and that led to the decisive moment the patriots allowing our man bradshaw to score so they could get the ball back before the clock ran out but the gamble didn't pay off one last pass from brady fails to find a man going behind rob grant casting game over a twenty one seventeen triumph for the giants and once again the late heartbreak for brady the patriots. this isn't about one person this is about a whole team. and alberto contador has been stripped of his twenty ten tour de france title and handed a two year ban by the court of arbitration for sport after a prolonged investigation into his positive test for performance enhancing drug the twenty nine year old spine it failed a test for can be or reached the ceiling his third in the tour crown but he now officially only has two of those titles and will also me cycling's most famous race this year and the london olympics as well as lose the italian i thought he claimed

last year contador had pleaded not guilty to the doping charge saying you never took drugs that claimed contaminated meat for the failed test results come to those next big event could be a spanish welter in august. the cast has found that alberto contador was guilty of doping oftens and the sanction is that alberto contador shall be suspended for two years with richard active in fact on the twenty five january two thousand and eleven with the suspension that was already served in two thousand and ten. should be able to compete again on the sixth of august twenty twelve. tennis now in russia will play serbia in the semifinals of the fed cup after a three two win over spain while also taking a two no lead on saturday russia completed the job on sunday spain did halt the deficits when world number thirty three no idea about lost in straight sets to

carlos rogers navarro six lost six three but that's over finished paying off with a street set with sylvia sol that as we know is a victory set up a home semifinal tie in a goal against serbia belgium three two although there's again some uncertainty over whether reassurance that that will be available. well the czechs are the defending champions and they beat germany for want to reach the other seventy final after leading to know from saturday the world number two bit of a seal the victory after coming from a set down to beat sabina lisicki the czechs will next play italy after they beat ukraine streets. football now in manchester united missed the chance to move level on points with league leaders manchester city off the stage in a remarkable three goal fight back to draw three three at chelsea in the premier league jonny evans own goal but the blues won their lot of the break but on the job they came in the second half quick goals on one louise mensch chelsea with three goals to the good after fifty minutes but to wayne rooney penalties and the late

and his head that completed an astonishing comeback the draw leaves united trailing city by two points and while england manager fabio capello could be a breach of contract for backing his deposed captain john terry the center hot side and over point behind as i should say ahead of newcastle who went back up to best with a two one win over aston villa while chelsea manager and they will outlast was disappointing by the referee at something bridge. if you want the first goal is obviously penalty and there's nothing to say about it. is the correct angle to make this. maybe the lines will give it i'm not sure. but but it's. very unlucky for him to get the penalty like that. not sure if he's going to give anything in the first half but that is that there is a wrong decision. well it was monday night luis suarez will return from an eight

game ban as liverpool host third place top who could get within two points of manchester united with a victory at anfield while a win for the reds would see them leapfrog also into six. now over to gulf and what a difference a week makes as american castellani has won his first title on the p.g.a. tour after coming from eight shots down on the final day of the phoenix arizona after a spectacularly missing out in his previous event well this time last week stanley threw away a stray stroke late on the final hole of the farmers insurance open when he went on to lose in a playoff and it didn't look like he'd be in contention this time around in the desert turns eleven here started the day six shots clear of the field and eight ahead of stanley but that lead evaporated with a run of bogeys leaving spencer distraught and finishing with a round of seventy five while stanley was sinking the birdies his fifth the round drawing him level on the leaderboard after a nice chip out of the rough on. his call on the greens for

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the e.u. is seeking to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria's government after failing to boost pressure on president assad through a u.n. draft resolution that was blocked by russia and china. and russia as foreign minister calls western reaction to the double veto indecent and hysterical that's ahead of his trip to damascus aimed at finding a political solution to the ongoing crisis. also ensuring greater political involvement for the people through the internet prime minister putin lays out his plans to upgrade russian democracy the day after a massive pro and anti-government rallies sweep the country. pressure on all fronts the greek coalition government is in deadlock over adopting new austerity measures

to secure a second bailout of the e.u. says the time for a deal is running out for him. just proves. the rule reasons why europe's of justice winds up the business news into its. its seven pm here in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live from me so now with our top story this evening the e.u. is preparing to further toughen sanctions on syria in a bid to crank up pressure on the country's regime but this isn't a game after russia and china vetoed the latest draft u.n. resolution on syria moscow and beijing say the wording took sides of the syrian conflict as it so they blamed the government for violence without mentioning armed extremist groups in syria opposition leaders claim at least fifty people have been

