just four months away a proper chain so said the move back to russia was driven by who desire to play first team football. club meanwhile russia strike up another probably at this joint english premier league side for them from stuttgart until at least the end of the season the twenty eight year old had scored fifteen goals in sixty eight appearances for the german side but also hopes to boost his chances of playing for his country at euro two thousand and twelve. thank you linda while the transfer deals were going ahead have a home and there's a dimitar berbatov both scored from the penalty spot as manchester united one two no time to stoke to go level on points with leaders manchester city darren gibson helped his former team united as his first goal for everton was enough to surprise me at city one nil defeat meaning united now only trials on goal difference i mean while top those kept up the pressure in the third on three three one home win over wigan fourth place chelsea grabbed a point it's one zero one liverpool are in the top five after their three no mauling and struggling boards. while this wednesday arsenal could reclaim fifth top

with a winner bolton newcastle are on the same number of points as the gunners and travel to blackburn who themselves could climb out of the relegation zone with a victory villa entertain cheaply on sunderland host norris and could meet up with there is a ten day window kind of west brom coupled with poland where nothing that could make his debut. on the quick look at the other transfers ceased to see if he signed roman it was a bizarre on loan till the end of the season left back wayne bridge goes on loan to sunderland everton striker to be willing to talk to him until the summer. and there was a double super strike as to q.p.r. he would vote for them is probably zamora for just over six million dollars while former liverpool and sunderland star general so you say returned to the premier league after three years and two and a half years to. turn it over in spain athletic bilbao have taken a two one lead from the first leg of their cup del rey semifinal against members for this wednesday false alona travel to balance here for the start of her double

header toss an hour seven points behind wales migration of domestic title race keeping pressure on the other as it will also be tough against. the very strong you know the issue. is a huge this. will be the return into the two war with the exception. tennis and maria sharapova has held her first training session in moscow ahead of russia's fed cup quarter final with spain which gets under way at the weekend while number three has played in only three fed cup matches so far after a defeat couple of years three times to reach the final last month before losing t.v. twenty straight sets now twenty four year old says she's hoping to continue her good season for helping russia into the fed cup semifinals has risen from what we call tough but the country's top place. to be in the finals of

a grand slam that's what you know always want to be down to two and you know for me to be able to come to moscow in a few days obviously a tough transition going from the heat to the call that it's like that for everyone and you know i think we just have to make the quarter just once but i'm happy that we have a home match instead of away and then i can actually be in my home country and it's sort of last time you played fed cup of russia because the french didn't use you more i hope she said give you no motivation this time because you know absolutely last year you know it's it's a team effort and i think that's really how it happened both salon and i didn't have a good first day and then the next day you know the whole team kind of raise their level and one zero two so it's just it's such a different environment than what we're used to whereas when you lose a match and then you're kind of out you know a loser or not you still have a chance and that's what makes it so special here do you feel more confident now because i mean you're getting to be the grandson foreigner. but helping to put what happened in two thousand and one two thousand and eight behind you and just moving forward even don't you want to get into that for know how they're going to want to get to the stage of being in

a final is great and for me to have. an opening where i haven't been a stage in the second week of a grand slam is a really good achievement for me and you know to be number three in the world is great as well as one final question obviously a huge year for you with the ground so i'm trying to get another grand slam title. i mean this is part of a region where you're playing fed cup trying to get in the libyan team and it wouldn't mean to you or the olympics so much for me since i was a young. kiddo's really what we always looked forward to and one day in tennis when i was young was in the beginning was always all the olympic winter sports that i watched and i hope that one day i would be an olympian so you know i missed it out in beijing with the shoulder surgery this year looking forward to the company for example which means i'm now with four days to go until sunday super bowl the new england patriots and you know giants have held their annual press day and revealed key factors which could determine who become champions the giants defeated the patriots in the super bowl final in two thousand and eight and despite winning ten straight games coming into the final the patriots know the have to be flawless

