you require star received rapturous applause from the on field playful and he came on as a substitute for a day out after sixty six minutes but he couldn't break the deadlock both sides missed chances. of the team losing its one the boy thing is going to do something. with a way to get him but. we don't think it should have been aware but we're going to get bikes will look forward to working. well out militarism leaves a spurs third in the table five points behind manchester united and seven addressed of leaders manchester city but now seven clear chelsea while liverpool go up also hunting a top four spot say seventy four points off a champions league place. to ice hockey now and the moscow have claimed their fifth win in a row with a five three victory at home to lucy beer to go within six points of the discussion in the western conference while the nama were cruising in this one right from the very beginning to talk about putting them in front after fifteen minutes well short

. and competent but they make it to no. before there was grace and many were thinking it was game over at this point and those that weren't almost certainly were when the home side scored a fourth the start of the second period however. told which put on back the sea rare. event luskin he did for two that's the number strictly restored to this really goal difference of the cut off point of the net so it did rally later on to make it five three but that's how it states now extending their winning run to five games. one elsewhere cyclist and like looks set to be awarded the twenty ten tour de france title after alberto contador was stripped of the yellow jersey for failing a drugs test during the race comes from luxembourg have finished second but now looks set to benefit from contador scotti verdict the spaniard had tested positive

for the banned substance clenbuterol plane in his final test was due to eating contaminated meat over twenty nine year old will now also lose his twenty eleven judical tahlia title and remain barred from the sport until august after receiving a backdated two year ban the case has taken months to resolve after various appeals were to something slighting chiefs have criticised. the decision was that it is fundamentally less time between sports just as the law and sports and media events it is comfortable to have no bears will continue to keep saying over eighteen is in your view cycling every waterloo to cycling in spain today just before she will it leave you when they give you all these other you physically can will just feel cycling in france you say going in argentina if you want to stage is just a few days ago you tutored living in the future it isn't absolutely necessary to feel the words 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

a member of the plan however current tour de france champion could evans has defended cycling's recent record attacking doping contador is the second rider to be stripped in. tour de france title following floyd landis in two thousand and six after he also filed a drugs test but evans says cycling is setting a good example. i'm going to use this correspondent who'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 and replicate replicate what cycling do so the fight against drugs in sport can be can maybe be beaten one day across the sport. while evans was talking at the laureus sports awards ceremony in london which saw men's while number one tennis player know about joke a bitch name swirled sportsman of the year. of the joe. thank all of a serbian who was in imperious form last year lifting three grand slam trophies and enjoying what he won that winning streak including two from the previous season last month job which clinched the australian open title to become only the fifth

time in three majors move right. on the mark a long distance we're not going to tell you to his name sportswoman of the year after winning the five thousand pound ten thousand meters at last year's world championships in south korea. and also i doubt when i came to the team of the pep guardiola signed one that domestic football league for the third time in a row and the champions league for a third time in six years the president found it also accepting the award. moving on to formula one now and two time reigning champion sebastian vettel says it will be harder than ever to try to retain the world title this season his rival to look unveiled their new comedy obviate excuses the step or no it lies design team coach the new vehicle will lead them a third straight constructors title that's all things in a design advantage style gain over their rivals will be less effective than for us here is the teams prepare to start the first race in the oven on march the

eighteenth. you know the last two years we had two big things taken away that double the fuses plus 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 we see obviously we hope that you know our cars better than all the others but it will be difficult and i think the cars will be fairly similar as in the gaps will be even closer than they have been. well meanwhile williams were the last team to pull the colors off their new car the u.k. based outfit have reunited with engine supply revenue for twenty twelve as the team marks its thirty fifth year in a high octane sport williams are nine time constructors champions and will be relying on you drive a prius center as well as pass the mother another this season eleven out of the twelve f one teams and i had that in spain the pre-season testing. and finally brotherly love may prevent the heavyweight boxing champion 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 son beau tournament last weekend although the pet find a dignified solution as robert for the man explains. the special sound on speed. this is the. russian. ambassador of the sport came from four years the last weekend was really two to the last and. mixed martial arts came to this one six times before the russian somewhat championship such an instrument of a home crowd. to a four year old was going for his seventh the mass of time for you personally for funding to have a rest now for the head of a civil fine sought after list that's what like to thank my opponent it was good to get back to the metalworkers if i can i want to thank god to fill my room. in the

