the result leaves a third in the table five points behind manchester united and seven adrift of leaders manchester city but no seven their chelsea while the full though are also hunting a top four spot stay sevens for points i champions league place. to catch up i stuck in ireland and i must to have claimed their first win in a row with a five three victory at home to let a severe go within six points of the discard in the western conference held and imo were cruising in this one right from the beginning of the top of a person in front after fifteen minutes and that shortly followed by a strike because i think of course i keep to know before that i have grabbed his grace many were thinking it was game over by this point and those that weren't almost certainly were in the home side scored a fourth at the start of the second period. that nixon told which pulled them back for severe the same thing from last year. too. but still never

swiftly restored their three goal difference company at all because of finding that this time sensible did rally later on to make it five three but that's how it stayed in that extending their winning run to five games. talking to the store or it was a good game even those to be won't make it to the playoffs dilute good on the ice and i can see they were not much of a good enough for these games for our team i think it was the first game where we managed to take advantage of all that but you notice we created in the five goals was a good result of that and i think most of the. meanwhile ostracise andy schleck looks sets to be awarded the twenty cent tour de france title after alberto contador was stripped of the yellow jersey for failing a drugs test during the race like a cancer luxembourg had finished second but now looks extra benefit from contador is going to verdict the spaniard has tested positive for the banned substance clenbuterol claiming his final test was due to eating contaminated meat the twenty nine year old will also now lose his twenty eleven title and remain barred from the

sport until august after receiving a backdated two year ban the case has taken months to resolve the various appeals and something cycling chiefs have criticised. that it is fundamentally less time between sports justice and sport under media events it is confident god no bears will come to have a keepsake going on for eighteen months cycling everywhere we thought he was cycling in spain today just before she will it leave when they get all these of if you say clinton will jump he was sailing in france you say going to argentina where he went to stages just a few days ago. in the future it isn't absolutely necessary. just like you need to have just as serenity and even though that he's was extremely complex come of that type of case becomes. well meanwhile current tour de france champion of the elevons has defended cycling recent record intact and diving congo is the second rider to be stripped of the tour de france title following floyd landis in

two thousand and six after he also failed a drugs test but evans says cycling is setting a good example. i think it's the sport of sparkle he's done more than enough to prove itself it's doing the right thing and now it's now it's time for other sports to look at cycling in and replicate replicate what cycling do so the fight against drugs in sport can be can maybe be beaten one day across the sport but evans was talking at the laureus sports awards ceremony in london which saw a men's world number one tennis player novak djokovic named world sportsman of the year. no. no no. well the serbian was in imperious form last year lifting three grand slam trophies and enjoying a forty one match winning streak including two from the previous season last month djokovic clinched the australian open title to become only the fifth man to break three may just. walk kenyan long distance not deviant chatter you took his name

sports woman of the year after winning the five thousand and ten thousand meters at last year's world championships in sas career. barcelona when named the team of the year pep guardiola side won their domestic football league for the sir time in a row and the champions league for a third time in six years hasn't found oversell accepting the award. moving on to four we don't want to two time reigning champion sebastian vettel says it will be harder than ever to try to retain the world title this season his red bull team have unveiled their new car the abi eight which uses the stepped or lowered nose design the team hopes the new vehicle will and then a third straight constructors title but will think any design advantage they'll gain over their rivals will be less effective than in previous years as the team at for the start of the first race in melbourne on march the eighteenth. you know the last two years we had two big things taken away the double the fuses blows for this year the system around the blown exhaust so you know we're missing that and

therefore so i think if you could to really create a difference as we see obviously we hope that you know our cars better than all the others but it will be difficult and i think because we'll be fairly similar as in pick ups will be even closer than they have been well meanwhile williams were the last team to pull the covers off their new car the u.k. based outfit have reunited with engine supply ran over twenty twelve as a team marks its thirty fifth year in the high octane sport williams are nine time constructors champions and will be relying on a new drive of bruno senna as well as possible mother. now though this season eleven and of the twelve f one teams are now and how that in spain for pre-season testing one finally brotherly love may prevent the klitschko heavyweight boxing champions from fighting each other but that wasn't an option for mixed martial arts going for the yarmulke the russian came up against his brother in a song about twenty minutes last weekend although the first to find it didn't fight solution this well before the onion explains. him in

