the problem will sure up of is not her desire to play but the 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 a week before a grand slam tournament and not one week afterwards when couldn't so lost their momentum in today's match in the second set and 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 one 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 it. was then held until. the final set on one things connected his six double faults against but 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 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 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 due to 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 while nine hundred ninety nine british open when a lorry put in a masterful performance and sing 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 know from a second. start the season the two talked 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 sparring it out with out head guards oh vests and with professional stars scoring a match consist 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 perth in from the american side then 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. 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 ivanoff or edward yet 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 lead that almost in the world that allows access to fiber fashionably and still retain that olympic eligibility that some of the books he supports knights would eventually become a live big chap came. out of the boxes from the

team last year and made the olympic team but unfortunately this time around there's no possibility he can but it will 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 sports entity in the country and runs of a 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 dynamic what it is will surely settle for being crowned world series boxing champ. mike of genco mosco. now from russia's a dominance in the ring to russia's dominance on the ice starting with bob slay 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 cast you

know if they come second fourteen hundred of the second behind the winner as all canada finished. meanwhile on the slopes there were similar success with the bulk of the others keeping it in the family so i got one round seven of the freestyle world cup in june moguls with his brother on dry finishing third so i battled macao kingsbury for gold the red hole canadian was gunning for a record seventh straight win for the young vocal for other took a fairly major things that never recovered so his first ever world cup goals are today the entire family. now the n.f.l. has rewarded their star performers at their 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. the first three on. before his anatomy to look around and see. if you want to see the rise of your name or centers your listeners are lies as you were watching on t.v. . trying to be like it's prisoners on 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 opening quarter out with a thirteen sixteen lead. there it grows shine for the bulls with sixteen points to his may join here 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 we're walking out schooled 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 the hanging 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 cold truck so hard to take on his own brother scott after the initial field of sixty four was now are down to 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 probably in most of the early late stumbled late in the race proctor went on to wrap up a second straight win of the season for males the father to take second had to have a contract. well that's all the sport for now weather is next they were not say.

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russia and china vetoed a western and arab back to you on a resolution on syria with moscow criticizing the text as taking an unbalanced approach and denying of the realities on the ground. in egypt at least a dozen people are killed over anger at the authorities a failure to prevent seventy four deaths at a football match on wednesday sparks country wide protests. and hundreds of thousands take to the streets into russia in both pro and anti-government rallies ahead of a march fourth presidential elections. in

broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r.t. take a look at your top stories on saturday russia and china blocked 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. has 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 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 crime 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 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 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 stone you could put it some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table 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 his or taking to encourage enfeeblement 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 armed groups on state institutions and neighborhoods with a low balance year when the signal is now the u.s. delegation could not help but showing its frustration and anger when not participating in the meeting saturday morning we heard. you some language that's normally not heard 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 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 our 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 or it is more important i am reporting for us there now 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 this treasure and by russia and china to block

western calls for a regime change in syria but the record rolls off from the stop nato group told our two year that although moscow and beijing imbali not to allow u.n. sanction to foreign intervention in syria there's a chance the country may still be bombed from the 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 u.n. resolution against not only a few of those laws i'm hoping of course that the resolute stand taken 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 medo quality of the world the united states britain france and germany along with portugal they include all six members of the gulf cooperation council that is the monarchies and camera some in the persian gulf this is not a representative group of nations of course in the united nations of the world is

a very select one is largely the same for the first a comparable resolution one thousand seven hundred three against libya last year you know armed uprising that was sort of burned in syria could have occurred it was in libya earlier kossovo to the slaughter the thirteen years ago with 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 homs just ahead of the vote at the un security council the government denies the assaults calling the reports a hysterical campaign of incitement by armed groups the editor of the syrian tribune dr ali mohamed says information supplied by the opposition should be taken at face value but i think there were not believing the syrian army waited ten months and then just the night before the security council meeting it decided to start bombarding homs. which incomes have been difficult for the syrian. regime

supporters for such a long time and i don't see why the army would choose such a critical time inc just start it's a vicious crackdown and describe it they are 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 good reason and therefore they are only claims from this side of opposites claims from their side so we cannot treat it with what's going on but i don't think that the army wants surely it's it's not like the syrian army this is number one and claims like that happened all in. just a short while and the opposition was not able to prove any of these claims over the past ten months police in egypt again fired rubber bullets and tear gas to force a crowd of rock throwing protesters away from the interior ministry building in cairo clashes between security forces and 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 rule your rulers failure to prevent an outbreak of violence at a soccer match on wednesday that left seventy four dead our correspondent for national 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 on wednesday when seventy four people died in the stump speech at one of the city's football stadiums has become by itself the deadliest incidences where 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 weak to use bolivian portside incident to use local forces 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 eventually just to follow and somehow think through terror and lou 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 stole shortly after this happened on wednesday the whole school football fans have come to live bullets nothing to the minister here in the central part of just walked away from here seeking for justice and calling for amy did transition of 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 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 masuda 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 many many people there chanting and to miter slogans from time to time police has been firing tear gas at the. ties to them to even. be able to speak to several people though let's not listen to what they have to say about what's going on when it's going to stop people not just protesting addition to teaching. the cons to the good guys are unbelievable effect even people might die and that there would be such a thing each day to turn everything today in china that was not to light the fire and leave the sheet over. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over your news 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 oh 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 now about several achievements as well the following point same incident the feeders and the people from the administration over the stadium have been detained and they are in custody right now is that while the investigation is ongoing and also maintain the protesters to mons just recently the supreme carlson of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country. maria financial reporting for us there now still ahead on our t.v. once a harsh critic of the kremlin you now say he was wrong. the father of murdered accept as being agent alexander litvinenko once blamed led me to put in for the death of his son but now he has had a change of heart. plus america's anti-corporate protesters are you victimhood in

a dawn raid from the park and they've occupied since early october. and russia over two hundred thousand people across the country have braved the freezing temperatures to voice their political views ahead of march fourth presidential vote. two of the largest rallies took place in moscow where both supporters and opponents of bloody murder put in 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 to dmitri babich however says the 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 seen the same two faces on television maybe too much in the last few months especially some people were terrified when they saw their 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 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 sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people so until now the consequences more and more still positive 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 william and the west is funding the russian opposition to minimize the country's influence on the world stage during a critical time. it's documented from the records of the national endowment for democracy which is a washington government financed oh it's all over the place in russia they're 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. president in that country and i don't think it will work in russia i whatever mistakes the. ten year 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 total russian election affairs is something that ought not to be tolerated and it's quite right not to tolerate it. and you can get more on this and other stories online twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here is 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 the jewels and. 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 get the full story and much more at our team. in . says it will not give in to international 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 a us 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 that you adopting a total embargo on iranian oil which is due to come into force in july the islamic republic in turn has repeatedly said it will stop all group supplies to some european countries before summer iran 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 iraq 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. american election especially if we go into the election they want to put a lot of pressure on iran and. obama administration. inside the united states but i think they want to squeeze the pressure on iran they

want to a. community and i think what we have seen some european talk. again. i think. trying. to go to the extreme by trying to destroy. the economy they've taken into consideration that you want it's going. to be election probably the thing this is kind of. 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 this escalate to a military showdown between america and their uranium. anti-corporate protesters in washington d.c. were evicted this weekend from a park they.