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news this hour syria's opposition signaled it welcomes russia's mediating efforts in trying to bring them and the government to the negotiating table that's after president the sort brussels foreign minister of his readiness to talk to all political side and promise syria's new constitution will soon be put to a vote. in other news greek standoff clashes on the streets of athens as protesters voiced anger at massive new job cuts a coalition member struggled to agree more parity measures your vital second bailout. and a discovery that could reveal previously on no lifeforms russian scientists drill

deep into a glacial lake in the coldest place on earth explores the significance of this we're finding with our very own correspondent in antarctica. record. business news in twenty minutes. oh it's seven pm here in moscow let's go straight to our top story this hour members of the syrian opposition say they would welcome russia mediating talks with syrian authorities the reaction came after russia's foreign minister talks with president bashar al. assad in damascus following the meeting sergei lavrov said moscow will continue its efforts to settle the crisis in the middle eastern country . reports from syria's capital. so i'm going to stand back for another thought and

this is the result of their meeting on a saturday is you ready for dialogue with the opposition basically a political. tool for the dialogue with the opposition or approaches based on a clear and simple goal to stop civilian deaths the region needs deeds syria needs peace it is clear that efforts to end the violence need to go along with the start of a meaningful dialogue between all political sides today we received confirmation from the syrian president of his readiness to participate in that process we will continue to work with various opposition groups but anyone who has more influence on them than russia should also work with another important issue it is their duty in their forty's you're in the green light to allow more monitors from the arab league here inside the car jean-claude ing sending them to be most violent violent

so they could be. jewish and they're entering for he sure that russian foreign minister mentioned following his meeting with the president is that we're going to the keys to meet with the commission and will to begin working on with a new constitution of the country supposed to meet with commission in the near future according to the russian foreign minister. of a nation like level they're ready to. go to the palace also quite shortly. over it and it's going to be a legal process. well let's discuss the outcome of foreign minister lavrov visit to damascus with john reese who joins us now live from london he's an activist and national officer at the stop the war coalition. thank you for being with us this evening tell us what are the broader implications of the foreign minister's talks with president also that as you see it what signal are they sending and to who.

well i hope that the principal signal that's been sent in the last few days is that any military intervention in syria is unwelcome impossible and counterproductive my main concern i think the concern of many many people in the united kingdom is that our country in alliance or otherwise with the united states is not drawn into another military escapade in the middle east we saw what happened in libya when whatever the difficulties that the conflict in libya raised whatever the difficulties with the regime in libya western intervention ended up killing thirty thousand people in that country i'd have all proportion greater than any of the lives lost in the arab in any of the arab revolutions across the region so our principal hope here is that developments in the last few days have kept the united states the u.k. the other major powers from interfering militarily in this area i'm sure the

russian state as other states have interests in this area are acting to defend those interests in this area but i think the fate of the syrian people is best left to them and to them alone that president assad has said that he is ready to talk to all political sides is syria and the opposition has signaled that it welcomes russia role as a mediator i think some might say this is somewhat of a breakthrough really so why are some western countries so reluctant to pursue a dialogue i mean why are we seeing more of this news on twitter or facebook that the opposition has essentially agreed to talks. well i hope that's i hope that's true and i hope that the syrian regime. is. is acting in good faith here it has to be said that in the past it hasn't done that so if it is going to do that on this occasion then that will be that will be good news

indeed i think the reason why you are not seeing this trailed more heavily in the western media is because there is a competition for influence in the arab region generally and in syria in particular and the western powers see russia and china as their rivals in this and therefore they are certainly not in the business of widely propagating any news which might shed its rivals in a good light but several european countries and gulf states have recalled their ambassador to syria today why don't pull out now when when it looks like the talks are just really beginning. well as i say i think there is a what's happened since the russia and china use their veto in the un is that this has become a matter of conflict now between the major powers it's not as it was in libya where all the major powers agreed on a course on a course of action and there was relatively little friction between them one of the dangerous things about the talk of intervention in syria is it's now producing

a conflict not between the major powers and a very small and much weaker country but between the major powers themselves and when that begins to happen then wholly different orders of danger are involved in the situation and that's one of the reasons why military intervention would be a terrible error in this case. there are reports that member states of the arab problem cooperation council are planning to recognize the free syrian army as the syrian people's only legitimate representative is a body that's often been referred to as terrorists and armed gains broken up several different factions if that force does get official recognition what impact would that have on the country. well i think we have to be very very cautious about the initiatives coming out. of the gulf states they have been a critical force for reaction in the region and i hope that this does not mean but

they intend to intervene directly in the in the syrian case anymore than is already happening i think that would be a step which would worsen the situation now i just finally from the beginning protesters in syria have been calling for a new democratic laws president also announced today that a new constitution is ready to be put to a public vote do you think the opposition will welcome that move. well i hope that it's true and if it is true it will be a welcome move and i'm sure that the opposition will do that but words and deeds are two different things and we've heard the words before if it is to have any meaning whatsoever this needs to be translated into deeds all right john reese joining us live from london political activist from stop the war coalition thank you for your time well we're going to continue to discuss the implications of the syrian conflict especially in the region i'm now joined by dr been

