chance for the launch crowd to get a glimpse of russia's top stars including world number three maria sharapova the twenty four year old will start proceedings again soon as beyond is making her debut in the competition from a russian says we shouldn't be underestimating their opponents first so i think you know coming in last here we're also pretty big favorites and you know after the first day we ended up being zero two so i don't think we can ever underestimate our opponents that's something that we're you know looking forward to coming in tomorrow and hoping to although we are favorites hoping to produce our best tennis no matter who is across and. sure up of the one have fond memories of the last time she played a fed cup tie for a country on that occasion the free time grand slam winner was outclassed in her only much of a first round tie with france and only heroics provoking patridge sons to see a public and spurred on a course that saw over so russia fruit of the next round because it's all there

will be involved in the second rubber of the day she's up against carlos watson of our own when she won the last meeting around eighteen months ago i mean some petersburg native says russia will need to be at the top of their game to move through to the semifinals well i think that's about their work was going to be a president of a very difficult marriage and we have to before there are barriers because there are easier marches like this is emerges that there are different. it's going to be a tough task to spain i mean you can't turn and form a legend on just one just because you will be taking charge of the first ever pick up time however the russians will be hoping for a slightly easier passage into the next round compared to last year's free to win over fringe so to speak look to win the first title since two thousand and eight. moscow. now everything is continuing to go to plan for c.s. because basketball is on the continent the muscovites maintaining their one hundred . and record in the euro league following yet another convincing victory. i say ask

a seeking a thirteen straight win in the recent cup when they went about it the right way the army made finishing you think forty seven points to the good with the rest of the contre sensually one way traffic not trysted troublesome all evening long ending with a game high twenty points the likes of jamal gordon a hundred per length also stopped helping the russians taking eighty five percent. and as a patient is reaching fever pitch ahead of this weekend's n.f.l. super bowl the biggest game on the american calendar featuring some international talent as well such as new england patriots punter zoltan mesko the twenty five year old has been speaking about the long road travel from rumania to the u.s. of course summer is finale against the new york giants bullets flying through our apartment and we were ducking down on christmas eve which was not a very christmas like having a spirit to be and you know i had

a different sense of what america would be and like i was i was a little shell shocked at first but then you know you grow into it and this is kind of what i expected i'm so grateful for this opportunity in the world where i've come from you know when you put it on perspective it's it's it's i don't know i don't even have the words since arriving. that brings us to the kontinental hockey finally starting to look like a true title contenders the boon whites wrapping up victory number three on the trot by winning a game they almost certainly wouldn't have done earlier in the season are chimbley koreans more. more sit in seventh in the eastern conference made the loan jointed to more school from the russian far east and three defeats in a row and in order to avoid a fourth they were fired up and started confidently. on the score in seventeen minutes into the first period and the visitors won out how well it soon ended and

dinamo started to dominate the game straight after the break sergei can call for levelled matters midway through the second period and just three minutes later sergei suing to denominate front but the visitors never gave up the last period saw them firing at alexander edelman his goal post and lee apart from the old counterattack by deny. a most pressure was rewarded when alexander mccall and equalized for a move just ten minutes before the buzzer to cool off the sixty minutes send the two sides into overtime where every mistake counts and to the delight of the home crowd the must go it's just had the hot break for more as the nominee. he'd hold the decider in the very last minute of the game. to tell which time observing we're satisfied with the result of the game but there are some aspects which we need to improve surely the first of all

a top power payables because this could help us a lot in the playoffs and continue to have them all but i think we've got a little bit on a lucky who could have won during regular time and those who missed a week chances to grip an extra point in overtime two points for the number one for more meaning that the team from the far east will need to improve their standards be sure of making the forthcoming playoffs while olive's their ochs charges prepare for the cage and final stages line an overall feel of position or tone rigor ians r.t. . golf for ryan palmer weathered the storm to come out smelling of roses at the waist momentum and phoenix open the american finishing the first on with a one stroke lead opening day proceedings were first. late due to frost then cut short due to darkness palmer with just a single bogey on thursday on eight for these the thirty five rule making one of those under par efforts on the fourth following this great approach the american would later go want to birdie the par five fifteen told the spite hitting his

