoing a medical craven cottage for the manager martin you also want to bolster his attacking options while reports suggest the heart of his bobby zamora might be moving on to me by q.p.r. it might find out where ac milan have unveiled their latest signing strachan actually lopez the twenty seven year old has described milan as a dream club after joining them on loan from fellow italian sidekick anya the striker who holds both argentinian and italian citizenship post photos with finance chief executive happy i'm kelly only also refused to rule out the possibility of signing carlos tevez from manchester city. is not foreseen. has arrived and i have never said davis is coming after that let's wait

and see what is coming in summer the market is nearly closed but nevertheless it is very dynamic and you'll never know what is happening very well managed a city manager about a month she has been boosted by the return of banned captain vincent kompany for this tuesday's premier league trip to everton city hold a three point lead at the top over rivals manchester united and eight points over top of that when cheney thinks the title race is between the top two. so i think that is difficult for the other because maybe it is impossible that the united. or the games i don't get is very different going on in sixteen games if you can add also that thought in our game and therefore there is the data about the moment that city united. well rivals united could go joint top if they beat stoke adult trafford and the city stumble to any of their third defeat of the season so play start their host rock bottom wigan fourth place chelsea will. have to do without

injured captain john terry as they go just one is the last ones at home though the blues have completed the signing of twenty year old belgian having a point gang meanwhile liverpool could catapult themselves into the top five if they win at lowly wolves the chance of european football being their top priority. he said we've got sixteen league games left. cup final at wembley go for free and difficult to go home to the brain there's a lot for us to play for the season. so the qualification for the champions league sport is one of the small bluto best thing to do as more should we possibly can make is as good a season for everybody as we can. well meanwhile at the africa cup of nations i request fans were given a treat ahead of their final group game the mother of captain did a drug but profiteers helped launch for around sixty supporters who made the fourteen hundred kilometer trip for their clash with angola and it was

a good day all round for the elephants fans there to know when setting up a quarter final with equitorial guinea well captain rather was rested in the wind as his former chelsea team mates michael and i had a good day's work out as the thirty two year old frenchman and his new side shanghai shun wah put through their paces at a training camp in volunteer experience striker was the first man to leave the blues after the arrival of manager and regular of course and has become one of the biggest foreign acquisitions in the chinese league had also being linked to the fast rising club before signing a one year extension to stay at stamford bridge until at least the summer. with an automotive sport now a formula one supremo bernie ecclestone is pushing hard to get russian brother vitali petrov in the sport ahead of the new season but all has been frozen out of the running now hired former world champion can we why couldn't but the russians been using x. on the tank and says ecclestone is king of the trough to stay in formula one the eighty one year old wants to promote the sport in russia and such of the host countries first form in twenty fourteen will walk across the finish tenth in last

season's championship denies very strong patron team all the tears signed for ferrari well a former force india driver of in seville is also without an f one driver while the german has also just been handed an eighteen month suspended sentence for last year old team latest winner i meet lots so to was found guilty of cutting locks in the neck with a champagne glass at a nightclub in shanghai after the chinese born free in may and will also pay a fine of more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars. over in america the new york giants have arrived in indianapolis ahead of super bowl forty six without face the new england patriots at the lucas oil stadium next sunday quarterback eli manning was among the first to get off the plane the game will be a repeat of the two thousand and eight final weeks saw the giants defeat the patriots and spoil the england perfect season both sides coming to this year's championship in strong form the patriots have prevailed in the last ten matches in

a row while the giants also boast a five game winning streak coach tom coughlin to make it six. we did it in anticipation of this coming out here to indianapolis of getting started in this wonderful super bowl week of our conducting our meetings in practices you acclimating our players to the surroundings have enough to really get over the stadium tomorrow for me day so we're excited to get things started. and finally the powerhouse of russian women's basketball spot and kay are preparing for their last group match of the year and on wednesday the club has gone from strength to strength despite the murder of its flamboyant own a two years ago confident but off reveals more on a fascinating story born in the three any nine hundred forty seven common knowledge immigrated to israel before being unmasked as a spike in one thousand nine hundred seven and sent to jail but five years later

