i'm just proud of our guys proud of the proud the team the way we fought all year. never got discouraged kept the faith kept their confidence in this spot to vary and i think everybody was just disappointed it's. you know this is not a. you know you win as a team you lose a bitch and you lose as a team and certainly wasn't one plays a reason why we lost today so everybody feels like we can go more. right after the game i'll keep coming to this game and keep trying out rather come this game and lose and not get here so hopefully we're going to be back at some point we had a great year we just didn't make enough place today. now in tennis russia have their place in the semifinals of the fed cup after a three one victory over spain will play serbia in the last fall after taking it to you know late on saturday eighteen russia were able to complete the job on sunday spain did half the deficit though when world number thirty three not even trying to last in straight sets to cart us waters nevada of six love six three but. finished

by enough for the three sets when still be a solid spend and that sets up behind semifinal. against belgium three. again there is uncertainty over whether sharapova will be available. when we were. 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 sure have trouble acclimating in three to five days i wish the fed cup would be scheduled the week before grand slam tournament and not one week afterwards when coups not 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. well the czech saw the defending champions and beat germany for one to reach the other semifinal leading to you know from saturday patrick of the to the sea with a victory off. coming from

a set to be to being received there the checks will now play italy in the last four after they won against ukraine and is looking forward to helping your country bid for a place in the finals. yeah i mean. i mean i'm not saying only have a team here. but it was also a successful weekend for russia on the ice they finished first and second in the form a world cup tour event in canada the crew led by alexander duke of management time of one minute forty two point four six seconds to pace all their opponents in the four man event russia's other ting captained by alexander came home second fourteen hundreds of a second behind the winners while canada finished third. while on the slopes that was similar success with the volkov brothers keeping it in the family one round

seven of the freestyle world cup jewel moguls while his brother very finished surrogate battling against me for gold the red hot canadian was gunning for a record seventh straight win but the younger volkoff brother took an early lead and kingsbury never recovered its first ever world cup gold quite a day for the entire family. now 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 earn a point and johnny evans own goal put chelsea one year left at the break but all the drama came in the second period goal from one matter david louise mensch chelsea with three goals to the good but to wayne rooney penalties and how he and is completed an astonishing coming back the draw leaves united trailing city by point at the top of the table while chelsea and the irony of. point ahead of

newcastle who were fit after a two one win over aston villa blues boss and. if you make about the second penalty . if you go one first all is over because obviously penalty and there's nothing to say about it the second one is very very dubious. or there's a correct angle to make a decision maybe the linesman give it i'm not sure. but it's. very very unlucky for him to give a penalty like that. not sure if it's compensating for anything in the first half but that is the there is a wrong decision well happy man the smalling is american golf a card stanley he's won his first title on the p.g.a. tour after coming from eight shots down on the final day of the phoenix open in arizona this time last week karl threw away a big lead at the farmers insurance open and it didn't look like he'd been contention this time in the desert starting the day eight shots back behind overnight leader spencer levine who was six clear the field but that evaporated

with a run of including that shot into the drink there did look distraught while carlisle was sinking birdies his fifth of the round drawing him level with levine at the top of the leaderboard a nice chip here out of the rough. following that he managed to keep his cool on the green. to claim a two shot victory. at his change in fourteen's in the space of seven days. you know that's. what you need to accept the verdict we are going to be ups and downs and you just can't it's hard to. understand profits so much from support from so many people people who i don't even know and it's really kind of you know put it behind me and move on and. you know it's going to ban scotland's poor larry is celebrating after winning macassar masters for the second time in his career jason day impediments and kept the pressure on larry in an event which was reduced to

fifty four how strong wins day showing great skill there with a long putt the third and you struggling would finish for back in a tie the second with hand similary put in a masterful performance finishing on fifteen under for the tournament and that put him back in the world's top fifty for the first time since two thousand and three. it's a confidence boost playing nicely for a while you know sort of second that. start the season but to talk to and so you come here and you just keep going you know it's somewhat of my. action after me n.b.a. where lebron james and dwyane wade led miami to a ninety five eighty nine when over the toronto raptors they scored fifty five points between as the heat grabbed their ten twenty in twelve games dwyane wade hit twenty five points on the night this after putting them in front thirty seven thirty five while in the third quarter wade finished off chris bosh's pass to increase the lead to sixty one fifty four bron james is also scoring for fun thirty

points for him in the title dropping the ball into the net here after north. pass the raptors managed to run to cut the lead to three points in the fourth but it was not enough to stop the hate miami move to be one game chicago. the best record east conference. on the court of arbitration for sport will deliver his third act later today in the doping case of cyclist alberto contador the spaniard tested positive for a banned anabolic steroids during the twenty ten tour de france he maintained his innocence saying the substance got into his system three weeks in contaminated mate but if found guilty he could face a ten year ban and be stripped of his twenty ten tour de france victory and his twenty eleven tell your title on the eve of the verdict though he looked relaxed as he took part in the new york challenge. so that brings us up to date for the moment the weather is coming up next here not. so.

