it's finally over. really has been a nightmare i've got to be honest it was painful ideas and this is a case you should never come to court because if somebody really but was waiting for the bank it is very very very it was here and there she wrote but it is unanimous decision the jury. unanimously you know there was no no case to answer the fun of the africa cup of nations will be between favorites ivory coast and surprise package zambia the elephant is the mali one in need of ale and got a bunch of progress arsenal striker genius with the gangs and ego and that means that he will place a price package zambia in the final if they beat ghana by the same score. i think this is the best thing you know as a captain to play in the final thing for the players i think this is the best moment to play off one cup of nations final this is fantastic we are happy everybody is happy we prove the people wrong. we are a good team we win today so i think we are we were the best to do despite whatever

they want to see because we are in the final and we are. meanwhile in spain barcelona reached the copper del rey final with a two nil victory over valencia at the nou camp it will be their third spanish cup final in four seasons under coach pep guardiola i go in each half from said barbara gaston javelin suring they went through three one on aggregate plenty of playing the last fifteen minutes with ten men after safina for who you were sent off for a second yellow card faster or face athletic bilbao in the final after the pass clubs rational run days while sunderland have books a place in the fifth round of the f.a. cup in england after a two one victory over middlesbrough the black cats will play arsenal in the last sixteen. russian basketball side unix have suffered their first defeat in the euro league's top sixteen they went down two and polio armani sixty three fifty eight in milan the russians defeated armani in week three but this time the talons were

unstoppable an impressive three pointer from the premier here giving italians a twenty eleven lead late in the first quarter four back in the second and even pulled the deficit back to four points by half time but it was not enough to stop a minute from taking their first win in their top sixteen sixty three fifty eight then the final score the next though still top group with three wins and one defeat . let's switch to boxing where russian welterweight. deer is emerging as a promising talent he still unbeaten after getting win number sixteen over colombian international mendoza in moscow last night and ringside was martyred. many here are saying that the fight between alabama and windows is going to be a big case in the first rounds simply because both have a lot at stake. has been undefeated until now and those that could lose his.

belt will see indeed that was the case in the first couple of rounds mendoza a sprightly books and matched everything alice had to offer she even seemed to be edging the fight through the judges' eyes but after seeing his fellow compaction it's when all of the bouts prior to the night's main event the russian light welterweight turned up the heat in the fourth increasingly mendoza was put on the back foot by some nifty flurries of jabs and punches from our dear but it was the twenty nine year old russian who was carrying the open wounds and splashing the ring with blood at the end of the fifth round and then in the sixth the animal came out seeing an opportunity alice unleashed a vicious number of punches to put mendoza against the ropes i. the russian fighter thought it was all over at one point raising his arms in the air only to be brought down to earth by the bell windows and now look half the man that enter the ring and with another savage onslaught by his opponents had to be protected by the

referee bringing the ends to the back out in a technical knockout i. felt ready if gladly received the double to be a federal latin belt but seemed more pleased in retaining his unbeaten status and the manner of his victory was that i didn't really know where the telling blow came from it came on its own back to me but of course a famous time off after the beaten opponent ignacio mendoza was of course disappointed with the defeat even though it was only his seventh loss in forty two bouts but the twenty eight year old colombian did offer reasons behind his downfall i couldn't when you saw the fight he was strong he had a great garden i really could left hook. there were three other ballots on the night that also managed to bring the crowd alive ukraine's nichol occurred in your spot up with russia's oleg lisi of but after a full eight rounds the bout had to be decided by the judges who were unanimously in favor of received. in the second fight professional debutantes to give us enough

made light of things showing no signs of jitters as he dispatched to make his former two time heavyweight title challenger owen back after four rounds. and the third bout involves russia's grigori draws to challenge former w b a light heavyweight champion richard hall but after eight rounds the jamaican could no longer and surrendered in his corner plenty of celebrities were also on hand to enjoy the thrills of the evening including russian boxing legend dennis limit of you're back and i'm here to support my friends my fighting colleagues i think this event is whirl organized and it will only get better also in the ranks with deputy prime minister alexander and renowned director nikita mikel cough who seemed to really appreciate the efforts of the russian boxers so one could see allergy of the emphatic when coupled with a clean sweep by the remaining russian boxes must be a sign that boxing is alive and well in russia market go. go. go

