he has been touted as the front runner for the england job after capello steps down in july after euro twenty twelve. they really are going to know if they are going to be honest it was before years and this is a case you should never come to court because you know if somebody really but without waiting for the bank it is very very very it was it was your industry road but you released your vision the jury were university you know there was no no place to argue. staying in a championship but full house books and f.a. cup the fantastic premier league everton confidence and sheffield wednesday three million four from great place millwall beat southampton three two to settle with thoughts of. me on this wednesday there's another f.a. cup fourth round replay as middlesbrough sunderland in the northeast darby off both sides drew one one last week the winner will welcome all snow in the last sixteen and elsewhere it's three finals day at the africa cup of nations with the star

studded side taking on lowly in the bonds capital weaverville today drugs elephant side all the favorites to lift the trophy and take you out of the thing such as manchester city's yacht tour and they produced an impressive history no win over co-host equitorial guinea in the last eight months despite the ivory coast 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 crumble so we're being very prudent to deserve our country we're trying to be watch. for me one of the other games when's i go and i will be aiming to reach the final for the second time in a row because they take on zambia in the bought a stadium in equitorial guinea but the build up hasn't been ideal gone or were forced to cancel monday's training session after their flight from the ball was delayed however they will be in the favorites although it's on their off a surprise package of the tournament following best female went under sit down in

the quarter finals. turned over praying that it will finally have reached the final of the copper del rey on. i am in fact a sixteen second leg when a government and that is taken from eighty three when i go get the victory and his medal and tara to around thirty years so i can be in the top flight trio of the day out spend your. final twelve hour face either but also like yeah if i like this one is that i won't bother half time advantage after drawing one one out but i've been the first game and i've boosted by the return of andres iniesta a dry run vegas has taken part in training this week is gonna champions are fighting for titles on forefront of this campaign coach says his players are up for the challenge. democrats in the new what we have the chance of playing in the fourth final of the season for i think the players are aware of but this is a challenge sport gives you these new opportunities even able to repeat something like this after achieving so much in the past given what we've already pleaded the

. first leg of the semifinal cycling describes star alberto contador says he has been ruled out appealing against his two year ban for fighting a drugs test the spaniard was stripped of his twenty ten tour de france title after testing positive for the performance enhancing drug clenbuterol who is twenty nine year old held a news conference at his home town of pinto just outside marriage he told reporters he had no intention of quitting cycling while also reiterating the fell the drugs test as a result of eating contaminated meat an explanation rejected by the court of arbitration for sport. i'm going to never 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 dandelion turns to five hours answering questions like you can believe three minutes if i also want to end up with you and everybody knows i will continue cycling i mean i will continue practicing eight in

a clean way and say 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 they're going to win gulf that 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 well the american back up to eighteenth in the world will try to break that duck at the pebble beach national program this week woods has been on the rise since the turn of the year the thirty six year old finished time for well over the last month i think that are trying to be fair and it's going to have to be an official chevron world challenge in december however a tool of the trade has eluded him since two thousand and nine something to like it isn't a change to change i feel very peace where i'm at i had to make some. some changes and that took time and i've started see the results of that now which is great you know miles i was have the

last four events are really played well. so i'm just building on that and everything's head in the right direction. well staying in america and the new york giants have been publicly celebrating their super bowl triumph as thousands lined the streets of manhattan to see their heroes parade well john snatched a dramatic twenty one seventeen victory over the new england patriots on sunday and confetti wafted through the air as the triumphant team did the vince lombardi trophy from the catering blue and white flight after cruising through heroes' canyon they were all of that city who are traveling to new jersey. at the met life stadium. now it's just one hundred seventy days to go until the start of the olympics a legal battle is looming to help russia medal hopeful the not in charge of the pentathlete was born in lithuania but was married to a russian but her native country has now barred her from competing with all her child has more. just

a week after turning twenty four and with multiple world cup wins under her belt not a ring 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 and other major events she needed the formality of permission from the league here and an olympic committee to go to london but her request was denied. but i think the sports officials and some patriots are against me but a lot of ordinary people still support me you could say lithuania 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 rolling cash which is not the case not went on to say she was on the verge of tears and her mother cried twice at last month's meeting in leaf janja 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 all 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 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 the 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

a podium place in london rimshot is already setting his sights on the rio games in twenty sixteen well russia also had a strong contingent including i think and beijing champion and dreamy safe to cheer on in london. our team. and finally to major sports and kimmie writing and has marked his return to formula one with the fastest time on day one of pre-season testing but then is back behind the wheel with lotus after spending two years competing at the world rally championship but who produced and blistering lap during testing in had it in spain he finished in just under one minute and twenty seconds marginally ahead of force india's pole the rest while michael's most whether it was first back home recovering likeness and everything going to climb to this and how do i. think it makes any difference i mean testing doesn't doesn't give you anything. you try to do the all the things what is necessary to

get ready for the season and. times down accounts from the rising sun. every day. we did more or less what we were planning to do before we started today so that's. what in the meantime that has been a lucky escape for one driver you know straining twenty five year old george wein cycle to negotiate a tricky corner at a rally in tasmania and plunged his fall of us ford capri into the sea at a speed of one hundred thirty kilometers per hour out of the nascar race at nowra he missed another call that had fallen off the st with before he did not george got away with just a few bruises all around really a former driver himself will probably be content to have his son in one piece at this point the demise of his much beloved car. that's always bought series i think. culture is that so much i'm going to come which of course is right honokaa going to be