against a very strong giants' defense and that puts even more pressure on new england star tom brady. i'm going to make sure i don't throw any interceptions and make sure i play try to play really well. they're a good team i mean i think that's that's why they're here they force you know a lot of mistakes so but we can't go out there and make mistakes and expect to win we got to go out there and play a very clean game well both brady and giants quarterback eli manning were part of the squad in the super bowl clash in two thousand and eight thirty one year old manning edging his rival to be named most valuable player now he wants the younger teammates to mix business with pleasure and give their opening a business. so you want to enjoy the experience enjoy the bonding time and the down time we have with your teammates but also when it's time to prepare time to practice time get your your focus ready to play this game you know we need we need

one hundred one hundred percent commitment and dedication to going out there and playing our best football. on in our society where russia's top team got to show already to make a big impact this season with some big reinforcements but on your own explains. all of the glue on the greatest roots of the most prestigious cycling learns since two thousand and nine when they were launched gattuso have been deployed over in the sport sixty live trees and over two hundred boardrooms that's what the team have achieved so far nevertheless ahead of their fourth season aiming to take it to the next level clearly given by the sponsors we saw first the olympics the world championships but the sport as well as gifts to the targets you cannot make a team with this quality and say the tour de france doesn't interest me but we have the olympics focusing on it and there are only all for us olympics but this is one

of the most goals here on the other hand it's my my aim and it's my work to work also for the russian cycling for the young riders so you must understand this is approach as a whole project fulfilling those kinds of just takes elite riders and that usually added two superpowers to their roster here comes the first one of the most feared sprinters in the business three time world champion. i'm very happy to be part of this team first of all cut to show represent such a huge country in russia at the international cycling arena and it's a big honor for me this team is very strong and has huge potential to improve meaning a great deal of opportunity for me to claim more wins in my professional career meanwhile that uses biggest precision signing in his main show he's the only one of the team to have tasted overall victory at the world's three major events the

thirty four year old russian proved to be the best at the giro d'italia in two thousand and nine and twice at the world market was i think. it's pretty horrible. this is. one of the best russian either so i think it's it's logical so. i think for me also it gives more more some more power and more ambition a smaller more mature way should form for next season with half a year left to go before the summer olympics in london russia's top cycling team and cyclist. their interests the combination and the olympic games. but. it's going to tional because. anyway if you're finished good shape you're going right i mean because in the same level if you use a touring. and medium level all in all you know you can improve in two weeks or in

but i think you're will have for enough level to complete the olympics knowing and with a little that you should look to have everything needed to make this year one of the most if not the most successful who rushed the cycling rabbit for unknown r.t. . i think.

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and facebook is about. calculate the company of one hundred billion dollars but is that. find out more and. we are coming to you live from moscow city center. welcome to the program russia is standing at the u.n. security council on its opposition to any military intervention in syria differences do remain though among members over how to deal with the conflict washington the e.u. and some arab states one assad to step down but moscow says the u.n. shouldn't be used as a platform to interfere in syria's affairs. reports from new york.

the united states france britain could talk are. all those countries supporting this draft resolution said that there would be no military intervention imposed in syria if the draft resolution was adopted but the most important thing to note is that those spearheading the push for this draft resolution are also calling for a ceasefire in in syria and also calling for a national dialogue between the government and opposition groups these steps these calls are calls that have been made by russia for the past few months russia has indicated on tuesday that it will veto a draft resolution on syria in which the tax calls for imposes any regime change and leaves a rhetorical door open for military intervention similar to what the world saw

transpire in libya this unity council cannot prescribe a radio disappears for the outcome of domestic political purposes it's not in the charter we don't want the security council to call him to fall into the habit because once you start as difficult to stop then you will start telling what king needs to design and know what prime minister needs to step down this is really not the business of the security council moscow has proposed its own draft resolution on syria which calls for both parties participating in the violence to come to the negotiating negotiating table and take part in a dialogue this is an invitation that russia recently made to representatives of the syrian government and opposition groups earlier this week to try to get them to come to moscow and participate in talks. russia has taken a positive position the draft resolution must cooper proves demands an immediate