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back to basics the e.u. mounts over fresh economic polish woman president syrian regime after failing to push through a polarizing un resolution. modern technology to support political activism from mr putin goes on life has been to improve russian democracy. when the change in latvia the country's russian minority hopes to win in the coming referendum could see their native language officially recognised. and in the business quarter of the russian market started their trading session quite upbeat but have slipped into bread find out what factors are weighing on the markets in about twenty minutes.

or crossing live from the heart of the russian capital this is r.t. the european union is preparing a new batch of sanctions against syria which the french foreign minister says will be the harshest yet it comes after an e.u. back to resolution that could have paved the way for military intervention was struck down at the u.n. in while in syria security forces say they've cleared all but two armed opposition strongholds around the capital seizing vast caches of arms and explosives along the way rebel fighters in homs also reportedly attacked a number of army bases and police patrols the conflicting reports of casualties opposition sources say that the syrian army is currently shelling homes and that there are casualties and yet verified a report from sarah contains. the stone ages. each video and

social networking sites have for the past ten months being one of the activists he means and offering the world glimpses of the violence this tool in three syria action is good support so we got the brick through and we've just seen pictures which the b.b.c. called verify the same many differing numbers and reports getting to the full sum of what's really going on is a major challenge even from inside the country. you got a very very slow very very think there. was a. head of the u.n. security council showdown this weekend and the violence in syria seemed to reach fever pitch with activists reporting a massacre in homes that was all over the headlines and watched with horror by people worldwide initially the death toll that night was put over two hundred there

could be as many as two hundred dead just in the last hour or two part of that was later significantly downgraded strict access policies they have made it difficult for many foreign networks to get their correspondents into the country to collect evidence at the end of last year i leveled this criticism at the foreign minister's spokesman we've never been in the media by the way. we've been filtering you how can you justify for instance you on the people relying on youtube. in broadcasting one side even though or even on you tube you have also atrocity committed by the. it's true that to a large extent mainstream coverage of the pro-government can has been pretty sparse this graphic video appears to show every poor being hanged with really clear picture of exactly what's happening in syria right now hard to know what the

western allies that the un basing their assertions on is not really about genuine concern for human rights and democracy this is all about regime change dissatisfied with the wording of the resolution pressuring china veto the latest proposal many felt it contained disturbing a case of libya russia and china believe the door a pin for foreign military intervention as a conflict between the two sides escalates the crisis in syria is becoming increasingly internationalized but any measures imposed from a poll to try and put an end to the violence are going to have to be very careful not to make the same mistakes made in libya they seem to be backing one side. looking like. this part of the u.n. resolution some remain optimistic that person can still be forced out u.s. presidential hopeful newt gingrich these america could train the rebels to

challenge ourselves through political scientist says the motives are suspect. it's an outrage for somebody to believe and it's an insanity that during during the time of a u.n. resolution is being taking down toward syria the syrian government is going to actually crack down on homos this is definitely an act of terrorism done by the by the by the gangs that zone ready been getting money and weapons from different countries so they can bring down this regime so this isn't an outrage for somebody to actually believe that the government is actually doing so for their own people what's happening in syria and what happened elsewhere in libya is basically to bring it down and what they need to do and what they're doing is that actually bring down the regime and. to make president assad not be an ally to

iran and this is why president assad was never asked for any reform he was asked from the beginning to change a stances and if he had done so another and nothing like that would have ever happened. stay with us in a few minutes we reveal the export of designer revolutions ever since i've been traveling the world and teaching people how to get rid of their pesky dictator. that's had its hand in uprisings all over the world by an arson guarded by the us that story coming up. in the steady drumbeat of war keeps coming from washington to the very first airing of global concern that military action against iran will jeopardize the future of the entire region. transparent interactive on the web savvy that's our prime minister vladimir putin sees the future of russia's democracy as the outlines his vision for greater social economic prosperity this from his latest article detailing his electoral program nazis discuss details. well

the main idea of the sort of go is that civil society in russia has grown and developed and become much more active most importantly compared to say ten years ago and what comes to the state well it's a lagging behind at the moment people do want to be more active and have more influence on the political life and one of the mechanisms providing them with these opportunities is the internet and this is not only about the tens of thousands of people who now take to the streets for this or that rally is about millions of internet users in russia who over the past few years have become very active there is scores of blogs and forums videos of all internet wars between political movements and all of them are going on on the web and the prime minister wants to see the role of the internet is influence increase more user friendly government websites to provide proper bases for public discussion and not only on initiatives put forward by the state any person any internet user has to be able to put forward

their own draft law and if it gains say one hundred thousand approval signatures from other users it has to be reviewed by the parliament the internet also gives another opportunity to evaluate civil servants for example if locals of a district of any city are not satisfied with the way the head of the local police department works or a judge or even a principal of a local school they have been able to voice their concerns on the web be heard by the authorities so that the civil servants can be substituted but let's move the web aside for a bit and focus on other initiatives like reintroducing the elections of local governors was initially put forward by the president supported by the prime minister but if we look at it it is connected with several problems which were revealed back in the ninety's and in early two thousand and one the system of elections was still local elections were still in force one of the problem is that

