the national football league would trade all of their wards and accolades for a chance to hold of the lombardi trophy even once the patriots and the giants both lifted it during the last decade another victory for either club would see the careers of its key contributors skyrocket into new territory the patriots tom brady has won the n.f.l.'s biggest game three times and the quarterback could join greats terry bradshaw and his own idol joe montana as the only signal callers with four titles while bill belichick could become only the second head coach ever to win as many rings signed the legendary steeler chuck noll. new england's master mind understands the significance of each moment full well having been to the big dance many times as an assistant and then the lead coach. assistant coach. you work for all year. to start putting your team together and training camp and

all the meetings and eleven practices or whatever it is but it's you know it's a long haul able to get here is what you work for so it's a great experience each one is different they're all special bellatrix counterpart tom corfu and i said i'm more rocky to new or going from job uncertainty during the two thousand and seven season to the top of the world after the last super bowl meeting between the two teams this year shaped up in similar fashion with the giants catching fire late in the season to seal a playoff spot and then stomping through the postseason kaufman could now go from the shame of new york to the hall of fame to the second title i simply walked into our team and said look we've got two games ago we've got to win two games if we do that we determine our own fate we get to the playoffs and we could be the champions of the season from really from that point it has been one single elimination game after another players of responded very very well eli manning has been in the shadow of his older brother peyton is entire career despite both quarterbacks

having one super bowl title apiece the family landscape could shift dramatically if you i was the second a great redemption story to little brothers world wide in the making as for sunday's game plans the giants will likely bet on their defensive line to wreak havoc and force brady to rushes through the make poor decisions that front for attack through the winning strategy four years ago and was also effective when the giants beat their upcoming opponents in the regular season. the patriots do feature one of the league's best often civilians though and battles in the trenches could be the match ups to watch new york receivers a key mix mario manningham and victor cruz also figure to give the patriots shaky pass defense a major fit the top story out of the patriots camp is the status of one of their top playmakers rob ground koski the record setting tight end has been nursing an ankle injury and a less than fully fit growing koski would mean enormous relief for the giants so

far linebackers and defensive backs so a grudge rematch for the ages with several legacies a stake in the forty six edition of america's biggest day gorske r t. ok we stay stateside to basketball where this week so the bottle of two of the n.b.a. western conference is leading lights miami winning that particular contest philadelphia a close old country and this right thruout the first time of the heat going in at the break four in front leading fifty one forty seven even closer in the third quarter with the squad's netting sixteen points apiece significant breakthrough coming in the final period miami certainly not messing around late on storing the seventy six hours by sixteen points to dwayne wade and le bron james the main man for the visitors finishing with twenty six and nineteen points respectively in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine victory meaning the heat of smush philadelphia's

four game story for tonight. after more than three years sober texas rangers outfielder josh hamilton has admitted he's relapsed the baseball star miss both the two thousand and four and five seasons because of drug and alcohol abuse the thirty year old stating this week he had quote three or four drinks after a weak moment. it was wrong. you know i needed to be in a different place. to be response more that moment. i was not responsible. and. those actions are. heard a lot of people are very close to. the alter shortening on a spanish winning the volvo ocean race for the first time telefonica blitzing their way to the third stage on saturday becoming the first team to win the opening three legs since nineteen ninety skipper i care martinez and his crew best thing the five

other teams in the twelve day journey from the mall deaves to the chinese port of some via the leg restarting from the maltese after the race was disrupted to to fear pirates might attack in the indian ocean french squad group obama pushed telefonica all the way but it was the spine huge who claim the maximum twenty four points to remain top of the overall standings legs for kicks off in march eighth fifty two hundred nautical mile stretch from sun year to all. and finally russia's greco-roman on freestyle wrestlers have never been shy and having a limp dick silverware to the team's coffers dug a stunning is the country's undisputed center of the sport without plates from all over the world using the north caucuses region us home in the run up to major international competitions remind us more. 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 a rino i just want to give them. over the last ten years dagestan's become a world center for wrestling with athletes from all over russia coming into practice with some of the best sparring partners in the world and the last israel in pics 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. first i 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 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 is the coach of the turkish national team who are also in dagestan training alongside other countries for the upcoming summer games in london. and. foreign athletes gain 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. yang's just around the corner some 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 things currently

gearing up for the london 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 does not 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 you lose those elements of our culture than our own people will not forgive us for preserving those to dish and that is our main goal. over the last twenty years or so the number of a limp dick medals won by a russian freestyle wrestlers has been on the up and the republic of dagestan was instrumental in that success room on call sort of artsy. russia's republic of

dagestan and all your sports star world weather is coming up just after this.

