fact that she's participating in a lot of tournaments held in the states and if she has to fly back to europe for a fed cup match she'll have trouble acclimating in three to five days i wish the fed cup would be scheduled the week before a grand slam tournament and not one week afterwards when couldn't so they lost their momentum in 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 to france the twenty six year old beat defending champion gelman face in a final last in more than two hours month face was on home soil for 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. then into. the final set on one things committed his sick double fault to give credit five three advantage. world number seven them served out the match winning six two four 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 joining evans 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 were three goals to the good but two wayne rooney penalties and i havea hernandez completed an astonishing comeback to draw leeds united trailing city by two points meanwhile in the earlier kick off newcastle secured a two one time victory over aston villa robbie keane had counseled out their bars. pappy's demba sees a school the winner on his newcastle debut. to go for an hour scotland's pull laurie 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 in a tie for second with hansen while nine hundred ninety nine british open when a lorry put in a masterful performance finishing 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 finished second in that race to. start the season but to talk to and so you come here and you just keep going you know it's somewhat of. to boxing added i'm a mosque i'm now in a three way tie at the top of their group in the world series boxing league 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 fighters barring it out with out head guards all 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 had seen 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 huffing and puffing 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 was

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 even off or edward 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 especially and still retain that olympic eligibility that some of the books we still hurts nights would eventually become a live picture champions. i gather boxes from the

team last year made the olympic team but unfortunately this time around there's no possibility that it will be supporting those who did make it and will try it again next year although the deny must go books england was only founded in twenty eleven the did not want to see asian is the old the sport said to tea in the country and runs of a seventy different sports disciplines which have in turn helped russia win numerous medals in recent olympic games so with that kind of history the odds are obama that the trend will continue but for now the dynamic what it is will surely settle for being crowned world series boxing champ. mark of change go r.t. moscow. now from russia's a dominance in the ring to russia's dominance on the ice starting with bob sleigh where they finished first and second in the four man world cup tour event in canada the crew led by alexander zuko funds a time of one minute forty two point four six seconds to outpace all their opponents in the format event russia's other team captain by alexander cast you

know of a close second fourteen hundred of the second behind the winner as all canada finished third. meanwhile on the slopes there was similar success with the bulk of brothers keeping it in the family so they are one round seven of the freestyle world cup the jumo goals with his brother on dry finish and fed 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 made things through never recovered so his first ever world cup goals for the day the entire family. now the n.f.l. have rewarded their star performers at the 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 israel is truly on.

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loading video for your media project a free media. russia and china veto the western and arab back to a resolution on syria with moscow criticizing the tax taking and unbalanced approach and denying that the realities on the ground. in egypt at least a dozen people are killed as anger at the authorities failure to prevent seventy four deaths at a football match on wednesday sparks country wide protests hundreds. and hundreds of thousands take to the streets in russia in both pro and anti-government rallies ahead of the march fourth presidential election.

i'm broadcasting live direct from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us on saturday russia and china blocked a little the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria. saying that backing the rebels over the government could cause even more bloodshed but moscow says it remains determined to end of the syrian crisis by helping damascus implement democratic reforms russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov is due to visit the country for talks next week or he's more important i have been following the diplomatic battle in new york. tempers are still flaring because as we've been reporting this should be surprise 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 the syrian government withdraw its all of its forces from the cities and towns and seize all violence but russian officials want to 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 chemical as 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 security council saturday 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 he also accused some 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 in some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table from the very beginning of the syrian crisis demanding opportunities look a little settlement but i couldn't call regime change stirring up the opposition against the authorities and north because it's a thing to encourage and feed on the methods of struggle the draft resolution put to the vote does not adequately reflect the real situation in syria and since unbalanced to go to the syrian sides it doesn't take into account the. proposals look as well as withdrawing syrian armed forces from the cities this should be an ins to attacks by own groups own state institutions and neighborhoods with a low 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 shame 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 host 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. and as diplomats battle it out at the u.n. thousands of demonstrators have gathered in damascus in support of president bashar assad the crowds also praised the decision by russia and china while western calls

for regime change in syria but rick ross our from the stop nato group told r.t. that although moscow and beijing value not to allow u.n. sanction for intervention in syria there's a chance the country may still be bombed from outside. what i fear is we may be see a replication of what happened in one thousand nine hundred ninety when the united states and its nato allies launched a seventy eight day bombing campaign against yugoslavia having failed to enlist chinese and russian support for un resolution against not only here but saw the hoping of course that the resolute stand today and the principled stand taking the taken by russia and china against a resolution that we have to remember was sponsored by morocco and co-sponsored by a very interesting group of people they include the nato quality of the world the united states britain france and germany along with portugal to include all six members of the draw cooperation council that is the monarchies and camera in the persian gulf this is not a representative group of nations of course in the united nations of the world it's

a very select one that's largely the same for the first a comparable resolution one thousand seven hundred three against libya last year you know armed uprising of the sort of burn in syria could have occurred as in libya earlier cause of those a lot of the thirteen years ago without the understanding by those in gauging the armed uprising that they would be supported by forces outside the country. more than two hundred people were reportedly killed by security forces in the syrian city of homes just ahead of the vote at the u.n. security council the government denies the assaults calling the reports a hysterical campaign of incitement by armed groups the editor of the syria tribune dr ali mohamed says information supplied by the opposition shouldn't be taken at face value. but i mean they were not believing the syrian army waited ten months and then just the night before the u.n. security council meeting it decided to start bombarding homes this too which in