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russia insists that an end to the bloodshed in syria will only be found if both government position forces and lay down their arms. that's why western gulf countries keep up that regime change rhetoric and recall their own best interests from damascus. also we've gone. through a node in this country for many many years for the seat of the mother of all part of the why do we need brussels to tell us what we can accommodate fury that the u.k. is a notorious terror suspect dubbed al qaida is spiritual leader in europe and allowed

back onto the streets of london after the european court of human rights forbids his deportation. and questions hanging over the legality of the u.s. drone attacks on pakistani soil resurfacing with a fresh strike just days off to a reporter a field evidence that dozens of civilians were killed by continued unmanned aircraft strikes. the russian markets have closed up today's trading session in positive territory and across the pond the u.s. stock markets have gone off in the black joining me in twenty minutes to think is a much much more now business but it's a. worldwide news live from moscow this is with me rule received. syria's opposition groups say the city of homs has come under the heaviest attack yet in days of fighting between

armed groups and government forces. activists say hundreds have been killed by all means shutting the government denies a soldier local journalist says reports from homes for the meantime are difficult to verify but it seems like the situation hamas has been asked to wait for the last five days with fear fierce fighting between know what they call themselves the free syrian army and the military forces by the syrian government the syrian government has according to its official sources has reported many casualties on the ground that have fallen in the last few days almost it's really hard to determine what's really going on on the ground there because of safety issues to reach the place and confirm a. definite numbers of people died. according to that's what according to activists say that the syrian military has

basically. bombed some parts of the city government completely refuted any type of involvement that they have actually. almost they blame it on the terrorist groups that have been taking active role in the city they are spread all over the place there and causing many casualties and the government also has issued many statements today that the security forces were able to kill tens of terrorists that belong to these terrorist groups that they also believe that are being backed by foreign foreign influence on the ground. and now russia's prime minister vladimir putin has cautioned against outside interference in the syrian conflict and warned there was a risk of behaving like a bull in a china shop moscow also calls on wall powers to use their political clout to put

pressure on both the syrian government and the opposition to lay down their arms and engage in talks let's not talk to us these are going to go for the latest on. in the light of ongoing wrangles between world powers as to how serious conflict should be resolved what exactly did vladimir putin have to say. well he basically said that that the world community should be very careful with the way they approach the situation in syria he has said that people should be able to make decisions when it comes to their country on their own without foreign involvement of russian prime minister has also reminded that nobody seems to be talking about the situation in libya following a foreign involvement there are several groups for example doctors without borders have reported on atrocities being committed by the various armed groups in the country by those atrocities are not being highly publicized especially not by the western media sources the russian prime minister has basically said that's

a foreign country for a foreigner should stay out of the internal strife in the situation in syria in particular socially considering the experience with libya no of course all of this comes in the wake of the russian delegation visit to damascus just on tuesday which has been so far seems to be a productive. visit in fact syrian president bashar last that has offered has said that he's willing to go to great lengths in order to bring peace back to the country is willing to sit down for talks. with the representatives of the syrian opposition and with the opposition syrian national council and in fact for the first time ever members of the syrian national council have also said that they are willing to enter a dialogue with the current syrian government but they do encourage russia's mediation role in the process now of course unfortunately a lot of other countries predict particularly western countries are do not seem to

be determined to do goal of through it with the diplomatic solution all the situation in syria in fact the u.n. security council seems to be broken into two parts now with russia and china on one side and the rest of the security council hoping of or just staying the dad to president bush are lost it must step down and also this comes in the wake of the. recalling their ambassadors from damascus with france and the netherlands italy and spain being some of the ones to recall their envoys to the country just recently and this is what russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov had to say on the matter. as it was really to see that we have suggested that certain parties capable of influencing the opposition groups especially those based outside syria so trying to convince those groups to begin negotiations with influence on damascus have been trying to convince the authorities to do the same as i have mentioned the syrian authorities confirmed they are ready to begin negotiations without putting forward

any conditions. of course are some foreign minister has also said that the world community must put pressure on the opposition and on the opposition. groups in the country to lay down arms and go through with a peaceful solution to the crisis in the country unfortunately the end of the end tigerman to resurrect continues especially coming from the united states with the pentagon for example saying that they are not looking at foreign military involvement in syria but they are going to provide they have said that they are going to provide humanitarian aid to the rebels in the in the country of course what kind of aid that will be is yet on clear all because earlier some of the visuals at the white house said that they none of the options really are off the table or a thought it's ridiculous for the life and central moscow thank you. let's carry on

