in two thousand and ten alberto contador should be able to compete again on the sixth of august twenty eighth well. english premier league football now and there is far as we were to have a little ball this monday night following an eight game ban as the reds host third place taught them with both sides targeting places in the champions league well the striker actually sounds optimistic but i have no mind games one of the his offensive gesture at some fallen fans and eight after being found guilty of racially abusing patrice evra and meanwhile little paul have not closed manchester clubs out of the domestic cup competitions and could leap frog also interesting with a victory placed on an hour looking to do a second consecutive league double over the reds would go within two points of manchester united with a victory at hand feel well on sunday united message also joint top with manchester city of the fighting back from three goals down to the penalty as it was three three chelsea the draw leaves united training city by two points while the blues are now only a point ahead of newcastle regained fifth spot with

a two one win over aston villa chelsea manager and boy is disappointed by the refereeing at stamford bridge. if you go one first goal is obviously a penalty and there's nothing to say about it the second one is very dubious. i don't even know if i would have the correct angle to make a decision maybe the lions will give it i'm not sure. but but it's. very unlucky for him to give a penalty like that. not sure if he's going to do for anything in the first half but there is a there is a wrong decision. meanwhile russian champions and it will have to do with that midfield that miguel downie for their champions league round of sixteen double header against benfica starting this month the twenty eight year old has picked up a knee injury during that it's training session italy could be out for up to six months which also makes the playmaker a doubt for portugal the sum of european championships in poland and ukraine. elsewhere the new york giants are the winners of super bowl forty six quarterback

eli manning led his side to a dramatic twenty one seventeen victory over the patriots just as he did four years . when the giants ruined new england's perfect season well this time around the giants were the foster out of the blocks at the lucas oil stadium in indianapolis manning combining was that to cruise for a nine no need however new england respond this and have their noses in front at half time thanks to a field goal and a touchdown to tom brady fed danny woodhead and immense and stayed with the patriots off to the intermission stretching that lead to seventy nine when brady for the ball to aaron hernandez for another such down box there is still time for a fight back a pair of field goals brought the johns to within two points seventeen fifteen and they then took the lead for the late dr first in mario manningham court if thirty eight yard pass for manning and that led to the decisive moment the patriots allowing all men run short to school so they could get the ball back before the clock lands but they gamble didn't pay off one last possible brady files to find

a man driving home rob's going to cascade game i've asked a twenty one seventeen trying for the giants and once again tonight heartbreak for brady the patriots. this isn't about one person this is about a whole team coming together getting this win so just proud of our guys proud of the proud the team the way we fought all year they were never got discouraged kept their faith kept their confidence in this vault 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 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've done more. i said after the game i'll keep coming in this game and keep trying to rather come this game and lose and not get here so hopefully we have that we're back at some point we had a great year we just didn't make enough place today. i have a goal and what a difference

a week makes as american calls stanley has won his first title on the p.g.a. tour after coming from eight shots down on the final day of the finish. been in arizona after spectacularly missing out on his previous event well this time last week stanley's throw away a three stroke lead on the final hole of the farmers insurance open where 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 spencer 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 of the rounds drawing him level of the leaderboard after a nice chip to the rough and he managed to keep his cool on the greens for a two shot victory caio delighted at his change of fortune and within the space of just one tournament. now tucson defending champion sebastian vettel predicts a very tight battle for this year's formula one title as his team red bull joined

others in unveiling the new cars for the upcoming season well salva were among those pulling off the rapture in f one testing in spain the swiss based outfit finished seventh in the constructors' championship last season red bull were runaway wins with the new regulations will prevent them from using their plenty exhaust blend fuses with the cars any similar this year fans could expect a heated battle for the top honors season kicks off this training grand prix eleven on march the eighteenth. and finally there were mixed fortunes for russia's olympic champions at the russian winter athletics meeting in moscow and they still not shall walk up this going to felt ill and pulled out of her race with just metres to go for the first time in her career but michael survive has more. though the russian winter tournaments carries no one in the qualification points it still manages to attract the world's top a flood of talents year after year and that's jump straights are selected winners

where olympic champion and a season off recorded the best sleep in the world this season in the high jump clearing two meters and thirty six centimeters while european champion alexander should stuff finished in second place after failing to overcome the two metre thirty two centimeter mark if i had not set the bar if i had stopped at two thirty six then naturally i would not have any more to patient 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 of the two forty one. olympic champion a uni bores like off ski was only six hundreds of a second short of the national record finishing second to the continent so brunner shots of poland who crossed the line on one minute fifteen point six seconds third place in that event went to another russian sip on voice dog off. of the before bumping into the kenyan athlete i was actually hoping for

