governors themselves held to a goalless draw by bolton before the aston villa and q.p.r. shared the points in birmingham full of new russian signing public he was on the field as his team also drew with west brom well knowledge is six run came to an abrupt end up the hands of inform sunderland. let's move to basketball in the euro league top sixteen stay true next of extended their lead at the top of group g. thanks to a home victory over a telly inside seven the host taking the bull by the horns right from the all finishing the opening quarter twenty to twelve in front the next continuing to press in the second doubling their advantage to sixteen points by half time henry dahmer come top scoring for the russians with sixteen including this two pointer to make it forty two twenty two midway through the third period. because onside relaxing a little late on but is seven woods never really come close fifty nine forty four

the final. meanwhile in syria to get moscow's group. registered their first win of the top sixteen the greeks seeing off on a dual f.a.'s of turkey at home three sixty five. this morning for the hosts with eighteen points perfect c.s.k. i meanwhile take on turk skeletons trying to. n.b.a. basketball now or indiana were sharp and shooting in the pick of wednesday night's action the pacers scoring more than one hundred points for only the second time this season against minnesota a tighter fir during the opening two quarters in minneapolis their visitors would start pulling away late in the third danny granger hitting the heights with thirty six points including this long range effort made it sixty fifty two in favor of the pacers ranger then got himself involved in an altercation with kevin love but the officials managed to count things down and avoid what could have been a messy altered cation. granger later adding several crucial points as indiana

runner one of nine points to one thousand nine winners. takes. the boxing world is mourning the loss of one of its all time nations to a non trainer done to dying at the age of ninety following a storied career helping the greats of the sport done day perhaps most well known for his association with mohammad ali he was in the corner for all but two of profile to the united one last time during at least seventy fifth birthday last month sugar ray leonard and george foreman the other icons who benefited from sunday's presence the philadelphia native was treated for a blood clot in hospital shortly before his death simply a muscle loss to boxing sport in general. the biggest game on the american sporting calendar is drawing ever nearer the forty sixth edition of the n.f.l. super bowl kicks off on sunday with a rematch of the two thousand and seven title game between they new england

patriots and the new york giants it was underdogs new york who came away victorious in the one ruining new england on beaten season in the process the teams well they looked more evenly much this year with the giants also able to boast of a high powered off and snow days new york goal to retaining a few players from a championship winning defense some they can't wait to get stuck in again. we are excited about. a couple of staunch off with a bit we were due to get back to. to win the game on sunday. a lot of us wish we could play today but you know we go wait till sunday you know to be your first big mixed up to do you know really sort of the game. while new england's tom brady still refuses to watch the tape of that seventeen fourteen loss to the giants in the decider for us back he's raring to go of course but one of the pups main offensive weapons is a dart rob gronkowski who's had the best ever season for

a tight end to date is nursing and i call sprain with his fitness being tested on a day to day basis he's never won at all before but brady has three times on the significant all the clutch isn't lost on the california. we're not playing in this game it sucks to turn on the t.v. these days because you know there's so much every channel you turn on is talking about this game of the players in this game and as a as a competitor you want to be here you need to be here and this is this is why we work so hard you know over the years high school college and even the pros to prepare for games like this. huge weekend coming up now a somewhat surprising find does that russia have never want to limp at gold in women's figure skating male athletes from the country have tasted success on numerous occasions with two years to go until the sort she went to games hope is high the double can finally be achieved our teacher over for tony meets the reason why. singles this is the only discipline in

which an olympic gold medal has eluded such a big figure skating nation like russia. is one of the few offering major hope for the long anticipated ladies' ground in the sport first of all in sochi twenty fourteen at the age of fifteen so to go has already claimed the russian domestic title three times having also won the world junior championships in twenty eleven allows release she has already proved a strong will to win she's a fighter and this is something you cannot teach that's given by god she's one of those who can compete and can achieve top results now it's a fact that will be doing years of rather wish i was for it when my mom took me to skating skill nearby just to test my capability for skating with professional coaches all the kids around started crying when they fell down but i assume and

kept moving forward step by step and the coaches knew that my mother in sad was strongly recommend that you make her continue and that's how i started figure skating. according to the international skating union is rankings so nicole is currently the world's number seventeen but has plenty of time to fine tune her skills with her coach five ten years to search him down million of a there is a what. have you seen that's come on you should have completed that element every single till and is destined to face tough competition often downs at the first ever youth winter olympics in is work but in general sort nicole was edged out by her teammate another russian hopeful it is a bit of. together adelina be at the russian championships in innsbruck the outcome was opposite they always get compared to each other they can. pete against each