here get some more insight into this i'm now joined by edmund ghareeb a professor of international studies at the american unit in washington i thank you for coming on our team today the u.s. is looking for ways to help the syrian people but barack obama said america is not going to the opposition if not from america where else for rebels are coming from do you think. well first of all i think we have to wait and see that we heard similar rhetoric before but i think this time there are constraints american elections are a factor a growing opposition among the public to any kind of foreign entanglements i think will influence to at least to a certain extent why the decisions of u.s. foreign policy makers but there are also the europeans have come out or at least some of the opinions the british have come out and said that they will not intervene militarily there are other europeans the french i've played in the past at least if we take a look at what happened in libya. took

a forward move and they began to provide support for libyan opposition also there are some so yesterday senator lieberman spoke of maybe trying to get countries like turkey and. jordan. to provide support the question is will these countries accept especially since they are their own difficulties their own problems internal problems as well the question is do they want to intervene the problem is that those countries which are the capability to intervene may not. forward and some of the countries that do not have. the capability may have the appetite and that is a problem doctoring is that the decision that was taken by russia and china. use of the security council makes any kind of intervention military intervention by

outside or even supporting militarily supporting the opposition would be outside the legal international legality and that. outside the international legality as you say bringing in or supporting the opposition here ira. a story just earlier today the british prime minister cameron had said all options are on the table to help get to the opposition we had a guest on from jordan just just an hour or so ago saying that are already coming in from neighboring lebanon and turkey so when it comes to the idea of can foreign intervention take place it might seem to some that foreign intervention is already taking place and if i may just move on for a moment here the gulf cooperation council is planning to recognize the free syrian army as the syrian people's only legitimate representative what do you think might be the implications of this move if it happens once i mean i might point out of these photos suit do you think. i think it's going to be difficult to do that

nevertheless i think what we are seeing now is that there are two different narratives on the table that there is the western narrative there is the narrative the g.c.c. some of the neighboring countries syria. turkey who see this. oppressive regime trying call price for its own people and that they must step aside however other countries in the world. such as china and russia. support from some of the other bric countries as well as other countries who are very much concerned about the concept of this new concept of a humanitarian intervention they believe the. international community ought to respect the international charter and not to keep this region this very sensitive very explosive region on edge by keeping it in

a sense and provide it and using sanctions using all intervening as we saw the case with and with afghanistan and with libya but let's i mean if we can i do apologize for running low on time here when i see it but let's talk about the end game here what implications do you see for syria and the region as a whole if the assad regime does fall. well this is actually one of the things that are feared by many observers including some in the west syria you know is a very complex country that has its own. ethnic and religious make up there is a concern among many analysts is that if that is deemed falls we are likely to see continued bloodshed and escalation of sectarian confrontations maybe somewhat similar to what happened in iraq iraq paid an extremely heavy price because of your intervention to bring democracy to find weapons of mass destruction and to fight al

qaida and iraq has not come out completely yet about on a libya even though there was that intervention libya has also continuing to place serious difficulties the tens of thousands of people died and who knows how many more democracy has not been brought to bay so basically the danger is that syria could the events in syria could spread to all the neighbors to have an end to israel to iraq to turkey jordan and. in danger of the state will it be and the security of many many people in the middle east as the as you suggest just you know the domestic civil war as many people are calling it in syria having massive regional implications professor got to you by we should be i wish we had more time for this professor edmund ghareeb of international studies at american university in washington thank you for coming on r.t. today thank you. but we also have an entire section dedicated to syria on our

website also online we're asking you for your thoughts about the outcome of russia's efforts to unravel the complex situation in the country let's see how the numbers are going up this hour on our web site us so far about sixty percent of you believe the west will find a way to remove assad regardless of peace talks almost a fifth think that even if an agreement is reached the opposition will not honor it and the rest of you are split almost evenly between whether the talks between assad and the opposition will fail or that both parties will reach a much needed compromise to let us know what you think kasha vote now we're standing by i don't see toward. just approaching quarter past the hour here in 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 of over ruled domestic decisions as artie's laura smith explains patience with the e.u.

continues to run thin. still for inland with its queen its own currency and all of it but no 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 at home you can take his abroad to france and decisions made in strasburg could overrule any may take. 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 being de railed and it was never never anticipated of the second world war after the holocaust off the terrace perpetrated by certain tyrannical

governments but the court now would be protecting the criminal and not the victim. she lays in control of a c. have the european court in strasburg there's a backlog of up to eight years and when cases are decided the judgment. in two thousand and ten the court decided to give prisoners the right to vote through petition by john hirst who spent much of his life behind bars after killing his landlady or whatever so 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. it could cost of the regime the last time that we looked at this the cost of complying with judgments on 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 assume seated 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 dumped bin laden's 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 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 seat or the mother of all parliaments one.