but i have signed marcus also twin brother of martin on a free transfer of swedish side homes that keep me off of sites that you wrote last year and for medical strike if you will see say on a two and a half years contract for undisclosed fee as defined by the rich well joins west brom from serving in. wow other room and moving crude matches even the side reins experienced midfielder that the designer want to preload to the rest of the season while croatia strike i did he say yeah love it seems that the rangers for everton the toughest guy got lewis are possibly going to top them this place to have their updates. not elsewhere ac milan have unveiled their latest signing strike i'm actually lopez the twenty seven year old has described milan as a dream club after joining them on loan from fellow italians like to come near the striker who holds both argentinian and italian citizenship for photos with finance chief executive of briana galliani who also refused to rule out the possibility of signing cost have as someone just a city. services around is not full steam. 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 never know what is happening in the. well meanwhile back in russia cash given by the other accepts to stay at the helm of twice former russian champions ribena after the club's board of trustees turned down his resignation letter while their press officer said the letter never existed well the fifty nine year old manager allegedly wanted to quit after disputes with the management over budget and transfer policies ravine apparently fifth in the domestic league will play a little p.r. course in the last six or lost their future i should say of the europa league on february the fourteenth. winning the lunch to city manager roberto mancini 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 a points over top no one cheney thinks the title race is between the top two. so i

did that is difficult for the other because maybe if it was you that the united. all the games i did that is really feeling all the sixteen games if you can also that came in before there is the talk about the moment city united well with the top forty not just this tuesday nineteen i think could join city as joint leaders if they started all traffic and city stumble through only their third defeat of the season they want third place top another host rock bottom fourth place chelsea will have to deal with that injured captain john terry as they go to swanzy is lost only once i'm sorry for the season while liverpool could have gotten selves into the top five should then win at lowly walls the chance of european football being a top priority. seed with food sixteen league games left. cup

final at wembley moved. for a friendly cook to go home tie brain there's a lot for us to play for the season and certainly the qualification for the champions league sport is what i saw best to to do as more should we possibly can make is as good a season for everybody as we can. meanwhile over at the africa cup of nations as the an historic win for so don't they beat back you know fast i too want to claim their first victory in the tournament the forty three years and go through to the quarter finals following and i can defeat and lead drop the winner sudan's first event since beating to go on a in the one nine hundred seventy finals because champions they also get through to the knockout stage thanks to ivory coast also beating angola to know well the ivory coast had already sealed their last eight spot a game early so the fans were in a relaxed mood before that final group game with angola and were also given a real treat the market cap did a draw but tilden helped cook lunch during round sixty supporters of the fourteen

hundred kilometer trip to watch them pick up their third win three elephants or next play co-host equitorial guinea on saturday. while drawbar was rested in that two nil angola win but his former chelsea teammate did have a good day's work out in spain as the thirty three year old frenchman termed his new side shanghai shin was put through their paces as a trainee kalimantan fear experienced striker was the first man to leave the blues after the arrival of manager and for us and has become one of the biggest foreign acquisitions in the chinese league had also been linked to the fast rising club before signing a one year extension to stay it sounds of bridge until at least the summer. stay with the current investigating the death of former wales manager gary speed says the former midfielder might have killed himself accidentally and not committed suicide corners a close reinberg said the cause of death was by hanging and said speed with a makeshift ligature around his neck that may have slipped or stepped from the star

case leading to his loft the inquest heard that days before his death the forty two year old former player had texted his wife louise and talked in terms of taking his life but later dismissed it the couple had also had a route on the night before his death on the denver the twenty seven's. moving on to motor sport now a formula one supremo bernie. and he's pushing hard to get russian druther vitaly petrov in the sport the head of the new season with all of us being frozen out of the lead to run a team now hired former world champion can be like him and that's the russians manager at. ecclestone the skills of the raf to stay in formula one the eighty one year old wants to promote the sport in russia and such he will host the country's first one in twenty fourteen zero meanwhile but they're all from finished tell from last season's championship denies he joined the culture and thought that your scientists are ari. well of force india dr alvin social is also without an f one driver while the children has also just been handed an eighteen month suspended

