you know one person this is about a whole team coming together with just. as proud of the crowd the team the way we fought all year there were never that the scourge kept their 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 could go more. right after the game 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 russian athletes are showing good form ahead of next month's world indoor championships and then because champion sealed off record at the biggest leap of the year at the russian winter meeting in moscow he cleared to meet isn't thirty six centimeters is the highest anyone has jumped this season before filing up what would have been

a new russian record of his i'm forty one compared treat alexander shoots of came second seal of saying he takes a lot of confidence from his performance in front of the home crowd and will keep trying to break records. if i had not set the bar if i had stopped to thirty six then naturally i would not have any more to to keep trying maybe two thirty four would have been enough for me that i could have stopped there but i went on i will keep trying to jump the two forty one. meanwhile another reigning olympic champion very bored chain finish just one second shy of a will record for the men's five thousand me to walk he took gold in beijing for the twenty kilometer event in which he's also the world champion but he tried his luck at the show to discipline and excelled also looking good his triple jump. she's up to second in the world indoor rankings after a leap of six majors and eighty six centimeters after coming first at the under twenty three europe. championships last year. while there was

a surprise win for alexander in the women's four hundred meters the russians or the russian moved up to the distance from the two hundred meters and caught fifty one forty six the third fastest time in the world to share. now in tennis russia have put their place in the semifinals of the fed cup after a three one victory over spain will play serbia in the last four after taking it to a lead on saturday eighteen russia were able to complete the job on sunday spain did have the deficit when world number thirty three ninety for troy about lost in straight sets to carla suarez navarro six love six three but. finished by an off with a three sets win over sylvia so espinosa and that sets up a home semifinal tie in april against belgium and also this uncertainty once more and whether she wrap up there will be available to play.

drivable sharapova is not her desire to play but the fact that she is 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 three to five days i wish the cup would be scheduled the week before a grand slam tournament and not one week afterwards when coups that saw the loss of momentum in today's match in the second set i also believe there was due to the physical strain she said to go through due to scheduling. while the czechs are the defending champions and beat germany for one to reach the other semifinal hafter leading to know from saturday patrick of eight of are still the victory after coming down coming from a set down to beat said being the sinking of the czechs italy next after they won against ukraine. an english football match united have failed to move level on points with league leaders manchester city so after quite a 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 at the break but all the drama came in the second period goal from one matter and david louise mensch chelsea with three goals to be good but to wayne rooney penalties and how he and his header completed an astonishing come back to draw leeds united training city by two points chelsea and i are only a point ahead of newcastle to a fifth after a two one win over aston villa blues boss on various posts was disappointed by the referee. 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 the correct angle to make a decision maybe the linesman. but it's. very very unlucky for him to give a penalty like that. maturity is going to do for anything in the first half but that is the decision. now tonight's game sees luis suarez make his return for

liverpool he's back for the game against tottenham are unfilled after serving an eight game ban for racially abusing man united patrice evra the spurs would take them to within two points of manchester united meanwhile semifinal on up has been decided at the africa cup of nations mali or face the ivory coast after beating a ban on a penalty shoot out after the game had finished one one after extra time while garnett defeated tunisia to one to set up a tie with although after his hand thought his team was fortunate to get through. to tunisia. yes if you go for. the one who won the game i think we will. lucky to. be luck also can't you see that. it happens in football. and other football you see for president sepp blatter says

he will seek to reinstate fired egypt football federation leaders they were sacked by their government after seventy people died following last week's riot at a match between three and imports saeed blatter spoke at a meeting of south american football officials toughing rules against government intervention in sport. happy man today's golfer carl stanley he has 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 stanley 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 spencer levine here starting the day six clear of the field and eight ahead of stanley but that lead evaporated with a run of bogeys and a trip to the water there spencer distraught stanley was still thinking birdies his fifth of the round drawing him level at the leaderboard after a nice chip out of the rough here third hand he managed to keep his cool on the

greens to break to shot victory well lighted then changing fortunes in the space of seven days. well you know that's gone but i think you need to accept the fact we are going to be ups and downs and you just can't get too high can't you. understand profits so much from support from so many people people 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. meanwhile scotland's paul already celebrating after winning the cast for the second time in his career jason day in petter hansen kept the pressure on laurie showing great skill with this long putts of birdie the third straight line would finish for back in a tie for second with hansen while lawrie put in a masterful performance finishing on fifteen under for the tournament and that puts 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 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 my. action after the n.b.a. well bron james and dwyane wade led miami to a ninety five eighty nine when over the toronto raptors they scored fifty five points between them as the heat grabbed their tenth win in twelve games why wade hitting twenty five points on the night this effort 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 and all dropping the ball into the net here after norris cole's value 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 moving to within one game of chicago for the best record in the eastern conference. and that's all we've got time for