initial shot into the water twenty eleven money list runner up webb simpson not too far behind as pall the twenty six year old with seven birdies and sits one stroke back in the skies continued to get darker on the t.p.c. scottsdale course with many golfers now having to finish their opening run a day later. twenty four it's finally where despite high hopes local hopefuls were kept off the top rung of the podium during the stage of cross country skiing as world cup constantine to top off braved the subzero temperatures to file us this report. despite a great course constructed standing in central moscow they were and was notably missing several top skiers monied beyond me and colonia and better not a folk who decided to skip the raise due to the extremely cold weather poland's giustina kowalczyk had a chance to leapfrog the organ in the overall world cup standings the twenty nine year old skier started the final slowly controlling the committee sion from behind

but boosted health pace with a few hundred metres to go to a lead and didn't look back to claim her maiden three technique city spring triumph while the russians not good as the low end on especially are that sanker finished second and third respectively with this win covered chick took over the overall world cup lead this now snow is ready for the rehab and no money when you put ice condition one not so fast there but the thing with carter i'm happy with this in the men's can petition it seemed like the russians would take advantage of their solid squad home snow and cold weather however on the go in money love and liberty with forward up to the final wellspring clear aleksey for the hawks was eliminated in the quarter final to stay in the fourteen sport the russians were setting the pace at the start of the final but it was a lot better so to set the quickest lap to twenty four year old swede crew is bust his opponents to his first world cup victory noways on that was

a glorious and was second and the one cares show of canada by the third place better some is now thirty seven points ahead of bit a hole topping the overall sprint world cup today i had a good finish and. i was trying to stay in the back of the first part of the track so i had a little bit more in there so. to go to the must go stage of the world cup was one to remember well the extreme minus temperatures dramatic races a new leader is in the overall standings and despite their harsh weather fans will no doubt be hoping you leave them to remains an ever present on the cross-country calendar because they might have a party on that is all your sport for that's our world weather is up next.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized

everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. clashes break out in egypt volleys of tear gas fired at protesters venting their anger against the military rulers in the wake of wednesday's football violence that left seventy four dead please be un makes headway on a new syria resolution with references to regime change or a move to answer russian concerns please and a close up on the vote all polling stations across russia get their own digital observer as webcams are installed on the prime minister's orders. as the unemployment rate in the u.s. falls to just eight point three percent investors in russia showing high hopes the obvious m i six and. friday's session one opposed to one hundred percent more on

this in business in twenty. seven pm in moscow i'm at present good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour fresh clashes in egypt with reports of at least three people killed and some four hundred injured as police again fire volleys of tear gas aimed at dispersing crowds of protesters unrest broke out after wednesday's football violence when seventy four people died in post match clashes in cairo protesters continued gathering around the interior ministry blaming police for doing nothing to prevent the soccer pitch deaths they're also calling on the military council to step down journalist believes there are forces in egypt that could be banking on the unrest. at this stage it's very difficult to say who is actually behind the

violence and whether it was a spontaneous or straight it but what's certain is that there's a security vacuum and in egypt and this security vacuum is intentional the police and the security apparatus has wanted to since the revolution began has wanted to punish the people for the rebelling against it and. like in the immediate aftermath of the revolution the police disappeared off the streets and now they haven't returned to full capacity the supreme council the armed forces since barak's ouster have been trying to sell themselves as a guarantor of peace and stability in egypt and so they jump on every opportunity to drive home the message that egypt is in like. mayhem and chaos and the only way we're going to get out of this is be you to support us as your leader is basically the changes that have occurred so far have largely been cosmetic ones to

try and give. the army the generals a sheen of legitimacy but i don't think they have any intention of stepping down just yet unless forced to do so by the street. tell us what you think about the latest clashes in egypt at r.t. dot com today we're asking our viewers why the calm has failed to return after egypt's revolution last year so far most of you think it's because it's the same officials who weren't power under the mubarak regime that are now still in power in the country a quarter think continuing on arrest plays to the interests of radical groups eighteen percent think that every revolution creates its own downfall the same number of say the unrest persis because of high unemployment those are the figures now you can change them by casting your vote log on to our team dot com. you can see the first hand events unfolding in cairo also at r.t. dot com where we're streaming the protests live. the u.n.

