today's match in the second set i also believe that was due to the physical strain she said to go through due to scheduling meanwhile in men's tennis thomas burdick has won the open so difference the twenty six year old beat defending champion gelman face in a final lasting more than two hours month face was on home soil but had no answer to the check in the opening set going down six to climb favorite claim the second set after a double fall from but it. was then held until the end of the final set one month committed his six double fault to give it a five three advantage. world number seven them served out the match winning six two six six three two hours and five minutes for the seventh time to history. meanwhile in english football manchester united have failed to move level on points with league leaders manchester city that's after a quite remarkable three three draw with chelsea at stamford bridge they came from

three goals down to a point jonny have an only goal put chelsea one zero up at the break but all the drama came in the second period goals from one matter and w. easement chelsea with three goals to the good but to wayne rooney penalties and i havea hernandez completed an astonishing comeback the draw leeds united trailing city by two points meanwhile in the earlier kick off newcastle secured a two one home victory over aston villa robbie keane had counsel out there in the bars are happy that denver sees a school day winner on his newcastle debut. to go now where scotland's paul lawrie is celebrating after winning the cats are masters for the second time in his career he joins adam scott is the only other player to win the event twice jason day and peter hanson kept the pressure on lawrie in an event which was reduced to fifty four holes just strong winds de showing great skill with this long part to birdie the third the australian would finish for in

a tie for second with hansen well nine hundred ninety nine british open win a lorry put in a masterful performance commission on fifteen under for the tournament the victory means lawrie is back in the world's top fifty for the first time since two thousand and three and it continues a great start twenty twelve. it's a confidence boost there's a nice there for a while you finish second that race to. start the season or to top ten so you come here and you just keep going you know it's somewhat of. to boxing and deny moscow are now in a three way tie at the top of their group in the world series boxing lake this after they crushed the los angeles matadors five mail in a one sided affair in moscow make it has more. the world series of books and is regarded as the sport's most prestigious team competition with fight is barring it out with out head guards oh vests and with professional stars scoring a match consists of five outs and the team with the most wins wins the match

russian side in a moscow have fared well so far winning five of seven matches however was still three matches to go there was the small matter of facing the los angeles matadors a team they beat on the controversial circumstances in l.a. last year but coming off a four one win over group leaders in milan know the matadors arrive knowing a win would secure them the final play of sport but after much happening in puffin from the american side their guile was surprisingly absent in the ring dinamo moscow bantamweight and volumes of breezing past opponent even figure and while adlon abdul rashid of demolished his counterpart in the light weight category yeah . i was counting on a fight being a short one but i had no idea i wouldn't it with a knockout he presented me with an opportunity and i took it but it's good that it ended quickly because i already have another fight coming up in two weeks time. the matadors hopes of the bigger books is taking something from the match were also soon dashed both the middleweight and light heavyweight categories were largely one

sided affairs with los angeles barely causing alexander ivanoff or edward yet to shift any problems but if three of the full fights in the run up to the heavyweight bout were decided by technical knock outs the night's final clash had to be put to the judges who unanimously voted in favor of the numbers maxine banyan this leave home alone in the world that allows us to fight the fashionably and still retain that olympic eligibility that some of the books we still hurts nights would eventually become a live big chap and. i gather boxes from the team last year made the olympic team but unfortunately this time around there's no possibility but we'll be supporting those who did make it and will try it again next year although the deny moscow book single it was only founded in twenty eleven the did not see asian is the oldest sport said to tea in the country and runs of

the seventy different sport disciplines which have in turn helped russia win numerous medals in recent olympic games so with that kind of history the odds are on with that the trend will continue but for now the denominator artist will surely settle for being crowned world series boxing champ. mike of genco the mosco. now from russia's a dominance in the ring to russia's dominance on the ice starting with bob sleigh where they finish first and second in the four man world cup tour event in canada the crew led by alexander zuckoff manage a time of one minute forty two point four six seconds to outpace all their opponents in the format event russia's other team captained by alexander kasyanov a second fourteen hundred of the second behind the winner as all canada finished third. meanwhile on the slopes there were similar success with the bulk of the others keeping it in the family so they are one round seven of the freestyle world cup the jumo goes with his brother on dry finishing