a special cell was made easier than any man can i this is not a pleasure but i russian has been the is the ambassador of the sport it came from for years the last weekend was a really too it was the last ambrose mixed martial arts came a big fish and he had won six times before the russian but somewhat championship such as in front of a home crowd in moscow to a four year old who was going for his seventh the most times i'm sure for you but family very funny to have a rest now we've had a few ball fights off tonight that's what i'd like to thank my opponent it was good to get back to the net for the president fight and i want to thank god for sure for my role. in the nose and dissipated by divans was simply inevitable in the final of the heavyweight glass the other place his younger brother four time russian gent down an example and men would also been big respect in the global

enemy arena some might have been looking to see a rumble. i i mark were left with just a seven second masuk less than the latter but yes many expected an exciting fight about the two brothers had never fought against each other before but they came out and produced an elegant finale for the competition which the younger brother gave it into the elder one in a very dignified way. which of the pressure what. ever they have been soul no lack of tough action and here is the proof.

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you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

of the. glimmer of hope for a peaceful way out of the syrian crisis as russia's foreign minister determined to pursue a diplomatic solution is in damascus holding talks with president bashar al assad. greek standoff clashes on the streets of athens as protesters voice anger at massive new job cuts that's while coalition members struggled to agree more austerity measures to secure a vital second bailout. plan a discovery that could reveal previously unknown lifeform as russian scientists

drill deep into a sub place a lake in the coldest place on earth we explore the significance of this rare finding with our very own correspondent in antarctica. it's five pm here in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live on many sonali with our top story this hour and russia says the syrian president is ready for dialogue with the opposition this is the latest coming out of talks with president assad in damascus as russia's foreign minister is saying that moscow will continue to mediate talks between the syrian authorities and the opposition so again love rove's visit to the syrian capital comes amid the raging violence within the country as well as an international diplomatic standoff over how the rest should be resolved well are you going to school is in damascus and now joins us live on the line you gord what exactly did the foreign minister

have to say after his closed door talks with president. oh he said i want to apologize in advance for the connections you're to give the line is breaking up we're moving through you know in the calm voice going back to the airport as the minister russia's foreign minister is flying back to basco but the most important thing that he said is that right on our side and this is the result of their meeting or that on our side it is ready for dialogue with the opposition and so it is syria that vice president. so basically a political will she is ready to hold the dialogue with the opposition another important issue is that in their forty's while you are in the green line to allow more monitors from the arab league here inside the car jeanne cooling is sending them to the most violent to hear the violence so they could be there all night.

which we should there be another forty issue that russian foreign minister mentioned pulling the meeting with the president is that we're going to use that now to meet with the commission which has been working on where you constitution the country is supposed to meet with permission in the near future according to the russian foreign minister. also a nation like levels are ready to. go will be announced also quite shortly this rover and it's going to be a real cost and the including thing about this process because it will not. be. you know i know i know you're on your way to the airport now i just want to check if if you want to have anything else you want to add about the situation in the

capital have you seen anything heard anything we've been hearing about this ongoing violence of course in the harness there can you tell us anything else. yes ok seems like we have lost their connection with our correspondent who was in the syrian capital along with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov we now know they are on their way to the airport well russia and china are facing a barrage of criticism from some western and arab states for their decision to block the latest u.n. resolution on syria moscow has already dubbed the reaction hysterical saying the resolution took a biased approach to resolving the syrian civil conflict sara for of has been following the diplomatic so down sara clearly the sides are not seeing eye to eye take us through what exactly the disagreements are each day to have to much. evidence of just how divisive this conflict has been the most thing happening on

