leaving the truth and also believing that the british justice system. well staying in england and championship blackpool have booked an f.a. cup fifth round tie of premier league everton after beating sheffield wednesday three nil in the fourth round replays while the wall beat southampton three two to set up a home tie with bolton. while this wednesday there's another f.a. cup fourth round replay as middlesbrough host sunderland in the northeast all being after both sides drew one one last week but were not well welcome asshole in the last sixteen. it's every finals day at the africa cup of nations with the ivory coast star studded sides taking on lawley gabon's capitol hill the elephants are the favorites to lift the trophy and include big name players such as chelsea's did a drug for manchester city's yar touré the side produced an impressive three nil win over cohost equatorial guinea in the last eight 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 for our job

and that in the game or a certain situation would crumble so we're being very prudent to deserve our country we're trying to be watch. the other game this one safeguard i will be aiming to reach the final for the second time in a row as they take on zambia in the bottle stadium in equitorial guinea but their build up hasn't been ideal gone or were forced to cancel monday's training session after their flight from the bar was delayed however they remain the favorites although zombie all the surprise package of the tournament following their three no win over sit down in the quarterfinals. turned over in spain athletic bilbao have reached the final of the copper del ray after and in fact take six to second leg when i were made on that as meaning they go through eight three on i get the victory ends there and as a fairytale runs the third tier side had beaten the top white trio of the they are as by no and the passing suntanned there in the final bill will face either barcelona or valencia has played their second leg this wednesday. none of us alone

have home advantage after drawing one want to volunteer in the. game and are boosted by the return of andres iniesta and petro rodriguez both taking part in training this week are fighting for titles on four fronts and their manager says his players are up for the challenge. they were up in the hard luck 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 and been able to repeat something like this after achieving so much in the past given what we've already pleaded difficult first leg of the semifinal. disgraced cyclist alberto contador says he hasn't ruled out appealing against his two year ban for failing a drugs test the spine it was stripped of his twenty ten tour de france title after testing positive for the performing in hunting drug clenbuterol the twenty nine year old held a news conference at his home town of pinto just outside winter it he told reporters he had no intention of quitting cycling also reiterating he felt of the

drugs test as a result of eating contaminated meat an explanation rejected by the court of arbitration for sport. well mostly been going that well though i try hard i cannot understand the ban imposed during the last months i have been trying to do my best to prove my innocence even down the wire tensed five hours answering questions like you can plead criminal i also want to talk with you and everybody knows i will continue cycling i mean i will continue practicing eight in a green way as i've done it all my entire life though i don't feel my best i think in the future of at least will make me tougher you know the formula one came here i can and has marked his return with the fastest time on day one of pre-season testing the fan is back behind the wheel with lotus after spending two years away from the sport competing in the world rally championship but he produced a blistering lap during testing in spain he took just under one minute and twenty

seconds had a force india's pulled a rest while red bull's mark webber was more than a tenth of the second back and former world number one. said everything is going to plan he wasn't getting carried away. i don't think it makes any difference i mean testing does and. doesn't give you anything. you try to do the things that is necessary to have ready for the season but the times know that counts are rising so. what we did. we did more or less what they're planning to do before we start it today so the best. golf now and former world number one tiger woods says he's happy with his recent progress despite going for almost two and a half years without a title on the p.g.a. tour the american now back up to eighteenth in the world but trying to break that duck at pebble beach national program this week has been on the rise since the turn

of the year the thirty six year old going to tied for third at last month's abu dhabi championship and triumphed at the unofficial chevron world challenge in december however a tour victory has eluded him since two thousand and nine something tiger is inching to change. i feel very peace where i'm at i had to make some. some changes and. took time and i've started see the results of that now which is great well miles i was have the last four events are really by well. some is building on that and everything's head in the right direction. and in the meantime the new york giants have been publicly celebrating their super bowl triumph as thousands lined the streets of manhattan to see their heroes parade the giants notched a dramatic twenty one seventeen victory over the new england patriots on sunday and confetti what did through the air as the triumphant team poised to the vince lombardi trophy make you train one point flight after cruising through heroes

canyon they were honored at city hall for traveling to new jersey for a rally at the met life stadium. and finally a legal battle is looming to help medal hopeful the knockout in sharjah represent russia at this summer's olympics event off it was born in lithuania but has obtained a russian passport although her native country has not bought her from competing as we'll. just a week after turning twenty four and with multiple world cup wins under her belt tonight 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 leafs game here 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 the formality of permission from the leafy and olympic committee to go to london but her request was denied it is to me and i