end to the violence and other positive points. is the call for the government and the opposition to sit down for talks we all want a political solution to the crisis in syria in the coming days the security council will be working to try to come to a consensus on the text of a resolution on syria but if the tax for mainz as it's been presented calling for president bashar al assad to step down and leaving the door open for military intervention this is something that russia firmly will be opposed to. marina portnoy reporting there from new york well in the meantime a peace activist jacob horn bug says that western the states have made a habit of using the u.n. to legalize it's a regime change in other countries that's the whole idea of these resolutions that they're concerned no matter how tightly they are constructed they will always

be construed to do whatever the u.s. government the british government want to do but one thing's for certain this is a problem for the syrian people to resolve not for the u.s. government the british government the united nations this is a problem for the syrian people so obviously that the main thrust of u.s. foreign policy is regime change we've seen that time and time again it begins with sanctions it goes into embargoes blockade but ultimately the quest is to remove a recalcitrant dictatorship install a u.s. regime even if it happens to be a dictatorship so this is another classic example of where the u.s. is but an india other people's affairs when it really has no business doing so. and the indian ambassador to the u.n. says that if the security council continues with its one sided approach to syria a solution will remain a very long way off. as long as the council is in a position to address a recommendation to both sides in

a conflict i think you would get agreement but if the council wants to address its recommendation to one side that is the government and is not willing to encourage the opposition to come to the negotiating table then you've got a council recommendation which clearly is not acceptable to some members what we need to do on syria clearly is to realize that the situation there is spiraling out of control that one reading of the situation in syria will have very serious consequences for the other countries in the region that unlike libya the consequences would be far higher i'm not suggesting that what happened in libya is not serious enough that talking of that i must tell you one of the difficulties that we are having is that the security council experience in respect of resolutions nine hundred seventy and seventy three on libya are now vitiate think the atmosphere in terms of the approach to words how to deal with the situation in

syria. and you can see the full interview with the indian ambassador to the united nations that will be next hour just here on r.t. . the world's top whistleblower is taking his long legal battle to stay in the u.k. now to the country's supreme court julian assange is wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assault taking him back to august two thousand and ten which he denies that we can leaks founder insists the case is politically motivated and in response to his website publishing secret u.s. cables on the wars in afghanistan and iraq artie's laura smith is at the high court in london. the building that you see behind me the supremes court could literally be last chance saloon for julian our sons at least in this country this is a two day hearing which began this morning is expected to carry on until the end of

thursday in which he will present his case to the supreme court to try and have that request for his extra extradition rescind it is if he does fail here he can then take his case the european court of human rights in stroudsburg but that is not given this legal wranglings been going on for more than a year now a soldier arrived this morning looking fairly relaxed it has to be stats that he stopped on his way into court to shake hands with a couple of his supporters who were here some had been here apparently since five o'clock this morning showing their support for a thousand that he headed into court but without saying anything to the assembled media which he's taken to doing in the last months it is presenting his case in front of seven judges and they will be looking at a key question which is whether the european arrest warrant that was issued for him by the swedish prosecutor is valid can the swedish prosecutor in fact issue a european arrest warrant and this could in fact call into question the entire

system of european arrest warrants that under which of course we know that people could be extradited within europe having little or no evidence presented against them now of course this case is all relating to sexual assault charges that took place in august two thousand and ten while a soldier was in store and we are not expecting the outcome of this case to be announced in the next couple of days as the plane cool has that it could take them some weeks to come to a judgment that could mean anything pertaining to two and and ten weeks as far as we know but we also know that one of the things that assad has been truly worried about through this entire proceeding is that once in sweden he could be extradited straight from that to america and my to my colleague tom boston has been to stop to look at the relationship between sweden. and the united states is the face that launched a thousand leaks julian a son does exposure of tens of thousands of secret documents has embarrassed governments the world over but the wiki leaks phenomenon is no longer his most