the international stage for the past couple of days now when russia and china the take the un resolution almost syria we. see is condemnation from many in the west. the united states is disgusted that a couple members of this council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose here this is a do. as well as murdering. can get its credibility back internationally with its own people. when you can root when you realize the house you see what a mistake is making by backing regime. now russia has been very clear in its stance from the very beginning it says in response to some of these criticisms that russia is backing assad's regime they've actually clearly stated that they back assad they're not friends so are it's

a new trial starts that they're taking at the moment they're trying to find a solution that takes into account the syrian people's view and of course one of the major concerns with this resolution was that it was simply saying to the backing one side i hadn't made mention to the armed groups and the response to that now so i think what we see within the country is it's an extremely complex situation and it's been very hard to verify exactly what's been going on we do know that there's been a sort of critical lack of this when it comes to issues such as the death toll think it is certainly the u.n. figure that stopped counting at around five thousand really there was little attention paid to the fact that that sort of number also made reference to the number of people who had been killed from the opposite from the pro-government side so i think at the moment with the death toll figures you do have to take into account this is both pro-government opposition people that are being killed in the country and so this is really been a major focal point is to find

a solution that doesn't simply seem to be backing one side in the conflict. don't you sleep with them you could put some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table from the very beginning of the syrian crisis been undermining opportunities for political settlement by calling for regime change stirring up the opposition against the authorities and nor is it anything to encourage and feed on the methods of struggle the draft resolution put to the vote does not adequately reflect the real situation in syria and sends unbalanced signals to the syrian sides it doesn't take into account proposals that as well as withdrawing syrian armed forces from the cities this should be an end to it turns by armed groups on state institutions and neighborhoods but. the problem is as time goes on of course the violence in the country to seeming to escalate over time i mean that has been fierce criticism about the role the russian trying to play in this and certainly the issue really is that you know this has been one

of the one of the points along the way that have been seen as a failure before that you have the arab league mission you have countries like saudi arabia and qatar putting out that monetary means that again ok to being seen as action that was hampering attempts to find a solution and you know of course there is very very difficult to be objective here and the country that are sort of pitching other countries against one another and having this sort of dialogue and rhetoric now that seems to be very focused on choosing a psych much more important for russia right now is to try and find that neutral ground try to find some kind of credible tentative that doesn't simply lead and push the country further into the conflict situation it's in at the moment. sorry for going us up to date on the latest standoff diplomatic really wow on the situation in syria thanks for that. well the u.s. has been among the most vocal critics of the verse or chinese double veto asia

times correspondent pepe escobar says washington is being very selective in the decision that pushes for the middle east i would start paraphrasing susan rice i would say that the international community is the real one not made two and the six a person go monitors in the g.c.c. is this just it by the travesty of the repeated u.s. vetoes in the d. un women ever the topic of israel comes to israel u.s. can veto any c. regarding your zero zero zero zero can keep the killing of men and women and children palestine but always leave russia and china they cannot block a reason lucian that imposes regina change in syria so what are you going to see from no one is a radicalization and that's already happening so this means. the rebels in syria the free syrian army will keep being armed and weaponized by not only got there in

saudi arabia which is already happening for months not but specially by the united states the resolution is not blaming infect unarmed rection that's what can you imagine if you have a mid-size city in the united states called troll but ending suresh how do you sync the response of the u.s. government would be. well next hour we hear from the foreign minister of bahrain one of the key arab league members who shares his thoughts on what should be done to stop the violence in syria. your use of the thing is after what happened in libya any country would think twice before committing to specific measures the situation in the region is extremely volatile countries are divided into two major and minor according to their geopolitical standing how closely or just one state or the other and they rule in regional fields and so on the regime change a minor country would not lead to his and we journalists going to the syria on the

other hand is very important to the reality we have to keep very hard about the possible repercussions and complications we must have to deal with before we interfere in syria's open as. well public anger against spills onto the streets of athens where thousands of anti austerity protesters gathered in front of parliament but this is tear gas to disperse crowds trying to break through a cordon around the parliament building that's as greek trade unions are holding a nationwide general strike in response to fifteen thousand job cuts it's one of the concessions the greek government has made to appease international creditors but the want of late agreement on that valid terms has still failed to be realized and talks continue this tuesday greece desperately needs the one hundred and thirty billion euros from international creditors to avoid defaulting in march the economist yanis varoufakis believes greek politicians have already given in to the