a death to bear to see a research fellow with the institute of national security studies thank you for being with us what do you think the implications of the u.n. showdown on syria are. well if we're talking about israel in particular it's very early on it's very early to know what the implications are going to be. we can see that in the long term if there were to be a regime change if the assad regime were to fall and where to go that would likely be a good thing for israel it would probably lead to a change to a shift in the balance of power regionally it would be a very strong blow to iran which in turn would empower do more. to so-called sunni company would empower the g.c.c. block this wouldn't be bad for israel this would be a good development however that's not the way that's not the way it's going to play in the short term in the short there who are much more likely to witness prolonged

internal violence we don't know yet if it's going to be a civil war but it looks like it's going that way and that only will lead to more instability in the region which is not particularly good for syria's neighbors including israel well let's focus on the short term because a lot of people would say the country is already into civil war a lot of weapons across the country a lot of different factions which always i think we know instability what does that mean for israel. there are many different scenarios the more the more immediate concern that israel might be concerned might be thinking about is the proliferation of areas of lowest nest so to speak so the idea of a nod or a regulated area of the border with israel that being the golan is a serious concern because even though you assad regime was one is one of the most antagonistic to israel still the border with syria has been one of the quietest definitely more quote quater to lebanon for example so the idea that the golan

would become a new are of lawlessness and not a new hot spots for proliferation of weapons terrorism and so on to support is very much. for israel more in general if you look at the region and the concern for regional stability view and israel then there is a real problem here because we have a potential. dynamite situation in syria which is not again i don't think it's going to be resolved in the short term as you correctly said we are if we're not in a civil war very close to a civil war there are the there is a showdown between the regime which is highly unpopular but it's still cohesive in its course about paratus which is what keeps the regime going meaning the army has not defected and on the other hand you have an opposition which yes is popular yes yes it's growing yes is strong but it's not cohesive it doesn't have a unitary leadership and it doesn't have a century doesn't have a base of

a physical base work to grow. which basically leads to the conclusion that things are not going to get resolved anytime soon so that's not good for the region in terms of stability and. that of course is not also good but certainly a lot of different concerns and sides of the issue when it comes to the syrian conflict and it's spilling over into the region thank you very much dr. a research fellow with the institute of. national security studies. now in other news public anger has again spilled onto the streets of athens where thousands of anti austerity protesters gathered in front of the parliament billie's used tear gas to disperse crowds trying to break through a cordon around the parliament building that's of 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 long delayed agreement on that balance out terms have still failed to

materialize and the talks in use on tuesday greece desperately needs the one hundred thirty billion euro and international creditors to avoid defaulting in march when we go to the clearest lecturer at the university of the aegean told r.t. the government remains out of touch with the public. they're only thinking in terms of getting gets a bailout loan but the problem is exactly that we are told rigid two years into of this use or group of increasing debt. bailout bailouts that leads to more recession extrema going to britain to be more precise social diversity and there's no end in sight i think that it's tight time for greece to be sold on its own terms we cannot disagree exercise you cannot take any more of this week's of these top. of this this and try to sort of reconstruct social stability social causes and production

in this country. you can see live feeds from the great capital on our website as thousands gather in front of the part of the men to protest austerity measures all that is taking place exactly twenty years after the european union treaty was signed max kaiser and stacy herbert check out the record after two decades the full program coming up for you in about fifteen minutes. after their opportunity was last. to have a coup d'etat and get rid of happened and they could have been put in a populist government and they could've 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 are totally corrupt and this leaves only germany if at the end of the

day. the former head of britain's m i six spy agency sir mark allen is being sued by a pair of dissident libyans he allegedly helped capture and sent for torture under gadhafi into in two thousand and four the investigation may have uncovered several other backroom deals between the u.k. and the colonel's regime r.t. is ivor bennett explained. abducted imprisoned and tortured for six years all thanks to british government held those are the claims of two former gadhafi detainees who say they were captured by m i six flown to libya in two thousand and four abdul hakim is now libya's military commander along with sami el 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 the just 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 his regime and how he and his officials were tortured prisoners that were 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 he allegedly writes in one letter sent to get deficits by chief moose. i congratulate you on the safe arrival of our last a deep mr hard this was the least we could do for you and for libya. the 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 the u.k. authorities saying. that. they do not wish torture to happened these individuals are in the context of death is regime those sorts of statements of meaning western essence i mean everyone would have known that there was an extremely high risk indeed almost certainty that these individuals will and would be tortured but by that point the british government loving with gadhafi had already begun turning him from a despot to darling and it wasn't just good daphne 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 marco island said to have met good at his intelligence chief the alleged occasion a top secret dinner to celebrate the end of negotiations libya gets a seat at the international tape.