although we are favorites hoping to produce our best tennis no matter who is across the now 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 prefer compactor it sounds to see a public chunk of our unspoken of course that saw over so russia fruit of the next round because it's over 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 anderson petersburg native says russia will need to be at the top of a game to move through to the semifinals well i guess there's a bet there we're. going to be president of a very difficult marriage and we have to before there are barriers because there is easier much as they this is the image is that that if that is how. it's going to be a tough task for spain i mean you can't turn and form a legend around your son just because you will be taking charge of the first ever

flip cup time however the russians will be hoping for a slightly easier passage into the next round compared to last year's free to win of a french speak look to win the first title since two thousand and eight. darty moscow . now anticipation is reaching fever pitch ahead of this weekend's n.f.l. super bowl the new york giants a new england patriots go head to head in the biggest game on the american sporting calendar the extravaganza will also feature some international talent such as patriots punter zoltan mesko he's been speaking about the long road he's traveled from the remaining revolution of one thousand nine hundred nine to one of the biggest sporting events in the world. well it's flying through our apartment and we were ducking down on christmas eve which was not a very christmas like atmosphere to be and you know i had a different sense of what america would be and like i was i was

a little you know shell shocked at first but then you know you grow into it and this is kind of what i expected to oh i'm so grateful for this opportunity in the world where i've come from that you know when you put it on in perspective it's it's it's i don't even have the words to describe it. now england's football team will soon have a new leader after john terry was relieved of the captaincy the chelsea defender has been stripped of the band with his july trial for racial abuse allegations against q.p.r. defend until the looming that means terry won't be leading the team outright you are twenty twelve the thirty one year old was previously stripped of the captaincy by manager fabio capello two years ago of allegations that he had an affair with the team mates girlfriend wayne rooney steven gerrard and sculp pahlka are among the favorites to take over the arm by. now staying in england and there is a big day of football in the premier league with manchester city able to extend their lead at the top they'll be looking to bounce back after one meal defeated everton in their last match and boss roberto mancini admits he may be no food for

that loss yeah because. i want to do. with some time this is not that and they gave probably. i didn't do it when my my daughter and. it is important for me to understand these . well elsewhere on saturday arsehole can move back into the top five with a victory over a struggling black person the other big games of the day involve sides involved in the relegation battle rock bottom wigan host everton q.p.r. can put daylight between themselves and the drop zone with a win over wolves also west brom hosts one sunderland over stoke on bolton trying to knowledge. now one of the most famous rugby tournament in the world kicks off later on saturday england begin the defense of their six nations title when they take on scotland murray failed for the calcutta cup before that travel to paris to

take on frons the italian secured a famous win over the french in rome last year with a surprise twenty two twenty one victory but they've won only once away in twelve years in the tournament so the odds are stacked firmly in france's favor. the brunt of the difference is i think that france's team always takes italy lightly but maybe with less focus as opposed to when they play against other teams but this is something normal it can happen to anybody even for me i'm a bit less focused when i play with my club sometimes it can happen but anyway it isn't our problem but i don't think that france's team will see this game as a way to make up for their defeat last year. while wales take on an island in dublin on sunday for months after knocking them out of the quarter final stage of the world cup however wales captain sam warburton says that won't be on the players' minds. i really think about what the quarter final. and president familia know we all scientists are like him twice last year and he's

written for if you talk of months. and months the players know what it's going to be like really on sunday they might use it as more of a woman. now let's take a look at what's going on in basketball and in the n.b.a. miami a second in the western conference after a confident ninety nine seventy nine win at philadelphia a pretty close affair in the first half resulted in the hate having a four point lead at half time fifty one forty seven. the teams scored sixteen a pace during the third quarter miami made a significant breakthrough in the final period however scoring their opponents by sixteen points when wade and le bron james were on song for the visitors finishing with twenty six and nineteen points respectively in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine victory means the hate ended the seventy six s four game winning streak. to baseball and after more than three years sober texas rangers outfielder