third battled macao kingsbury for gold the red hot canadian was gunning for a record seventh straight win but the younger vocal brother took an early age and things were never recovered so his first ever world cup goals are today the entire family. now the n.f.l. have rewarded their star performers at that annual awards ceremony in indianapolis green bay packers quarterback aaron rodgers was named most valuable player on a night when the sports legends were out in force new orleans saints quarterback drew brees one offensive player of the year and baltimore ravens linebacker to roll suggs was the season's best defender. if you're just really on. the porn is not a man to look around and see. you want to see the rise of your name. on lies is watching on t.v. . trying to be like it's christmas for mine. to basketball where in the

n.b.a. eastern conference ladies chicago bulls have thrashed the milwaukee bucks one hundred thirty ninety in their own backyard the visitors started brightly finishing the main course out with a thirteen sixteen lead. derrick rose shine for the bulls with sixteen points to his my journey in twelve minutes to the bench he finished with a total of twenty six his team mates continue to press in the second increase in their advantage to twenty four points by half time chicago slowed down after the intro but firmly held on to their late as milwaukee outscored them by a single point during the third and fourth quarter is one hundred thirty nine t. how it finished in chicago close at top of the eastern conference the walker just about to hang on to a playoff spot. now finally you don't normally associate firemen with ice but a firefighter from canada has proven he can handle the best of both worlds and the ice cross downhill championship called truck so hard to take on his own brother

scott after the initial field of sixty four was mowing down the fuel truck which was dubbed the most difficult in the history of pressurized competition added to the challenge for the finest generals rising stars problematic to the early late i stumbled late in the race proctor went on to wrap up a second straight win of the season for miles for celtic to take second had to think of a win for. well that's all the sport for now whether it's next they were all taking .

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on r t. russia and china blocked a western backed u.n. draft resolution on syria with moscow slamming the text for an unbalanced approach and denial of dialogue between the government and the opposition. other stories shaping the week's headlines riots returned to egypt as anger at authorities failure to prevent a deadly soccer brawl spills over into four days of violent clashes that have already seen a dozen dead. and in russia's bitter subzero cold hundreds of thousands drawing record breaking rallies both pro and anti-government ahead of next month's presidential vote.

eleven pm in moscow bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's headlines moscow says it's determined to help bring an end to the syrian crisis by implementing democratic change it's sending its foreign minister to damascus for talks next week on saturday russia and china blocked the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria saying it could cause even more bloodshed because it took sides in the armed conflict or he's marine important i has the latest. tempers are still flaring because as we've been reporting this should be surprised that the security council did not reach a consensus on the draft resolution on syria yet western countries still pushed for a vote and russia warned from the very beginning that if the draft was not a did not address some of russia's concerns it would veto and that's exactly what happened now let's talk about these concerns because moscow said it just requested

some simple amendments would be made to the draft text that would have made the resolution a little bit more balance for example the draft resolution different and that the syrian government withdraw its all of its forces from the cities and towns and cities are all violence but russian officials want to the document the draft resolution to also demand that the armed opposition groups stop participating in violence and retreat back from any cities or towns where it may have occupied the kremlin call it has called a draft text that was presented saturday morning to one side with a list of demands being made on the assad government but no note of armed opposition groups operating in syria now while addressing the security council saturday a russian envoy to the u.n. fratelli churkin said the security council was not created just for the sake of taking sides or interfering in a civil war of sovereign countries you also accuse some kind some countries of sponsoring

a campaign of regime change in syria those who are pushing for this resolution to be adopted don't you sleep with them still you could put some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table heard from the very beginning of the syrian crisis been undermining opportunities for political settlement by calling for regime change stirring up the opposition against the authorities and not hesitating to encourage and freedom of methods of struggle the draft resolution put to the vote does not adequately reflect the real situation in syria and since unbalanced signals to the syrian sides it doesn't take into account. proposals that as well as withdrawing syrian armed forces from the cities this should be an end to a tunics by own groups and state institutions and neighborhoods balance you know when the signal is now the u.s. delegation could not help but showing its frustration and anger when participating in the meeting saturday morning be heard and use some language that's normally not heard on in these diplomatic settings like disgusted in the united states is