swell number two rory mcilroy is aiming to keep up his good start to the season after finishing runner up at the abu dhabi classic last week he hopes to go one better at the dubai desert classic place got a taste of the course during a price liberty event on wednesday before today's opening round mcelroy one here in two thousand and nine and has been great with robert rock who paid him to victory in abu dhabi but the northern irishman enjoys the dubai fairways and fancies his chances at an early season title. it's always nice to start off the season like i feel like you know i had a great chance to win and quite to. play it would be great to. get a win under my belt pretty early this season and try and win here a place that i want to perform. course i really enjoy to play. while i bring the state's former world number one tiger woods is hoping to end his two and a half year title drag he's playing at the pebble beach pro am in california this

week and believes he's not far off ending his barren run after finishing third behind my thyroid in abu dhabi. you know. i had to make some. some changes. took time i'm sorry to see the results of a now which is ground zero miles i was homeless for events are really bode well. promise building on the. mayor things head in the right direction well former stars are also rolling back the years in formula one teams are testing in spain ahead of the new season after commuter i can in success on the first day seven time world champion michael schumacher has now put himself on top of the time sheet sadie's one of the teams you get to reveal their new car for the next season so humana is driving the one he used in last year's championship it is still the quickest out of all the old models that were testing on wednesday however red bull have pulled off

the covers of their new machine and their driver mark webber showed they will again be the team to beat the fastest time overall he was followed by force india's paul di resta reichen and couldn't match his blistering first day and was fifth fastest testing continues until the weekend. so that's the sport for the moment we've got more few in a couple of hours time next is there. the closer team has been to the hub bar of screen. where the country's mineral wealth starts its way across the ocean. now our team goes to the

area. was named after lenin looking to a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. for the four by fours are made and can be tested to the limit. welcome to the. russian close up on r t.

world. science technology innovation all the latest developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered. the violence in syria escalates but the world is left guessing about what's actually happening as obvious and worse off are contradicting claims over just how many people are dying. who gets the shakes over its don't want to bargain to rein in well as officials expressed concern and up being the loser. pakistan's foreign minister tells r.t. that america's drone strikes are pushing new recruits towards the region's militant groups and as a new report claims for the civilian deaths of some. russian markets opened higher on thursday with stronger all supporting and i just dogs will

have a detailed look at the markets and business boards and twenty minutes time. this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow eleven am here on marina joshie the u.n. says it plans to team up with the arab league and restart a monitoring mission and a conflict torn syria that follows russia's ongoing calls for the international community to support moscow in efforts to mediate a peace deal in syria government forces are shelling several areas including the flashpoint city of homs damascus as if and i tear operation there but activists are accusing the government over masterminds hundreds of civilians have been killed over the past week syria is under our foreign media blackout making the reality on the ground hard to confirm and now position isn't making that any easier argue so we're just how many people are being killed ivor bennett has more. on the syrian

observatory of human rights it's one of the most widely quoted sources of syrian casualty figures but it's not always telling the truth and ownership row at the syrian observatory for human rights has left several media outlets quoting false information as to rivals fight for the same name the original group was hijacked by opposition activists the posting military deaths alongside civilian ones both sides claim that the official observatory this is the original site in arabic with an english version on facebook and this is the fake site launched in the sand and mostly in english several foreign news outlets have assume they are one and the same thing quoting the fake sites casualty figures the consequence of a very different perspective of the crisis the original sites latest figures show just over five thousand one hundred civilian deaths against almost two thousand military casualties the rival site claims well over six and

a half thousand civilians have been killed and barely six hundred troops a difference many claim suggests this is a lot more than just a numbers game i don't think even the people who are using these figures. have any objectivity really they have an agenda a clear agenda is there just the fire by any means possible that assad regime is a brutal massacring regime and it needs to fall a soon as possible and we can see the united nations security council when that human rights strategy for regime change doesn't work how annoyed western governments are have got syrian observatory the original observatory strictly opposes military intervention the man who hijacked it's name disagrees. used to translate at the real observatory he was fired after falsely claiming to be an official spokesman and using a live interview to call for a no fly zone since then he's launched a smear campaign against the original group claiming very impostors as are we and