other and that's ok it's just like they've been pollution. rivalry which only gave a boost to russian men's figure skating as for the girls only time will tell who's better they're both still growing. we have a good relationship i would say we're friends of these olympics and ins brute who lived together in the same apartment but when it comes to the ice rink it gets tough which is do battle for survival there is still a lot to be done for. to fulfill her huge potential but one thing has always been there in her mind. you know actually i did see chances and i always degrees of doing things which are difficult for me sometimes i mean i don't do well during warm up and my coach tells me to leave some complicated elements out of my program but i always dear to do them i think to myself i'm strong and true that i can do. this what nobody can teach and so to go or

hasn't. figured. that brings us to football again where with one hundred twenty seven days left until the start of euro twenty twelve excitement is building steadily across the host countries they ukrainian city of trick a city which is not in fact hosting any games has dedicated its a new all ice festival to the tournament which takes place in ukraine and poland this summer the gala features several structures including famous for playing trophies on players football fever most definitely in the year. this is a gathering there goes on every year they stand it's related to euro twenty twelve the theme is for the cups heroes and everything related to the upcoming tournaments that brings us to tennis finally where maria sharapova has held her first training session in moscow ahead of this weekend's fed cup quarter final. with spain the

twenty four year old has only ever played in three fed cup matches but after a couple of injury plagued years the world number three reached the extremely an open final last week where she lost in quite a one sided much it has to be said against victoria azarenka but she is raring to go this weekend. and that is all your support for i'll be back in just under two hours time with more world whether it's next year in twenty four or r.t. .

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around russia we've got the future covered. moscow promises it to past deals and not stop selling arms to syria saying weapons will still reach opposition groups from abroad despite any. german leader takes euro eastwood's as she tries to convince china not to write off the e.u. while also urging beijing support for the oil embargo against iran. and egypt mourns over seventy football fans killed in post match closures an investigation into the tragedy is underway amid claims of police action. and prime minister vladimir putin says the government is ready to support the people who bought shares

of russia's second largest bank and have been losing money since its i.p.o. in two thousand and seven more on this in twenty minutes. twenty four hour news a live from moscow this is r t with me will receive welcome to the program russia's defense ministry has reiterated moscow is committed to agreements made with international partners and will continue selling arms to syria russia is against a weapons embargo saying it would not prevent the opposition groups from abroad although progress has been made at the u.n. on syria resolution moscow is adamant it will block any draft which doesn't rule out military intervention and i still see a check and i reports. russia says it won't accept even

a hint of an embargo on arms embargo when it comes to syria and its reasoning for this is pretty simple it says firstly that the weapons an arms of that russia provides to syria cannot be used against demonstrators thus don't influence anything that goes on inside syria and when it comes to this conflict now secondly russia says that it is only following its legal obligations it's following its international contracts with syria and it's not breaching any international laws at all and most importantly it says that the lessons of libya need to be large because when an arms embargo was put in place on libya what ended up happening was government forces were embargoed but the opposition groups continued to receive openly arms from abroad and this is something that they don't want to see in syria and russia says it's time for the west to stop pretending like armed groups don't exist over there. it would seem logical if there is a conflict let's not supply arms because we saw what happened in libya in an imperfect world this would have meant the following no weapons with the government

much opposition point just to get them from anyone that's what that would mean especially now our security council colleagues refuse even to admit the presence of groups they will not condemn them. being supplied with weapons and we say ok great hullo contracts a long standing relations with syria they will start supplying even more to the opposition groups just like they did in libya the arab and western backed regime change resolution calls for the. syrian president to step down if this does not happen within fifteen days further measures could take place and russia says no thanks we've seen this similar scenario in libya and this particular case moscow says what's important is for talks for syria to exercise its sovereignty for the opposition and the government to sit down together moscow has offered russia as the center stage for these negotiations but it's important to say that russia still. believes that a consensus can be found within the united nations security council it says that

