securing him a three stroke lead with day two suspended due to darkness the american heard six birdies when he saved the day on the seventy this bunker shot going in for an eagle that would be enough for a round of eight under sixty three his compartments horace and fraser was playing catch up from right along the forty rule still three holes away from finishing his second run but he is up the second overall while twenty eleven p.g.a. money list runner up webb simpson is a full half a dozen strokes off the pace the twenty six year old tied now with side korean john who. are both men did wrap up the runs. we moved to england where there is a big day of football ahead in the premier league they can end with munch be moving clear from cross town rivals united the summit the sky blues will their at home it's a full i'm seeking to get back to winning ways following defeat at everton midweek before the arsenal could move up from seven the fifth big get the job done against

second from bottom block burn bolton travel to nourish q.p.r. can put daylight between themselves and the drop zone victory over wolves sunderland are at stoke west brom rock bottom wigan entertainment table everton. brings us on to basketball where friday saw the battle of two of the n.b.a. western conferences leading lights miami winning that particular contest up philadelphia a close older fir right throughout the first half though he going in at the break four in front leading fifty one forty seven even closer in the third quarter with the score scoring sixteen points of peace a significant breakthrough coming in the final period in miami well they didn't mess around scoring the seventy six by sixteen points to win wade and le bron james the main man for the visitors finishing with twenty six and nineteen points respectively the one thousand nine hundred seventy nine victory means the heat smarts philadelphia's four game winning streak. so europe's most prestigious ruby

tournament kicks off later on saturday and already there's a trophy on the line when six nations title and put their calcutta cup on the line against scotland before that one kicks off at murrayfield france and italy will bring you all the quit and in paris tally and secured a famous win over the french in rome last year with a surprise twenty two twenty one victory but they have won only wants away in twelve years in the tournament meaning the altar still starts firmly in their favor . i think that france's team always takes easily 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 and maybe less focus 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. after more than three years

sober texas rangers i feel are josh hamilton has admitted he's relapsed the baseball star missed both the two thousand and four and five seasons because of drug and alcohol abuse the thirty year old stating he had quote three or four drinks on monday after what he described as a weak moment. it was wrong. to be in a different place. to be response more that moment. i was not responsible. heard a lot of people who are close. to world title bar to wait boxing fans in texas on saturday with julio to start charge is junior preparing for his w.b.c. middleweight title defense against marco antonio rubio the vacant w b o superabundant where title is up for grabs with wilfried or vasquez jr on the need to down there are doing battle for that silverware in san antonio a busy night all for participants have plenty of the game hell of

a lot to lose out they don't this is our child is jr not only putting a title on the line but also is on the field record of forty four wins one draw the mexican's veteran come patreus rubio meanwhile has fifty three wins five losses 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 o bunton weight belt has some aggressive suitors and down there on the squares one of those men will get just their second professional loss on one will learn that type. boxing is not our heart no matter who you are you could be border region mexican filipino but one thing is when there are challenges we take it with all due 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 they think they can to bring their heart to bring their pride and it's going to be fine thank you. finally russia's greco-roman and freestyle wrestlers have never been shy in outing a limp big silverware to the team's coffers dug a stand is the country's only speeded center of the sport without pleas from all across the world using the north caucasus region as home in the run up to meijer international competitions ramon cost of reports. a wrestler's day in dagestan begins at around eight am with a run up the targets our mountain this traditions been going since soviet times and is a vital ingredient in the recipe for success that continues distinguished athletes from this small region on the international freestyle wrestling arena this we're going to. over the last ten years dagestan's become a world center for wrestling with athletes from all over russia coming in to practice some of the best sparring partners in the world in the last three olympics

are wrestlers of one six gold medals and we have potential for more as around thirty thousand children actively practicing freestyle wrestling held by more than eight hundred coaches. wrestling has become a noted export from dagestan just like brazil with its exceptional football players two thousand and eight olympic champion shaheen is a native of dagestan but ended up representing turkey and happens to be just one of many locals who went looking for a shot at glory in countries other than russia. did not even think of performing for another country but everything changed after my jaw was broken and i lost my place on the russian team a short while later i struck a deal with a turkish club and began to compete then after i defeated all of my turkish opponents in the sixty six k. class they decided that i could perform for the turkish national team. jane's uncle

is stuck here by haro is the coach of the turkish national team who are also in dagestan training alongside other countries for the upcoming summer games in london . far enough it's been immense experience here every year they come from korea mongolia and even cuba dagestan has a great school of wrestling also only have the olympic training center but in any wrestling center here even the americans would come here they'd videotape everything and then leave. for the london games just around. and of course the great things finest are right here in russia's republic of dagestan the local school is considered to be one of the best in the world with four national teams currently gearing up for the and then olympics this summer. a lot of the world's top wrestlers know each other's strengths and weaknesses very well and that's in large part thanks to a combined preparation program offered here in dagestan the fact that athletes know

