then move back to russia was driven by his desire to play first team football. well me just like the probable great new york has joined in english premier league side for them from god until at least the end of the season but twenty eight year old has scored fifteen goals in sixty eight appearances for the german side but also hopes to boost his chances of playing in his country at euro twenty twelve. and while the transfer deals were going ahead have a hernandez and then it's all berbatov scored from the penalty spot as manchester united won two nil a time to stoke to go level on points with english premier league leaders manchester city former united now darren gibson spurs goal brevan was enough to beat city one nil defeat meaning united now only trial city on goal difference at the top well meanwhile tottenham kept up the pressure in third after a three one home when the wigan chelsea grabbed a point to one z. while liverpool and now in the top five after their three no win at struggling will . well this wednesday also could reclaim fifth with a win also and you can still travel to third bottom blackburn villa entertain

q.p.r. sunderland norwich and west brom travel to follow up that could make his debut. and a quick look at the other transfers the city have signed robot midfielder that it's out on loan till the end of the season while the left back wayne bridge goes on loan to sunderland and evidence striker luis ahau has been lying to tottenham until the summer. and q.p.r. have snapped up two strikers lying pulis probably zamora for just over six million dollars while for my liver for sunderland star general cease a return to the premier league after three years on a two and a half year deal. followed prince by enough to build bombs had taken a two one lead for the first leg of their del rey semifinal against mitt on those while this wednesday barcelona travelled to balance the up at the start of their double header bossa and seven points behind wales adrift in the domestic title race keeping pressure on the coach but god knows these laws a tough task against balance the. very strong you know the go.

where is that huge this. will be that we tell you. who will be the exception. tennis now 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 the twenty four year old has only ever played in three fed cup matches but with an injury plagued years the world number three reached the australian open final last week losing in straight sets to victoria azarenka and sure up a vote told richard brown likely choose hoping to take you home early season for the help of russia which the fed cup semifinals. you know what it's always great to be in the finals of a grand slam that's what you know always want to be down to the last two and you know for me to be able to come to moscow in a few days obviously it's a tough transition going from the heat to the cold but it's like that for everyone and you know i think we just have to make the quick adjustments but i'm happy that

we have a home match a set of away and then i can actually be in my home country and it's sort of last time you played for a couple russia it's different views you might hope she said give you no motivation this time because you know last year you know it's it's a team effort and i think that's really how it happened on 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 kind of out you know lose a match you still have a chance and that's what makes it so special here do you feel more confident because i mean you getting to be the grandson for an achievement but helping to put what happened in two thousand and one two thousand and eight behind you and just moving forward even that you want to get into hurdle going to work to get to the stage of being in a final is great and for me to have been in the open 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 one final question obviously

a huge year for you with the ground so i'm trying to get on the ground so i'm trying to be lympics i mean this is part of a region where you're playing fed cup trying to get in the lead because it wouldn't mean to you or the olympics has meant so much for me since i was a young kid those really what we always looked forward to one day in tennis when i was young was in the big and it was always all the winter sports that i watched and i hope that one day i would be an olympian so you know i missed it in beijing with the shoulder surgery and this year looking forward to going to fix everything which i'm. alex on that has been left out of russia squad for next week's swedish games the sights on the four nation euro till the fall that national president and his fellow what i'm about to live. getting fat or exempted from national geo to head of the fast approaching postseason reigning champions russia looking to maintain their three point lead ahead of sweden with two more tournament and six games left but the lot is the catch of lead in both goals and assists some of that have to play another eight games in the regular season before defending their

domestic plans and that are in cup playoffs. now with four days to go until sunday super bowl the new england patriots and new york giants have held their annual press day and revealed key factors which could determine who we current champions the giants beat the patriots in the two thousand and eight super bowl final and despite winning ten straight games coming into this final the patriots know that i have to be flawless against a very strong giants defense and that was even more pressure on new england star quarterback tom brady. i'm going to make sure i don't go any interceptions don't make sure i've played try to play really well. they're 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've 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 that super bowl clash in two thousand and eight with thirty one year

