he says a british man would be preferable and harry redknapp has emerged as the favorites to replace capello the past apparently cleared after the top manager was found not guilty of tax evasion by a london court just hours earlier the sixty four year old and his former chairman milan mandrakes has been accused of concealing really three hundred thousand dollars of transfer bonuses one in charge of portsmouth so redknapp is the front runner for the england job but newcastle manager alan pardew has ruled himself out the first three years. you know i'm proud to be in that sort of frame but it's not for me you know might not quite clear or more even in the running this was on concerned i'm very happy here. we're on a little project here it's going really well and we want to and i want to see it for the passion and everything about this place as well want to stay here well meanwhile harry rushes in a cage match on a spell as he has signed a deal to stay at the st petersburg side until twenty fifteen the news is a boost for the russian champions who are preparing to face benfica in the last

sixteen of the champions league next week this is the furthest the type of ever reached in the competition and continues the success but he's had since joining from roma back in two thousand and nine winning the domestic title in the second year in charge so the take on a six points clear at the top of the table with the league is set to resume on march the third thursday was football and the africa cup of nations final will be between favorites ivory coast and surprise package some also striker gino school of the ivory coast went on strike at half time as the elephants beat mali one nil while some other guy who missed an eight minute penalty for got out and zambia then beat them one nil emmanuel my you with a strike to hand his teammates a dream final. i think this is the best thing you know as it popped into play and if i don't i think for the players i think this is that this movie to play off and on top of vision for you know this is fantastic we are happy everybody is happy we proved that people room to be a good team we win today. i think we are we aware that this today despite whatever

they want to see we are in the final. for me while i was in spain barcelona have reached the copper del rey final for the third time in four seasons after a two no home with over ten thousand the lengthier a goal in h.r. from sex fabregas and job ensuring foster goes through three one on aggregate figure eight was sent off for the visitors with fifteen minutes left but guardiola side will face athletic bilbao in the final after the vazquez thrashed made and that is. while in england stepan sesson your scored deep into extra time a sunderland won the f.a. cup fourth round replay to wanted local rivals middlesborough to set up a last sixteen time at home to austin while it was also a cup night in germany where the country's most decorated side by when reached it got two nil to move into the semifinals and staying in the hunt for red treble toni kroos twice came i can eyes and be close to breaking the deadlock in the twentieth minutes but it was france winger frank rebury open for buying the half hour and walk thomas feeding in the cross and the love was once again the provider as mario

gomez added another right after the restart the prolific striker keeping his call and using his left foot to cover in the rebound and condemn his form assigned to the team no defeat by a second in the german league and will face basel in the champions league round of sixteen. two winter sport now and the russian city of sochi will host the winter olympics and exactly two years time and its newly built by half long course has been described as one of the toughest in the world the course of cousin pollyanna is set to host its first serious test event this weekend and the president of the russian biathlon union believes the athletes will find it tough but you know michel procket of inspected the venue ahead of the russia cup and warned that height differences of up to sixty meters between peaks and troughs will make it exhausting all the climates will also take its toll. but the story we're seeing is good but it's the most difficult course in the world the temperature differential between the snow in the air is only four degrees celsius we don't have this any. or else in

the world for the ski lubricator for the people who prepare the students this is a huge problem but this makes the competition all the more unpredictable by simply moving on to basketball and russian side eunuchs have suffered their first a fate in the year only top sixteen after losing sixty three fifty eight to emporio armani in the land that his own team defeated amani in week three but this time the italian outfit was unstoppable and impressive three point zero from. getting the home side a twenty eleven league late in the first quarter you next fall back in the second didn't pull the deficit back to four points by half time but it was not enough to stop amani from claiming their first win in the top sixteen again sixty three fifty eight the final result however in an external top group with three wins and just that one defeat. that switch to boxing where emerging russian welterweight and their manes unbeaten after sealing when number sixteen of a colombian in that film and those are in moscow on wednesday night and ringside

for us michael craft. many here are saying that the fight between their beer and windows is going to be a big case in the first rounds because both have a lot at stake i like the idea has been undefeated until now whereas mendoza could lose his double in a bed that lands him felt we'll see indeed that was the case in the first couple rounds mendoza spritely books a match to everything our d. of had to offer even seemed to be edging the fight through the judges' eyes but after seeing his fellow compactor it's in all of their 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 alec ready if

