at the age of ninety following a storied career overseeing the greats all of the sport done d. perhaps most well known for his association with muhammad ali none was in his corner for all but two of his fights the pair were reunited one last time during all the seventieth birthday last month sugar ray leonard and george foreman the other icons who benefited from the presence the philadelphia if it was treated for a blood clot in hospital shortly before his death simply a massive loss to boxing and indeed sport in general. now what would have been the richest clash in boxing is off the table for now the money picky oh and floyd mayweather jr clash on the ropes after w b a lights middleweight champion miguel cotto has announced a weathers next opponent on may the fifth pretty boy floyd is true to serving eighty seven days in jail for domestic violence starting june first wanted his archrival time before the state american me whether who turns thirty five in favor

recalling the filipino mrs potten on for not scheduling a budget and while puerto rican aims to end mayweather john beaton run a forty two wins pocky zero is staying active as well w b o lights welterweight title holder timothy bradley jr most likely his next point. let's move to basketball be your only top sixteen stage runic some extended their lead at the top of group g. thanks to a home victory over italian side a seven the hosts taking the bull by the horns right from the all finishing the open border twenty twelve in front unix continuing to press in the second doubling their advantage to sixteen points by the time and return mccown top scoring for the russians with sixteen putting this to pointer to make it forty two twenty two midway through the third period because on team relaxing a little late on but e.a. seven would never come close fifty nine forty four the final score. meanwhile and saskia moscow's rubia libya cost register their first win of the top

sixteen the greeks seeing off on a two new f.a. is of turkey at home eighty three sixty five. top scoring for the host he had eighteen points perfect see a scot meanwhile take on trips. to. n.b.a. basketball 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 tied a fur during the opening two quarters in the helpless although the visitors were. start pulling away late in the third danny granger getting the highest with thirty six points including this long range effort to make it six the fifty in favor of the pacers three ranger then got himself involved in an altercation kevin love but the officials managed to calm things down and avoid what could have been a messy alter cation granger later having several crucial points of indiana run one of nine hundred ninety nine when she takes it all the way it's the biggest game in

the american sporting calendar is just around the corner the forty sixth edition of the n.f.l. super bowl kicks off on sunday i remember the two thousand and seven titles game between the new england patriots and the new york giants and was underdogs new york who came away victorious and not one ruining the season in the process the teams looked more evenly matched this year with the giants also able to boast of a high powered off since nowadays your call through to a few players from the defense and they can't wait to get stuck in again. we are excited about doing. a staunch off with the big we were ready to get back to the. to win the game on sunday and you know a lot of us wish we could play it today but you know we're going to wait till sunday to be a first you know the next step to do when you're ready for the big. new england's

tom brady still refuses to watch the tape of that seventeen fourteen loss to the giants four years ago he's raring to go but one of the pats me an offensive weapons is a dud rob gronkowski is the best ever season for a tight end to date is nursing and michael sprain but this fitness being tested on a daily basis from he's never won at all before but brady has three times in fact but the california he's hungry for more. 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 and college and even the pros who prepare for games like this. now a somewhat surprising fact is that russia has never won a limb big gold in women's figure skating male athletes from the country have tasted success on numerous occasions and with two years to go until the sultry

winter games hope is high the double can finally be achieved ortiz robert downey 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 and added insult nicholas is one of the few overing major hope for the moment anticipated ladies graeme in the sport first of all in sochi twenty fourteen at the age of fifteen slow to go fairly claimed the russian domestic title three times ahead and he still won the world junior championships in twenty eleven allows chiles she has already proved destroyer 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 not affect the put up to doing it the bradley wish i was for it when my mom took me to skating school nearby just to

test my capability for skating with professional coaches all the kids around started crying when they fell down but i suit up and kept moving forward step by step and the coaches knew that my mother inside was strongly recommend that you make her continue and that's how i started to figure skating was was according to the international skating union is rankings so because he's currently the world's number seventeen but has plenty of time to fine tune her skills with a coach wife and use search him down million of a there is a lot. have you seen that's come on you should have completed that element every single jones is destined to play stuff they've addition often downs at the first ever youth winter olympics in israel but in general sort nicole was edged out by her teammate another russian hopeful it is evident that the mission to get on the