which brightened. from plans to pressure. starts on t.v. dot com. stalemate at the u.n. russia and china rebuffed the western backed a draft resolution on syria with moscow saying its a vague wording leaves open the door open for foreign military intervention. rockabye return to on rest a dozen dead and thousands wounded in egypt as protesters in their attempt to loosen of the military's a grip on power. in the russia hundreds of thousands gather for rival rallies ahead of next month's presidential vote with massive pro and anti-government marches. plus u.s. police clamp down on the occupy movement a tent city in central washington is the latest to be evicted after

a camping ban was brought in. and broadcasting live it direct from our studios in some from all. co and recapping week's top stories this is r t with our update let's get right to those top stories now. russia and china have given a firm no to the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria moscow has defended its move saying the draft fails to deliver a balanced approach to the unrest and is in favor of extremist groups which ignite even more violence that is as those who were behind the document are now ganging up against a veto states marine important i reports from new york. in a matter of just five minutes after the meeting began russia and china both wielded their veto powers not supporting this draft resolution that was written up by the

arab league and european countries while the draft resolution was supported by thirteen members of the security council russia was asking for some amendments according to russian funimation foreign minister sergei lavrov those amendments were not excessive and mr r. lava have said that russia was urging the west to accommodate moscow's concerns to reach a compromise on this draft resolution china said during the meeting that it supported russia's amendments and said for the council to approach a vote knowing there was a divide it did not help maintain the unity or the authority of the security council russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said that moscow does not support using the security council as a tool to intervene on a sovereign country that is experiencing an internal conflict he believes that

could create chaos in international affairs so as we see there was two vetoes on this resolution it did not go through and it's because russia believes that as the draft resolution was presented it had a lot of imbalances in it when it comes to the current circumstance in syria russian envoy to the united nations vitaly churkin did go into detail about those imbalances but why do you work in the security council has not yet reached its conclusion that you know the draft resolution put to the vote does not adequately whistler's the real situation in syria and send in. the co-sponsors of the resolution and would if that was taken into account of the syrian opposition they must distance itself from extremist groups committing violence and calls on states your ability to use their influence to prevent such. no one has been taken into account that along with was drawing the syrian forces from the cities should be a means to attack the groups and state institutions. nor has the being support for

affording mole flexibility to get into media release states to increase the chances of a successful political process when the russian delegation was forced to vote against this draft resolution we seriously regret this outcome of a joint with. russia's foreign minister is scheduled to visit damascus on tuesday to meet with syrian president bashar al assad this is a move. to to hopefully reach some type of peaceful approach or solution to the conflict still waging in syria the arab league has also addressed the media at the security council at the stakeout saying that they are extremely disappointed. over today's outcome but they will continue trying to work with the security council with the united nations to try to reach some type of consensus now u.s. president barack obama did also issue a statement of his own before the meeting began. that you know the united states is

on the side of the syrian people that are posing the syrian president and his government and he said quote the assad regime the time has come for the reason assad regime. change clearly the united states is pushing for regime change this is a sticking point this is something that russia does not support so we'll see what takes place in the days and weeks to come but as of now the draft text proposed by the europeans by the arab league vetoed by russia and china parties marine important reporting for us there now jason day it's the editor of antiwar dot com says the resolution was doomed after the fallout from the libya conflict. the resolution itself was was probably not going to accomplish much anyway it seems to have been at best an effort to kickstart some international backing for intervention in the country which obviously russia and china were not going to

support i don't think it was ever going to get anywhere and now it seems like with the arab league having withdrawn all their monitors from the country in favor of this resolution they sort of shot themselves in the foot here and don't have a lot of options left it might well put an end to this crisis and create another potentially worse crisis as it did in libya where it seems to me that what the security council is is liable to do with syria is to continue arguing the point to continue putting forth resolutions that have no chance of passing and giving long winded speeches that don't really get anywhere opposition activists claimed over two hundred people were killed in the syrian city of homes just ahead of the vote on the u.n. security council asia times correspondent ask a bar question the accuracy of those reports and what their timing was a coincidence. the timing of this alleged massacre in the holds more than two hundred people killed just as do you when is scattering to vault

a result lucian more or less establishing what the arab league says is a roadmap for peace and syria is very suspect well coming back to what this resolution so all about it so now alliance between nato basically led by washington and london and paris and this six person gulf monarchies of the gulf cooperation council dare genda from the beginning for months now is reaching change in syria no matter what they knew that they couldn't live or get the win that security council resolution authorizing and most lies over syria for number of reasons first of all because it did said regime is not so bold bardi its own but with vision with meeks so this does not seem to do with the syrian peace process and all syrians themselves began to think specific look we don't trust this big silent gallus we would like to organize ourselves and would like to discuss with the go sit down

with the government and discuss a route map for peace but between ourselves and just a little later in the program report on another target of western pressure. iran is ready to cause chaos in the world's markets as it says it will respond to a looming e.u. oil embargo by cutting off the supply before european countries have time to find alternatives. and at the same time and the german chancellor wraps up her lobbying tour of china where her anti iran rhetoric found little support. a dozen dead and thousands injured in the bloody aftermath of three straight days of rioting in egypt and it all began after an outbreak of violence at a football match earlier this week an episode that claimed the lives of seventy four people are correspondent maria financial has more from cairo. it's an early morning here in the egyptian capital and at this time the square that i hope you can see behind me may look calm and peaceful but these few last days have been

