as a team is the support of better. because we want to do good things that is correct that's why we have supported him in this case all the way until now and we still do when we look at the ruling today we see no reason not to support him to do a long time but of course. we have to sit down together. and talk about the future as. i wish that he wants to continue with the team i can only say. my intentions will be the same. while in contrast contador has little sympathy from the world anti-doping agency its president john has branded contador a cheat and says the court ruling was a clear warning to cyclists. the simple fact is that anyone who has a prohibited substance in their system. is h. it. it's as simple as that the only argument then comes as to what was the method

what was the nature of how that prohibited substance got into the system. but your cheat effectively the moment you got that substance in there and that analysis disclosed and tested this was a very comprehensive way bike as well another major legal battle in sport is looming this time to help medal hopefuls an artery in shape represent russia at this summer's london olympics the pentathlete was born in lithuania but has obtained a russian passport a lot of her native country has now banned her from can pay more. just a week after turn in twenty four and with multiple world cup wins under her belt do not are you shy to should be a shoo in for the fast approaching london games or so you would think because for these modern pentathlon to second the increase are now a huge doubt in beijing in two thousand and eight she competed for leaf janja but

has since married a russian and was granted a russian passport and though do not has been cleared to fly the russian flag at other major events she needed there formality of permission from the league here in an olympic committee to go to london but her request was denied i think this sports officials and some patriots are against me but a lot of ordinary people still support me he could say we feel any split in two over this a lot of people have been leaving the country to earn money elsewhere and some may think i've come to russia to roll in cash which is not the case donato went on to say she was on the verge of tears and her mother cried twice at last month's meet in elite yanira the sports summit has threatened her entire career and she described it as a circus while the reporter at the time culture a traitor she knows the chances are slim that chill be given the go ahead to compete in london but she's focusing on other tournament's and if lead should first

of all think of quality training and preparing for events if i don't make the olympics after all i'll have other important events to get ready for the european and world championships are no small matters. so potentially a massive blow for russia who counted on the room shouted to deliver in the british capital they plan to appeal at both the court of arbitration for sport and the international olympic committee but no one is under any illusions have a medal hopes to remain. but the leader of the not that is our leader and will compete in other events this year but her mission won't undermine the russian squad because measures have been taken to regroup it's not a happy situation but we still hope for podium places in london. is already setting his sights on the real games twenty six team well russia also have a strong message contingent including athens and b.g. champion and dreamy suv to cheer on in london. r t. but let's switch to

football where it is semi finals day at the africa cup of nations ivory coast star studded squad take on mali in the gabba needs capital bit of feel the elephants have big name plays including chelsea's didier drogba to city's yar torah that's made them the favorites for the trophy and ivory coast produced an impressive three nil win over cohost equatorial guinea in the last eight but despite their obvious talent they coach is always wary of the opposition. as we go forward with what i would say is a lot of cohesiveness because we know that everything we've achieved is fragile and that in a game or a certain situation it could all crumble so we're being very prudent to deserve our country we're trying to be wise in the other game tonight garnett will be seeking to reach the final for the second time in a row they take on zambia in in the batter stadium in equitorial guinea but their build up hasn't been ideal ghana were forced to cancel their monday training session after their flight from gabon was delayed however they remain the favorites

for this one although zambia are the surprise package of the tournament after their three no win over sudan in the last eight. well over in spain athletic bilbao have reached the final of the copper del ray after the emphatic six two win and second leg win last night they go through eight three in aggregate ending the run this fairytale run the spanish side had beaten the likes of villareal espana and racing santa and there in the final hour face the barcelona or valencia in play their second leg tonight barcelona have home advantage after drawing one one zero in the first game and are boosted by the return of angry. guess who have taken part in training this week passer are fighting for titles on four fronts and their manager says his plan is for the challenge. gibson and what we have the chance of playing in the fourth final of the season i think the players are aware of this is