old manning edging his rival to be named the most valuable player and the manning wants his younger teammates to mix business with pleasure i give their all this. finally to cycling now russia's top ten cattle already to make a bigger impact this season with some big reinforcements now but only on explains. all the glue on the grey suits of the most prestigious cycling learns since two thousand and nine when they were launched have been deployed over in this sport sixty live trees and over two hundred boardrooms that's what the team have achieved so far nevertheless ahead of their fourth season got to show aiming to take it to the next level b.m.s. likely given by the sponsors we saw first the olympics the world championships but the sport as well gives 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 four years 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. to see people close to their worst or here comes the first one of the most feared sprinters in the business. i'm very happy to be part of this team first of all 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 play more wins in my profession. lucky he well that he says biggest piece is the sonny. he's the only one of the team who

have faced an overwhelming victory at the world's three major events the thirty four you russian proved to be the best at that so yeah e.q. the nine and twice a day. like it was i think. it's pretty tough. this is. one of the best russian either so i think it's it's one of a long so. i think for me also it gives more immoral some more power no more ambition a smaller more mature way should form for next season with how we're looking to build before the summer olympics in london russia don't certain teams and cyclists see their interests the combination tour and the olympic games. but. it's going to shock because. when you are if you're from your store in good shape you're going right i mean because in the same level if you are from years of

touring. and maybe a little i don't know if you are going to pull from two weeks or even but i think you are all here for in office level two or competing only because knowing it will get you should look to have everything needed to make this year one of the most if not the most successful for russian cycling but i don't know on my feet. by the. cultures that so much definitely there's a huge percentage share on the market three on the brink violence escalates and this in battle country the calls for strong sanctions and even a military intervention grow in intensity.

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looking to break the syrian stalemate a u.n. resolution stops short of calling for outside intervention but does one president assad to go for the meantime insists there should be no foreign interference. a live pictures for you right here from the u.k.'s high court which considering the fate of wiki leaks founder julian assange he was wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assault cases facing accusations of political motivation again those are

live pictures right here. and israel's. jews face in the u.s. already feeling alienated by their spiritual home. in the u.s. russia is no exception with the ending wednesday session one more on this in twenty minutes in business of. global news twenty four seven this is art c. live from moscow with me rule received. well the russian capital is standing firm on its opposition to any military intervention in syria saying it will vote against a u.n. resolution that will aggravate the conflict in the country differences remain among members of a how to deal with the crisis western states one president assad to step down but

moscow says the u.n. should not be used as a platform to interfere in serious affairs from new york. the united states france and britain could talk our and 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 last 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 recipes 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 do you 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 with the russian has taken

a positive position in the draft resolution most cooper poos demands an immediate end to the violence another positive point. 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 time for means 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. reporting what i talked to him director of the center for middle east studies says that if syria and the u.n. don't choose dialogue as a means to resolve the conflict the country will eventually fall into civil war the position of russia then china was very clear and and logic because

they do believe and the sanctions or the military intervention in syria is out of question and also will increase the problem and state of to solve the problem and i shot god for a day or two horse both sides the government and the opposition do their log based on the. situation and and democracy and i think within the next two months or three months if the proposition of russia will not succeed and not have dialogue in order to hug it peace for solution for the crisis syria i think syria will be in very difficult situation no one will win and maybe syria will go into a civil war. well coming up the little bit later for you here on r t it's going to be paid lavelle it is crosstalk guests are debating how to break the ongoing

deadlock of violence in syria. offer to horse negotiations between all of the different parties and as we know the syrian national council you know one of the main opposition blocs has essentially rejected that offer possibly with some foreign encourage went behind them because one of the stipulations that they made one of the preconditions for the talks was that assad should resign so they wanted an old calm of. the outcome of a process as a preliminary condition and saw the possibility of negotiations is very unlikely and from my point of view it's starting to resemble a bit what was happening in libya where the opposition consistently refused to engage in any sort of peaceful negotiations.