the multinational citizen and speaker of nine languages was released in a raid in moscow where he became a concert promoter organizing shows for michael jackson and lies america. dark chorus and surroundings may have been called stock in trade during his time as a spy. but this was where his real passion lay the former k.g.b. man sponsor different clubs including lutheran ian you really championed shall garous however he truly established his hardwood employer with moscow region side sparta before leading the russian women's team to europe in silver so a lifeless ordinary which ended tragically in two thousand and nine the best possible lover and injure bernard was murdered as a hail of bullets hit his car in central moscow he died at the scene his killers were never found but the legacy of common knowledge lives own. for us

he was like a friend a father mentor it was always a family atmosphere even though we were professional team we always felt close to the players but the people are. sparta quickly establish themselves as a basketball delisted winning all available silverware in russia and europe over the past five years sitting in a record with force which you really titles and they were getting the twenty ten triumph to comment on it his wife and former clare on that he board carries on his legacy she's now president of the club which plays under the name sparta and it changed its name for copyright reasons but kept the last letter king in memory of their four mona one of the most influential figures in women's basketball he really kind of set the standard for the rest of the world in the way he treated the girls

the way he interacted had he not come along and fell in love with women's basketball we would be standing here with an excellent infrastructure and solid rules to sport and are a perennial top flight side and the motivation is to get back on the very top after finally losing last year in their fifth straight year only showpiece yet the club is not only about a senior team it also has a youth academy where hundreds of kids are keen to be. the next generation of stars is now in there he's now building younger players to get to this point to play professional basketball to hopefully play for you national team one day says a lot about what he's building here sparring kids are currently top of the obscene the euro league and leading their domestic championship their winning traditions were established in the poorest while the family traditions that make common knowledge form a club special i just as important because i'm about out of forty. i

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the security council will never approve bombing syria i guarantee it ruptures the foreign minister rules out use of force against syria to settle the crisis but says moscow never insisted that retaining the current assad regime was a condition for peace. and the syrian opposition has rejected a chance for talks with the country's president instead of threatening the assad family with a brutal and bloody end. plans to expand the u.s. military presence in asia pacific far on the philippines something china called for sanctions against the island nation offering to station more american troops. this

year's first e.u. summit exposes a deepening divisions within the union despite most members agreeing to school were strict shouldn't critics say is an affront to sovereignty and democracy. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow. syria's opposition has made a chilling a pledge to the country's leader. president bashar assad and his family will be killed like libyan leader colonel gadhafi saying he's lost the chance for a peaceful exit fierce battles between government forces and rebel fighters are raging on the outskirts of the capital and assad he's sarah furthur reports in

damascus the syrian conflict is beginning to resemble libya mark two. it got a civil conflict on your house is just seeming to ramp up all the time will settlements like the ones that have been made by one of the most senior position figures in the syrian national council and not going to help the situation at all he said that the assad and his family would be killed in syria that they would be killed like it does say that they left no room for a peaceful solution now i mean that's going to be huge blow to the opposition remember the opposition in this country everything they started this movement calling for a peaceful solution be seen over the ten months the calls for reform change the calls for the president to step down and now it's very common on the streets that many of these protesters to hear the protesters themselves calling for the president to be hanged say so i think you've got a very dangerous situation and you have the u.n. are going to be meeting with the arab league today they'll be briefed on what the

arabic have been calling for they want the u.s. backing for that plan which is calling for the president to step down clearly there's a very heavy push now for some form of intervention from certain countries i mean you've got all these to this current test that we're seeing really and to faring with the what everyone was hoping would happen which is the ability to find a syrian solution to the syrian problem that russia of course has been calling right from the beginning for dialogue between the sides to try and bridge this gap and we can hear now from the foreign minister sergey lavrov speaking about some of the criticisms of russia's stance on the situation when you are going to do a good we never said retaining bashar al assad in power is a condition for crisis something that we should something different with it's not a part of russia's foreign policy to ask the leaders to step down regime change is not our job the decision must be solely syrian only syrians groups of syrians must