a challenge sport gives you these new opportunities have been able to repeat some to make this after achieving so much in the past we've already pleaded difficult corded phone first leg of the semifinal. boxing noun colombian welterweight ignacio mendoza fail to show up for the official way ahead of wednesday's bad with russian video of here in moscow the fight is part of the inaugural real boxing t.v. event bringing together famous fighters from around the world twenty eight year old south american mendoza who has a record of thirty three big trees from his forty one fights wasn't present as his flight had been delayed while twenty nine year old i like video who has won all of his fifteen banks knocking at six in the process wide in sixty three kilograms over all four fights will take place during the event including a cruiserweight back between russia's good gordie droid's thirty three wins and just one defeat could be a handful but you make an opponent richard hall. i give him

a lot of respect to choose the fight with because i never know i'm on the board and you choose to fight me so i give my whole lot of respect how to fight has turned me down. you know he chose the fireman's like your mother was pretty disorder just put my. next step to the level of crime in crime and this is the next step toward some kids and to step back a step or second i got to go over to get to my next step. and finally the new york giants are still lapping up their super bowl triumph thousands of fans lined the streets of manhattan to cheer the side that beat the new england patriots on sunday around a million fans are thought to have turned out to welcome home a hero's confetti wafting through the air as the team foisted the been somebody tracy from the glittering blue white flight quarterback eli manning and other teammates stood with coach tom coughlin michael bloomberg as they made their way through york after this they were honored at the city hall before traveling to new

jersey for a rally at the met life stadium where manning thank fans for their massive support . we got a bunch of guys a bunch of players coaches the organization this stood behind this and never had doubt we have fans that never question us just stuck with this all cheered us on. three here in the playoffs and then you all cheers all the way to hand in nablus to green bay to say francisco to win a super bowl thank you. thank you for watching that was the mindset with the vast time is the last. eight years that so much of. which are. on. facebook finishing the posturing is being called a very big deal and many hope i feel will lift the entire tech sector but is the.

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breathing life into hopes for a peaceful solution to the syrian crisis as russia's delegation to the country sees signs of both sides are ready for dialogue. the rift between the e.u. and the u.k. grows into a cow's master of the european court of human rights orders the release of a solid and woden's right hand man in europe. and washington stop military official has to call to try and suspend criminal charges against american ngo members as egypt's military leaders grabbed down on the western activists who helped them to power last year. and in business russian markets rise at the start of the trading

session with energy majors boosting the in this is as the price of oil continues to rise details you know this is. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.l. marina joshie welcome to the program now both the syrian regime and the opposition have signaled out of the solution to the bloody andress mahlon i at the negotiating table rather than the battlefield let's say after russia's foreign minister met with president assad and damascus while the leader told the delegation that he's ready to implement reforms while the opposition says moscow should provide a roadmap for dialogue or does or in english go has more. well it just seems like there is hope for peace in syria after all at least holy the. visit by the arsenal dition and to its own capital damascus syrian president bashar assad has expressed his desire to go through with the negotiations he said that he's also willing to go

through the necessary reforms in order to end the violence in the country and one of those reforms which he has promised is a to carry through the referendum on the constitution now that is slated to come to come around sometime in march and if their friend and goes through as expected this may mean the end of the monopoly of the current ruling party another note for the moment is the fact that the syrian opposition which here there which until now has been unwilling to to go to any negotiations with the current government in syria has said that they are willing to talk but they have said that russia must provide the roadmap for those negotiations and that they must go beyond just the talking that some actions should be taking place now syrian president assad has also said that he is hoping that he that he is actually he was once the observers from the

league of the arab states to stay in the country and of course russia has also mentioned that the peace process in the country must go through according to the plan laid out by the league of the arab states military listen to the russian foreign minister to give up on the results of his the visit to syria our approach is based on a clear and simple goal to stop civilian deaths the region needs peace 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've 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 them well of course there's a. so the west which has continued which continues to watch syria very closely and they're not showing any interest it does not look that is that they're showing any interest in stopping the violence in the country right now various western states