a world record at this competition i've been training very hard and i feel that i'm ready but you saw what happened european enjoy a long jump champion daria condition i became a triple russian winter winner after improving her season's best by one centimeter and recording six meters eighty six centimeters at the tournaments in moscow olympic four by one hundred relay champion alexandra to dorie of us surprised the fans and probably herself soon after posting her personal best as well as the world's third best time of fifty one minutes and forty six seconds. i'm very happy today and i did not even dream about achieving such a result this is my first so cool contacts race in four hundred meters and i believe i chose the right tactics a managed to hold on to the lead closer to the finish line and one despite the fact that my opinion vanya stumbled into is one third dominance in that sector u.k.'s dwain chambers who's hoping the lifetime ban for doping offenses by the british olympic association will soon be lifted showed

that he's insult shape after finishing just zero point zero one seconds behind the american winner josh norman two more commitments indoors for you my nothing trolls happen every sunday if you feel genuine and honest than optimal because you know to what it goes to what if it doesn't occur it seems under possible goes out the way and in the summer starts to. think about the thing phenolic specifically and there were no surprises in the men's five thousand meter race walk with a big champion violating abortion chopping the all russian podium. while in the women's section of this discipline russia is the favorite for gold in london and he's going to have to pull out of the race with just one hundred metres left to the finish line allowing twenty two year olds a nice i could just get on to calling first price from on cos through artsy moscow . hustle this was monday by sadness.

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the e.u. seeking to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria's government after failing to boost pressure on president assad through a u.n. draft resolution blocked by russia and china. russia's foreign minister calls western reaction to the veto indecent and historic go ahead of a visit to damascus aimed at finding a political solution to the ongoing crisis. ensuring greater political involvement for the people through the internet prime minister putin laying out plans to upgrade russian democracy a day after massive pro and anti-government rallies sweep the country. and pressure on all fronts the green coalition government deadlocked over adopting new austerity

measures needed to secure a second bailout while the new says time for a deal is running out for after. eleven pm in moscow i met good to have you with us here on r t our top story the e.u. and u.s. want further tough sanctions on syria in a bid to crank up pressure on the country's regime the decision came after russia and china vetoed the latest draft resolution on syria at the u.n. moscow and beijing say the wording took sides in the conflict as it solely blamed the government for violence without mentioning armed extremist groups in syria opposition leaders claim at least fifty people were killed in the fresh wave of a. attacks by the army on the city of homs the government denies the assault and amateur footage showing the large shelling can't be verified as r.t. sara first reports an absence of credibility and video evidence from the country

raises questions as to exactly what's happening there just a warning you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. each video and social networking sites have for the past ten months been one of the activists he means is offering the world glimpses of the violence this tool in three syrian activists goods reports how 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 bull some of what's really going on is a major challenge even from inside the country. you got a very very low grade fever you think. you're writing a. test head 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 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 been in the media by the way. because of the objectivity we've been getting a bit 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 is the truth of the can has been pretty spun this graphic video appears to show every. being hanged with the clear picture of

exactly what's happening in syria right now to know what the western allies that the un basing their assertions own which is not really about genuine concern for human rights and democracy this is all about region change dissatisfied with the wording of the resolution china veto the latest proposal many felt it contained disturbing a case of libya pressuring china believes the dual rape in the foreign military intervention as a conflict between the two sides as the crisis in syria is becoming increasingly internationalized really misses him plays well to try and put an end to the violence again to be very careful not to make the same mistakes made in libya. looking like. so. indecent and hysterical that's how russia's foreign minister described the

criticism by some western countries of the russia china veto sort of rob was speaking ahead of his upcoming visit to damascus where he's scheduled to meet with syrian authorities tuesday parties peter offer has more. this was continuing on from that decision by china and russia to veto the recent un resolution on syria from moscow sergey lavrov saying that russia had asked the u.n. security council to delay the vote for several days in order to allow mr leavitt off to complete his trip to damascus now they were that request were turned down by the u.n. security council so he left off heading to damascus on tuesday bearing with him a message from president commute premed get every message that's believed to request the assad government make strong democratic changes in the country now 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 not 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 the session 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 had 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 that he was scathing in his response to those comments made from abroad some western comments on the outcome of the u.n. security council syrian resolution vote so did decent and almost hysterical in this connection i recall the old saying that those who are angry are really right why these are still recall statements attempts are being made to blur what is really happening in syria and what's really happening is that there are several sources of

violence in syria not just one it seems that the resolution cool authors who rushed to vote despite the odds are more interested in simply finding somebody to blame drawing attention away from the armed group. that are receiving weapons and other kinds of encouragement from abroad but with regards to why russia vetoed that resolution over the weekend his position on syria has always been the same they condemn both sides both the assad killed and the the opposition and want them both sides to put down their weapons and come to the table for talks now as far as russia will come soon the resolution was on the table only focused on the government forces and didn't make any requests from 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. for some perspective on this let's speak with fergus hudson from the political a political analyst from the future of freedom foundation. so russia and china