sentence for last year's gold with a team like this when i know everything ups such it was found guilty of cutting logs in the neck with a champagne glass at a nightclub in shanghai after the chinese gone three in may and will also pay a fine of more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars to. the n.b.a. now in the memphis grizzlies have slumped to their fourth defeat in a row after an eighty three points to seventy three loss to the san antonio spurs despite having played just twenty four hours before the spurs showed no signs of sluggishness bonus three point two in the second quarter established a comfortable thirty one nineteen lead and the advantage with ten points at the break helped on this call the lead dunk san antonio never looked like relinquishing their lead dummy greenstreet pointer in the final quarter is a bit similar to the wind eighty three to seventy three again the final score san antonio and our sixth in the western conference by memphis at ten.

staying in america and the new york giants have arrived in indianapolis ahead of super bowl forty six where they'll face the new england patriots at the lucas oil stadium next sunday the game will be a repeat of the two thousand and eight final which saw the giants beat the patriots and small new england perfect season don't quarterback eli manning was among the first to get off the plane both sides coming into this year's championship in strong form the patriots. have prevailed in the last ten matches in a row all the giants also boast and five game winning streak which tom coughlin might to make it sucks. we've been in anticipation of this of coming out here to indianapolis of getting started on this wonderful super bowl week of our conducting our meetings and practice is here acclimating our players to the surroundings having an opportunity to get over the stadium tomorrow for media day so we're excited to get things started well meanwhile the patriots a lot on sunday and they're also prepared to spend the next few days working hard

also intend to enjoy you'd be. great to be here agreed ours where you play and you know super was incredible experience for all of us and i've been very fortunate my career to be my fifth time and you know you try to communicate to the younger players how special it is to be here because you really do never know when you're going to come back and that's that's what makes for a fun week even deal with you guys for another week is fun for the players. house all the sports news this evening i think.

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don't come. in the. this is usually cancelled will never approve bombing syria i guarantee it russia's foreign minister rules out use of force against syria to settle the crisis there but says moscow never insisted 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 threatening the assad family with a brutal and bloody and live reaction on syria shortly here on r.t. . plans to expand the u.s. military presence in asia pacific threaten to backfire on the philippines as some in china call for sanctions against the island nation for offering to station more american troops. and this is first somebody exposes deepening divisions within the

union despite most members agreeing to fiscal restrictions that critics say is an affront to sovereignty and democracy our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow this is. a fierce battle is unfolding at the u.n. security council where discussion is underway on a new resolution on syria western and arab diplomats are launching a major offensive to overcome russia's strong opposition to a text calling for president assad to go it also doesn't rule out the use of foreign force what is more important is monitoring developments in new york for us marina what exactly are the sides not seeing eye to eye on.

well bill the reality is that russia has maintained a position on syria in which it believes that both sides of the conflict need to come together in dialogue and russia has said that it will not support any use of force into syria on syria now according to the arab european draft resolution that's now being presented to the u.n. security council it calls for syrian president bashar al assad to step aside hand over his powers to his deputy while and national unity government is formed but most importantly it in at the end of this resolution is is a paragraph that says that the security council can decide to review syria's implementation of the resolution within fifteen days and if the event in the event syria has not complied the security council can adopt further measures in consultation with the league of arab states though this is according to the draft

draft resolution that was published by the guardian but we need to stress that adopt further measures is words that can be interpreted in various different ways and that is something that russia china and other member members of the security council are very much against they don't want to see what happened in libya happen in syria and this is where the sides are not seeing eye to eye odd now as you mentioned there is a major offensive that is taking place the diplomatic offensive at the united nations security council today because u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton will be taking part in the meeting as will her british and foreign counterparts it is not every day that you see ministers from other countries fly into new york to take part in security council meetings we really they are trying to push russia on this issue to get russia to support this draft resolution the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says that russia has