have pulled out or have closed down their embassies in syria of course the united states the united kingdom being just some they're also the gulf states which have not all just pulled out their ambassadors from syria but they have also sent out this syrian ambassador serve their country thereby basically stopping all diplomatic relations with the country also the white house has mentioned to us to negotiate with osce that is to is basically a way to fail or the state department has made it obvious that they're not going to . make any any a benevolent gestures to just use towards the current syrian regime and they have also said they're not supplying any weapons or any help to the rebels which are also which are fighting this the government forces right now but they have said that that option is not off the table also the united states have also promised that the will supply humanitarian aid to the rebels there but what kind of aid

exactly we're talking about is you have unclear. or ticklish the reporting there and in the light of recent u.n. security council fallouts r.t. spoke to russia's ambassador to the body and he says that piling pressure all only on the us of regime gives unilateral advantages to the rebels who are also to blame for inciting violence in syria. the latest round of military confrontation in syria started a couple of days before that resolution draft resolution was put to vote and the reason i'm here and trying not trying to justify anybody but simply trying to be analytical is that as the monitoring mission of the arab league was there and that as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain towns or certain quarters and in cities that territory was taken over by armed rebel groups and that would mean that the the armed

confrontation will continue and escalate and that was the reason for which were brought our amendments to the text of the draft resolution which would not only require the government to pull out its forces from from the cities but would also would also require the opposition forces to show restraint and not to exercise their military coup out every conflict. needs to be resolved through negotiations there are two ways really in my view one is a frontal attack against the regime something which i'm afraid has been happening lately including from some international important international players the advocates of regime change they have been trying to. resolve the crisis through from toppling the government in the mosque but this is this would mean bloodshed and civil conflict and. conflict which would be spreading beyond the borders of

syria but the other the more rational way the only way which the international community should be supporting. trying to put the parties to the table to bring them to the table and to arrange a dialogue among them in order to find a political solution without further bloodshed. the president of the arab lawyers association says the reluctance of some states to support mosque as many asian efforts is nothing out of the ordinary he says it's simply a case of history repeating itself this is very clearly an attempt by the west to thwart any effort of settlement because i don't think the western powers whether it's the u.k. u.s. france or the europeans and certainly the other countries the gulf countries really playing according to the rules that are being laid down to them by the americans they are the people who are trying to explore any possibility we've seen this before in the. other when the west were somewhat in the opposition and they were i

mean. anybody who wanted to have a dialogue with the government regardless of whether they were life to not they were accused of being. stooges of the government or their agents of the government or they are not the path between now and this is that they are now at the present moment i think in terms of the opposition in syria and i fear that this is really why all of the russians are trying to get the opposition to talk to the government because that's the only way you can resolve the problem i think they will stop those people from even though position from discussing with the government sitting with them and this is really where they've done the same thing in libya where civilian and peaceful protests were converted into an armed conflict so that it gives the pretext for the west to intervene. and still going to program the greek

economy goes on say fresh clashes erupt in athens as the a sturdy ravaged public rails against what they see as a fire sale of the nation's future. frozen to death by eating cold has ukraine in an icy grip as a country suffers its most severe winter in europe with more than a hundred people dying over the last week. now the outrage sweeps britain after the european court of human rights ordered the release of a dog to sell of bin laden's right hand man and you are it's the latest in a string of judgments that have overruled domestic decisions reinforcing the opinion that the e.u. is interfering in matters it has nothing to do with and as archie is laura smith reports patience with the e.u. is running so in. a silver in land with its own queen its own currency and its own poem and was made by someone else this building houses what we in the u.k.