killed in a fresh wave of attacks by the army on the city of homes on the government denies the assaults and amateur footage showing the alleged shelling cannot be verified sarah firth reports an absence of. ability and video evidence from syria raises serious questions as to exactly what's happening in the country you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. each video and social networking sites have 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 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 ball some of what's really going on is a major challenge even from inside the country. do you guys think they've already. had a faint. right you think. head

of the u.n. security council showdown this weekend and the violence in syria seem 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 you say 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 banned the media by the way. because objectivity we've been filtering a bit but you can't how can you justify for instance you on the people relying on you tube and broadcasting one side even though or even on you tube you have also

atrocity committed by the elements it's true that to a large extent mainstream coverage is the phrase of the can has been pretty fast. this graphic video appears to show every. being hanged obviously clear picture of exactly what's happening in syria right now hard to know what the western allies that they were basing their assertions on is not really about genuine concern for human rights and democracy this is all about region change dissatisfied with the wording at the resolution in china veto the latest proposal many felt it contained disturbing a case of libya russia and china believe the door a foreign military intervention as a conflict between the two sides as the crisis in syria is becoming increasingly internationalized than any measures imposed limits where to try to put an end to the violence the going to have to be very careful not to make the same mistakes

made in libya they seem to be backing one side north increasingly looking like. so are not just syria. well indecent and hysteria that's how russia's foreign minister described the criticism by someone astern countries of the russia china double veto sergey lavrov was speaking ahead of an upcoming trip to massacres where he's scheduled to meet with syrian authorities on tuesday our correspondent peter all over this and in on the minister's comments. this was continuing on from decision by china and russia to veto the recent u.n. resolution on syria from moscow saying that russia had asked the u.n. security council to delay the vote for several days in order to allow mr lavrov to complete his trip to damascus now they were. down by the u.n. security council heading to damascus on tuesday bearing with him

a message from president dmitry medvedev a message that's believed to request the assad government make strong democratic changes in the country no the foreign ministry very unhappy. about this the russian government very unhappy in fact going as far as to call it disrespectful to allow the vote to be delayed until. it completed that trip now. with regards to the comments that it be made from around the world following that decision by china and russia to veto the u.n. resolution with condemnation from the united states from france from great britain the foreign secretary in great britain going as far as to say that this meant there was blood on the hands of those that vetoed it well so very unhappy about these comments he was speaking at a press conference alongside people here in a foreign minister he said he was scathing in his response to those comments made from abroad in your throat as those western comments on the outcome of the u.n.

security council vote on syria sound indecent and almost hysterical in this connection i can't remember the saying that those who are angry are really right swifties historical statements attempts are being made to create a false picture of what is really going on in syria and what's really happening is that there are several and not just one sources violence in syria but with regards to why russia vetoed that resolution over the weekend well russia's position on syria has always been the same they condemn both sides both the assad government and the opposition and want them both sides to put down their weapons and come to the table for talks now as far as russia concerned the resolution was on the table only focused on the government forces and didn't make any requests on the the opposition to lay down their arms and as far as russia concerned that's not acceptable when it comes to a u.n. resolution on syria. let's get more on this from patrick hayes political analyst

for the online magazine spiked which sees its mission as one to promote liberalism across the world patrick thanks for being with us once again russia and china are not popular at the u.n. but they're saying that western support for the syrian opposition and their campaign against the government hampers africa to launch dialogue between the sides how do you see it. well i think that's the true i mean i think i differ to an extent from china and russia in that you know i am supportive all the syrian people rising up against it but not in the way that the west wants what you have here is hysterical response in the west to desperately want to interfere and meddle in a country where they really have no business it's very difficult to know what's happening on the ground in syria at the moment so the reaction from a lot of western leaders you had hillary clinton talking about the travesty of the veto you had this hysterical statement from william hague from from the u.k.

the u.k. foreign said she saying that the countries that have blood on their hands and this you know when you hear these countries maybe circle statements where you hear sarkozy the french president saying you know we're not going to abandon the syrian people you think so who are you to say we're not going to abandon the syrian people who are you to intervene in this conflict which is taking place inside of the suffering country i think the response in the west just shows how much they like to meddle and interfere in to other countries business and you just think how can they learn from libya get haven't they learned from the other countries where they've tried to intervene in this town go away and have made the situation much much worse as a result the u.s. says its embassy in damascus has suspended operations and that all personnel have left the country due to the worsening security situation there what do you think this decision might signify and mean for the crisis there. well i think