not and will never subscribe to a campaign of organizing or overthrowing governments of other countries take a listen. when you hear the news in good we never said retaining bashar al assad in power is a condition for crisis settlement we said something different when would it's not a part of russia's foreign policy to ask leaders to step down regime change is not our job the decision must be solely syrian only syrians all groups of syrians must gather at the negotiating 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 with a call in the air force bombing we've seen that already and the security council will never approve it but i guarantee it the most of the. that was russian foreign minister sergei lavrov giving russia's position on this issue but of course this meeting will be taking place in the next couple coming hours at the security council bill what it comes down to is the fact that russia is

trying to spearhead an effort of getting both sides in syria to come together and engage in dialogue russia does not support any draft resolution that includes coercive or punitive measures the draft resolution that is being discussed today that is written and supported by western countries does include course of and it is measures so of course as more details become available on this story we will keep our viewers updated its thanks very much indeed that's marina point live in new york well the debate syria. the u.n. most powerful bodies should look to start at seven pm g.m.t. and would be bringing you the highlights of the meeting lloyd here on r.t. well syria's opposition have made a chilling pledge the country's leader they have valid president bashar assad and his family will be killed just like libyan leader colonel gadhafi is saying he's lost the chance of

a peaceful next it clashes between government forces and rebel fighters a raging on the outskirts of the capital and it's all to sarah ferguson damascus reports the syrian conflict is beginning to resemble libya. we're seeing an increasingly civil conflict evidence really by the violence has broken out for the past couple of days which is really. about us not being housed by the statement by one of the members of the main opposition body the syrian national council. head said that aside and his family would be killed like gadhafi now certainly does tend to fuel the fears on both sides really there's going to be rich ideation and revenge attacks coming in this teacher and certainly that is a genuine fear amongst the people here you're seeing a very polarized country right now and the dividing lines are really being too on you know here at the moment there's really a sense you're either for or against people really that moderate middle ground now

is being squeezed all the time and very concerning because the calls for dialogue just seem to have been completely overshadowed by this very very strong aggressive rhetoric this conflict is just getting bloodier and bloodier more and more violent with the sounds of gunfire and hillary. yells of protests from the streets 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 can be hard to hear the syrian for. the syrian case has developed as 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 finding people willing to talk right now has proven difficult. we've had tanks entering in firing and just enjoy or we've had six people who've

died we travelled to the suburbs where some of the clashes have broken out to try to get a clearer picture of what had been happening here in the last few days when one of the suburbs of damascus at the moment now we were travelling to a suburb called and we thought it was a slightly safer area to visit but we just received a phone call telling us that it's not safe to travel there at the moment the situation is 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 a full grasp of the situation at the moment we make it into the suburbs job or using back roads the opposition that just last week had control of some of these areas has now gone underground so there was a funeral for a resident of died in the fire during his funeral people and his relatives were voicing slogans and called for freedom someone was shot dead during the funeral and

we had to go and hide from the security forces. after it had taken to meet some members of the f.s.a. for the int he begins and some other members joined as well and there's talk turns to people they know just being arrested the meat changes and the atmosphere starts to feel hostile so we leave such uncertainty right now it seems mistrust is rife. it seems sort. of convinced the free syrian army that 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 briefing by the arab league having ground to a halt. the whole reconciliation talks is not one to be simply dismissed. many have already done they have do political they have two political reasons for. for for feeding the complicated in syria i think they don't want 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 now if that unity is the 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 calls the international action it's just going to keep getting louder surface r.t. damascus. for more on the battle in hand over syria i'm now joined by picking a professor of political science at paris west university and performs well as we just heard from our correspondent a little earlier marine important she says that western and arab diplomats at the u.n. a currently working to change russia's staunch opposition to