and you can watch the crosstalk debate in full that's coming your way in just about twenty minutes time right here on our city. the world's top whistleblower is taking his long legal battle to stay in the u.k. to the country's supreme court julian assange is wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assault dating back to august two thousand and ten allegations which he denies the wiki leaks founder insists the case is politically motivated and in response to his website publishing top secret u.s. cables on wars in iraq and afghanistan laura smith has more from the high court in london. the building that you see behind me the supremes court could literally be last chance saloon a full julian our sounds 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 to his extracts tradition rescind days if he does fail here he can

then take his case the european court of human rights in strasburg but that is not a 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 but 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 it placed 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 the plane cool has said that it could take them some weeks to come to a judgment that could mean anything pertaining to chew it and ten weeks as far as we know but we also know that one of the things that's always has been truly worried about through this entire proceeding is that once in sweden he could be extradited to 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 in 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 suis all 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 as supporters and international civil libertarians with allegations of 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 traces it's going to be close to 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 amount of matter 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 that the storm raised branson's through wiki leaks has made him a target for political interference across the atlantic u.s.

author of teas 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 wouldn't let me ask whether straight in is an outright country sit in at a very clear cut. proximity and cooperation even in military operations with such campaigns initiated by nato you have print. so it's presence in that you have a clear cut. it brought nato policy on it back to sweden and that is not to try to do with some u.s. politicians branding a son 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 we have too little. i think wealthy people ok with.

who is a national public opinion polls indicate that very large majorities applaud and support the efforts of we could looks to why do worry is that with or without julian governments around the world with something to hide will now launch full scale assault 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 the sun 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. r.t.

is coming to you live from the heart of moscow it's good to have you with us today and in just a few minutes here on the program israel employs a controversial tactics to lure american jews back to the motherland but critics say it needs to fix the problems that drove them away. well with. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. it was shot four times in total. three of the bullets are still in my body. people should be allowed to defend themselves or they are gone from the body these people are not sure i.

basically. shoot. i'm sorry you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and if what you hear is going to. that's all the training really really raise your hand listen to. what i want to philadelphia or the street. hopefully we will never use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared. for the future of. seventeen students. and one of seven or so. and watching all the live from moscow in about ten minutes time it's the business but for now china is being taken over by gold fever it's believed the beijing

already the world's fifth largest holder of gold snapped up around five hundred tonnes of the precious metal in two thousand and eleven that is double what it brought in two thousand and ten and it could be in the market for just a mole investment manager francis lui believes beijing is wise to step away from the weakening dollar. china has the largest foreign exchange holding of any country in the world about one trillion u.s. dollars most of their u.s. dollar for several years now chinese limits for the government to diversify is holding of foreign exchange china's economy is. that of the u.s. and china has about nine percent economic growth why the u.s. has about one point nine percent so it is good to diversify some with the foreign exchange holdings into something not a u.s.

dollar like gold but of course together with that china would need to have a say in. the global financial situation right now. by your peers in the world. and china has to have a little say in global financial matters and i think that you will have to change expression the u.s. and europe in such dire financial straits if you want china to participate fully in the global financial system i think you really need to bring china into d.c. to organizations. time now for the world update here in are to some other international headlines for you brief we'll start with pakistan that's where government have attacked a para military checkpoint in the southwest of the country killing eleven soldiers and wounding a dozen the troops did return fire but it's unclear whether the attackers suffered

any casualties shortly after pakistani fighter jets bombed the hideouts of militants along the afghan border killing up to thirty one suspected insurgents. two people have been killed and five more injured in senegal's capital during an opposition rally police there used tear gas to disperse a crowd gathered to protest a court ruling that allows the nation's elderly leader to run for a third term the constitution was revived soon after he was elected in two thousand to limit but the president argues that since he was already in office when it took effect it should not apply to him. rival militia groups have reportedly been involved in a gun battle in the center of libya's capital tripoli witnesses report heavy and light weapons exchanging fire in the city the road along the coast has been blocked and smoke was seen at rising from the scene of the fighting.