josh hamilton admits he's relapsed hamilton missed both the two thousand and four and five seasons because of drug and alcohol abuse the thirty year old says he had three or four drinks on monday after what he describes as a weak moment it was wrong. you know i needed to be in a different place. needed to be response more that moment. that period i was not responsible and. those actions are. heard a lot of people are very close to me. now where the cats are masters has been reduced to fifty four holes after strong winds let's only three hours of play on friday organizers hope to complete round two by the end of saturday and stage the third round on sunday american john daly held the overnight lead on five under par after eighteen holes a few months ago there were five players a shot further back including england's david lane and players are agreed

shortening the tournament was the right thing to do. no it isn't but the reason was if everybody was going. because of the way. they would have done the right decision on the boxing and two world title bout a weight boxing fans in texas on saturday woods who says are chavez jr preparing for his w.b.c. middleweight title defense against marco antonio rubio and the vacant w.b. super bunch of white title is up for grabs also with wilfried over us question here i'm nonito donaire doing battle for it in san antonio all four participants have plenty to gain and a lot to lose at the alamodome this is our shot as junior not only putting a title on the line but also his undefeated record of forty four wins and one draw the mexicans a veteran patrick rubio meanwhile has fifty three wins five losses and one draw the thirty one year old hasn't lost in almost three years since going down to kelly

pavlik in two thousand and nine while the w.b. open some white belts had some aggressive suitors internet and vast one of those men who get just their second professional last one when the title. boxing is all about heart no matter who you are you could be puerto rican mexican filipino but one thing is when there are challenges we take it with all the respect that's what it's all about boxing that's the beauty of boxing and we want everyone to come and see because this is going to be an incredible fight this is going to be an amazing fight and i know that both sides have respect for each other but both sides will do everything and anything they can to bring their heart to bring their pride and it's going to be fine thank you well that's all the sport for now whether is next here on alt.

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uplands these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are the day please come up. with a month to go before presidential elections tens of thousands are on the streets of moscow to protest for free elections and political change. the other side of the protests rushed out. to. support. the un is expected to vote on a draft resolution on syria but russia warns of a scoundrel if the text is put on the table in its current form kremlin says it leaves to any loopholes for intervention. class of violent protests against the

police and the military government escalates across egypt several people killed and hundreds injured. and the very latest developments this is r.t. when exactly a month from now russians will head to the polls to vote for their next president this saturday in moscow tens of thousands are gearing up to demonstrate for fair elections while others are running in support of the current leadership let's get the latest now from artie's jacob graves and peter all of peter first we've already seen a few protests off the part of action in december how is this one shaping up and what makes it different. well this is the third time we've seen major protests

since the parliamentary elections in december different about this one is it's also a march you can see behind me people marching through the streets of the. major streets in central moscow. just to gather there and march towards a square now as being the. they won't center over the protests it's be was the place of the the previous two major ones so this is the third time that held protests there now it's quite difficult to gauge just how many people are here the certainly many many thousands just it would be easier to gauge that once they do get supply square just but use of the fact less stretched out along this big highway behind me now this is a sanction protest police have warned though that protesters must remain within the letter of the law and isabel nine thousand police lining the route to try to make sure that the peace is kept. does say this is so this a lot of people from all over the russian political life out on the streets right

now marching through the center of the capital press cross to take agrees now take about what's happening where you are there are tens of thousands there as well we understand how do their agendas and slogans differ. we actually see the point of the turnout here if they ask first money every three fifteen hours thirty five thousand people depending on who you was not pushing this because of the anti all range big movement and that's a reference to the revolution that took place in ukraine in two thousand and five and ousted that government from power of the big message cases they did these people don't want is the very easy in fact that's what made me here are the civility even though officially they had to be tied to any more leader in particular anyone monetization there is a big showing for that of prime minister vladimir putin thank you for no doubt that

you see with the opposition movements that are going on in the capital at the same time today his support has been suffering has been waning in recent months but his tests with that expression still has gone to some way with the russian people and they still can't pull. numbers show best of course about how to price it even though he has suffered drop in the polls not pushing down at fifty two percent of the board still outstripping and the other candidate not just about eighty percent of the board. but peter back to you who are the opposition then and what exactly do they want. well they're here they say they will change in russia's political system and they want the elections that they held on the fourth of march they will them to be there know who exactly they are he's quite difficult to pin down so far today which is the man isn't supposed to fall left groups but isn't support of nationalist groups but is in support of groups that want to bring back the zon fact