a draft resolution which blames just president bashar assad for the bloodshed what are their chances of success. well as if the call to gauge now but you know the jew political game is slated to level the ethical level and clearly this sad regime is murderous it's time for it to go so from this point of view the american plan is quite. good to the situation but then the geopolitical game is also a game of influence in a key region so on the one hand you have the west supporting the rebels in russia they want the regime down they want to eliminate the uni and eye of the rand and then russia is supporting the regime in syria for the same geopolitical reasons that is it it needs an ally in the region an ethic or dispute the first something which is real and agree regime which has to go but beyond this there's also the geopolitical aims and they are quite different. parties.

in what way are they different than. well geopolitically the west wants to have influence in syria iran is deprived of its one ally in the region and russia is also deprived of its one in the region the geopolitical game and at the same time there's a real disastrous humanitarian situation but of course humanitarian situations are always used in order to achieve geo political aims so the west is arming the rebels russia is arming the government and syria it's very close to. war by proxy you know as happened during the cold war. let me just quickly ask you when the un resolution implies that foreign intervention could ensue russia's insist their intervention will spark civil war some would say the civil war's

already started hasn't there well this civil war has started but if the resolution were like the libya resolution then it would be of course. full of it would be an avenue for nato to intervene with the cover of the u.n. and then what happens afterwards is that nato takes sides in a civil war. russia wants to prevent what you could call real reasons and the west claims it wants to do it for humanitarian reasons human nature in crisis is real but the geopolitical stakes are slightly odds with this. political situation you're talking about a star that you're talking about the west taking sides there. we know that western countries have been accused of just blaming the assad regime for the syrian crisis and nobody else ignoring the role of the armed opposition. well this sad regime is clearly responsible for many murders but if you feed if you give arms to be other

side instead of trying to negotiate the un with the arab league in order to achieve a peaceful solution which probably would include. the collapse of the assad regime because the solution in syria i think cannot be achieved without a sad leaving power but it can be achieved either through military force. type of intervention and that is a disaster and then we don't talk about the consequences of the disaster or it can be achieved through negotiation and that would be negotiation at the u.n. when the arab league and the beaches maybe of the american plan but. peacefully not with weapons and right now i think that need to think that negotiation really is likely russia is clearly pushing for that very hard but obviously meeting a lot of resistance from the west and other arab countries do you think really there is a chance or is it too late now for successful negotiations well if the syrian opposition the rebels feel they can win without negotiations that would be no

negotiations but if it's a stalemate and the two sides realize that it's a stalemate maybe there's a chance for negotiations but you know you have a murderous leader issued be out of the way but the best way to get him out of the way it is peacefully and not by armed intervention because armed intervention creates more problems than if you look at libya there are many problems that are not reported of our in the mainstream press in the west but the intervention was not a total success to say the least. the regime has to go but i think it should come through negotiations professor of political science of paris west university montel out of force thank you very much indeed fieldwork on thank you. u.s. plan to increase its military presence in the philippines is causing uproar china's state run dailies said that manila should be made to pay for creating tension and in danger in regional security america would also boost its presence in the asia pacific region by putting more of its forces in australia and singapore

a strategy seemingly aimed at constraining beijing growing power. at the international level the philippines know that the u.s. is stepping mistry 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 the recent changes in the regional politics particularly in taiwan where mr martin to you and to call mr asian was successful we were elected there means beijing and taipei would have more stable relationship expression in terms of economic integration across the strait in the coming years and the philippines knows that the u.s. would need a more reliable ally in the asia pacific region so the philippines is reeling to learn it sounds too good 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 that ask urging the chinese government to top up for 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 trying to get the best interest from from this china and u.s. relations. still to come here on r.t. this deadline in d.c. u.s. occupiers refuse to move despite threats of eviction and the rest of. the purpose of this was to unite in this space so they want to rest one of us they have to arrest all of us. visible message of opposition and defiance from protesters camped out in two national parks.