think the sports officials in some patriots are against me but a lot of ordinary people still support me which you could say with really nice bleed into over this a lot of people have been leaving the country to earn money elsewhere and some may feel. if come to russia to roll in cash which is not the case. went on to say she was on the verge of tears and her mother cried twice at last month's meeting in leafy ennio 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 the chill be given the go ahead to compete in london but she's copus in on the tournament's standing 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 and all small matters. so potentially

a massive blow for russia which 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 not 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 really shy to is already setting his sights on the real games in twenty sixteen while russia also have a strong message contingent including athens and beijing champion andrei me save to cheer on in london. r t. and that's all the support for this bill is and more into our as i have.

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russia insists third an end to the bloodshed in syria will only be found if both the government and opposition forces lay down their arms and talk about western and gulf countries keep up the regime change rhetoric and recall their ambassadors from damascus. we caught. up in this connection it's worked for many many years for the seats for the mother of part of the why do we need strasburg to brussels to tell us what we can and cannot do fury in the u.k. as a notorious terror suspect dubbed al qaida spiritual leader in europe is bailed and allowed back on to the streets of london this after the european court of human

rights forbidden see his deportation. and a growing tensions between egypt and the u.s. triggered by cairo's crackdown on western ngo's lead to an egyptian military delegation cutting short its visit to washington. the ruble has hit a five month high against the dollar on the back of strong oil prices join me in twenty minutes for the figures small in our business. r.t. is coming here live from moscow city center with me rule re sushi welcome to the program will power as it should use their clout to put pressure on both the syrian government and the opposition to lay down their arms and engage in talks russia's a foreign minister says such efforts

a needed to help solve the country's crisis so to get it off woods commenting on his recent trip to damascus in his arteries over niggas reports the need for dialogue seems higher than ever. according to latest reports fighting has actually intensified in the syrian city of holmes shelling has actually been the worst that it has been over the past five days but also there are some unconfirmed reports saying that the army troops are moving towards the center but of course most of these reports are coming in from sources which are affiliated with the arm syrian opposition none of them can really be confirmed as there are really no reliable sources on the ground in syria syrian t.v. at the same time is reporting that armed rebels have taken to have a tax on oil refineries just outside of homes and have said those on the fire of course of that all of this comes. right on the heels of the recent visit of the russian delegation to syria following which president bashar last that has said that he is willing to go to great plains in order to reinstall for peace in the

country he has promised to go through with major reforms among them a referendum on constitution which should take place some time in march he's also but he's also said that he is more than willing to sit down for talks with the with the syrian opposition on their part that the syrian national council which until now has been refusing for a negotiations with the current syrian government saying that it is illegitimate now the syrian opposition has said that they are willing to sit down and and carry out a dialogue with the syrian government but they have said that russia must provide a road map for those negotiations in fact both sides in the syrian conflict both the government and the opposition are saying that russia must perform and mediating duty in order to resolve but this conflict over russia has stressed the importance of putting pressure not just on the current on the current government in syria but on the opposition as well russia's foreign minister has expressed that thought in

damascus and he has reiterated that third earlier today it was really if we have suggested that certain parties capable of influencing the opposition groups especially those base. outside syria tried to convince those groups to begin negotiations parties with influence on damascus have been trying to convince the authorities to do the same as i have mentioned to syrian authorities confirm they are ready to begin negotiations without putting forward any conditions. but instead of putting pressure on the opposition most of the world community seems to be pulling out its envoys of from syria france italy and spain are among the latest countries to help recalled their ambassadors to syria they're also the gulf nations which have not just recalled their own voice to the country but have sent out syrian ambassadors from their respective countries there by effectively ending diplomatic relations with damascus and of course there is the the un but on unbending rhetoric from the from washington the white house it seems determined

that the president bush our last six days are numbered they're saying that they're not they cannot imagine they cannot imagine any negotiations with the current syrian government and the message that's a particularly the western countries seem to be sending to the armed rebels in the country is a green light for them to intensify the fighting. reporting right want to in the light of the recent security council fall out of the moscow and beijing blocked a draft resolution on syria we spoke to russia's envoy to the u.n. for tali chuckin explained that one of the main reasons for not letting the text pass through was that it put pressure only on the syrian government while russia believes the rebels must also be held accountable for the escalation of violence. 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 i'm not trying to justify anybody but simply trying to be analytical is that as the money during mission of that i believe 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 this it is what would also would also require the opposition forces to show restraint and not to exercise their military coup out that was in fact the key issue over which our efforts to have a consensus in his aleutian of the security council failed and some members of the syrian opposition are asking arab countries for money to push their own forces and