broad resolutions that are dangerous should not be put on the table that can split the council and really aggravate any sort of conflict and it continues to call for the importance of arab observers to our main working on the ground. and i thought here chuck and i reporting that while washington and some arab states are committed to pushing president assad from power but political analyst dr benjamin barber says that forcing a regime change is a bad idea because it's a tactic that's already plunged other arab countries into turmoil the case of libya the case of yemen and a number of other countries egypt also suggest that you have to be careful what you wish for the west is rather critical of the recent insurgency is a good thing only to find that insurgency often means. fractionalization splintering various groups up against one and try and over time the forces that are

no more welcome to the west than the one for the displaced nobody i think did what will happen if assad is overthrown molecules or steps down and no one really knows what the outcome is likely to be the west is hoping it will be less supportive of hezbollah less supportive of iran and less support of abbas and that could be the case but no one really knows what it's going to look like so the fact is would you support insurgencies you're basically taking a very difficult bet on uncertainty. and that was a political analyst i talked about talking a lost audio from new york. iran's nuclear ambitions and the euro zone's debt struggles topped the german chancellor's agenda on her trip to china i'm going to markell is calling on beijing the biggest buyer of iranian oil not to buy more after an e.q. embargo and to use his influence to persuade terrine to abandon any possible atomic

weapons ambitions yeah sure so wants to offer reassurance that investing in the eurozone is still a safe bet professor of international politics that young jr believes china is interested in a strong europe and wants to know berlin's recovery plans nor money to order china obviously has a big stake in the european economy and also partly because the e.u. is the largest trading partner of china china has been watching very closely obviously euro crisis and how the european union and the dignity germany leading the effort deal with the euro crisis china is very keen to try to understand what next and how e.u. is going to do with the euro crisis there has been an argument about why europe formed by the euro bonds are not big enough to absorb a large part of chinese servant of quickly accumulating subplots therefore i think no alternatives are rather than buying the american chair who bonds i mean gold

is only the other alternative obviously if we have sufficient euro bonds i don't see why china cannot do will not go its. foreign currency reserves into europe. you're watching r t it's good to have you with us today coming up shortly in the program the whistle blower's final. chance. to see it extradition to sweden on allegations of sexual assault coming up in just a made. for the country on the brink on the brink of complete meltdown and. find out why the careless comments of u.s. politicians could be costing america credibility on the international stage. the un's nuclear watchdog says it's on track to breaking the deadlock over iran's

atomic program but the monitors plan another trip later this month after what they described as a positive talks in tehran washington though continues to label iran as a threat investigative journalist robert perry says tehran wants to cooperate but america's domestic politics blocking any progress. i think the iranians have indicated in the past they would be willing to make a number of concessions as you remember it was a year or so ago when the brazilians and the turks worked on a negotiated deal with the iranians agreed to give up about half of their low enriched uranium that proposal was first favored by president obama even sent a letter to the then president of brazil to recommend they go forward however political pressures inside the united states including inside his own administration push instead for tightening of sanctions against iran president obama and defense secretary panetta they'd rather have the situation calmed down

rather than accelerated but there are political forces in the united states there are quite powerful including on the republican side in the terms of the presidential race that wants to ratchet up the pressure a many people in the west do want regime change in iran they would like to see the removal of this islamic republic there is an opportunity here for ran to achieve some openings but that may not be enough to satisfy many of its critics who would like to see real change in government. and there more analysis on the situation around iran always available on our website dot com just a click away some of the other items also online for you right now are frozen water pipes inside japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant despite warnings made months ago that this is exactly could be the problem that occurs at this time of the. praised as a spontaneous protest started on twitter the arab revolutions may actually have taken a decade of expertise to prepare and millions of dollars to fund that story along

with many others available on our website dot com. egypt is mourning the victims of violence following a football game which saw more than seventy people killed in post match violence fans rushed onto the field in the seaside city of port side after the home team beat egypt's top club setting off clashes and a major stampede cairo based writer bell truth thinks the events could in some way be linked to the fallout from the revolution. it's very difficult to work out exactly what happens but essentially the security forces he usually acts as a barrier between the two sides stepped aside and actually open the gates the pitch we should allow the two found clubs to come on to the pitch and basically fight each other in addition i read this is saying that the exits were blocked so they actually found who were the ones targeted actually couldn't escape and therefore