in many ways it's going to exacerbate if it does mean that dialogue gets off gets taken off the table it does mean that the west will try and intervene in other ways you know we see in the last few months effectively the arab league kind of step in and to monitor and effectively become the lackeys of western interests to a certain extent so so i think the more that the west kind of. moves itself from syria the more pressure and we're hearing with the you know our sanctions as well the more i see i think the syrian people will suffer as a result for any western intervention you will have the syrian people effectively having the democratic initiative taken from their hands and effectively you know you have western countries trying to give them democracy instead which historically has been proven not to be the case but also sanctions aren't going to really affect president just said and the kind of cronies in charge sanctions will have a direct impact on the syrian people i always think it's very cruel and also quite

patronize him to say let's impose sanctions because i mean ultimately it's going to be the people on the ground that get hurt by this and the idea that they affect the need to be made hungry or impoverished to rise up you know i think is. also actually quite inhumane why would countries like the uighurs the u.k. france and some arab states not favor finding a political resolution to the conflict i mean you have essentially russia and china being condemned for promoting diplomacy and like you say now dialogue being taken off the table with the with the u.s. embassy being closed in damascus. well i think it. seems that for western countries the time for dialogue is pretty much over now we know if the u.n. resolution that was just calling for. for to stand down we know that you know if he hadn't done that it's very likely that the steps would have been taken no fly zones potentially military intervention we've seen that happen before in libya i wouldn't be surprised if that had happened again were it not for the veto and it does look

like western countries are still looking for ways in which they can sidestep that veto and intervene regardless and i think they want. western countries have no faith in arab countries or already any other countries being able to determine their own affairs and fear of the how about this. this discourse amongst themselves they always want to intervene and think that they know better and if they don't step in then they could be potentially be a tragedy they like the idea that they are in a kind of almost neo colonialists way as if it's like this kind of paternalistic way in the way that you had nineteen centuries kind of western countries going in and educating you know the savages in africa you kind of see that now you know you see western countries going to the middle east and saying oh we need to teach them how to bring about an orderly transition to democracy no they don't as i said you know i do support the syrian people are rising up against that so it's not i don't

take sides like russia and china in this situation but i think what's really problematic is when you have external forces coming in like the west saying we know better how to govern your country we're going to step in and make a full ride they've got a long tradition of failing doing this they seem to day be suffering from a terrible omnis here about their kind of the mess they made of libya which is still going on we're still having big uprisings in libya and a kind of vacuum that has taken place since you know it's since the western troops moved out of libya and gadhafi is gone there still isn't the kind of democracy that only comes for peace. struggling as people visit their own country struggling to bring about a regime change i think the idea that becomes use want to back away noble discourse and effectively into being the meddle in the thing is is very dangerous is think through a lack of faith in penetrating i said i want to make sure we talked on one more thing before i have to let you go russia's stunning that's foreign minister of course you've been reporting and foreign intelligence chief of to damascus to try

to push for dialogue a political solution but like you said with the west not interested in talks what do you think that mission can achieve just briefly. but i think what's going to happen now is that they will try and find ways of effectively isolating syria more and more and really heaping the pressure on russia and china the kind of moral pressure to try and act i think they're hoping that they've done that already and obviously that hasn't been the case of the beat so i think increasingly you know if there isn't a dialogue if there isn't. if the if the west does. back off and try and find ways of intervening rather than kind of taking the two sides to the table they will find themselves getting into a situation where they may well start intervening a again in one way or another and that can only mean more chaos than we currently see in syria that could mean more bloodshed for she mean more syrian people dying

as a result of western intervention could mean again that the syrian people are able to determine their own future and that effectively is put into the hands of the west instead which is really where it shouldn't be so so i think it's very important that this is left to the syrian people to battle this out with assets be it with words albeit through. struggle it should be for that country it's a sort of a contract records or is that only when they're very sorry to interrupt you patrick hayes live with us on the line from london politically analyst for spiked magazine . well less than a month to go before russia's presidential vote emotions are running high in the campaign shift up a gear that's following a day of demonstrations in russia prime minister and presidential candidate idea where putin continues to lay out his lecture electoral program this time it's more about web shaped democracy with initiatives allowing the people to suggest their

own laws online artistic works can all have more. of the main idea of the sort of go is that a 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 interest users in russia who over the past few years have become very active there is stories 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 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 it's against 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. civil servants can be substituted but let's move the web aside for a bit and focus on all the initiatives like reintroducing the elections off local governors was initially put forward by the president and supported by the prime minister now another initiative in this sphere is easing the rules for registering new political parties which should make way for the form one.