ya'll is professor on middle eastern and african history at televisa university says the build of syria's conflict is dangerous for the entire region. clearly this is a regional struggle it's not on the there is the struggle inside syria and there is the regional struggle between you can argue iran on the one hand that supports the regime and the some arab countries mainly the gulf states and also turkey that support the rebels but once again i think that eventually this will be the syrian people that will dictate fate because i don't see anyone that can interfere affectively what is going to syria like in egypt in libya possible collapse of the regime may affect jordan which is following very closely divin scene syria may also lead you know to. unrest in jordan may lead also cool

unrest in lebanon so the entire region that may be affected by you know coming even seen in syria no doubt about it. well here it are to you we also have an entire section dedicated syria on our website r t v dot com and online we're also asking for your thoughts about the outcome of russia's struggle to untangle the nazi situation in the country here come the numbers for this hour from the websites more than half of you believe the west will find a way to remove assad regardless of peace talks about a fifth think that even if agreement is reached the opposition want to honor it and the rest of us split almost evenly between whether the talks between our side and the opposition will fail or the regime and opposition will reach a much needed compromise to cast a vote now at r t dot com. three ten minutes past the hour here moscow

outrage sweeps britain after the european court of human rights blocked the deportation of qatada dubbed osama bin laden's right hand man in europe it's the latest in a string of questionable judgments that have overruled domestic decisions as artie's laura smith explains patience with the e.u. is fast running thin. ice still with the queen its current sea and its parliament was made by someone else if building a house is what we in the u.k. call list supremum courts but in practice the 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 to hell you can take you brought to france and decisions made in strasburg could rule any made 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 the rails and it was never never anticipated off the circle. 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 strasburg there's a backlog of up to eight years and when cases are decided the judgments are written 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 again the vote to anyone who is your vision 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 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 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 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

examples 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 altogether are demanding reforms to stop strides burke making decisions on what should be sovereign issues the court house 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 weak human rights

protections entirely vulnerable laura smith r.t. london. it's a good to have you with us today r.t. is coming to you live from moscow and still ahead for you this hour questioning the legality of u.s. drone attacks on pakistani territory they've been slammed for hitting civilian targets and violating pakistan's sovereignty we discussed the issue in light of a recent strike that killed ten suspected militants. frozen to death biting cold is ukraine in icy grip as the country suffers its most severe winter in years it's at this point killed more than one hundred people that was in last week alone. and egyptian military delegation has abruptly pulled out of a visit to washington in the latest sign of rising tensions between the two countries nineteen americans are among forty three angio activists banned from leaving egypt and accused of illegally using foreign funds to fuel the an arrest

washington has already called the scandal quote a slap in the face and threaten to withdraw its military aid to egypt financial reports. egypt's new government crackdown on and you know is has raised many questions and they may want to is right now the groups menu which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while now they were at the vanguard of the uprising even baraka that eventually brought the supreme council. to power last february and no one has ever seems to care about their sources of income that isn't really directed their criticism to the new military leadership mamie's car or the slow pace of reform some of them are used by this. they are quoting people they are working. and they are the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live there

this is very much a dangerous world the rhetoric this is fishy led to prosecutors really 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 arrest 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 sun if you asked mr taishi secretary ray la hood for the fueling tension between cairo in washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that you need leading at all in the thing at all so this is a game and there it was military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been weeks to condemn scum when in

the days of blank checks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of the day the eight continued on flowing that the provided support also continued on flowing we don't buy or washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east and washington wants to step in always 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 engineers 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 will last for the right any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end to military movement growing have

a big if you can see it over there this is in council of the armed forces was called no run in egypt is in a very vulnerable position and this nationalistic pronouncement may just be a nationalist show put on to calm the people down and to win back a shred of credibility. in cairo and i believe that egypt's regime change is also damaged the previously well established ties between cairo and television the next hour a former top israeli diplomat shares his views on his country's policies that's coming up shortly. the pakistani army has met with nato and afghan forces in an effort to improve coordination along the pakistan afghanistan border the talks come just hours after a u.s. drone attack in northwest pakistan killed ten suspected militants washington has been criticized for its cia.