e.u. and the deadlock is just fresh out. it is a bottomless pit and the gig saucily me even though it's covered and the vast majority of greeks are suffering enormously it can always be done much more through policies that have absolutely no basis on logic but they have a very sound basis on. the kind of politics which i'm afraid the european union has descended towards what i am afraid is happening at the moment is a shadow play. women charade we have the good the party leaders and the technocrat prime minister is supposedly negotiating very harshly in my estimation i hope i'm wrong but of the i am this is just a blip hence the decisions are made the deal is already in place all we have is

think political leaders who are trying to find a way of presenting what is a non political illogical package to the greek people. so you can see those events unfolding live from the greek capital on our website as thousands gather in front of the part of the mint to protest austerity measures all that is taking place exactly twenty years after the european union treaty was signed and max keiser and stacy herbert check out the ears record after two decades in the kaiser report coming up later today here's a look at what's in store. their opportunity was last year to have a coup d'etat and get rid of pap and rail and they could have been put in a populist government and they could have saved themselves but they failed to do that so it's finished for them ireland similarly is toast no hope for them whatsoever portugal under the bus spain no italy they have twenty five hundred tons of gold if they can hold onto it they're in good shape but i suspect that the

current government will sell that italy's gold deal with the i.m.f. because they're totally corrupt and this leaves only germany if at the end of the day. when former head of britain's m i six spying agency sir mark allen is being sued by a pair of dissident libyans he allegedly helped capture and sent for torture under gadhafi in two thousand and four the investigation may have uncovered several other backroom deals between the u.k. and the colonel's regime parties ivor bennett explains. just a ducted imprisoned and tortured for six years all thanks to british government held those are the claims of two former gadaffi detainees who say they were captured by m i six and flown to libya in two thousand and four abdul hakim is now libya's military commander along with sami al saadi he was part of the libyan

islamic fighting group and they're suing a former british spy chief for complicity in their torture to me the most damaging aspect is that it is how much the british were involved in even just two cases of sending senior people back to libya and then the potential damages how much they knew about the nature of gadhafi is regime and how he and his officials were tortured prisoners and that should have been obvious documents found in tripoli by human rights watch seemingly expose britain's key role in the libyans rendition within m i six counterterrorism chief mark allen pulling the strings seventy allegedly writes in one letter sent to get daffy spy chief moose. i congratulate you on the safe arrival of our last a geek mr. this was the least we could do for you and for libya but papers show the cia seized in bangkok thanks to an m i six tipped off al saadi was

supposedly snatched by the m i six in hong kong both men were sent straight to libya and the notorious abu salim prison where they say they were tortured there are statements from calle thirteen. that they. they do not wish torture to happen. in the context of death and those sorts of statements that. everyone would know that there was an extremely high risk indeed or less certainty that these individuals will be tortured but by that point the british government loving with good daffy had already begun turning him from their sport darling and it wasn't just good daffy you reap the rewards it's a mark allen was britain's negotiator in what was a two way deal it was in this exclusive london clubs of mark owen said to have met . his intelligence chief the alleged occasion

a top secret dinner to celebrate the end of negotiations libya gets a seat at the international table in return for scrapping its weapons program and giving britain a lucrative oil contract one worth fifteen billion pounds went to b.p. in two thousand and four the same company alan had just joined even allegations the controversial release of lockerbie bomber mcgraw he was part of the same shady deal to find them well and refuses to comment on the claims against him if g m i six hasn't denied complicity in torture but the government saying all actions had its approval a long standing get out clause but maybe not now the secrets out so we know that ministers in the past resigned from the sort of acts of complicity and those ministers themselves should face criminal prosecution it below georgia civil case against marco island could be just the tip of the iceberg.