these figures have been quoted by the b.b.c. c.n.n. and a.b.c. australia the other groups say they tried to pass some political views so far by calling for no fly zone for international intervention and we made it clear i sit on their victory for human rights. or regional organization is that we are i guess an interventional we are against the no fly zone all we need is to stop the bloodshed in that is going on in syria as are we and his group refused to speak on camera stating i cannot waste my time talking about this is the moment people are dying in homs they're my priority right now he did refer us to another opposition group based in london and they too refused to comment on the ownership of the observatory but they did confirm that reporting military deaths was not in their interest it's not our position to report the casualties of. government

troops the b.b.c. and the guardian had to withdraw material after falsely quoting as always the human rights observatory the un stop counting the death toll claiming it's too difficult to keep track of what it is he. and rights chief also said five thousand civilian deaths should be enough to provoke international action the real observatory still documents the deaths civilian or otherwise but it may be too late for the numbers to matter. bennett. the. syrian journalist kamila trochee says the outside meddling already underway in syria is fueling the conflict by making sure that the rebels fight on against their regime we're a year after the beginning of the crisis it's created that foreign intervention in syria affairs has not been very constructive because the interventions taking place by the most motivated players and they're motivated for their own reasons we have turkey the gulf arab states and the international community which is the united

states and its allies in europe and they're all interfering with the whole of weakening the syrian regime weakening its ties to your own. because i mean we have to i mean this is their view motivation it's not helping the syrian people they've started intervening when we've had one hundred or two hundred casualties and i don't believe this is to remove the thing which made them that concerned so you know with the with your vision is not. that intervention would not be for the right reasons and it's been a very negative until now they've been they've been pushing the opposition to another state to speak to the sunni regime they have convinced opposition that the syrian regime's about to forward and therefore there's no need to talk to them so we know where there was a intervention even if it's not for by using force has been very negative moscow's condemning all sides of the syrian conflict for instigating violence while saying president assad is ready for talks with the opposition and political analyst to

bring him believes russia's approach will actually help solve the crisis by leaving the rebels in syria no choice but to negotiate. if there are so many months of military operations by the rebels in syria at this is pretty clear that what we are dealing with here is definitely not a peaceful protest but an armed rebellion supported from abroad we are dealing with western military political and security. and to syria both russia and china have created the butler conditions for the opposition to accept dialogue with the government and the veto is helping peace more than anything because at the sterling the forum by a position that cannot count on the foreign intervention as happened in libya and there are two top of the regime and there are four and five of the veto is creating

better conditions for the opposition to come to the negotiating table and in that sense as fostering peace. and as the u.s. and its allies piled sanctions on iran over its nuclear program the country's president is set to face pressure on the home front to iranian lawmakers have summoned the head of state to parliament for the first time since the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine mahmoud ahmadinejad will answer questions on his management of government and economic policies this comes amid the latest oil between iran and the west the european union is preparing to stop importing you any fuel from july you consider us account for around twenty percent of iran's oil output the islamic state warns you are puting itself into food by cutting off trade and that you shared by the spanish ambassador to iran madrid based journalist me grania morocco says the e.u. embargo was actually masterminded in washington and serves u.s. interests. what we're seeing here is not

a decision that comes actually from european countries to spain never wanted to go to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union european union actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was retrieved in the last twenty years the connections that have been lost after the iranian revolution and the situation was improving until we came to these new tension and he's not just to spain and italy also greece imports lots of oil from iran and it could be hard hit in a way that would bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that can happen because of the. political move but it has now become an economic issue and can have even more. destructive effect if the iranians decide to say

cut of the strait of hormuz or even if they now decide to beat europe to it by. by by cutting off their oil now because we need this time to find alternative supplies if they cut the supply now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe. and coming your way later in the program the legal. caffeine free thing for a workaholic america opens the market to new energy boosting fixes but there is a hidden danger also ahead here on our team the latest edition of our russia close ups it's. the close up team has been to the hub our of screen. where the country's middle wealth starts its way across the ocean. now our team goes to the area. was named after lenin looking to a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. that's where the four by fours are made and