gather up to the goose eating table and hammer out a deal with the good if the demand is for him to go and he doesn't then what's next group. call in the air force bombing we've seen that already and the security council will never approve this but i guarantee it. it's very unfortunate recently that what we saying is that this moderate middle ground as it was as essentially being trampled on you've now got very very strong sides certainly within the country does the sense that right now you're right before we were against this conflict is just getting bloodier and bloodier more removed violent. with the sons of gunfire and. yes the face tests from the streets and the increasingly loud and numerous international opinions britain needs to lead the way in making sure we tighten the sanctions the travel bans the asset freezes on syria can be hard to hear the syrian. the syrian case has developed and every side wants to push away the responsibility to another

tossing the ball back and forth in the last few days the situation has become so unstable that finding people willing to talk right now has present difficulties. we've had tanks entering in firing and just enjoy a poor we've had six people who've died we travel to the suburbs where some of the clashes have breaking out to try to get a clearer picture of what had been happening here in the last few days when one of the stabbers of damascus at the moment now we were traveling to a suburb called and we thought it was the right if they had to visit but we just received a phone call telling us that it's not safe to travel there at the moment with the situation so volatile it goes to show you really that you simply don't know what's going on in these areas even the people who are living in these areas don't really have full grasp of the situation at the moment we make it into the suburbs job or using back the opposition that just last week had control of some of these areas

have now gone underground so there was a funeral for rosa. died under fire awful journey his funeral people and his relatives were voicing anti regime slogans and called for freedom so someone was shot dead during the funeral and we had to go and hide from the security forces all of. us who were taken to meet some members of the f.s.a. before the n.t. begins and some other members join as well and this talk turns to people they know they have just been arrested in the changes and the atmosphere starts to feel hostile so. such uncertainty right now it seems mistrust is rife. it seems not have convinced the free syrian army that's coming closer to the capital would be simpler now this is harmful to the cause of bringing peace to syria. everyone it seems is no waiting to see what if any outcome will be the un's briefings by the arab league having ground to

a halt. the whole reconciliation talks is not one to be simply dismissed as many have already done they have do political aims they have two political reasons for. for for feeding the conflict in syria and i think they don't want that they're not interested in due form nor are they interested in democracy or freedom was the government accepted the invitation received mixed reactions from the opposition they size of being taken in the past in calling for a syrian solution to a syrian problem that it's repeatedly failed to communicate no opportunities for dialogue are running out fast. and with such desperate pleas from many people here the opposing sides continue to make it clear they don't want to listen the cools the international action it's just going to keep getting louder surface r.t. damascus. and a constant in cost from the foreign affairs committee in russia's state duma says

the syrian opposition is being told by the west that the regime is doomed so there's no need to negotiate. i believe that the whole have had a unique chance to get together by arranging political consultations in moscow this initiative was rejected yesterday by their position and the. reason they they gave was look there are no prospects to speak out of this regime because this regime is out of question they really why because messages coming to syria from abroad from washington from brussels from elsewhere has have all this bill this regime does not have a future you don't need to talk to them this is the wrong message and by that message they have undermined prospects for political consultations and mosco or elsewhere and this is how we will continue to see clashes in syria we will see blood we will see casualties weak teams unfortunately it will continue to happen not due to the

russian position but due to the position very unilateral very very unfair position taken by the united states and their allies. i know we have been asking you what you think about the situation in syria and whether peace is at all plausible or you can vote on the poll on our worldwide web site right now r.t. dot com let's bring up the numbers here so far almost half of people leave a peaceful agreement is impossible because the west is determined to control syria a little over a thing that such a possibility exists thanks to russia's determination to avert a libyan style scenario thirteen percent agree outside support for the rebels makes war in ever divil a minority believe the syrian government will defend itself. a u.s. plan to increase its military presence in the philippines is causing uproar china's state run daily said that manila should be made to pay for creating tension and in

danger in regional security america will also boost its presence in the asia pacific region by putting more of its forces in australia and singapore as a strategy seemingly aimed at constraining beijing's growing power. at the international level the philippines know that the us is the return to asia refocusing its military and security deployment in the middle east in asia pacific targeting china in iran as the primary security concerns now at the regional level the philippines also see that their recent changes in the regional politics particularly in taiwan where mr martin to you and to call restriction was successful we were elected there means beijing and taipei would have more stable relationship more expression in terms of economic integration across the