disgusted that a couple members of this council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose here addressing an ever deepening crisis in syria and a growing threat to regional peace and security in the meantime the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is heading to damascus on tuesday to meet with syrian president bashar al assad russia has been very vocal in trying to get home sides participating in the conflict in syria to come to the table and start speaking to one another and. using some type of dialogue instead of violence to come to a peaceful approach so of course we will stay on the story and see how it evolves and works out. as diplomats continue their showdown over syria thousands of demonstrators were gathered in the last case in support of president assad is also praise a decision by russia and china to block western call for regime change in syria.

opposition groups say between sixty and two hundred fifty people were killed by security forces in the syrian city of homs just ahead of the un council vote but the government denied the assault dismissing the report as a quote hysterical campaign of incitement by armed groups editor of the syria tribune dr ali mohamed says the timing of the massacre claims a significant. but there were not believing the syrian army waited ten months and then just the night before the u.n. security council meeting it decided it will start bombarding homes this too which in homs had been difficult for the syrian. regime supporters for such a long time and i don't see why did they get the i mean would choose such critical timing to start it's a vicious crackdown has described it it is they are only cleans and the just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who could gun there and investigate it

but unfortunately they were called out for a little good reason and therefore there are only claims from this i have a specific claims from their side we cannot read into what's going on but i don't think they're the i mean what's really mean it's it's it's not like the syrian army this is number one and claims like they had happened before in. in just a short war in there and the opposition was not able to prove any of these claims over the best in months. gyptian police have again fired rubber bullets and tear gas to drive out a crowd of rock throwing protesters away from the interior ministry building in cairo clashes between security forces and demonstrators in egypt have been raging for four days now left a dozen dead and thousands injured activists have been venting their anger over the military rulers alleged failure to prevent a deadly outbreak of violence at a football match wednesday or his worry if an ocean has more from cairo. things

have been extremely devastating and terribly killed so you can eighties of the last few days and also very tragic the code so huge a massacre only one state when seventy four people died in this time heat of one of the city's football stadiums has become by itself the deadliest incident since mubarak ousted last february but it's also true you get a new wave of clashes between the police the army and demonstrators that have actually become something of a common scene here in the capital cairo and i've been with strong leadership the fact these people have been very weak to excuse fully include saeed incident to use new forces especially thing to me ministry of doing nothing of the law in this to have been allowing these deaths so far and we should see and actually over instigating these trials in order to preserve the situation of instability in the country you know to put into existence following somehow. through terror and rule the generals from the supreme council of the armed forces they took power from

mubarak last february and since then demonstrations. have never still after this happened only one state the whole school football fans have come to me but it's nothing to see here in the central part of just months away from here so you can for just isn't calling for a me did transition power from the ministry to civil to situations until early presidential elections and since then twelve people have been killed in the last four days and twenty. but on the on the thing to thing that it's a terrible dissolve so i have to say i hope you can see the pictures right now as you can imagine. while masuda street is a narrow street is one the streets they didn't to the woods they built an old photo of the interior ministry here in prague with the queen many many people that chanting and to mix the slogans from time to time police has been the firing tear gas at the times isn't even. though it's been able to speak to several people there

let's listen to what they have to say about what was going on when it's going to stop people not just for testing in addition to teaching. because to the students are unbelievably effective keep in mind that if they start looking each day to turn everything to their chinese that's. not to hide the fear and the schieffer. 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 they're doing it to the will to the country. it must be or was you can see a situation is very volatile here in cairo and actually in several other cities throughout egypt but we can also you can talk now about several months as well the following points incident the figure is the people from the administration told the students have been detained and they're in custody right now is is that while the