i even saw no way to the popular social network facebook emblazoned on it i'm not quite sure what they want. but yeah they were is that one of the things there isn't as a particular leader one solitary uniting figure that what they what we have seen is mikhail prokhorov the independent candidate in the presidential race he's being trumpeted by many here he said he doesn't tend to attend. this meeting this at this gathering but he said he didn't plan to give any speeches as of now but yeah this they really are a group composing of of just about every political belief i say from from far right groups to to far left groups and everything in between into that the kremlin about to make changes after december's votes so what it actually has been done since there. well we've seen a lot of money invested i think it's close to half a billion dollars invested in putting their web cams into all polling stations know

what they see does essentially is create anybody with a computer and internet connection that makes them into an arm chair observateur so if you want to log on to a particular polling station you'll be able to see what's happening in that station online we're supposed to be english if enough people are watching it's difficult to do anything untoward no we've also seen is the establishment of an independent league of electoral monitors that's an independent body that will be looking at the elections that will take place next month and what we've heard from prime minister vladimir putin is that one of the allegations leveled against him sometimes is that he gets too much time on t.v. on radio and in other media now he said he'll quite happily step back from some of his coverage of the received in broadcast in an imprint to give well the other candidates a really fair crack of the whip to get their message out there. ok i live from moscow artie's a painter and graves thank you both. were closely

following the prediction developments in russia online the very latest updates you can head to our twitter feed watch the live pictures from the protests that dot com also get the background on the presidential candidates for an analysis of the. here's what else you can find on our website right now. notorious activist group anonymous has found out what the f.b.i. thinks about the leaks that we are reporting online listening to what was said on our site. also online america's first lady gives everyone impromptu lesson in keep it during an appearance on a talk show you can watch the video. the

u.n. security council is to meet later on saturday with a vote expected of a draft resolution on syria to moscow is warning it will use its veto power if the text is brought to the table in its current form the draft has been softened russia's request dropping demands for regime change and press sanctions but it still contains elements that the kremlin considers loopholes unacceptable foreign intervention becomes an aid reports from syria a new crackdown in the city of homs with hundreds of edge in the dead damascus claims the killings were carried out by terrorists seeking to influence the u.n. vote. has more now from new york. russia china and many other countries have vocalized the fact that the security council should not be used as a tool to impose regime change in any country around the world in this case in particular to syria it should be the security. council should be new moving towards

coming to our peaceful solution where both parties see in part in a conflict should come together at the table russia has its meaning concerns in the aftermath of what took place in libya it is not going to see repeated circumstances in syria in the meantime there have been reports from opposition groups in syria that roughly two hundred people have been killed in renewed violence in the city of homs according to the syrian observatory for human rights the army is shelling the city of fresh ashes in other cities for syria house also gave up for it clearly this violent conflict is garnering attention from all parts of the world as the on international community continues to find a way to reach some type of consensus on how to garner and lead to a peaceful solution in syria. but he's very important ally there reporting from new

york and you can keep up with the latest upon the u.n. vote on syria i thought twitter feed r.t. underscore com. hour and meanwhile in egypt the police used tear gas and fired shots at protesters who've been trying to storm the interior ministry building for two days now seven people have been confirmed dead as violence grips cairo and several other cities the rest was sparked when more than seventeen football fans died during all too much cash three days ago just as it was the police of thing when a tragedy thousands of demonstrators in cairo also called on the roof to council to relinquish power released on this to one of the viruses and suggestions of serious that many of us to president mubarak's generals are still in place. in main recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it it really have on for hours and they are demanding the door will be transferred quickly either to a government or to an elected president and the military council is still there.