is edging closer to a deal on syria with a new draft resolution softened to overcome russian objections references to president assad stepping down arms embargo have been dropped from the revised text which is still pending approval moscow continues warning it will attempt any it will oppose any attempt to even hint at targeting the syrian regime or he's anastasio churkin it has more from new york. after see three days of diplomatic deadlock over this arab and western backed regime change resolution it looks like russia's calls that it would not support such resolutions have finally been heard and we're seeing somewhat of a game changer take place delegates and diplomats seem to have agreed on new elements that they are considering putting into a new document and we do know that these new elements are being sent over to governments at home for consideration approval and deliberation and form what we know russia's a master to the u.n. has said that this does not mean that anything has been fully decided yet and

russia continues to reiterate that even if the hint of a regime change clause continues to be presented in such a resolution it would not be supported now what we what we're hearing and some reports that this clause will actually be nonexistent in this new text being considered whereas earlier the arab league and the west have been seeing that the syrian leader needs to step down if this does not happen within fifteen days further measures could take place another clause that we're hearing is going to be removed from this document is the arms embargo that russia has also been opposing but from what we understand what will continue to remain in a new text is a support of a facilitation of a political transition now of course they have to again say that some of the details are still largely up in the air some diplomats are saying that a vote could come very shortly we will just have to wait and see exactly how events

play out the security council in the days to come marcus papadopoulos editor of politics first magazine things the u.s. is still committed to seeing power change hands in damascus. 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 regimes in the world it follows a pro western foreign policy syria is a huge player 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. almost food dominance politically in the middle east

so instead of western governments the british and the american and the french ones talking about president assad stays been numbered they should be more responsible in their outlook and the main focus should be on bringing pace to syria. marcus papadopoulos editor of politics first magazine speaking with us there from london there's a lot more coming up in the next few minutes including this religious to the extreme . it's skeet and it's freaking people learned this is a misinterpretation of their secret groups hard liner rhetoric from a radical islamic group shopping building society including fellow muslims plus. a shocking new turn in the long running spy and murder saga as the father of slain f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko backtracked on accusations that vladimir putin was to blame for his son's death. live pictures from every polling station in russia

set to go online with the help of a new website launched friday thousands of web cameras are being installed across the country ahead of next month's presidential election the move was introduced by the current prime minister and presidential candidate vladimir putin as a step toward stopping fraud during the vote. as the details. inch after inch mile after mile big brother is preparing to cast his eyes on polling stations as the massive campaign to install web cameras is in full swing across the entire nation but a short on time is but i think if anything i ask for a central electoral commission which is to install web cameras at all polling stations across the country so that everyone can watch online what's happening there almost twenty four hours a day seven they go we want them there. the idea was put forward following the biggest protests in russia since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. with tens of thousands demanding fair elections so wiring up over ninety thousand

polling stations is the scale and around a half of a billion us dollars is the price tag. coming into the system is not be made only for one day we hold this project want only develop elections acknowledges but will also help modernize telecommunications infrastructure across the entire country. all cameras will be feeding the videos the therm to local digital storage facilities after computer processing will be then sent to seven large storage and distribution centers via cable radio and satellite these centers will then broadcast the information to several web portals it's estimated that all together the cameras will film and broadcast four hundred and ninety years of video information in good quality however there is still down to this technology will help make the vote more transparent. i'm sure the observers will be able to check in advance if these cameras were not now. everyone knows about cameras in

supermarkets but these still doesn't stop robberies from happening. its. books will be monitored by two cameras one with the general view and another to close up of this lot there are many ways to rig it and the cameras don't provide a hundred percent guarantee against that but using that should still make it much more difficult to stuff boxes of course there's nothing you. or web cameras. using them to monitor elections on such a scale is a first for any nation and regardless of the success of the idea everyone will be able to monitor the vote online and not to mention no one is against having more real life observers on the spot he was going off r t moscow but voting video isn't online just yet but there is a lot streaming right now and you can check it all out are. reading this government