unleashed a vicious number of punches to put mendoza against the rope. the russian fighter thought it was all over at one point raising his arms in the am only to be brought down to earth by the bell mendoza now looks half the man that had entered the ring and with another savage onslaught by his opponents had to be protected by the referee bringing an end to the bout in a technical knockout. like the d. of gladly receive the w b a federal latin belts but seemed more pleased in retaining his unbeaten status and the manner of his victory was that he didn't really know where the shelling blow came from came on its own back of course a famous time off after them beaten opponents 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 mikol occur in your spot up with russia's oleg you see it but after a full eight rounds the bout had to be decided by the judges who were unanimously in favor of receive. in the second fight professional debutantes gave 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 books in legend denis limit of i came down here to support my friends my fighting colleagues i think this event is

world organized and it'll only get better also in the ranks with deputy prime minister alexander and renowned director nikita mikel cool of who seemed to really appreciate the efforts of the russian boxes so one could see our deeds in france when coupled with a clean sweep by the remaining russian boxes must be a sign that boxing is alive and well in russia mark of genco moscow. finally to formula one where seven time world champion michael schumacher put himself top of the time sheets ahead is the third day of pre-season testing in spain the site is that one of the teams have yet to unveil their new car for next season so she like i was driving the one hundred in last year's championship but he was still the quickest out of all the old models that were testing on wednesday however red bull have pulled off the covers of a new machine and that drive that mark webber shared today will again be the team to beat in the fastest time he was followed by force in just called arrester while former world champion kimmie reichen couldn't match his pestering first day and was

fifth fastest testing continues until the weekend of. life and. my. well. thank science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

the closer has been to the whole bar of screeches where the country's little wealth starts its way across the ocean. now our team goes to the area. was named after plenty of good 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 should be tested to the limit. welcome to the union of creatures. russia close up on r t. syria's forces bomb the city of homs with reports of more deaths but with conflicting numbers of casualties coming from the country it is almost impossible to get a true picture of current events. iran under fire on every front while the e.u. sanctions and loom over the country president ahmadinejad is wanted by the parliament for questioning over the plummeting economy. plus u.s. drone attacks rained down on pakistan with hundreds of civilian deaths in collateral damage as the country's foreign minister tells us here at odds see such measures are counterproductive to the war on terror. crosses second largest lines

of a t b has decided to buy back it says from minority sell does double the market price more details on the situation in our business but it's an intense minutes time. live from the heart of moscow this is r t with me will research the u.n. says it plans to team up with the arab league and restart a monitoring mission in conflict torn syria president assad's forces say they are conducting. operations shelling several areas including the flashpoint city of homs but activists are accusing the government of a massacre saying hundreds of civilians have been killed over the past week alone but with syria under a foreign media blackout the reality on the ground is hard to verify and with conflicting opposition reports of casualties there are those who believe the

figures are being manipulated to push forward a regime change agenda parties are reports the syrian observatory for human rights syrian observatory for human rights a syrian observatory for human rights it's one of the most widely quoted sources of syrian casualty figures me it is not always a telling the truth for an ownership syrian observatory for human rights has left several media outlets quoting if people see one nation rivals find the same name and of the original group was hijacked by opposition activists in two postings military deaths you alongside civilian one that's both sites claim they're 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 center and mostly in english several foreign news outlets have assumed they were one and the same thing quoting the fake sites casualty figures the consequence

a very different perspective of the crisis the original cites latest figures showed 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 using these figures are have any objectivity really they have an agenda a clear agenda is the 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. see the united nations security council when that human rights strategy for regime change doesn't work how annoyed western governments are how got arab league monitors the original observatory strictly opposes military intervention we saw 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 zones since then he's launched a smear campaign against the original group claiming they're the imposters for 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 a no fly zone all we need is to stop the bloodshed in that is going on in syria as always and his group refused to speak on camera stating i cannot waste my time talking about this is the moment whilst 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 but its human 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 either bennett's party london. in recent days moscow has been trying to mediate the conflict while saying that president assad is ready for talks with the opposition talk to even evolution believes russia's approach will actually help to solve the crisis by leaving the rebels in syria no choice but to negotiate after so many months of military operations by the rebels

in syria at this 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 trace and to syria both russia and china have created but there are conditions for the opposition to accept dialogue with the government the veto is helping peace more than anything because it is telling the forum by the opposition that it cannot count on a foreign intervention as happened in libya and there are two top of the regime and there are four and five the veto is creating better conditions for the opposition to come to the negotiating table and in that sense the veto is fostering peace and

helping put an end to the bloodshed in syria. i thought even though he may lose they're talking to us a bit earlier from jordan. as the u.s. and europe pile sanctions on iran over its nuclear program the country's president is facing pressure on the home front as well iranian lawmakers have someone that much more to our community to parliament to question him over his handling of the country's economy within a judge is expected to appear. within a month for the first such questioning since the islamic revolution in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the past year has seen iran suffer soaring inflation and a drop in national currency value as the european union which is roughly twenty percent of oil exported by iran plans to cut off trade in july however there on his war the e.u. that it's shooting itself in the foot view is shared by spain's ambassador to iran he says his country suffers the most from the continuing e.u. pressure against the islamic republic and some in madrid believe the oil embargo