investigation is up on to go in also a meeting of protesters to monks just recently the supreme council of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country. stay with us here at r.t. still ahead this hour the ever tightening knot of sanctions against iran as the u.s. sitter's more punitive measures we ask what response to expect from the defiant islamic republic. and as the nations battle out. hangs in the balance three struggles to find it ally willing to accept its terms. but first saturday was the day for demonstrations across russia more than two hundred thousand people gathered in the country to voice their political views ahead of next month's presidential vote two of the largest rallies happened in moscow with supporters and opponents of the current leadership claiming a bitter cold to have their say it was the third and largest opposition gathering

after a parliamentary vote two months ago which protesters claim was rigged now their main demand is for a fair presidential vote in march author and researcher. thinks the west may be funding the russian opposition to minimize the country's influence on the world stage during a critical. documentable from the records of the national endowment for democracy which is a washington government financed geo that's all over the place in russia their financing activists in. several different cities in russia i think really their expectation is to create as much internal unrest in russia as possible to distract the respect due from new putin presidency at a time when you russia is going to face challenges with the missile defense with the destabilization of the assad regime in syria the attempt to create a regime change in iran and throughout the middle east and you raise or to try to

divert any russian any incoming russian government from dealing with these crises they're trying to do the same template they used in ukraine with the orange revolution in georgia to bring saakashvili into power as a. president in that country and i don't think it will work in russia i whatever mistakes the. tenure has brought with it in whatever discontent is i think there are a lot of things that have significantly improved over the last two years since the time of the yeltsin era. but that that really isn't the point the point is us interference in terminal russian election affairs is something that ought not to be tolerated in the end and it's quite right not to tolerate it. political analyst dmitri babich thinks there is no split in russian society will positively influence the political climate in the country it's mostly just emotions fueled by the media some people were obviously irritated seen the same two faces on television maybe to

march in the last few months especially some people were terrified when they saw their position and it's small the incident when they felt the hand of the west behind it so it's mostly media driven there is no real cost struggle behind it there are people and reach people in both radius there are people of all kinds of ethnic groups in both threads so right now i think it's mostly a positive effect because it is sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people so until now the consequences more and more stupid as if i hope it will continue in that wait if there is a real split in society of course it's not going to be good for the country. there's more about moscow's rival rallies online as thousands gather for the day of protests and. the highlights on camera check out these pictures on our facebook profile and there's plenty more analysis on this and our other top stories that's

a click away. iran says it won't give in to international pressure and abandon its nuclear program even if it's banned from selling a single barrel of oil is a terrorist response to weeks of to this week's approval by u.s. senate committee of a package of new sweeping sanctions against the islamic state but the bill has us that yet to pass through the full congress america's initiative targeting to iran's nuclear program follows the adopting

a total embargo on iranian oil to come into force in july public in turn has repeatedly said it will stop all green supplies to some european countries before summer tehran maintains its controversial atomic program is for peaceful purposes and seeking to prove that by cooperating more closely with the u.n. nuclear watchdog has discussed more on these developments from around iran with. political analyst joining us live from beirut. so previous sets of sanctions against iran have failed so far to produce the desired result even with some of them threatening to back fire and you had the u.s. is considering more what do you think they hope to achieve. i think there is some measurement within the american election especially now we're going into the election they want to put a lot of pressure on iran it might serve the obama administration. lobbyist a group inside the united states but i think they want to squeeze the pressure on

iran they wanted to impose the american law on the international community and i think what we have seen some european talk peanut of damage again. i think american trying. to go to the extreme by trying to destroy your brain the economy they've taken into consideration that iran is going through election parliamentary election probably the thing this is going to backfire in terms of population of iran again. but i think in iran there is. unity among their nuclear. program they think it's for peaceful means and they think they're going in things they that's right. development but america and the european thing will be going very far in this in this

because this is kind of an implication for the world economy especially this escalate to a military showdown between the american and the uranium and everything it's going to be on the table i think really are looking very carefully and what we read is really the literature in the past few months and the statement coming from an israeli they think that all they attack iran or they come out. so between the military escalation and the economic sanctions the region it's very difficult. let's turn to iran's nuclear program this week's mission by u.n. inspectors failed to clarify the issue do you think their next visit in three weeks will produce any breakthroughs. i think all the inspection by the nuclear agency. found that iran is actually weaponize ing their system they.