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satisfy increased european demand all that and more in about twenty minutes in the business bulletin. it's three pm here in moscow this is r t coming to you live from and he said now with our top story this hour 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 and. backed resolution that could pave the way for military intervention was struck down at the u.n. we're also getting some disturbing footage from the rebel stronghold city of homs which opposition sources say is being shelled and surrounded by the syrian army there are reports of casualties or this can't be verified earlier opposition fighters operating out of homes attacked a number of police patrols and army bases elsewhere in the country security forces

say they have cleared all but two rebel outposts near the capital seizing vast caches of arms and explosives along the way a report from sara firth contains some images you may find disturbing. each and social networking sites for the past ten months being one of the activists he means is offering the world glimpses of the violence this tool in three syrian activist groups reports how we got the great deal of course and we've just seen pictures which the b.b.c. called verify to say many differing numbers and reports getting to the bull some of what's really going on is a major challenge even from inside the country. do you guys ready already had i think he thinks. you're right you. know it's had is the u.n. security council showdown this weekend and the violence in syria seemed to reach fever pitch with activists refusing

a massacre in homes that was all of 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 street to access policies that 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 have never been the main. by the way. how can you justify for instance you own the people relying on you to. 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 spun

this graphic video appears to show every poor being hanged with the 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 which 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 believed to do right the foreign military intervention as a conflict between the two sides as the crisis in syria is becoming increasingly internationalized but any measures imposed well to try to put an end to the violence again has to be very careful not to make the same mistakes made in libya they seem to be backing one so it's worth including me looking like.

syria. well indecent and near hysteria that's the opinion of foreign minister sergei lavrov speaking about the west's reaction to the un syria resolution veto by russia and china his comments came during a joint appearance with the foreign minister of bahrain as mr lover of prepares to head to damascus tomorrow our correspondent peter all over the latest. well in a statement delivered by surrogate on monday he criticized the hysterical reaction from some quarters to the decision by russia to veto the u.n. resolution now russia came in for criticism from the united states from france and from great britain so you have also critical of the decision by the united nations security council not to allow a three day extension to the vote being taken on a resolution on syria russia wanted to extend it by three days so surrogate lover of could go to damascus on this planned visit now he's going to be taking with him a message from president dmitri medvedev it's believed that message will be asking

for strong democratic changes in syria now russia's stance has always been to condemn both sides in this situation it's all the ongoing violence in the middle eastern country they aren't taking the side of one of the other saying well the governments have some questions to answer but both sides have to lay down their arms and get around a peace table to discuss this out how they're issues and this is what he had to say in response. to that we could have achieved consensus at the u.n. security council so that we asked them to give us more time with your so that we could discuss the situation following our visit to damascus on february seventh they chose to push for the vote and it means that they wanted to find someone to blame for what's happening in syria and to distract the public from the actions of armed groups which receive weapons and advice from abroad now the main problem that russia had with the resolution as it was that it vetoed in the security council was

the wording of certain parts of it no they wanted russia wanted the wording to be firmed up so that no way could be interpreted as allowing foreign military intervention the reason for this is well that's what happened in libya something that russia contempo hardly in a situation. as far as russia sees it the u.n. mandate was completely overstepped they don't want to see repeated in syria so they want to make sure that this the wording of any un resolution is strong so that can't happen will stay with us here in r.t. in a few minutes we were feel the export of designer revolutions ever since i've been traveling the world did you people hope to get through the biscuit dictate a group that's had its hand in uprisings all over the world financing guided by the us that's coming up. and the steady drumbeat of war keeps coming from washington and tel aviv stirring up global concern that military action against iran will

jeopardize the future of the entire region. but first transparent interactive and web savvy that's how prime minister vladimir putin described the future of russia's democracy in the latest article detailing his electoral program he says the country should no longer tolerate a political circus when the needs of the people are being put on the back burner or to say it's going off has 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 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 well you know put in since he announced that he was going to run for president during vote in more and together they put together a lot of influence money festo. well tempers are running high in the run up to the

presidential election with a wave of recent protests across russia but it allowed us to meet three bogard says they were 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 it's 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 races so right now i think it's it's a positive effect because it sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people. you can catch up on that story and much more on our website r.t.

dot com here's a look at what's lined up for you today the russian street artist making his opinions heard through his murals how growing tactics and a secret identity have earned him the nickname the russian bank after the british artist. but what were some u.s. business people into sex dungeon to meet the workers who say it's all down to politics and the economy get the full story and much more at r t v dot com. well turkish and qatari officials criticize the notion of military action and ongoing western sanctions against iran at the annual security conference in munich they warned that an armed conflict would be disastrous for the region however it could well i was on a beirut based political analyst believes that iran's opponents are already focused

on a confrontation all the inspection by the nuclear agency. 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 the sanction are coming around because the suspicion that they are nor 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 where they're willing to cooperate with the international community but you have to wonder what really the international community wanted at this point and what the american want to disappoint and as i said there's a lot of politics in that special election politics probably the israeli. coming desperate at this point because they think if you have one reach the level of

capability of building the nuclear what that would be is 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 well still to come here on our team next hour an interview with the former head of israel's intelligence service says tel aviv and western leaders are attempting to demonize iran in order to stoke panic and suspicion surrounding the islamic state. the leadership believes that in order to arouse international public opinion in order to mount pressure upon the reunions 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. a rise of nazi germany the world war two and of course the holocaust and. these persians these. pictures these experiences recalled in order to impress upon the world that maximum pressure should be mounted on the run . well i fear is with this thing a growing outcry as the country's russian minority voices it saying are over escalating state level discrimination and now hoping that an upcoming referendum could see their language officially recognized the movies feared by many as the first step on a long road to restoring their basic political rights are to select. the story. this professor from a lot of the ones 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 canon to accept the policy of true true to my friends from the russian minority those who also voted for matters 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 luckiest population the idea of holding this referendum came off to 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 but yes at the referendum means voting against blood to be as proof of escalating state level discrimination the nationalist 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 all have to be tougher and make new laws. and some lothians have already started to act this lawyer told us you had numerous reports of people being blackmailed from taking part in the bolting those who would not talk on camera afraid of sanctions buyouts but some are already scared to go voting their employer told them that should he see a stamp in the past birth and they took part in the language risk.