websites and ukraine software today black out after being attacked by hacker groups for cutting down a popular higher share file sharing resources. and the international space station crew members stuck in orbit for another forty five days by now with their delay at r t. well they may be a minority but they are making their presence felt in belgium a group of radical muslims is getting a mixed public reaction that's ranging from fear to ridicule as artie's tests are sillier of course their extreme message could contradict the very religion they claim to observe. bearded wearing a comma flushed jacket and constantly surrounded by men fought a belt is hard not to notice he heads the islamic fundamentalist group sharia for belgium in september the group opened the country's first sharia court in antwerp to mediate domestic disputes among muslims with our own system. of

handling things if you want to accept it accept it if you don't that's your problem but there is judgement day if you if you're a muslim you will go to paradise if you are this believer you will go to hell. any further controversy may have ended there if that was all there is to it that video such as these. have caused outrage. and freedom of speech and. insight into hatred incitement to violence starch we have. leadership here for him he openly. said that. i should be. i should be killed because i am an enemy of islam in january and work or prosecutor recommended two years in prison and a fine of five hundred fifty euros for about a seven for inciting hatred and violence against muslims that's in addition to fourteen police court convictions and criminal convictions for robbery defamation

and violence. of course just a few people maybe a dozen of people maybe two dozen of people dressed like me. middle age. and green flag. and come on this is a joke yet it has its repercussions on other muslims. this kind of group of course they are moved but they have no religious background it is a minority perhaps in search of an identity. that's a big difference and the misses they're using it's scary and it's freaking people language. people unfortunately just kind of the group feels about image of islam and muslims condemn this kind of. this is a misinterpretation of her secret books for. muslims comprise about six percent of the belgian population one of the highest rates in europe and is expected to rise

to more than ten percent by two thousand and twenty the muslim who live in belgium they say. they are belgium from the region. you know rigid and the first. muslim radical groups such as those of the islamic fundamentalists comprise a minority and it's not representative of the muslim community in belgium nevertheless politicians analysts and even the belgian muslims themselves acknowledge that the problem is what these groups symbolize radicalization the process it spreads and the allure of extreme views. tests are so your r.t. brussels. the u.s. announcement that its combat operations in afghanistan will and earlier than expected has stirred up confusion among afghan officials who say it could be a disaster for the whole transition plan u.s. defense secretary leon panetta said earlier that the country wants to switch to a role of supporting and training local forces by the end of next year or

correspondent and author eric margolis thinks the upcoming election could be the main motive for the decision. first of all pressure from other this year's elections a poll shows sixty percent of american voters are fed up with the war in afghanistan or against that the price is approaching one trillion dollars a time when washington's very hard of cash is cutting budgets and obama wants to be leander just now regret it already remember he was a peace presidency browed is going to repeat stupid states and this is a very important step to us and we drove to a smaller number of fortified places and the drone attacks will conduct special sources it's not over yet understand what's going to have the eighty thousand u.s. paid mercenaries who are in afghanistan remains uncertain. you know some other stories making headlines across the globe cambodia's supreme court has sentenced

the comrie chief in jail or known as comrade boy to life in prison for crimes committed while he ran a notorious detention center appeal judges rejected his claim that he was only following orders while you oversaw the torture and execution of more than twelve thousand victims he's already serving a thirty five year prison sentence for crimes against humanity. rescue teams continue to battle heavy seas and strong winds searching for survivors after a ferry sank off papua new guinea with three hundred fifty passengers and crew almost two hundred fifty have been plucked from the waters but many are still missing the ship's operator said the vessel sent out a distress call thursday but then contact was lost most of the passengers were university students and teachers and training. a cold snap has already claimed one hundred sixty four lives in eastern europe as countries struggle with record low temperatures heavy snowfalls led to widespread power trip power outages and

transport chaos the extreme cold even caused the black sea to freeze off the ukrainian coast in that country alone more than one hundred people have died after temperatures plummeted to minus thirty celsius most of the victims were homeless people. an unexpected u. turn from the father a former f.s.b. officer who was poisoned in london six years ago he said he had been wrong to accuse vladimir putin of be responsible for his son's death all to live in and go said his claims had been driven by grief and hatred adding he had no idea that his son alexander was working for british intelligence or he's a catarina gretsch of a house. but you would. be limited edition of a d.c. so we found one could eat medium coup bring it he's tiny tell an apartment no electricity no gas no water. what just it was if it wasn't for the help of various people i would have died from hunger.