concert been difficult for the syrian. regime supporters for such a long time and i don't see why the army would choose such critical timing just start it's a vicious crackdown and the strike it's the out of only cleans and just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who could have gone there and investigate it but unfortunately they were pulled out for a little good reason and therefore there are only claims from this. opposite claims from their side we cannot treat it what what's going on but i don't think that the army wants really it's it's not like the syrian army this is number one and claims like that happened before in fact in just a short war in there and the opposition was not able to prove any of these claims over the past ten months police in egypt have again fired rubber bullets and tear gas to force a crowd of a rock throwing protesters away from the interior ministry building in cairo the

clashes between security forces and the demonstrators have been raging for four days now and have left a dozen people dead and thousands injured activists have been venting their anger over the military rulers failure to prevent an outbreak of violence at a football match on wednesday that left seventy four day our correspondent mary from africa has more from cairo. things have been extremely devastating and terribly kilty clearly these are the last two days and also very tragic the code so huge that massacre only one state when seventy four people died in a stump speech at one of the city's football stadiums has become by itself the deadliest incidences were barak ousted last february but it's also triggered a new wave of clashes between the police the army and demonstrators that have actually become something common seen here in the capital cairo and everywhere throughout egypt the fact is people have been very quick to use the import site incident to use local sources especially the interior ministry of doing nothing of

the allowing this to happen allowing these dassault inefficiency and actually only showed over instigating these trials in order to preserve the situation of instability in the country in order to ensure that just to follow somehow i think also tearing through all the generals from the supreme council of the armed forces they took power from the barak last february and since then demonstrations actually have never told shortly after this happened on wednesday the whole school football fans have come to live bullets nothing to the minister here in the central pa who just walked away from here seeking for justice and calling for a me did transition of power from the military to civil the situation is until early presidential elections and since then twelve people have been killed in the last four days and twenty five hundred dollars have been injured who think 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 masood street is a narrow street is one of the streets they didn't towards the building ofa the interior ministry here in hollywood the queen but many many people there chanting and to miter slogans from time to time police has been firing tear gas at the. times doesn't even show it's been able to speak to several people though let's listen to what they have to say about what was going on when it's going to stop people not just because the conditions didn't she to. the concert the good guys are unbelievably effects people people might die and that they suffocate each day to turn everything today it turns out. not to light the fire and they do she told me. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over your new day it's more than enough what they're doing to the protestors and then they're doing to the interests of the country and the children must be. well as you can see

a situation is very volatile here in cairo and actually in several all the cities throughout egypt but we can also can talk. about several months as well following point same incident the figures people from the administration all of this to do have been detained and they're in custody right now is that while the investigation is ongoing and also taking protesters to mons just recently the supreme carlson of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country. are trees where if a national reporting for us there now still ahead on our t.v. a change of heart once a harsh critic of the kremlin he now says he was wrong. but there's very few people who would say as many who are these are. going to do what. he wants to blame for the media put in for the death of his son alexander litvinenko but now the former

f.s.b. officers father has changed his mind and offers his own theory to explain what happened. last americas anti-corporate protesters are effective in a doner raid from the park vevo occupied sense of early october. in russia over two hundred thousand people across the cunt. they have braved the freezing temperatures to voice their political views ahead of march fourth prevent presidential vote excuse me two of the largest rallies took place in moscow where both supporters and opponents of the bloody matter putin took to the streets for the opposition it was the third and one of the largest gathering since parliamentary elections two months ago which they claim were rigged political analyst dimitri babich however says your split is fueled by the mass media and is not deeply rooted. it's mostly just emotions fueled by the media some people were obviously irritated seeing the same two faces on television and

maybe too much in the last few months especially some people were terrified the way they saw that position and its slogans and 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 poor people and reach people in both radius there are people all kinds of ethnic groups in both race so right now i think it's mostly a positive effect because it's sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people so until now the consequences might of more stability 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 author and researcher says the west is funding the russian opposition to minimize the country's influence on the world stage during a critical time. it's documentable from the records of the national endowment for democracy which is

a washington government financed to go it'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 prospective new putin presidency at a time when russia is going to face challenges with the missile defense with the destabilization of the assad regime in syria the attempt to create 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 pro president in that country and i don't think it will work in russia i whatever mistakes the. tenure has brought with it whatever discontent is i think there are

a lot of things that have significantly improved over the last years since the time of the yeltsin era. but that that really isn't the point the point is us interference in internal russian election affairs is something that ought not to be tolerated and it's quite right not to tolerate it. well you can get more on this and other stories online twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's a glimpse of what is waiting for you there right now. from tragedy to treasure hunt thousands of works of art are up for grabs aboard the stricken luxury liner costa concordia including jewels and antiques cross. some gym lessons with michelle obama who is living up to her reputation as one of america's most vigorous advocates of a healthy lifestyle and get that full story and much more at our t.v. dot com. iran says it will not give in to international pressure pressure and abandon its nuclear program even if it's banned from selling

a single barrel of oil it's tehran's response to this week's approval by the u.s. senate committee of a package of new sweeping sanctions against the islamic state but the bill has yet to pass through congress america's initiative targeting tehran's nuclear program follows the e.u. adopting a total embargo on iranian oil which is due to come into force in july we islamic republic in turn has repeatedly said it will stop all crude supplies to some european countries before summer to run maintains its atomic ambitions are purely peaceful and seeks to prove it by cooperating more closely with the u.n. nuclear watchdog a team of i.a.e.a. inspectors visited iran this week and plans to return later in february political analyst. says keeping pressure on iran is a key issue in the u.s. election campaign. with american election especially if we go into the election they want to put

a lot of pressure on iran. obama administration. lobbyist a group inside the united states but i think they want to squeeze the pressure on iran they want to. america law. community and i think what we have seen some you. talk peanut of damage against your brand. i think american trying. to go to the extreme by trying to destroy. 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 the population of iran again. i think they go on very far in this in this because this is kind of an implication for the world economy especially if this escalate to him.