traditionally stand together to resist u.n. resolutions on syria put forward by the west now this is kind of like a big issue that's tough to put in a nutshell i guess but why is there such a division between these two permanent security council members and the rest of them so they have a closer relationship with syria only much more reluctant to support interventions . the russian. naval capacity as it has a base in syria so there are various reasons why i wouldn't i wouldn't say it's a distinction as you might characterize it because china has said that it basically taking a neutral position on this and not necessarily supporting or opposing what syria is doing. so far russia has taken most of the criticism from the west for the double veto with china why do you think the reaction why do you think china's decision seems less harsh here. they have made the point clearly that they are

not taking a position either way they're not a lot of themselves with the syrian leadership in the way that the russians may be since they are going and meeting with the syrian leadership tomorrow and as i mentioned they do have a base. on syrian on the syrian chorus line so russia is a much closer relationship one that could it could be interpreted as being supportive of the syrian leadership as opposed to china's more neutral stance don't want to get involved do you think china's increasingly important role in the global financial system also plays into their decision in this regard sure yeah i mean definitely the u.s. is you know one of the trillion dollars to china they are. growing more and more and more dependence the u.s. is more and more dependent upon china for financial support and that's only going to grow over time so yes i mean. you could make that claim yes moscow and beijing ever pay diddly warned against taking sides in the syrian conflict saying it could cause more bloodshed the u.s. u.k.

and france have been putting pressure on the government while only supporting the opposition why do you think that is but the european and u.s. allies if i can call them that they seem hell bent on a regime change and nothing less so any sort of more peaceful resolution that would allow assad to stay in power would not be sufficient in the minds. of the same countries that have also said that russia and china who oppose foreign involvement in syria should bear responsibility for the bloodshed at the same time do you think western allies are prepared to take responsibility for civilian deaths that were incurred during the nato campaign in libya and the unrest sense. sure that they they funded and trained well yes they can they do have a responsibility to supply and right now the u.s. and european nations are able to invoke what's going on in syria in terms of funding and training of the opponents of the free syria. so

yes they do have some responsibility they might say that in the long run that that responsibility is worth it that they are achieving you know positive long term goals but with whether that's the case and it remains to be saying right now it's only getting worse all right fergus had a set of political analysts from the future of freedom foundation thanks for your insight my pleasure. will stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour a whistleblower nominated for the nobel peace prize a u.s. soldier accused of using secret files to wiki leaks now on the list of candidates for the prestigious award we talk to one of the people behind his nomination. but first with less than a month to go before russia's presidential vote emotions are running high as campaigns shift up a gear following a day of demonstrations across russia a prime minister and presidential hopeful vladimir putin continues laying out his electoral program this time it's more about web shape democracy with initiatives allowing people to suggest their own laws online or he has more. 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 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 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 all the most corrupt jobs and it's 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. i mean you can find plenty more on this and every story that we're covering a click away at our t.v. dot com including this the kremlin wants a more competitive approach to politics in russia president medvedev saying the country needs a strong liberal party to break the mold of current politics more highlights of what he had to say a click away on our website. plus u.s. battleships carrying out military drills off the east coast of the country ahead of their deployment to the persian gulf it's thought the drill mad could depict the country resembling iran find out more by clicking our key dot com.

greece's prime minister is struggling to get coalition party leaders to buy into harsh new international bailout terms talks have now been postponed until tuesday but a massive fifteen thousand jobs cut has already been accepted this is pressure mounts on athens with a european commission spokesman saying the deadline is already passed the country must now accept even more painful cuts if it's to get a one hundred thirty billion euro second lifeline from international creditors if the deal falls through greece is expected to default by the end of march for more perspective on this i'm joined by next creek as an economic analyst an international lawyer so talks between the greek coalition party leaders have dragged on but some concessions have been made in the looting this fifteen thousand civil service firings that we mentioned does that technocratic government have much

choice in the matter but there is actually very little choice for greece at the moment both options on the table a very bad you either accept draconian measures from international lenders or you head for the dollar and you default calamitously and it's a chaotic euro zone exit but i must reiterate this for the international audience it's not exactly a technocratic government it's actually a kid take a government under a technocrat prime minister it's the three political leaders that will actually call the shots and even if they agree they still have to persuade all of the parliamentary dippy views in that body to actually pass this through parliament. how much more can the greek people take do you think unions are calling for another nationwide strike. matt there will be a twenty four hour strike tomorrow by the private sector umbrella union and the public sector on broadway union it looks like it won't be very good with a day so we may not see the hundreds of thousands or even twenty or thirty thousand

which we usually see but they may be some violence what greeks can understand and can cope with ease structural reforms most create some of this then that there is a need for they're not particularly happy about fire sale privatization because that really offends people what they have hit the limit with these tax increases and more cuts to pensions and especially private sector wages. on the ballot policy hasn't proved to be very effective so far greece has already gotten international cash but it's a debt still continues to grow why do you think e.u. politicians are so committed to this bailout an austerity solution. that they committed to bailouts in the sense originally that they wanted to support the european banking sector far more than the greek state because it would have been. untold losses for the european banking system and it would have a great it around the world.