hesitant and i link this to something that happened a couple weeks ago when the military council ordered the security forces to go and shut down democracy agencies both and education n.g.o.s and international n.g.o.s based n.g.o.s all of that indicates that the military council is very has been in transferring power to democracy because if they want to cut the deal with a force which most likely will be the muslim brotherhood there is something very odd about the fact that egypt broke down and are going to carry out a leader and yet some of its agencies are acting as if you are again regime is going to rock what is happening right now is that large segments of civil society specifically the youth of egypt who began to revolt and that revolt was taken away by other political parties including the muslim brotherhood and that sort of as those youth are angry at the government because they want the military council to transfer power to them or actually to their representatives and they fear that egypt is moving towards another of their again regime. well we'd like to know what

you think about the latest events in egypt today were asking why the country is still in turmoil probably last year's revolution log on to our web site r.t. dot com to take part in our latest poll so far almost half of you believe it's because they don't know is of ousted leader hosni mubarak still in power most want to say it's just a radical to maintain rest seventeen percent are saying that the main reason the finals to but it seems to me unemployment and the want to suggest that the revolution takes a step down for those who want a dot com to cast your vote. without the so they have to decide how the debate over who right now is and again i think parsing through to protect intellectual property has moved beings involved find out why they say moderates know basic rights. laws so if you look traction why robots with human like qualities blocking

the hearts of the fun loving. as humanitarian groups accuse libya's new government of abuse in the country detention centers he's been revealed that a former senior official may have been the latest victim of torture libya's ex ambassador to france died in custody twenty four hours after being detained by a militia group reports claim that photos of sixty two year old. evidence of bruising and other wounds rights groups say that torture and executions have become commonplace in makeshift prisons run by former rebels middle east expert and journalists who can't turn down vicious death is in the spotlight because the same militia that allegedly killed him is also keeping colonel gadhafi son in custody. i don't think the militia responsible for the the likely torturing to death of mr bush will be held account but there's a lot of interesting political games going on in libya it seems to me very clearly is that why this focus now on the money militia is because there's

a tiny militia there's entirely people are holding saif al islam and the west especially the i.c.c. are very fearful about what this one tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif al islam doesn't have access to a sinister as far as i now and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for this entirely is that saif al islam in their custody is the biggest power play that they've got to use in libya so i think this is the great agenda of what's going on right now with this latest development but nonetheless mr bush does seem to have been tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france. protests have been raging across europe against last week signing of a new copyright treaty between forces intellectual property law on the internet opponents say the international act of documenting forces censorship is a violation of human rights bottom reports more demonstrations are expected over the weekend. the streets may be snowy but here in sweden the heat is being turned

up in that most modern of political debates surrounding internet freedom protests have been called here in the capital as part of a wider reaction in europe and the u.s. against laws perceived to infringe on the public's access to the internet but target this time actor the anti counterfeiting trade agreement signed by countries around the world the people behind the law point out that it's important to try and protect the copyright of the people who make music to make video and distribute it around the world if you say well everything should be free well perhaps no one will write any books or produce music or fields etc. it would disappear but much less because it's not often those against it say it's a wolf in sheep's clothing a way for governments to control their access to the internet and that it was held

in secret but it was designed to be very punitive to those found breaching copyright rules the next generation has grown up with the ability to say anything to anybody else on the planet today ideas battle it out for themselves to have a freedom of speech never before imagined we don't need to ask anybody's permission to present new ideas and. all of a sudden corporations want to take that away because it inconveniences them and millions of young people are rising up in anger at the formation of pirate parties not just here in sweden but elsewhere in europe is evidence of how high the status of those internet freedom campaigners has risen and there's politics not just in the european parliament but also on the streets internet freedom campaigners are urging people to put their views across before the european

parliament votes on this in june to try and stop the legislation before it's made but whether it's done in parliament and in political boardrooms or on the street few expect this to be a calm debate. coming your way this hour accepting old pay the new way new branches of vision that have changed the face of the nation something that could have dangerous consequences. finding true love is never easy for those who've given up on ever meeting their perfect partner and we settle for a robot fans of synthetic sweethearts say romances with robots could become commonplace sooner than we might think. when toys for boys become more then twenty originally when i first got her i call her my synthetic girlfriend but it's actually progress to the point where it's like a.