the condition of their opponents before the actual competition is by no means a disadvantage for the russians as the country's olympic heroes try to pass on their fine wrestling traditions around the world. we should not lose what our ancestors have left for us freestyle wrestling means a family where you can always find understanding and assistance if we lose those elements of our culture then our own people will not forgive us preserving those to dish and main goal over the last twenty years or so the number of the limbic medals won by a russian freestyle wrestlers has been on the up and the republic of dagestan was instrumental in that success remark all sort of artsy. russia's republic of dagestan now a month spent a week in the russian republic of dagestan and spoke to at least a dozen olympic champions from different generations and we will be airing those stories in the run up to the summer olympics over the next few months are plenty to

look forward to there and that is all the sport for this hour i'll see you in four hours time. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture.

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free. free. old free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video r.t. dot com. tens of thousands of people braved moscow's bitter subzero temperatures to ensure their views on russia's politics are heard. we seen people out on the streets demanding free elections and insupportable the current russian government join me for more than a few moments. russia's foreign minister warns of chaos in international relations as he criticizes the new resolution on syria promising a security council veto would go to later on saturday. and europeans demanded free internet as people said to flood the streets in protest against an anti being signed across the continent.

international news and comments twenty four hours a day you're watching out. tens of thousands have gathered in moscow on saturday for a day of protests the largest seen in the capital so far on the group who is demanding fair elections while others around it to support the current leadership correspondent peter all of us saw the gatherings firsthand. well saturday was a day of demonstrations here in the russian capital we saw a march and a rally by opposition supporters a large group of them meeting in the center of the city and marching here to block my a square which bloodline has really become the central focus point for opposition protesters here in moscow this is the second time that opposition protesters have taken to block my a square far fewer the this time than last but of course the the weather

a big deciding factor in math cripplingly mo temperatures here in the russian capital in fact the organizers of the protest here shortened the events that were going to be happening just to make it all comfortable for people who would come out in the cold minus twenty at times on saturday here in moscow. so they came out to to voice their opinions here but if you were forced to make him leave because i'm tired of the government which doesn't do well promises lines and wants this to carry on for years. if he. changes their elections and normal life there it was because my girlfriend wanted to come here i don't care about politics now talk about some of those groups that we've seen come here they really come from all across the russian political straw answer we've seen far right groups far left groups and everybody in between. all coming out coming here to pull up the square

to demonstrate we didn't hear from a lot of the the presidential candidate the independent presidential candidates he's drawn a lot of support from some of the groups that have come here to protest he said he would attend but he wouldn't give a speech this wasn't the only demonstration there was taking place on saturday there's also being gatherings of people who are in favor of the government pro-government supporters and. and those two who've been campaigning saying that they want a revolution in russia using the example of the orange revolution in ukraine in the chaos which is that country found itself in after that saying that they don't need that in russia they were first ability and not for revolution saying that russia had had its times of instability and they didn't want to return to the dark days of the ninety's that the good news for everybody concerned is just how peacefully

everything is being carried off on saturday but the opposition and the pro-government protests going off well relatively without a hitch however one of the pro putin rallies we did see the leader of that rally taken into custody by police now this is because it was a sanctioned rally and it was sanctioned to have a certain amount of people there the amount of people that turned up far exceeded that we saw a lot of police and she's they did say say protesters must remain within the law they did do that and everything going off very peacefully is such a day becomes the day of demonstrations parties arpita all of our reporting there on a day of political rallies in moscow. moscow is warning it all veto the latest u.n. resolution on syria if the text is submitted in its current form russia says the document still needs to be revised their security council expected to meet in the next few hours it comes amid reports from syria of a new crackdown on the city of homs with hundreds and actually killed well arty's

sara furthur has just returned from the country has the latest. one of the main concerns really the language of the resolution that's been right from the beginning real focal point they don't like this obscure language to. this during international intervention. resolution has been softened and that's been seen by the u.n. diplomats the people working on that is quite a major concession to russia some of the main issue is such as the arms embargo and economic sanctions have been dropped from the draft. the foreign minister from russia said the demands being made of the armed groups in the country and there's a sense that the draft has prejudices towards the outcome of national dialogue through. condemnation of the government.