can be tested to the limits. welcome to the creature of. russia close up on our. three people have been killed in a drone attack in pakistan the victims have yet to be identified but are believed to be militants the latest attack comes after a report by a one year of investigative journalism which uncovered dozens of deadly drone strikes carried out by the u.s. in pakistan president barack obama has claimed the attacks only target terrorists but the findings suggest the strikes have also killed scores of civilians and rescuers who rushed to help those hit by missiles chris woods who compiled the report thinks it won't be long before until a gallery of using unmanned drones is tested in court. the cia has been saying for some time that it hasn't killed a civilian in pakistan since at least two thousand and ten every news agency. pakistan every credible news organization that's looked at this is finding that

that's not the case we know that civilians are being killed pakistan is clearly very unhappy with the strikes there's an interview in a british newspaper today with pakistan's high commissioner to london describing the drone strikes as in effect to do the show executions state sanctioned executions does seem to be an indication that these drone strikes are happening despite what you know because of what pakistan wants you know he states court has ever looked at the legality of these drone strikes and there's a reason for that every time a case has been brought in the united states that is attempted to look at what that these strikes are legal or not the united states is claiming something called state secrets privilege but that's where they say actually this is a covert operation and we can discuss it really does need to be an accounting and examination by the u.s. courts about the legality of these drone strikes in the various additional legal

questions that they raise and time i suspect is coming quite close given the pressure in the u.s. right now. coming up next hour here on our t.v. pakistan's foreign minister tells r.t. that drone strikes are actually counterproductive to the war on terror here's a preview. region has some serious problems but into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid this region rather than follow sort of unitary approaches. in how we want to rid the streets and in their view. not only completely illegal and under fire and have north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they're counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one strike leads to getting you target number one or target number three today you're creating

five more targets with ten more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the in the for doing that it gives to the militants to attract more people to join their ranks. britain to turn to chemical weapons to enforce the law according to the national academy of science made lele police could use substances previously banned under the chemical weapons convention almost twenty years ago mark berfield from the education activist network says u.k. police intent on using chemical gas to stop protesters exercising their right to peaceful demonstration. the income passive hated nerve gas as it is as it is called has been used against protesters in the june general strike in greece and amnesty international condemned the use of that huge gas in normal language it's called choking gas now you can actually die from the from the gases be being used against

protesters against larger crowds and what we have seen is that the police time and time again has lost control of the streets and so it wouldn't surprise me if similar cases were to have if if chemical if these chemicals are being used on british streets that similar experiences would happen what we need to say is that the police have over extended the use of force on previous demonstrations so far they have curtailed the right to protest by threatening students to use rubber bullets and water cannons and the latest announcement actually makes very clear the intentions of the police to further curtail our right to protest. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world the world still meeting between prime minister and debt inspectors on averting the country's bankruptcy has and did was no result lucas papademos failed to secure the support of his coalition for a raft of new austerity measures they reportedly could not agree on cuts in pensions eurozone finance ministers are to discuss the bailout of thursday and the

greek political leaders who are expected to agree at a deal prior to that meeting. supporters of former oh mol deaves president mohamed nasheed have taken to the streets to demand he be reinstated straighter seized several police stations in the capital and forty protestors have been arrested. thanks to a police mutiny and a popular protest over his controversial decision to arrest a top judge he claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint and promises to return to office. a subway train in chile has derailed and crashed into an apartment building in the capital of santiago the train was not carrying passengers at the time but was undergoing a test following recent repairs the driver escaped with minor cuts and bruises although at least six cars were damaged including one which was crushed beneath the train. americans trying to keep up in the rat race are looking for a boost to the united states is now the world's largest consumer of coffee it's

a passion pushing people to devour caffeine and potentially dangerous amounts are reports on the country's craving. in the city that never sleeps our perpetual craving for energy never eases i nearly every manhattan street you'll find two things a coffee shop and customers cupping their fix a liquefied legal stimulant that most can't envision quitting i feel like you know i get it again. so i just have to are both of these real yes actually yes i don't know if i could give a i love. it five or six cups a day yes but i'm not good to much of anything like this are going to drink three cups of definitely. americans consume four hundred million cups of coffee per day making the us.