line and 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 inclusion converses any given 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 because it was we have a good relationship i would say we're friends at these olympics in innsbruck really 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 like one thing has always been there in her mind. mentality and you know i just i like to 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 pokey elements out of my program but i always dare to do them i think to myself i'm strong arms

through that i can do this this is what nobody can teach and so they go one has an . idea and then you know i think. less and with football where that one hundred twenty seven days left until the start of euro twenty twelve an excitement to tell you what is building steadily across those countries take a look at this the ukrainian city after casey which isn't in fact hosting any games but it's dedicated its annual ice festival to the tournament which takes place in ukraine and poland this summer the galut features several sculptures including famous footballing trophies and players football fever most certainly in the earth or. beneath the simple words this is a gathering there goes on every year they stand it's related to euro twenty twelve the fame is for the cubs heroes and everything related to the upcoming tournaments

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moscow promises to pass deals and not stop selling arms to syria saying weapons will still reach opposition groups from abroad despite any embarking. the german leader takes. to the east 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 you turn in the spy saga the father of the former f.s.b. officer in london six years ago says he was mistaken when he accused of being responsible for his son's death get a firsthand story. in business r.t.

russian markets and first on a positive note making it to the consecutive day of gains with the main market move along. now it's just after seven pm in moscow you're watching with me rory stewart show you it's good to have you with us russia's defense ministry has reiterated moscow is committed to agreements made with the international partners and will continue selling arms to syria russia is against the weapons and saying it would not prevent the arming of opposition groups from abroad although progress has been made at the u.n. syria resolution moscow is adamant it will block any draft which doesn't rule out military intervention moscow was also with the arab league observers a recent

report which says both sides in the conflict to be taken into account when the un debates syria dr marcus papadopoulos editor of politics first magazine says it's not in western interest to list. for the report's findings. western interest in the conflict in syria isn't guided by wanting to advance human rights democracy or the rule of law in the region if it was about that then we'd probably see an american naval flotilla off the coast of saudi arabia which happens to be one of the most repressive and brutal regimes in the world but it follows a pro western foreign policy the reason why western governments are we can all in the findings of the report is because it doesn't fit into their agenda syria is a huge player in the in middle eastern politics and the west principally america has a very problematic relationship with syria so it would be very much within america's

interests for the syrian government for president assad to fall from power and for a more accommodating a more sort of pro western government to come to parallel should that happen. that would give a washington almost food dominance politically in the middle weights and it's what i would describe as a jewish chess cooled so it's not within the interests of western powers principally america to take into account what has been actually said in the in the reports of the arab league. syria is also one of the german chancellor's agenda during her trip to china as i called tries to persuade beijing to support the new resolution at the un merkel is also calling on the biggest buyer of iranian oil not to buy any more after an e.u. embargo on top of all of that you also want to offer reassurance that the eurozone is still safe for investors political analyst christophe horsetail believes getting

support for germany's economy is the main reason for the. chancellor on a trip to the begging to if she wants money for europe she wants you know a support from beijing for the new un resolution which beijing is not going to give and she also wants beijing to cut off its own oil supply which beijing is widely not going to do and of course beijing has also to take into consideration that india its competition in the region is standing straight with iran and buying ever more rain in oil so i don't think she has any chance of you know talking china out of buying uranium oil that will not happen again i would say she will not put any much focus on it she will she will say that she will look to the ceiling and then she was smile and say let's talk business now her main focus in this trip is german economy and she's wise to do that she will even not you know lobby very much

for chinese investment into europe because she knows in our heart of hearts that this is truly a bad investment. you're watching on t.v. it's good to have you with us today still to come in the program the whistle blower's final. it's no big deal you know we know that judging by the extradition treaty we did on the basis of sexual assault well coming up for me in london in just a made. for a country on the brink on the brink of complete meltdown and find out why the comments over u.s. politicians could be costing america's credibility on the international stage. egypt is mourning the victims of violence following a football game which saw more than seventy people killed in post match fighting rushed onto the pitch in the seaside city of port after the home team beat egypt's top club setting off clashes and

a stampede protests in cairo now over the police handling of the trouble foreign affairs analyst richard j. had diarrhea and i think this is an indication of post revolution instability the violence raises a lot of questions also for it's the overall security concern for the first political in some ways that. the sparkle out on the security forces on the loose because so many of the written this so forth that are. not good enough in order to avoid the violence from yesterday and the fact that there were. nights. along the border security lots more than. that was the overall it's very this. war resume in some ways the violence with the lies the. position of emergency laws or the current in the sort of security

