compete again in august after his two year ban was backdated although that still means he'll miss italian tour de france and the lympics. as a team those support a bit. because we want to do the thing that is correct that's why we have supported him in this case all the way. 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. a better and i we have to sit down together. and talk about the future. that he wants to continue we could see i can only say. my intentions will be the same in contrast contador has little sympathy from the world anti-doping agency its president john far he has branded contador a cheat and says the court ruling was a clear warning to cyclists he. the simple fact is that anyone who has

a brain he would have substance in this 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 that prohibited substance got into the ultimate system. fit to play the moment you got that substance in there that analysis disclosed and tested this was very comprehensive way by as well another major legal battle in sport is looming this time to help medal hopeful than arthur in shy to represent russia at this summer's london olympics the pentathlete was born in lithuania but is attained a russian passport although her native country has now banned her from competing because it has the story. just a week after turning 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 her second the increase are now a huge doubt in beijing in two thousand and eight she competed fully few any year 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 their formality of permission from the league here and in an impact committee to go to london but her request was denied. but i think this puts officials in 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 they'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 an elite few ennia the sports summit has threatened her entire career and she described it as a circus while a reporter at the time culture

a traitor she knows the chances are slim that she'll be given the go ahead to compete in london but she's focusing on other tournament's and affleck 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 the leader 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 league 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 and london. is already setting his sights on the real games in twenty sixteen well russia also have

a strong message contingent including athens and b.g. champion and dreamy suv to cheer on in london. r t well let's switch to football where it is semifinal stay at the africa cup of nations ivory coast star studded squad take on mali gagne's capital live but of the deal the elephants have big name plays including manchester city's ja touré and chelsea's didier drogba that's made them the favorites for the trophy and ivory coast produced an impressive three nil win over co-host equitorial guinea in the last state but despite their obvious talent their coach is always wary of the opposition . 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 doesn't bastard deserve our country we're trying to be why. the other game is saving ghana

will be seeking to reach the final for the second time in a row they take on zambia in the barter stadium in equitorial guinea but their build up hasn't been ideal garner were forced to cancel their monday training session after their flight from gabon was delayed however they remain the favorites in this tie although zambia are the surprise package of the tournament after their three nil win over sudan in the last eight. spain athletic bilbao have reached the final of the copper del rey after an emphatic six two win over miranda's their second leg win last night meaning they go through a three on aggregate ending round this is fairytale run in which they did beat the likes of villareal espana and racing santander in the final hour face either barcelona or valencia to play their second leg tonight well barcelona have home advantage after drawing one one zero in the first game and are boosted by the return of under iniesta. who have taken part in training this week fighting for

titles on four fronts and their manager says his pies are up for the challenge. we have the chance of playing in the fourth final of the season and i think the. this is a challenge spirit gives you these new opportunities we've 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 series final and other news can be right in and has marked his return to formula one with the fastest time on the first day of pre-season testing the finn is back behind the wheel with lotus after spending two years away from the sport competing in the world rally championship but he blew away any cobwebs with a blistering lap time during testing in today's in spain he took just under one minute and twenty seconds which was just ahead of force india's paul di resta red bull's mark webber was more than eight tenths of a second back reichen and a former f one world champion said everything had gone to plan but he isn't getting

carried away. i don't think it makes any difference i mean testing does and doesn't give you anything. to try to do the things what is necessary to cover it for the season. at times and on the contrary. to what we did. planning to do before we started today the best now when you boxing tournament gets underway in moscow this evening although organizers will be hoping it runs a bit more smoothly than the way you know after the main star failed to show up colombian welterweight ignacio mendoza wasn't there after his flight was delayed he has a record of thirty three victories from forty one fights and is due to take on how be the day of the russian has won fifteen of his bags and white in sixty three kilograms when they topped the building for the event which brings together boxes from around the world also in the carter's russian cruiserweight getting their odds

he has thirty three wins and just one defeat and could be a handful for his jamaican opponent richard hope. i give him a lot of respect to choose to fight me because i never know much about him you choose to fight me so i give my whole lot of respect how to fight it turned me down . you know he chose the five it's like your mother was pretty this old i just put my. next step to the level of crime and 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. well definitely at the top of their sport are the new york giants and they are still laughing 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 confetti wafted through the air as the team foisted the vince lombardi trophy from make glittering blue and white float after cruising through the race canyon they were on it at the city hall before travelling to new jersey for a rally at the met life stadium. enjoying the moment that is the sport for the

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video on demand on keys money old girls. and omissions feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. polar approach to syrian dilemma washington stepping up its rhetoric for regime change in syria and north moscow's attempts to bring both asset and the opposition together into peace talks. the rift between the e.u. and the u.k. grows into chasm after the european court of human rights orders the release of osama bin laden's right hand man and you are. now washington's top military official will had to cairo to try and suspend criminal charges against american ngo members as egypt's military leaders crack down on the western activists who helped them to power last year. at a russian firm splash of record amounts on advertising despite the crisis prizes

the billboards and t.v. commercials are expected to grow to me for folders of books and entitlements. as one big. in the russian capital you're watching marina joshing welcome to the program now both the syrian regime and the opposition have signaled that the solution to the bloody unrest may lie at the negotiating table rather than the battlefield that's after russia's foreign minister met with president assad in damascus the leader told the delegation that he's ready to implement reforms while the opposition says moscow should provide a road map for dialogue. explains. following the visit of the russian delegation as to theory of bull's eyes and that is the opposition and the current government have expressed their willingness to go through with negotiations president bashar assad

