this isn't about one person this is about a whole team coming together getting this win so i'm just proud of our guys proud of the proud the team the way we fought all year never never got discouraged kept their faith kept their confidence and this fought to the very end i think everybody was just disappointed it's. you know this is not a. you know you win as a team you lose it and you lose as a team and certainly wasn't one plays a reason why we lost today so everybody feels like we can do more. i said 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 we're back at some point we had a great year we just didn't make enough place today now know that these russian athletes are showing good form ahead of next month's world indoor championships and then because champion on that i see him off recorded the biggest leap of the year the russian win to meeting in moscow he played teammate isn't thirty six centimeters the highest anyone's jump this season before filing out what would have

been a new russian record at his forty one compartment alexander she still came second still of saying he takes a lot of confidence from his performance in front of the home crowd and keep trying to be records. if i had not set the bar if i had stopped at two thirty six then naturally i would not have any more to vacation to keep trying maybe to thirty four would have been enough for me that i could have stopped there but i went on i will keep trying to jump of the two forty one. meanwhile another reigning olympic champion very board can finish just one second shy of a world record for the men's five thousand meter walk he took gold in beijing for the twenty kilometer event in which he's also the world champion but try just look at the shorter discipline and excel. also looking good is triple jump. up to second in the world indoor rankings after

a leap of six point eight six to come in first at the under twenty three european championships last year. while there was a surprise win for alexander in the women's four hundred meters the russian moved up to the distance from the two hundred meters and fifty one point four six the third fastest time in the world that share the mark in tennis russia booked their place in the semifinals of the fed cup after a three one victory over spain and will play serbia in the last four after taking it to no late on saturday russia were able to complete the job on sunday spain did half the deficit when world number thirty three ninety to try over lost in straight sets to carlos what is the five six six three but spent a lot of business over finished playing off the three sets win over sylvia solis the knows that and that sets up a home semifinal tie in april against belgium three two though the recent ten uncertainty over whether she rattled vailable. group.

the problem will sharapova is not her desire to play but the fact that she's participating in a lot of tournaments held 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 a grand slam tournament and not one week afterwards when crews that saw the loss of momentum in today's match in the second set i also believe there was do the physical strain she said to go through due to scheduling. well the czechs are the defending champions and beat germany for one to reach the other semifinal after leading to milford saturday petrak of the diversity of the victory after coming from a set down to beat sabinus in there the czechs will now play italy next after they won against ukraine. and english football munched 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 jonny evans own goal put chelsea one a lap at the break but all the drama came in the second half goals from and david louise mensch chelsea were good but the wayne rooney penalties have a hernandez had completed an astonishing comeback the draw leeds united trailing city points while chelsea and i were only a point ahead of newcastle who were fifth after a two one win over asked him fella blues boss under. fuming about the second penalty. if you go one first. there's nothing to say about it the second one is very very dubious. i don't even know if there's a is the correct angle to make a decision maybe the linesman gave it i'm not sure. but 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 there is no there is a wrong decision meanwhile the semifinal line up has been decided at the africa cup of nations mali will face the ivory coast after beating on a penalty shootout after the game finished one one after extra time ghana defeats news you want to set up a tie with zambia the after the summer here and thought his team was fortunate to get three. to tunisia more aggressive you know yes if you go first off. the one who won the game i think we were lucky to. be lucky also counts when you see. all blame him you know about it happens in football in other football news feed for president sepp blatter says he will seek to reinstate five football federation leaders. they were sent by their government after seventy people died following last week's riot at a match between. imports syeed blatter spoke at

a meeting of south american football officials. against government intervention in the sport. now happy man this morning is american golfer carl stanley he's won his first title on the p.g.a. tour after coming from a short stand 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 be in contention this time in the desert starting the day eight shots back behind this man overnight leader spencer levine who was six clear of the field but that later evaporated he had a run of bogeys and found the water he was distraught with sinking birdies his fifth of the round throwing him level with eleven there at the top of the leaderboard after a nice cheap at the rough he managed to keep the school on the greens as well for a two shot victory. delighted at his changing for jeans in the space of seven days. i you know that's god but i think you

have a very we're going to be ups and downs and you just can't be too hard to. understand profits so much support from so many people people i don't even know and it's really helped me kind of you know put it behind me and move on and. you know it's puts me. in the ass scotland's all larry celebrating after winning the cattle masters for the second time in his career jason day and part of hanson kept the pressure larry in an event which was reduced to fifty four holes due to strong winds the day showing great skill there with a long birdie to the third straight he would finish fall back in a tie for second with a handsome ol lawrie put in a match to. say finishing on fifteen under for the tournament and that puts him. fifty for the first time since two thousand and three. it's a confidence boost there's been playing nicely for a while you know sort of second that rest of the. start the season but to talk to

and so you come here and you just keep going you know it's somewhat of. action after the n.b.a. where lebron james and dwyane wade led miami to a ninety five eighty nine with over the toronto raptors they scored fifty five points between them as the heat grabbed their tenth win in twelve games dwyane wade hit twenty five points on the night putting them in front of thirty seven thirty five while in the third quarter. wade finished off chris bosh to increase the latest sixty one fifty four bron james is also scoring for fun thirty points to him in all dropping the ball into the net here after norris coles. the raptors did manage a run to cut the lead to three points in the fourth but it was not enough to stop the hate miami moved to within one game that of chicago for the best record in the eastern conference. and finally the court of arbitration for sport will deliver its verdict later today and the tape in case of cyclist alberto contador the spaniard

tested positive for a banned anabolic steroids during the twenty ten to one of france he maintains his innocence saying the substance got into his system through eating contaminated meat if found guilty he could face a two year ban and be stripped of his twenty ten tour de france victory and his twenty eleven charity italia title on the eve of the verdict which has been pretty relaxed as he took part in the new york challenge. so that saw the sport for the moment i'm back with more. world. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

which brightened if you move from france to pressure. starts on t.v. dot com. back to basics the e.u. mulls over fresh economic punishment for president assad syrian regime after failing to push through a polarizing un resolution. modern technology to support political activism prime minister putin goes online to prove russian democracy. and wind of change in that fear as the country's russian minority hopes to win an upcoming referendum that could see their native language officially recognised. and gazprom has acknowledged to reduce gas supplies to european consumers all the details in twenty minutes of the business board.