absolutely chaotic and devastating in aged and also tragic as far as the egyptian authorities are reporting since saeed massacre when seventy four people died in. one of the cities. twelve of the people have been killed in the balls that followed and twenty five hundred others have been injured it's worse to point out that since mass protests took first took to the streets of the capital cairo last january. people actually have been on the streets literally all the time protesting and demonstrating against military rule. these poor incident this massacre has triggered new waves new wave of clashes and violence and people have been actually very quick to condemn this which is to use the interior ministry over egypt over allowing this to happen or official see and actually sometimes even

instigating these fires in order to preserve this instability in all the two eventually just to follow the authoritarian rule here in the country hard core football fans known as old churches that have always been. full front of the uprising against mubarak have come right after this happened it had come to the building of the interior ministry here in the central cairo just some blocks away from here calling for justice for the immediate transition of the power from the military to civil institutions and for. actually presidential elections and since in the last four days the standoff between police and protesters has never actually stalled it's still continuing right. at this very moment actually we've been there it's a complete disaster i hope you can see the pictures right now it's

a narrow street. street one of the streets that leads into the woods the building over the interior ministry the realm of some people the tension and ministry slogans from time to time police firing tear gas at protesters so it's complete disaster let's listen to people there has been saying people not just for testing in addition to teaching. because the guys are unbelievably effective people people might die. each day children everything today in china that. it might be for. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over here it's more than enough what they're doing to the protestors and the doing to the country and it must be so as you can see station is very tense it's very complicated here in cairo but there wars is that we can expect as collations even further dr o'meara shore from the institute of arab and islamic studies at the

university of exeter says egyptians are tired of waiting for accountable leadership . the supreme council of the armed forces has mismanaged the transitional process to a large degree the expectations on the egyptian street where they told that they will be. power from military to civilian elected civilian in six months and therefore once you have elected civilian rule the investments will come to life the economic life will be back to normal there will be a formal restructuring of the security services that acted in a very aggressive and brutal way and caught up to a during the mubarak era and all these expectations so the economy to enhance a better economy the dignity the freedom the bread the slogans of that evolution were not really accomplished by a year after that evolution that's why there is a protest last friday and on the university of that it was. wanted

a president now an elected president now so that they can hold him accountable if you fail to be stored back the egyptian economy and if you fail to reform the security services. and you are with r t still to come on in the program. there are very few people who would say as many horrible things are going to be. a shock spy saga you turn to talk to the father of the poison that the officer alexander litvinenko find out why he's withdrawn his accusations about russia being responsible. saturday was a day of demonstrations across russia hundreds of thousands gathered in moscow st petersburg and elsewhere to voice their political views ahead of next month's presidential election two rallies took place in the capital both calling for a fair election one was in opposition to vladimir putin's candidacy the other

a pro-government gathering compared protesters to orange revolution supporters of ukraine journalist yvonne as a source says any opposition candidates campaigning could come undone over their social policy. things that our course was too late in coming so we are seeing more or less usual suspects and even even if we take seriously proper up here i mean he's a he's a smart man and he's a rich man but. he's. in a category that he's not loved in russia are rich and successful man we are not in america we were shocked and this is basically a social democratic country who has in store is social policy going to give support to so many people that's why so many people who together today to support him i think that what is happening today is that there are so many people calling call

fair elections my hope is that they will get the fair elections but i think that it may be disappointed again because. there is a fair chance that we can move. and coming up next hour we take a look at one of the measures designed to ensure transparency on next month's election. and the thousands of web cams will be installed at all of russia's polling stations in an unprecedented attempt to give everyone the opportunity to see for themselves how the voting process works. iran will definitely halt oil supplies to some european countries warns tehran's oil minister the move comes in response to that use earlier decision to impose sanctions on the islamic republic that are to come into force in july the weekend tehran launched a massive military exercises in the country south near the vital oil group the strait of hormuz tensions have been rising a bit suggestions that

a military operation against iran is an increasing possibility reports emerged on thursday that the u.s. defense secretary leon panetta said israel could strike iran as soon as april british based political analyst chris bambery says the u.s. and israel are building up a false pretext for war. we've had claims this week the u.s. defense secretary that there was going to be the rainy terror attacks inside the united states although he also said there was no evidence they could produce the evidence for that elsewhere in tel aviv i read that supposedly respectful commentators saying the release had missiles which he could file could hit the united states of america that claim is just simply of course truth but we are seeing a ratcheting up of the right and tyranny and rhetoric in the west at the same time there is going to be very very nervous about the american build up inside the inside the persian gulf if you look at the map of iran it is surrounded by american

military bases incidentally bases which are also in that russia and china so i think in some ways the pressure must be all inside the right to think we should bear we got a retaliation in first. top economy china has promised to consider pumping its cash reserves into the euro zone to help with the blogs debt crisis the offer comes after a strong lobbying push on the part of the german chancellor during her three day trip to the asian nation there she openly asked for help in saving the embattled the euro and evoked a promise from her chinese counterpart to look into it she also pushed for beijing to cut its ties to iran this comes as the bloc awaits with bated breath for the conclusion of the drawn out greek debt talks the negotiations are key to athens receiving a second bailout from the e.u. and are seen as its only chance to avoid default political analyst christophe forstall believes that ultimately.