the state position. were often purchased by those who had the biggest amount of money that's the biggest influence and they ended up finding themselves in politics and the second problem is image makers who have too much influence over the entire process now another initiative in this sphere is easing the rules the registering new political parties which should make way for more competition but now this brings us to another problem of corruption and the prime minister is proposing to increase the salaries of civil servants in exchange for their complete transparency and put together a list of the most corrupt jobs and if in the ninety's many people wanted to become all the guards now there a need for civil servants because these positions are often viewed as possibilities to make easy money quick and according to the prime minister. it's time for that to change as well this is the fourth article published by volume and put in since he announced that he is going to run for president during upcoming vote in march and together they put together a budget completions money festo. well tempers are running high in the run up to

the presidential election with a wave of recent protests across russia but political analyst says the. media awareness it's mostly just emotions fueled by the media some people 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 poor people and reach people in both radius there are people all kinds of ethnic groups in both threads 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. but i can catch more of that story and many more our website at r.t.

dot com has a look at what's waiting few there right now the russian street artist making his opinions through his bureau's tactics and a secret identity appended nicknamed the russian banksy after a british artist. plus what some of us business people into sex dungeons workers who say it's all down to politics and the economy will get the full story and much more at r.t. dot com. turkish and qatari officials criticize the notion of military action and ongoing western sanctions against iran and the new security conference in madrid in munich i should say they warned that any armed conflict would be disastrous for the region however kind of hour was mean beirut based political analyst believes that iran's

opponents are already focused on a confrontation. all the inspection by the nuclear agency. found that iran is actually weaponize ing their system they are actually following the nuclear treaty agreement there is no violation to that end but no matter what they saying that sanction are coming at iran because their suspicion there. no matter what they are just a fine or opening their facility there is some judgment already been rendered against you ran a round said very clearly they're willing to cooperate with the international community but you have to wonder what really the international community at this point and what the american want to disappoint and as i said there's a lot of politics in it especially election. probably israeli coming that's pretty

at this point because they think if you have one reach the level of capability of building the nuclear what then would be devastating for them so it's a catch up at this point and i think before six months we might we might heading into a major confrontation in the burgeoning gulf so to come on our team the next hour an interview with the former head of israel's intelligence service he says television western leaders are tending to demonize around the world to stoke panic and suspicions surrounding the islamic state he says. the leadership believes that in order to arouse the international public opinion and in order to mount pressure upon the iranians it's necessary to impress upon the world at large public opinion the national public opinion this is a serious international threat and i believe that in this context probably the

leadership here believes that using the word existence will rings a bell which also brings you back to. days gone by in the twentieth century the arise of nazi germany the world war two and of course the holocaust and the. persians these. pictures these experiences recalled in order to impress upon the world that maximum pressure should be mounted on the run. but here is witnessing a growing outcries the country's russian minority forces its anger escalating state level discrimination and they're hoping that an upcoming referendum could see their language officially recognized visit viewed by many as the first step in the long road to storing their basic political rights what is next here a chef city has the story. this professor from the law to me wants everyone in his

country to have equal rights that's why he had no second thoughts when the initiative of a referendum to make russian the country second state language came out. of the cannon to accept the policy of true true to my friends from the russian minority those who also voted for two years into penzance in one thousand nine to one shoulder to shoulder back then and now they're being treated like garbage. for their jobs here that's why i signed for the referendum ethnic russians make up a third of luckiest population the idea of holding this referendum came after what they describe as ethnic discrimination had reached a critical point if the radical nationalists initiated their own referendum to close russian schools in latvia they failed but it was a worryin coup that's why we gather signatures for a language referendum to legally protect ourselves after we did the ruling nationalists when hysterical trying to jeopardize the votes in the minority points

to a recent statement by the country's president yes at the referendum means voting against blood to be. as collating state level discrimination the nationalist camp denounces all such accusations however they believe their vote carries a threat to the country's sovereignty and are sending a stern warning move. we allow these people to live in our territory after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. we said you can live here under certain conditions but if they are trying to alter the foundations of our state then we will have to be tougher and make new wars. and some audience have already started to act this lawyer told us you have numerous reports of people being blackmailed from taking part in the voting those who would not talk on camera afraid of sanctions but. some are already scared to go voting their employer. told them that should he see a stamp in the passport and the part in the language with

a random then he would immediately fire down. the russian speaking minority and lot here is estimated at three hundred thousand people out of the population of almost two and a quarter million another three hundred twenty thousand ethnic russians are classed as non citizens and are forbidden from voting this ban experts say could prove to be crucial russian may become largely a second state language only if at least seven hundred fifty thousand people vote for it organizers of the referendum say realistically there will be only half of that the result will be then deemed unconstitutional but may still become a major talking point lot of years russians hope that the referendum will help brussels notice their distress call and have a hard talk with the vote takes place on february eighteenth with a final official results a few days later. r.t. reporting from in a lot of. guys take a look at some other international headlines.