costing twenty four hours a day 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. backed resolution that could have paved the way for military intervention was struck down at the u.n. also getting disturbing footage from the rebel stronghold city of homs which opposition sources say is being shelled by the syrian army. now reports of casualties of this can't be verified opposition fighters operating out of homes attacked time a number of police patrols on the basis of the country's security forces say they've cleared all but two hosts near the capital seizing vast caches of arms and explosives a long way. counting sanctions against. each

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 torn 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 to say many differing numbers and reports getting to the bottom of what's really going on is a major challenge even from inside the country. you got a very brave the if they think. you're right you think. that it 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 homs that was all over the headlines and watched with horror by people worldwide initially the death toll that night was put over two hundred you

see there could be as many as two hundred dead just in the last hour or two 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 banned the media by the way. because. we've been filtering you how can you justify for instance you on the people relying on you tube and broadcasting one side even door. even on you tube you have also atrocities 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 a regime supporter being hanged with really clear picture of exactly what's

happening in syria right now it's 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 especially in china vetoed the latest proposal many felt it contained disturbing a case of libya russia and china believe the do right the 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. well despite the first year of a u.n. resolution some remain optimistic that president assad can still be forced out u.s. presidential hopeful newt gingrich these america could train the rebels to

challenge ourselves rule. 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 have 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 they what they need to do and what they're doing is that actually bringing 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 his stances and if he'd done so another and nothing like that would have ever happened stay with us in a few minutes we were really exports of designer revolutions. ever since i've been traveling the world and teaching people how to get rid of their biskupic a group that's about it and uprisings all over the world on our street got about us that story coming out. the steady drumbeat of war keeps coming from washington television stereo concerned victory action against iraq jeopardize the future of the region. transparent interactive and web surfing prime minister vladimir putin described the future russia's democracy they just always call detail in his an actual program he says the country should no longer

tolerate a political circus the needs of the people are being put on the back burner article described as the 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 stories of blogs and forums videos 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 influenced 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 to be 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 now another initiative in this sphere is easing the rules for registering new political parties which should make waiting for more competition that is now

this brings us to another problem of corruption and the prime minister is proposing to increase the salaries. 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 and importance to the prime minister. it's time for that to change as well and this is the fourth oracle published by about important since he announced that he is going to run for president during vote in more and together they put together a lot of influence. 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 they're driven by 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 long 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 rich 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. well you can catch more on that story and much more our website r.t. dot com here's a look at what's waiting for you right now the russian a street artist making his opinions through his murals algorithm tactics and a secret identity have ended the nickname russian banksy the british artist.

also online what do some us business people in the sex dungeons it workers who say it's all down to politics are new comic the full story much more arty dot com. turkish and qatari officials criticize the notion of military action and ongoing western sanctions against iran but the security conference in munich it will net any armed conflict will be disastrous for the region however cannot any of their root based political analyst believe that iran's opponents are already focused on a confrontation. all the inspection by the nuclear agency. found that iran is actually weaponize in 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 because that's a suspicion there. no matter what they are justifying 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 specially election. there is really coming that spread at this point because they think if you have one reach the level of capability of building the nuclear what then that would be devastating for them. to catch up at this point and i think before six months we might we might heading

into a major confrontation in the burgeoning gulf whether still to come on our to next hour an interview with the former head of israel's intelligence service he says television and western leaders are attempting to demonize iran in order to stir panic and suspicions surrounding the islamic state is a test. the leadership believes that in order to arouse 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 of the stench will rings a bell which also brings you back to days gone by in the twentieth century. of nazi germany the world war two and of course the holocaust and. these

apparitions these. pictures these experiences recalled in order to impress upon the world that maximum pressure should be mounted on iraq. now a lot here is witnessing a growing outcry as the country's russian minority voices its anger with the escalating state level discrimination now hoping that an upcoming referendum could see their language officially recognized move is viewed by many as the first step and on to a story in basic political rights what is next here the story. this professor from a lot of 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 up. the cannon to accept the policy of true true to my friends from the russian minority those who

also voted for independence in one thousand nine to one we were shoulder to shoulder back then but now they're being treated like garbage new citizenship for them and no jobs here that's why i signed for the referendum ethnic russians make up a third of a lot of the us 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 worry in cool that's why we gather signatures for a language referendum to legally protect ourselves after we did the ruling nationalists went hysterical trying to jeopardize the votes in the minority points to a recent statement by the country's president but yes at the referendum means voting against flood 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. we allowed 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 laws. and some lothians 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. that should he see a stamp in the past byrd and the two 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 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 reader in law. take a look at some other international headlines in very week party leaders gather again walks in the one hundred thirty billion euro rescue that comes after a meeting on sunday ended without any deal reached the country's prime minister because papa bemis seeking support.