pressing concern the swedes or thora teams want to question a songe over allegations of sexual assault dating back to august two thousand and ten prosecutors have been criticized by a sound his supporters and international civil libertarians with allegations of a cumbersome contradictory and slow legal process huge arguments have also broken out over the nature of some of sweden's laws on sexual offenses such as those are some faces it's going to be a closed course and leading up to the trial is going to be held. well the chief prosecutor asked for him to be held in solitary confinement it's just. so there are so many bizarre aspects to the why in which the management is being conducted up till now. from our perspective i just can't see how he would get a fair trial others have gone beyond legal arguments saying the storm raised by our

sons through wiki leaks has made him a target for political interference across the atlantic u.s. authorities enraged at having their secret documents exposed may seek to have a son extradited there to stand trial but surely sweden's famed neutrality would stop such a thing but i would disagree as whether saw it in is an outright country sit in a very clear cut. proximity and collaboration even in military operations with such campaigns initiated by nato you have print don't do it so its presence in that is that you have a clear cut. it brought nato policy on it back to sweden and that is not the tragedy with some u.s. politicians branding a sand a cyber terrorist and calling for the death penalty it could get

a lot worse for the wiki leaks founder the problem is not that we have too much wiki leaks too little. i think wealthy people agree with. who is a national public polls to indicate that very large majorities applaud and support the efforts of wiki leaks the why do worry is that with or without julian a son governments around the world with something to hide will now launch full scale assaults on internet freedom in order to keep their secrets secret but for now the focus is on the man not his website killing our son just connections with sweden have raised many questions about what really happened in august two thousand and ten but now with a son just future as uncertain as ever questions are being leveled at sweden's legal system and its relationship with the united states which could prove crucial

to the fate of the world's most notorious whistleblower tom watson r.t. stockholm sweden. well it's good to have you with us this is r.t. live from moscow and just in a few minutes here coming your way in the program israel employs a controversial thing to lure american jews back to the motherland but critics say it needs to fix the problems that drove them away in the first glimpse. also a new gold china races to buy record breaking amounts of the precious metal exposing the trouble that the u.s. dollar finds itself. but you have nuclear watchdog says it's planning to visit a run again in the near future following a three day trip to the country in the finale does believe that iran is committed to progress over its nuclear program however u.s. intelligence officials believe iran is trying to be more open only because it's

feeling the bite of new sanctions and despite admitting the country is not building a nuclear weapon at the moment they likened iran to al qaeda saying it could launch terrorist attacks on u.s. soil but former cia analyst governs believes people have been misled into thinking that iran poses a danger. if you look at the polls seventy percent of the american people believe that iran already has a nuclear weapon that's exactly the same percentage of people in two thousand and two who were persuaded by what i call the fawning corporate media to believe that saddam hussein was working on a nuclear weapon it's bizarre what did the defense ministers of america and israel say they say the readings working on a nuclear weapon know if the arrhenius were working on a nuclear weapon they would have to kick out he wouldn't specters he would know that and they don't want that at all they are not working on nuclear weapon they

have not yet decided to do so so the facts are the offense ministers both intelligence agents and say the way they say it is they have not yet decided to do no nuclear weapons well that means that the i mean simple english means they're not working on a nuclear weapon going to war if on a contrived synthetic if you have to take five steps back and say what is this whole about this is about a nuclear capability but it was about it's about regime change. you're watching r.t. not to forget her we've also got the world covered for you on our website here's what's online for you right now at r.t. dot com leaked nato report accuses pakistan's intelligence of assisting and protecting the afghan taliban find out those details. dot com also find out who is all upset over this one line four year. imprisonment and

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machine on the dot com. in about eight minutes time it's dmitri with the business but for now china has been taken over by gold fever it's believed the beijing or eight of the world's fifth largest holder of gold snapped up around five hundred tons of the precious metal in two thousand and eleven that's double what it brought in two thousand and ten and it could be in the market for just a bit more investment manager francis luna believes beijing is wise to step away from the weakening dollar china has the largest foreign exchange holding of any country and there were about one trillion u.s. dollars there most of their u.s. dollar and for several years now chinese see how limits windy government to diversify is holding out for the change china's economy is feeling.