has been forced upon europe. 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 these of these political move it has now become an economic issue and can have even more. destructive effects 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 ten minutes past the hour here in moscow you're watching r.t. and still to come for you here in the program financial troubles prove a health hazard in the united states as manufacturers gamble on america's caffeine dependency often with disastrous results but our story coming your way shortly here in artsy. bando we explore the sky high ambitions of the russian a region that pioneered the country's aviation industry our close up series to stay with us for that. one of the most senior al-qaeda chiefs in

pakistan as being killed by an american drone strike along with three other suspected militants. the attack took place in the north waziristan tribal area close to the border with afghanistan but that it is suspected of killing dozens of people in the country and abroad that comes after the bureau of investigative journalism found hundreds of civilians died because of similar cia ordered aerial attacks chris woods who compiled this report things that the u.s. is simply ignoring the condemnation over its deadly drone policy. the cia has been saying for some time now that it hasn't killed a civilian in pakistan since at least two thousand and ten every news agency. in pakistan every credible news organization that's looked at this is finding that balance not the case we know that civilians are being killed in pakistan with these drone strikes does seem to be an indication here that these drone strikes are happening despite what pakistan wants not because of what pakistan wants as are

causing huge problems within pakistan united 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 has attempted to look at work 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't discuss it well it's somewhat been blown out of the water by the president himself going on google recently and talking to americans about the existence of this so-called coburg program. and pakistan's foreign minister has told all of us here at r.t. that instead of helping to fight the insurgency u.s. drone strikes are actually hindering the war on terror. this 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 this region in our

view. not only completely illegal and awful and have north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they are counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one straight leads to getting you target number one or target number three to be 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. and you can watch that interview in full in just over an hour's time here on out. britain could soon start using chemical weapons for domestic law enforcement a group of experts from the national academy of sciences believes the government

intends to develop nerve gas agents for the police to use against rioters mark burke from the education activist network says it's part of an intensifying crackdown on shows of public discontent. the income past the. 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 tear gas in normal language it's called choking gas and has said that the greek government has waged a chemical warfare upon its very own citizens now you can actually die from the from the gas is 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 thus it doesn't come as a surprise in the context of global revolutions and revolt that now the u.k. is starting to use the same measures as countries as mubarak has done in egypt or

even the greek government has done to its very own citizens over the general strike so it wouldn't surprise me if these chemicals are being used on british streets but similar a cure and so this would happen but we need to say is that the police have overextended 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. in about ten minutes time katie is here with the business but for now time for the r.t. walt update some other international news and brief we'll start with. colonel cole there has issued an arrest warrant for ousted president mohamed nasheed this comes a day after the leader was among dozens injured when riot police used force against protesters as unrest deepened his ousting resulted from a police mutiny and popular protest over a controversial decision to arrest a top judge now she claims she was forced to resign at gunpoint and promises to

return to office. his troops have killed thirteen kurdish insurgents in two separate clashes in turkey nine people died near the town of being. gold and for others near the town of cut off the rebels attacked a military station there it's less than a week since turkish war planes bombed three suspected rebel targets in northern iraq tens of thousands have died since one thousand nine hundred fall in the kurds fight for autonomy in turkey's southeast. all night talks between greece's prime minister and debt inspectors on preventing the country's bankruptcy have ended without a result lucas papademos failed to secure the support of his coalition for a deal leading to a fresh bailout package the main sticking point was proposed deep pension cuts trade unions are currently holding a two day strike now in protest of the austerity measures. in the united states

when the economy needs a fix well so do the people the country is now the world's largest consumer of coffee and this addiction to caffeine is being exploited by some unscrupulous producers who are looking to boost their profit marina portnoy reports. in the city that never sleeps are 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. i get it maybe. to be three oh yes. i don't know i could give a little i love. it five or six cups a day yes i'm not good to much of anything like this we're going to drink three cups that. americans consume four hundred million cups of

coffee per day making the us believe in consumer of coffee in the world according to medical experts daily intake of caffeine should stay below three hundred milligrams or fifteen ounces of coffee one. large cup of starbucks contains more caffeine than the daily naps of a recommendation however in recent years the country's addiction to kathleen has grown both in portion size and means of consumption consumers no longer have to down twenty ounces of starbucks or sixty four ounces of soda to get an energy high unconventional products such as five hour energy drinks and stimulant least gum have made caffeine america's most marketable legal drug because of the work and heritage in america are working really long hours people are chronically sleep deprived also so they're reaching for stimulants to get amid ongoing economic instability u.s. energy drink sales increased more than thirty percent been.