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video. it is past the hour here in the russian capital and it is the last chance for the world's top. supreme court. appealing extradition to sweden where is wanted on allegations of sexual assault denies the accusations and insists the case against him is politically motivated. 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 seated yesterday saying hello to a few his supporters standing behind me to have braved the at today's subzero temperatures and on 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 here at the supreme court is notes about 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 all thirty thousand do that because it's party to the case and therefore it's not independent and impartial to be communicating to fund the fundamental principle of the rule of law but today the swedish prosecutor's legal team will be arguing that that doesn't matter and that in fact it's the a shingle thirty 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 most recently an associate teams argument did the judges a much more questioning 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 is by

no means guaranteed however that the backlog in childbirth. but eight years he could be hanging around in this is a bit bizarre. if he doesn't win here the cool stuff those in greatest need. would be an extra scientists from here to sweden with his feet literally wouldn't touch the ground in the suites and then head to the streets of america which of course has a vested interest in this he's always said that these allegations are not to be with mickey 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 decide to continue with this fight. with reporting from london well the blunders of u.s. politicians have inspired jokes and parodies for decades with the u.s. presidential election campaign heating up there's a whole new supply of munitions but as are his more important i reports some

believe the comments are displays of ignorance and disregard for world affairs and should be 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 asked me who is the president of you becky becky becky becky 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 and. libya. forming a cohesive sentence on geopolitics can be a struggle i do not agree with the way he did it for reasons. you know 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 tree 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 saying 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 in let me finish this i just get lost in a blizzard of words there this is where it gets really dangerous for united states of america it's like wait a minute how could they possibly be right about terrorism how could they be right about north korea are going to be right about iran so-called nuclear program when their candidate doesn't even know that there's a north and south korea i think the us is why and so then the world has this very paranoid view of the united states because of the candidates not understanding

basic facts or understanding basic principles of international law which unequivocally prohibit torture and if i were prez. and i would be willing to use waterboarding i think it was very effectively me and i agree the consistent streak of foreign policy blunders made by u.s. presidential hopefuls is quite humorous but it could also be considered a national tragedy if most candidates campaigning to be leader of the so-called free world simply don't know enough about the world outside of america's borders. all right so let's get to the aussie world update for you some international news and bring you this i will start with pakistan where the supreme court has decided to charge the country's prime minister with contempt for its failure to reopen an old corruption case against the prison if convicted. could face six months in jail and loses all this the court has long demanded

a reopening of the case dating back to the late ninety's but the government has refused it insists the president enjoys immunity from prosecution while in office. the united states has made the surprise announcement that it will hold combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected u.s. defense secretary leon panetta said the country wants to switch to a role of supporting and training local forces before the end of next year afghan officials claim the decision has ruined the whole transition plan and force preparations to be rushed through one thousand seven hundred american troops and tens of thousands of civilians have died since the two thousand and one immigration . ferry carrying a three hundred fifty people has sunk a new guinea's north coast rescuers plucked from the sea at least two hundred nineteen survivors but others remain missing the ship's operator said it lost contact with the vessel on thursday after it sent a distress call and most of the passengers are students and trainee teachers.

seven people have been killed and seventy one wounded after a blast near a police station in southwest colombia a motorcycle packed with explosives blew up just outside the entrance of the city of to moscow officials have blamed the leftist far rebels for the attack claiming they were targeting the regional police commander he was not hurt in that explosion . he watching r.t. live from moscow in an unexpected change of heart the father of a former f.s.b. officer poisoned in london in two thousand and six has backtracked on his accusations that the then russian president vladimir putin was responsible for his son's death walter litvinenko described his claims as lies driven by hatred saying he didn't know that his son alexander worked for british intelligence r.t. stick it into over went to meet him. but you.