state institutions. the government receives. no demands. but did you manage to give a much more specific i think we really there's a sense that they want to get this right you know we're seeing a push now for some kind of vote today but at the same time you know russia is certainly very wary about this language no one wants to make the same mistakes were made in libya and you know we saw the outcome of that obscure language that was signed off on where that led so i think the sense is really that they want to get this right the first time not rush into something when both sides are still not quite happy with the final final draft with regards to the situation in homes at the moment it's very hard to get a gauge on the accuracy of the fiqh is certainly really high priority to try and get some kind of accurate information coming out on that because you know that does play a big part in how the international community now going to respond to the situation

certainly in the country the situation is that some of these people you've got an increasingly polarized country you've got a situation that just seems to be escalating all the time and these armed conflicts breaking out in areas with civilian populations speaking to people and saying i can't believe that we're watching this play out on the international stage right now they're watching that u.n. security council resolution going to be being discussed and there are people on the ground having to live. so i mean it's absolutely pivotal that i think some sort of decision is made of fairly soon of course they want to get stuff resolution right but time isn't on the side for these people in the country and they're in a desperate situation right now you know they don't have any real towards resolution of any kind on the ground so you know whilst this resolution is being discussed in the security council you know action is needed there in the country. tara for their hostile to come of the program or religion as a testing ground investigate new forms of islam could change the face of

a whole nation to serious consequences. plus a plastic partners dolls and robots compete with real women to unlock the hearts of lonely men apparently in search of love. protests raging across egypt have left at least eleven people dead as police fired volleys of tear gas and birdshot into crowds who threw rocks in the plight of the thousand people have been injured clashes continue around the street several government buildings reportedly set on fire people are venting their anger at police for thirty to prevent wednesday's imports which killed seventy four people demonstrators are demanding the military council steps down accusing it was of hijacking the revolution middle east analyst and it says objections off furious that have ousted president without generals still running the country. the main

recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it really have all the powers 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 very hesitant and i link this to something that happened a couple weeks ago when the military council of security forces to go and shut down democracy agencies both education n.g.o.s and international n.g.o.s u.s. based n.g.o.s all of that indicates that the military council is very hasn't been in transferring power to democracy forces they want to deal with a force which most likely will be the muslim brotherhood there is something very odd about the fact that egypt brought down in order to give it a leader and yet some of its agencies are acting as if you are again if you missed going to iraq what is happening right now is that large segments of sort of this. specifically do you egypt who began the rule of all and their hold was taken away

by other political bodies including the muslim brotherhood and it's not as though you are angry and the government because they want the military council to transfer power to them or actually to their representatives and they fear their egypt is moving towards another authoritarian regime. libya's new government accused of abuse in the country's detention centers it's been revealed that one former senior official could have fallen victim to torture libya's x. some buses affronts has died in custody just twenty four hours after being detained by armed militia groups so you can't chant the middle east expert in journalist says the same people who allegedly killed a former diplomat are also holding current gadhafi son in custody i don't think the militia responsible for that the likely torturing to death or miss the 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 this in funny 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 hasn't had access to a solicitor as far as i know 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 being tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france. well r.t. dot com is the place to go to find other opinions and updates on the balance in the beer and elsewhere in the world online right now april may or june that's when israel could launch an attack on iran's nuclear facilities least that's what they seem to think in washington. and russia is over the moon on the bells that space ambitions these and other stories are

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dot com campaign is for online freedom are set to hit the streets of europe to protest against a new copyright treaty signed by governments across the continent but the anti counterfeiting trade agreement or actor won't come into force until it's been ratified by the european parliament and that's what activists want to prevent seeing the new door with in danger free speech and net privacy but protests will be staged in several european capitals stock is one of them you know a tease tom barton is there. 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 profitable for 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 that lit 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 campaign is 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 parliaments and in political boardrooms or on the street few expect this to be a calm debate. tom barton there now a clash of cultures in kurdistan where the moderate indigenous practice of islam is

being threatened by more radical alternatives there are fears for the effect on everyday life in the central asian republic and around the present instability after two evolutions in the last few years alone forty six on board has the story. all. kneeling down but standing tall tens of thousands of cougars man praying at the country's central square just underneath the lenin monument even in this basket years the communist ideology couldn't bring to the streets as many people as islam does nowadays. the fist of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims but they you need to help my skin almost be a logical and lifestyle differences that exist among various branches of this one here in kurdistan. country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all find some who have

a less than common with each other than they do with christians or jews buddhists people converted to islam in the seventeenth century but they were never designed us about it mixed with germany's and the magic customs the good news version of islam has long been more of a moral code then a religious doctrine is how cheap a society where women are just as active and ambitious as men and when religiosity went hand in hand with good education but that is starting to change or feel as well as after the collapse of the soviet union kurdistan has seen a very fast growth of islam some of it is the medically driven poverty poor education corruption mistrust of authorities all of that is putting people towards religion but much of it is also driven from abroad countries like pakistan saudi arabia kuwait a very generous when it comes to building mosques here. islam is on the rise across all of central asia but only in kurdistan have there the region.