and then suing stampede many lost their lives there's also this is a nice as well we believe the port side fans or whoever they were maybe carrying knives as well we've definitely seen an isolation of protesters in the last few months asking for the military regime to step down we've seen an increased element of informal street violence against protesters in fact the national council for human rights which is a state led organization and published reports two weeks ago saying that the kidnapping that's been happening on the streets and as a form of the state intimidating the activists i feel that this the vents that happened in the football stadium may be an extension of this in the form of the discrediting the revolution. there's an hour just after ten minutes past the hour here in moscow you are with r c still on the way for you cameras versus fists palestinians resort to technology to escape violence from israeli settlers saying police turn a blind eye to their complaints. it is the last chance for the

world's top whistleblower the u.k.'s supremum court julian assange is appealing against extradition to sweden where he's wanted on allegations of sexual assault denies the accusations and insists the case against him is politically motivated as artie's laura smith now reports outside the supreme court in london. we're not expecting to hear just station today we have heard already from documents released by the supreme court that although this is day two of the two day hearing begins to be reserving judgment for what they term a number of weeks which stars like that could mean between two and eight weeks so we will have to wait to find out the birthday this is day two as i say into the nostalgia right this morning about how the full proceedings started again looking fairly relaxed just as he did yesterday saying hello to a few his supporters standing behind me who have braved the at today's subzero temperatures in done to turn out to show him that they are still. rooting for him

yet today we heard his legal team giving their side of the story this case out here at the supreme court is no sit back out whether or not associates guilty of the allegations that have been made against him it's about the nuts and bolts of the legal system and specifically about whether the european arrest warrant under which his extradition has been requested is valid the his team say that the swedish prosecutor who issued the warrant doesn't have the authority to do that because it's party to the case and therefore it's not independent and impartial to be communicating to fund the fundamental difference with the rule of law but today the swedish prosecutor's legal team will be arguing that that doesn't matter and that in fact the issuing authority doesn't have to be independent and impartial we are hearing from inside the court that the argument of the swedish prosecutor's team is

coming under a lot more scrutiny than associate teams argument did the judges the much more question of it seemingly less impressed by it that this is the final avenue for him here in england this is the highest court in the land that we're in now he could then take his case the european court of human rights but that's by no means guaranteed however there's a backlog in childbirth. but to eight years he could be hanging around in this in a bizarre limbo if he doesn't win here the cool stuff those in greatest need he would resign. from here to sweden with his feet literally wouldn't touch the ground in this week's events to him straight to america which of course has a vested interest in this either with these allegations of connecting the world with wiki leaks where he he released a huge number of very embarrassing files for the u.s. government and other governments around the world and international businesses will have to wait and see what he does and how how he's going to pass the time and

indeed he does i'd just like to continue with. the slower smith reporting that just outside the supreme court in london now the blunders all of us politicians have inspired joke song parodies for decades with the presidential election in the us heating up now there's a whole new supply of ammunition that has autism arena portnoy reports some believe the comments are displays of ignorance and disregard for world affairs and on no laughing matter. every four years america's top job is up for grabs. with each new election comes a new batch of candidates with compromising foreign policy credentials when they ask me who is the president of you beki beki beki beki stands banned i'm going to say you know i don't know do you know i'm afraid that it's a very hard struggle particularly given the situation on the iraq pakistan border you can actually see why russia from land here in alaska africa was

a country on the brink on the brink of complete meltdown and chaos geographically illiterate us candidates have supplied comedians with endless material but all jokes aside some presidential hopefuls vying to lead the world's most powerful armed forces know very little about america's military interventions so you agree with president obama libya or. libya. forming a cohesive sentence on geopolitics can be a struggle i do not agree with the way he handled it for reasons. no that's that's a different one differentiating between friends and enemies is also a challenge obviously got to stand with our north korean allies in the case of republican candidate mitt romney mixing up presidents and prime ministers can be coming i think that president bush represents a real threat to the. stability and peace of the world the overarching ignorance

on international affairs has caused american political commentator bill maher to conclude i think anybody could be president in this dumb contrie ok sort of like at this point now where i think if you're gonna be it when you register to be a candidate you also have to go take a test about foreign affairs and if you fail the test we might get you one chance to take it again and then i'm say sorry go run you know for city council in your little town in alaska if a country with the world's highest national g.d.p. is being represented by politicians with a deficit on international affairs the biggest consequence is likely to be america's credibility around the world and even who we target and let me finish with this i just get lost in a blizzard of words there this is where it gets really dangerous for united states of america and.