call list supremum courts but in practice it supremes in name only despite being the highest court in the land when it comes to human rights if you don't like the way your case is going or you can take his abroad to france and decisions made in stroudsburg could overrule any may taya the european court of human rights was set up after world war two to avoid the persecution of minorities by the state but now it's been derailed and it was never never anticipated off the second world war of the holocaust off the terrace perpetrated by certain tyrannical governments but the court now would be protecting the criminal i'm not the victim. delays in control of a sea have the european courts in stroudsburg there's a backlog of up to eight years. when cases are decided judgments are often bizarre

in two thousand and ten the court decided to give prisoners the right to vote after a petition by john hirst who spent much of his life behind bars after killing his landlady the u.k. is still refusing to implement the ruling it makes me physically ill it would probably mean that the vote to anyone who is in prison knows the aside it could also cost a fortune but the last time that we looked at this the cost of complying with judgments under the european convention of human rights was about two point one billion pounds a year that's three point three billion dollars plus another two point eight billion in a susi ated one off costs in other areas an immigration ruling means a convicted nigerian rapist gets to stay in the u.k. because of his right to a family life. and most recently the european court of human rights ruled hate

preacher abu qatada dubbed bin laden's right hand man in europe can't be deported back to jordan he's now g to be released on to the streets of britain this is somebody who stands up and publicly. hatred about everything that our democracy is and stands for and yet we can't get rid of him because the european convention on human rights sitting in strasburg forty seven judges one from each signatory country so far so far except none of them were elected by the people of the countries they're making law for we've got a system of law and order in this country it's worked for many many years for the seats or the mother of all parliaments why do we need strasburg brussels to tell us what we can and cannot do the answer is we don't so therefore british law for british people those who aren't calling for the u.k. to pull out of the european convention on human rights altogether are demanding reforms to stop strides berke making decisions on what should be sovereign issues

the court press to be more focused on fundamental civil and political rights not interfering in the daily lives. and in the ministration of the criminal justice system and in the member states of the council of europe without reforms there's a risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater as nations pull out of the human rights court undermining it leaving those in countries with weaken human rights protections entirely vulnerable laura smith r.t. london in a while will be riders in the u.k. good soon come face to face with military grade chemical agents the fake government is being asked to clarify it stands on use of incapacitating nerve gas although banned from use in warfare and there are fears it could be adopted by british bride really the full story at r.t. dot com. of the on our website a holy war for america. rage catholic priests are preparing for a legal fight with president obama saying is new health insurance policies are

assault on religion. on the brink of bankruptcy greece's you're a crappy am has reportedly said that a draft of the long delayed dad deal could be presented to parliament today however getting approval may be difficult more than ten thousand greeks surrounded the parliament on tuesday clashing with police while protesting the latest reforms many see their livelihoods and as a country being sold out with little benefit for them parliamentary opposition is also strong with deputies wary of more cuts and tax hikes expected to accompany the deal greece has until march to secure financing or face default but according to investment advisor patrick young the hopes of a positive outcome are fading fast. this is truly finally the brink we are only

because of the great eurostar and all of the troika of the group of people the world bank the i.m.f. the european union people they're all at the point where they know there is total exhaust for ishan and the rest of the world as to why they should be paying for a greek economy on the greek state that is totally completely and utterly by corrupt has been completely and utterly mismanaged for decades and ultimately tragically the greek people themselves are going to end up suffering as they already are the problem is it all went wrong because a group of rather well rather than the scarring kind of dreaming pyaar i didn't eventually sold that there could be one single europe and they rushed to compress everybody into a single currency and ultimately none of the countries were actually remotely compatible economically in order to make that giant leap that's where it's going wrong and this is a tragedy for europe and the european union. washington is sending

a top official to edge of to tackle cairo's crackdown on u.s. nonprofit groups the groups played a pivotal role with a popular uprising that toppled president mubarak last year but are now falling victim to egypt's new military leadership or if an option has been following events . egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and they may want to is why now the groups many which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while they were at the vanguard of the uprising against the baraka that eventually brought the supreme council of the armed forces and no one has ever seems to care about this source's income that is until they directed their criticism to the new military leadership laman scarf or the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the other. that are quoting people who work in those and they are the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live

there this is very much a dangerous world the rhetoric of this is especially led to prosecutors raiding seventy offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign funds to promote and run in the post mubarak country activists how would claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights but the scaf looking for enjoy. some against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also netted the son of u.s. transportation secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo in washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans or. i don't think that. leading at all in the thing at all so this is a game and their record was military aid to egypt reducing.