strait in the coming years and the footprints knows that the u.s. would need a more reliable ally in the asia pacific region so the philippines is reeling to learn it has to be are broken for that kind of particular security concern the us is having in the asia pacific region i have already noticed there's tremendous pressure from the pm within china asking and urging the chinese government to top of a tough position towards the philippines however i think the chinese government should be a bit more careful about these internal demand so i think the philippines is all doing that to try to get the best interest from from this china and u.s. relations. it's good to have you with us today you are watching are still to come for you deadline in d.c. u.s. occupiers refused to move despite threats of a picture of that and asked. the purpose of this was to unite in this case

so if they want to arrest one of us they have to arrest all of us a visible message of opposition and defiance from protesters camped out in two national parks. plus south london prepares to welcome the world it's a limp dick efforts to ensure safety seem to be falling short of the gold standard . e.u. leaders have the first summit of two thousand and twelve all smiles with the existing tensions were quite clear to see there was another war of words between the french president and the u.k. prime minister over whose industry is larger and poland set to join the eurozone demanded a greater say in decision making there was at least one decision made however with twenty five of the twenty seven e.u. nations agreeing to a german school rules that would limit the size of nations bending they also agree to set up

a permanent bailout fund for struggling members are for more insight on the outcome of the e.u. summit i'm now joined by your time van overtveldt author of the end of the year i thank you for coming on r.t. today you leaders have pledged to create jobs in the face of figures showing the eurozone ended two thousand and eleven with a record high unemployment how can they improve that and still introduce austerity . well one of the conclusions of the summit to be yesterday is that eighty billion euros are earmarked to four programs that will improve growth and jobs now eighty billion euros is zero point seven percent of the e.u. g.d.p. so this is really not very much secondly when you want to improve growth and job creation possibilities it is more a question of each of the member countries adjusting its policies of cordingley and then we are talking about tax reform regulatory reform we are also talking about

much more flexibility that is needed in the labor market so it's one thing to have as an object of growth and more jobs it's quite another thing to come to the policies and again these are first of all national policies that need to be adjusted in order to come to some real results in terms of growth in jobs now i understand what you're saying there but let's talk about one major issue simply is is there still any unity in the european union for example france is introducing a tax on financial transactions so the u.k. story opportunity and offer to host french banks in response is there is in no way they can pull together on this. well it's of course very big problem for the european union to keep up the unity it's always a question of national preferences. coming into kalash or at least into some

kind of coalition with each other and for example you mentioned france it's obvious that for the president sarkozy the upcoming presidential elections are quite important and he uses the european platform to a certain extent to try to get some score back on his opponents is that presidential election race but you're entirely right there certainly is at the moment a lack of unity at the european union level but also at the level of the euro zone countries where of course the dominance of germany is something that most of the other countries are looking. very very i should they say fearful way where as you as you mentioned the dominance of germany here i many saying for many months now that germany has been has been shouldering so much of the cost and the burden of the of the struggling eurozone it was germany who put a put forward this idea that almost all the e.u. states agreed to this fiscal pact with tough debt rules and punishment for those

who disobey but how democratic is this move for example where's the logic in fining stations who are struggling with debt in the first place well indeed there is certainly what we call here a democratic deficit in this entire procedure and by the way it's not entirely clear when you read carefully the conclusions of the european summit of yesterday how the whole this issue will be regulated in the end and there is explicit reference to a role to be played by the european constitution or court or the european justice court. that is how that should be done and what exactly will be the powers of. the european council is quite not sure at the moment and a lot of other issues with respect to this fiscal compact are also still open is it really very biting and especially is it really automatically binding the question

the answer to that question rather seems to be no now let's let's just go on here to the longevity and the overall health of the eurozone i've heard some people refer to the eurozone financial crisis as if you have a bucket of water with a hole in it you patch up the hole you don't just pour more water into it what do you see is the future of the eurozone or can it continue at this rate i mean you look at the ongoing greek debt crisis as a prime example of what looks like a cancerous problem on the body of the european neighborhood i agree with that kind of analysis i think we are now changing from what i would call the acute phase of the crisis to the chronic phase of the crisis we really have a chronic crisis where a very important role since a few weeks is played by you in central bank they're creating money at a very rapid rate.