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 now until listen to the russian foreign minister to get a rope on and the results of his the visit to syria are approaches based on a clear and simple goals 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 there of course also countries not seem to be as. to see the peace process in syria to go through france italy and spain are among the latest countries to have pulled out their passengers from syria

also there at the gulf states which have not only recalled their ambassadors from the country but have also sent out syrian ambassador from their countries there are also statements from the united states who are make it clear that they are not willing to see president bashar lock the to remain in power for much longer the u.s. ambassador to the united nations has said that his days are numbered also the white house has mentioned that to negotiate with also that is to is basically a way to fail or now the u.s. has said that they hire not planning on supplying arms to the syrian rebels but they have said that no option is off the table or in english the reporting there and in the light of a recent u.n. security council fallouts when moscow and beijing blocked a draft resolution on syria r.t. spoke to russia's ambassador to the body it says that piling pressure only on the us and regime gives unilateral advantages to the rebels who are also to blame for the violence in syria. their 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 i'm trying not trying to justify anybody but simply trying to be analytical is that as the morning during mission of that i believe was there and as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain. quarters and in cities that territory was taken over by armed rebel groups 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 this it is what it would also require the opposition forces to show restraint and not to exercise their military quote every conflict. needs to be resolved through negotiations and there

are two ways really in my view one is a frontal attack against the regime something which i'm afraid the has been happening a lately including from some international important international players the advocates of regime change they have been trying to. resolve the crisis through from the government in the moscow 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. them in order to find a political solution with all for the bloodshed. the pentagon has reportedly launched a revision obviates to fancy capabilities in case it will have to resort to a military option in syria president of the arab lawyers association says this is

nothing out of the ordinary and it's simply a matter 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 arab 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. where the west were supporting the opposition that i mean. anybody who wanted to have a dialogue with the government regardless of whether they were life to not they went 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 doing now in the present moment i think in terms of the opposition in syria and i fear that this is

really why 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 the opposition from discussing with the government sitting with them and this is really where they've done the same thing in libya where civilly and peaceful protest where converted into an armed conflict so that it gives the pretext for the west to intervene. well here in our city we're closely monitoring the situation in syria and we also have a whole section dedicated to syria on our website at www dot com well also there you'll find a poll asking what you think will come of possible if you stop let's take a look now the vast majority of our viewers believe that the west will find a way to remove awesome regardless of peace talks about a quarter believe that even if an agreement is reached the opposition won't honor

its thirteen percent say that the talks are doomed and want to achieve anything well just about six percent voted that the talks will bring long sub peace and you can let us know what he's think about this by logging on to our website r t dot com hopefully the graphics will be ready for you next hour now still to come in the program the greek economy goes on sale fresh clashes erupt in athens as you stare at the ravaged public rails against what they see as a fire sale of the nation's future. and frozen to death by eating cold has ukraine in an icy grip as a country suffers its most severe winter in years with more than a hundred people dying over of the last week. now britain after the european court of human rights ordered the release of dubbed bin laden's right hand man and europe 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 r.t. as laura smith reports patience with the e.u. is running thin. a silver in land with its own queen its own currency and its own parliament law was made by someone else this building houses what we in the u.k. call list supremum court 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 strasburg 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 de railed and it was never never anticipated of the circle or war after the holocaust off the terrors perpetrated by certain tyrannical governments but the court now would be protecting the criminal and not the victim. delays in control of a sea have dogged the european court in stroudsburg there's a backlog of up to eight years and when cases are decided the judgment so often bizarre in two thousand and ten the court decided to give prisoners the rights to vote 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 to give the vote to anyone who is in prison aside it could also cost of 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 dated 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 lardons the right hand man in europe can't be deported back to jordan where 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 of the european convention on human rights sitting in strasburg forty seven judges one from each country so far so fair 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 has worked for many many years for the seat or the mother of all parliaments why do we need 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 all together are demanding reforms to stop strides burke making decisions on what should be sovereign issues the court has 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. meanwhile would be riders in the u.k.

could soon come face to face with military grade chemical agents the u.k. government to speak out to player wide stance on the use of anger perhaps stating there are gas although banned from abuse and warfare there are fears it could be adopted by the british bride police say the full story ever to dot com. also on our website a holy war for america and rage a catholic priest are preparing for a legal fight with president obama saying its new health insurance policies are not sold on religion. washington is sending a top official to egypt to tackle cairo's crackdown on u.s. nonprofit groups the groups played a pivotal role in the popular uprising that toppled president mubarak last year but

are now falling victim to edge of its new military leadership has been following events. egypt's new government crackdown on geno's has raised many questions and the many want to is why now the groups many we bonded by in washington have been on the ground here for a while we were at the vanguard of the uprising against the bar of the dimensionally brule the supreme council of the armed forces and no one has ever seems to care about their sources of income that is until they directed their criticism to the new leadership. for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by this. they are quoting people of the world. and they are the ones that evolution. in the radicals who live there this is very much of the rhetoric this is specie led to prosecutors raiding seventeen offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans

germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign fines to promote and run in the post mubarak country activists how would claim they are the victim of scarfs reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with the brights the scaf looking for. some against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also netted the son of you asterisk protection secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo in washington. because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. anything. so this is america's military aid to egypt to reduce one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been a week to condemn this car when in the days of blank checks are over or they

condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of the continued on flowing that the provide support also continue flowing we. all know washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east and washington wants to stop annoys the situation as much as possible in order to get in to its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car share the council's concerns about the motives the usa has had a hand in tips policymaking for years but the whole n.t. and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the countries your story takes cairo wanted to send washington and message that it's no longer the silent dog it was under mubarak but an independent state which were a lot of the right any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end to military movement growing have a bigger you can see it over there this is in council of the armed forces.